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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1934
Page
1
The readable line presents a playful cartoon caption with a swapped name clue suggesting humor. It lacks clear events or persons beyond the two names, offering brief amusement rather than a full news item.
The wire-haired pet of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Yard has gone blind after six weeks in a dog hospital. Doctors fear permanent loss, but with treatment and luck he may regain his eyesight. The Yards, with many Pecos and traveling friends, hope for a speedy recovery as Frowsie wanders Brandon Hotel corridors.
Pecos hosts the fourth annual Lions kite tournament at the baseball park starting 1 PM. School children and adults competed in weeks of practice with kites of paper, cloth, and food, as prizes are awarded for largest, smallest, best instructed, and most comical kites plus tie and endurance battles. Lion J L Kincannon presides and a grand prize of 2.50 in cash from the Lions Club goes to the boy with the most first places.
About 40 or 50 people attended a Wednesday night gathering at the courthouse to organize a Share the Wealth club under Senator Huey P. Long's plan. Sam Iggs presided as speakers included Judge J. B. Woolfolk Justice T. F. Slack and Charles Ripley. Another meeting is set for Thursday night at the courthouse for all interested.
The article notes Easter Sunday as the anniversary of Christ's rebirth and emphasizes its importance. It states Pecos churches are preparing special Easter services with programs detailed in the news items below.
Kerr heads new Pecos ball team as district attorney William L. Kerr elected president at Friday courthouse meeting. Barney Hubbs elected vice president H Beauchamp secretary. Directors Albert Sisk Dudley Yard Ken Regan Earl Bell Harry Hinkle to assist. A manager to be named, with H Doty favored. Crowd of 50 to 60 attended, $40 subscribed, uniforms pledged, cash gifts from Beauchamp Wadley Kiser Kerr and Perkins Cafe.
Sam Hayes an insurance man from Pyote and a former Pecos resident died in a Bankhead highway wreck four miles east of Pyote. J A Summerhill Monahans schools superintendent also died. C 8 Eskridge who was towing Summerhill's car survived injuries. The Studebaker driven by J N Zarna of Springfield Ohio struck the towed vehicle.
A special Easter program at First Presbyterian Church features a prelude and cantata. The service lists a procession to Calvary, the Crucifixion and Resurrection, plus the cantata King of Glory performed by the choir with contributions by Mesdaumes Lucille Lindsay, M. J. Morrison, and John Correll.
Rev. A. G. Abbott invites Christians to Easter sunrise prayer at First Christian Church on Sunday April first at 6 30 AM. Regular services follow with preaching at 11 AM on What Christ's Resurrection Means to The World and an 8 PM Evening Worship on The Greatest Question Ever Asked. Everyone should attend an Easter service.
Edgar H. Ratiff, pastor, announces a special Easter Sunday school program at 9:45 featuring an attractive missionary pageant. Church members hope a large attendance for the event.
One of the big men in International Rotary visited the Pecos Rotary club at its Thursday luncheon. The honor guest was Bruce Richardson former district governor of the western Canadian district. His home is in Winnipeg. Details of his address will appear in next week's Enterprise.
Sixty three Pecos businessmen led a large motorcade visiting Red Bluff and its new schools. They toured the Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce offices and the lower townsite school, meeting Arch Bell Bill Beck Mr Binkley and Miss Wang along with County Judge Woolfolk H P Davis Bill Sherrod Judge Starley and Mrs Beulah Wilson to extend friendship and goodwill.
Citizens in Pecos will vote next Tuesday on three aldermen a mayor a city secretary and a city marshal. The new city hall will serve as polling place and be open for inspection. Ballot names include mayor B F Toliver city secretary Earl Easterbrook city marshal L H ONeil Joe Hudgens and aldermen John J Bush W F Stoward Jarney Hubbs G G Green. Voters may write in any candidate.
Oil trade journals report F. W. Burford sold 266 producing wells and leases in East Texas to Secony Vacuum and Magnolia interests for 8 million dollars in cash and stock. Burford kept his two refineries service stations and West Texas properties.
The Grand held its money night last Tuesday drawing with a premium standing room and extra seating in a nearby store. A $50 cash prize was awarded from last week's accumulation and the grand prize advances to $75 for next Tuesday night after Mrs. Joe Glover was not present to claim.
Miss Callie Ross, from Pecos and now a public school teacher, designed and painted a cow boy campfire backdrop used by Simmons University's Cowboy Band. The elaborate scene features a chuck wagon and cattle and has traveled across the United States and to Europe, praised as a great piece of stage scenery.
The American Legion hosts an Easter dance at Daves Hall on Saturday night. Vernon Hicks, the Legion’s dance manager, announces a $5 cash prize for the person who stops on the good egg, with music and a floor show lined up.
Two Pecos banks report deposits as of March 5, 1934 totaling 771 883 85 up from 642 694 85 on December 30 1953 an increase of 129 189 Loans total 295 060 81 remain low indicating cautious lending while deposits suggest improving general conditions in Pecos and a return to growth.
Mrs Stone representing the Gossard Corset Co will be in Pecos all day Monday at the Pecos Mercantile for ladies to view corsets. Pecos ladies are invited to attend and meet her.
Pecos high school won three of four tennis matches as cold wind and rain shortened the county meet at Toyah on Friday. The event paused with Saturday’s contests to complete track and field, debate, and extempore speaking.
Judge J E Starley received a letter from G E Ramsey of the PWA in Washington stating expedited action on the Red Bluff project. Test holes are being drilled at the dam site and options to purchase over 80 percent of the Red Bluff lands have already been secured.
Dr. J. L. Kincannon says a scouting school for scoutmasters opens Monday at the high school. Representatives from the Buffalo Trail Council's 6th division will attend over the next two weeks.
Reeder Webb the Ector county sheriff sustained painful injuries when a motorist fleeing a filling station collided with his car in Alexandria Louisiana. Webb is under medical care at a local hospital.
Directors of the Pecos ball club announced a $5 prize for the best team name. Submit names to Earl Bell, contest chairman, Pecos, Texas, by April 15. Uniforms contract awarded to Pecos Mercantile Co.
Community donations fund uniforms from Pecos firms and retailers while baseballs are pledged by Toliver Wall Doty and Cecil Lee. Local carpenters move stands to Rotary Field and canopy lumber comes from Foxworth Galbraith and Higginbotham Barnett. About 35 to 40 prospects train daily under interim manager H Doty.
The region endured a frigid two days with low clouds snow and rain near freezing. A near freeze saved budding flowers and fruit trees while cattlemen reported a tentative smile as precipitation reached about a quarter inch. More rain is forecast to greet Easter with signs of spring evident in budding trees green lawns and early flowers.
John Wood of the state highway commission visited Reeves County this week to inspect work on the highway near the Davis Mountain Filling Station. He reviewed a new bridge and the resurfacing of a road strip and found the results favorable.
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