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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1929
Page
10
The Town Doctor column argues community growth hinges on selling the town to residents and outsiders. It compares town promotion to salesmanship, asks five key questions about market and buyers, and urges readers to act through civic groups and personal effort to keep pace with modern times.
The Sixth Grade studies hard as fourth and fifth grades move to the study hall and chapel. Supt Humphrey spoke and is encouraged by more visitors. Many boys join track and hope to have winners from their room. Sophomores excel, with Bunk Moorhead winning Best All Round Football Player. Interclass track and county meet attract participation.zail Brownlee enters the essay contest. We hope for class victory.
The poem muses on tech revolutions from wireless telegraph to electric radio and asks what value future gravity and atoms will hold in two thousand hundred ten. It credits Einstein with a grand discovery and ponders if all beings are mere grains of sand. The speaker notes that even salesmanship cannot fix all, citing a restless night trying to lull a baby at 2 AM.
Tax analysis shows per person tax reach of 76.50 in 1927 and about 582.50 per family of five. Since 1923, per capita tax up 11.75 and per family 58.65. Local taxes climb while federal rates hold or fall. Estimates cite 12 percent of national income for taxes, vs 6.4 percent in 1913. Quotes from Public Service Magazine and remarks by Hughes and Blayney.
Written and edited by pupils with Elizabeth Chapman as editor and a team of managing editors, editors, seniors, juniors, sophomores, freshmen, grammar and primary grades coordinators named. Includes Elizabeth Chapman, Auline Stephen, Mervin Whalen, Virginia Thomas, Jas Starley, Elizabeth Lilley, Norabelle HollebDeke, Bobbie Collie, Billy Fietcher.
Judges named the top finishers last week. Senior girls earned first place by Marie Ward with Norabel Hollebeke second and Victor Justis third. Junior boys led by Marvin Cowan first, Swain Thomas second, Milam Taylor third. Junior girls saw Jewel Garrett first, Lorene Aldrich second, Gladys Wolf third.
Ack McGarry was elected president Wallace Connally as vice president Millard Waters as secretary and treasurer Milam Taylor as class reporter following Wednesday afternoon elections.
A concise proverb notes a detour as the roughest distance between two towns, reflecting on how obstacles complicate travel. The saying emphasizes patience and planning when routes are blocked or altered.
A voice controlled electric train named Casey Jones operates by spoken orders via a telephone transmitter. The locomotive responds instantly to commands to go forward reverse or stop, using a radio detector and a special selector to set track polarity.
The freshmen intend a Balmorhea track meet picnic next Saturday and to watch the senior play. They will clap for senior heroes and heroines and, on Monday, dress as in a long-ago era wearing aprons and overalls.
The senior class races into Friday's presentation with high hopes. Virginia Thomas and Robby Runnels, both ill but recovering, relay news while Dr W B Pierce inspires with an unusual talk. The class anticipates April 1 and a picnic in aprons and overalls.
A note reports Calvin has gone to Sapelo Island, mentioning a folk saying about verbum sapelo suf focates as the likely source of the name.
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