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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1933
Page
3
The Texas Senate passed a driver licensing bill by Senator W. R Poage of Waco. It lowers the minimum age to 12, imposes suspensions for drunk or reckless driving and similar offenses, and carries no license fee. Pecos Valley Hatchery ad follows.
Seventeen years ago in Pecos the Leader Cash Store opened as a new type of grocery venture. The firm formed by Sem Precht Elmer Wadley and John Lilley promised wholesale and retail groceries and related goods, aiming to cut prices and modernize the business.
Front page editorial calls mass meeting at the fountain to discuss a coming election to fix a Pecos school tax levy with life of Pecos schools at stake. Other items note Peeps band fund tag day, road work on Petrole road, local bread on dining cars, and community developments.
By order of sale issued from Navarro County District Court on January 17 1933 First National Bank of Pardon vs Hammons Adkins Waller and McDowell. Sheriff Louis Roberson Reeves County will sell 300 acres South Section 12 Block C-19 Public School Lands Reeves County on April 4 1933 at the Reeves County Courthouse. They will be sold for cash with all rights title and interest of the defendants in the property.
Rev. Gus Ramage, pastor of the Christian church, will leave next Monday for several days at Juliet Fowler Orphanage in Dallas. He plans to prepare for a talk on the orphan’s home to be given at a church convention.
Editorials from the Norfolk Virginian Pilot and the Nashville Southern Lumberman contrast Congress and Europe on budget balancing and label the U S as Uncle Shylock. They frame taxation as a heavy burden and recall Shylock-like debt expectations in public finance.
Alias execution issued March 7 1938 against Stiller and Strickland and partners for 1156.53. Louis Roberson Sheriff Reeves County will sell on April 1933 at Pecos Court House door the property Lots 4 through 16 Block 14 Toyah Reeves County Texas belonging to the defendants. Auction from 10 AM to 4 PM. Publication in Pecos Enterprise weekly for three weeks.
The partnership of L. D. Stewart and F. M. Taber doing business as DeLuxe Cleaners dissolved. L. D. Stewart assumes all obligations and assets. any future debts are his personal obligation. Business to continue under the same trade name. Dated February 1, 1933.
Sealed bids will be received by the Reeves County Commissioners' Court in Pecos at the courthouse at 10 a.m. April 10 for the purchase of a road motor grader with welded frame, tandem drive, powered by a McCormick-Deering engine.
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