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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1929
Page
9
The editorial favors investing in quality for the city, urging residents to choose better, longer lasting improvements. It calls for a city cleanup to remove junk heaps, paint homes, plant lawns and flowers, and light streets, to foster pride and attract others to a well-kept town.
Citizens vent about a debris pile on Second Street across from the Pecos Exaggerator. They vow to press for improvement, describing the site as an ugly landmark and a blight on progress, urging action to replace junk with a decent build.
West Texas calendar notes arrivals events and activities from local clubs and organizations. Listings include meetings concerts fairs and community happenings with dates venues and contact points as provided by the Cham. of Com. This brief roundup highlights upcoming engagements across the region.
Llano seeks a financially capable man to build and lease the modern Llano Community Hotel, a 36‑room facility to be completed April 15 at an $85,000 cost. It will feature steam heat, fans, telephones, and hot and cold water. Del Rio reports a new Devil's River dam offering 8460 cubic feet of storage and 550 cfs water rights for hydro power. the other dam is already in use.
Frione reports rapid growth as many brick and stucco residences rise and three permanent stores go up on Main Street. Two miles of Highway No. 7 gravel base laid near Sweetwater, with Coke County line crews moving northward. Gravel base is 11 inches deep, rolled to about 8 inches.
Eastland plans an exhibit at the Western States Exposition tied to the 75th California State Fair anniversary in Sacramento. A prize winning pen of Barred Rocks chickens bought by a Dalhart poultryman cost $85 and captured first honors at the Madison Square Poultry Show in New York.
The city will start forty blocks of paving in Stamford April 1, using brick and concrete. The contract was let weeks ago and work will cover alleys and residential streets. Donley county cream shipments rise with Clarendon sending $2500 in recent dairy product shipments. Plainview grows with Hilton Hotel rising to eight stories and new stores from Montgomery Ward and J C Penny. The Panhandle Plains Second Annual Dairy Show is also under construction.
Stamford WTCC manager Ho mer D Wade briefs state entomologist J M Del Carto on regional backing for fumigation cost adjustment under state and federal agriculture orders after a conference with Von Roeder of the Pink Boll Worm Commission.
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