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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1929
Page
9
HumorousCOLUMN recounts a sartorial uproar at a high school where girls ditch hosiery for ankle socks and boys adopt colorful galluses. A professor lectures, sends students home to change, and the revolt continues with belts and suspenders urged. The piece lampoons Puritanical views and hints at broader publicity.
The seventh grade led by Mrs. Kennedy elected Junior Town officers Phillip Harrison Jean Spencer Jack McGar ry Herman Toups and Wallace Connally. Four seventh graders Bill Cowan Tatum B Eisenwine A J Lindsay Chester Armstrong left for writing projects while John Booker returns to school.
Written and edited by pupils with Elizabeth Chapman as editor and Auline Stephen as managing editor. Mervin Whalen handles sports editing while Virginia Thomas, Jas. Hudson Starley, lizabeth Lilley, Norabelle Hollebeke, Robbie Collie and Billy Fletcher are noted for various grade levels.
The class notes two years of effort and four weeks of school remain. Students visited Tipica Fronteriza where Mexican hymns delighted them and the Cortez sisters performed dances and songs.
The sixth grade section 8S works in triads with one captain drafting letters to eight major Texas cities requesting books for their posters and booklets history project. Mary Pearson and Bill Higgins are absent this week but expected back soon.
Miss Runnels presents a brief note on the new book Steel Dust. The piece highlights the book’s themes and authorial tone, situating it within current reading trends and public interest.
In Section One A a Junior Town meeting was held recently and the swimming pool opened last Sunday. Neal Van Horn is better but will miss school for the rest of the year. Four weeks left in the term. Mrs Cole made a rule to keep name and an hour detention after school for talking out without permission.
A Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows employment rising in March among 27 625 establishments with payrolls totaling 4 815 600. The only notable drop was coal mining as anthracite and bituminous coal began seasonal declines. Employment reached its highest March level since April 1927 and payrolls the peak since November 1923, with gains strongest in Western states and across metal industries like machine tools, automobiles, agricultural implements and foundries.
Rowena’s early town growth includes fifty establishments and 1900 construction. Hobbs New Mexico formed a chamber with forty charter members led by Alex Reeves who drafted WTCC constitution and by laws and sent a delegation to the South Plains district meeting.
Lucius M. Stephens secretary notes staff member from the West Texas Chamber of Commerce will attend the Lometa Chamber annual banquet on May 16 and sit at the Distinguished Guest table.
W Rand Jones offers 24 292.64 acres for sale in Reeves and Pecos Counties Texas and Pecos River Valley. Of this 3820.27 acres front the Pecos River with water rights. mineral rights including oil and gas pass with the sale. Water rights pass with sale. For price contact Eugene Cartledge agent in Austin or Jud Howetl Johnson in Fort Stockton Texas.
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