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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1933
Page
2
The Texas Senate passed a bill to license automobile drivers with a minimum age cut from 15 to 12. The measure, led by Senator W. R. Poage, would allow licenses at no cost and suspend or revoke them for drunken or reckless driving and negligent homicide. Local hatchery ad follows.
A historic local sale and business shift saw the Lender cash Store evolve amid centers of commerce. Elmer Wadley, Sarni-Prewit, and Lilley pioneered a wholesale grocery model, foreseeing autos replacing horse delivery and modernizing trade. The Leader Grocery and associated stores expanded under Prewit and Wadley, aiming to build a broader wholesale network, with plans emphasized by managers and investors to extend reach and stabilize the new enterprise despite past setbacks.
Editorial calls a mass meeting at the fountain to discuss fixing a school tax levy, warning that defeat could close Pecos schools for a year. Also notes community notes: band fundraising, reelection bid for county attorney, Petrole road work, and local business updates.
By order of sale issued in Navarro County Texas a 1933 judgment in favor of The Kyrst National Bank of Pardon is foreclosing liens on lands owned by W W Hammons M D J B Adkins R H Waller and J K McDowell. The sheriff of Reeves County will auction The South 300 acres of Section 12 Block C-19 Public School Lands Reeves County on April 4 between 10:00 AM and 4:06 PM at the Reeves County Courthouse for cash.
Alias execution issued by Dallas County court against Stiller and Strickland partnership and Carter. Sheriff Louis Roberson announces levy on Lots 4 to 16 in Block 14 Toyah Reeves County and sale to occur April 4 between 10 AM and 4 PM at the Reeves County Courthouse Pecos. Publication three weeks in Pecos Enterprise.
Gus Ramage a pastor at the Christian church will spend several days at the Juliet Fowler Orphanage in Jallens starting next Monday preparing for a talk at a church convention on the orphan's home. The piece notes budget debates in Congress with taxpayer concerns and cites critical quotes about taxation and loans from two papers.
The partnership between L. D. Stewart and F. M. Yuber operating as DeLuxe Cleaners is dissolved. L. D. Stewart assumes all obligations and assets, with future debts his personal obligation. Business continues under the same trade name. Signed February 1 1933.
Reeves county commissioners' court in Pecos invites sealed bids by 10 a.m. April 10 for a welded all wheel drive tandem motor grader powered by a MacCormick Deering engine.
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