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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1929
Page
4
Mrs. G. K. Jackson was honored by a Camp Fire Girls sponsor shower in the English room of the School Building Monday afternoon. The room featured roses and honeysuckles with a camp fire theme. Camp Fire Girls served punch and wafers to about fifty guests.
Mrs Irene Wood and Mr Charles Montgomery surprised friends by marrying in Pecos on Wednesday evening May 1 with Rev W R McPherson officiating. The bride, from Texarkana, will live in Big Spring with groom, as guests extend warm felicitations.
Mrs Porter Fancher and Mrs FP 2 Youngblood were in Pecos Monday Rev Ira Harrison of FEI Pasow Toyah visited last week Mr and Mrs Wade Clifton and grandson John Albert Smith of Big Springs arrived in Toyah Tuesday on business and to visit friends Wallace Leatherman Teddy and Sam Beuyers wed nesday night Ryan in Pecos Wednesday Toyah attendees at Pecos court TF Lace Hart Bill Collings Andys on and J Q Adams Downs Lace Hart spent last weekend in El Paso Mrs Monroe Hart and child Jane Ellen spent last week with Mrs dauc I visit J Hart and family Mr and Mrs Gus Hopper welcomed a ten pound boy born Wednesday morning May The baby named W M for his grandfather Contract awarded for Silvert on high school building about 85000 to be completed by September Modern construction and conveniences promised The region ships more than 500 car loads of sorghums and grains from Toyah this season One hundred car loads remain to be shipped A car load of heads consists of about 20 jobs and brings about 17 dollars per ton
Tulia's two mile caravan of cars led by the Tulia Band returned from the Panhandle Plains Dairy Show with a large percent of the rib bons offered. Two Tulia Dairymen won championships and the P C Bennet trophy. Levelland census shows a 33 percent rise in scholastic enrollment, totaling 206 children ages 5 to 18 in the community, implying 12,600 residents in the county.
The Olney Enterprise changes ownership with George T. Spears of Breckenridge taking over from Ralph Shuffler who founded the paper twenty years ago and has managed it since. No personnel changes will occur.
Breckenridge school children participate in a townwide clean up week. The effort includes campus beautification and citywide work, kicked off by a parade with representation from all schools.
Farmers must control sanitation proper shelter and other factors to reduce pig mortality which can reach fifty percent in bad years. A sow missing two of eight piglets cuts possible profit by twenty five percent, and disease outbreaks like hog cholera raise losses further. Small details drive returns in livestock operations, from farrowing pens to routine care.
In a brief downtown exchange two men discuss rumored action at the Navy Yard with talk of two large guns to be fired there on the morrow.
A salesman refuses a cash buyer asking for one or two references. The buyer insists on paying cash, while the salesman notes the request is unusual and asks for references to proceed.
The Brady Chamber of Commerce secretary notes 10 Wolfe Clubs saved the Heart O' Texas area 2,000,009 dollars. Clubs across McCulloch Camanche Brown Mason Kimble Runnels Calahan Coleman San Saba and Taylor Counties reported collecting 2400 wolves and 1000 wild cats.
A Missouri farmer shares a fable about big apples and walnuts rising to the top after mixing, contrasting it with beans in a jar to illustrate perceived permanence of power. The piece then touches on wealth distribution, individual effort, and the idea that status often stays with the strong, while supporting notes mention a land purchase for water wells and the adage that knowing money from others is valuable.
Nikita Balieff of the Chauve Souris predicts a new modern music type arising from blending American jazz with foreign lyrics. He notes that American song appeal travels with the troupe and cites hits like Oh You Oughta Hear Olaf Laff and I Miss My Swiss as examples of jazz tunes fused with foreign language flair. Morris Gest, promoter of the company, is credited with guiding this musical fusion shaping American stage music.
Stephenville plans a modern talkie era with a remodeled projection room and booked features. Ovale’s Methodist pastor John W Price will lead a boys trip to the east with 12 youths ages 18 to 17. Sightseers to Harpers Ferry Washington Monument Liberty Bell Independence Hall the capitol and Mount Vernon are listed. Ranger and Tahoka host district chambers of commerce conventions with talks and a large poison-extermination campaigned announced by L C Whitehead of the Federal Bureau of Biology. The Hoovercrats’ ranks may shrink after cabinet announcements. Dallas Journal.
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