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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1934
Page
8
In Balmorhea Pecos county ranchers attend the third annual Cattle Feeders day with demonstrations comparing six rations fed to sixty yearling steers over five months. A Fort Worth packing house representative will appraise market value and discuss the potential profit from adding pulverized shell to feeds.
The column explains relief statute impact on taxes with totals and six percent interest. It recalls Barrow and Billy the Kid with brief notes on their murders and weapons. The Orient railroad history from Fort Worth era is touched in passing.
Rotarian Dudley and lati presented a biography of H P Davis at the Brandon Coffee Shop Lions gathering. Highlights include Davis’s Sweetwater Chamber honor and a career spanning Oxford Mississippi to Pecos Texas in health, wholesale, cotton growing, laundry, and service as Commerce secretary in 1952. Lucile Stephen and her sister Elizabeth provided songs and piano selections.
Al Smith a paper salesman for E. Palmer and Co. of Dallas toured the area this week. Sam Prewit is reported somewhat better and recovering from a fall suffered late last week.
The Enterprise lists candidates for various offices subject to Democratic primaries including W A Hendricks J B Woolfolk for County Judge Hollis S. Smith Claude Elkins Mary Caroline Ke G Doty Marvin Cowan Vernon Hicks for Clerk and other posts. Graduation ceremonies feature Dr Gordon urging citizenship and student awards as seniors receive diplomas and scholarships amid dull ceremonial notes.
Mrs N L Key 78 longtime Barstow resident and Pea country pioneer died Saturday at her Barstow home Funeral services were Sunday afternoon led by A G Hobbs Pecos Church of Christ with burial in Barstow Cemetery She is survived by her husband and four children Also noted Miss Lura Miller visited Pecos Wednesday from Abilene to spend time with her mother Annie Miller
Thirty one graduates in caps and gowns attended the bac calaureate in the high school auditorium. Rev. A G Abbott of the First Christian Church delivered the address on decisive living citing Columbus Napoleon and Christ and posing What shall ye do with Christ as the graduates key life question.
In Pecos the death of N. T. McPherson a 38 year old colored school teacher halts a planned graduation program. He died Tuesday evening from pneumonia after a brief illness. He had helped plan the event and was re elected for another year. burial set for Clarksville Texas.
Air Mail Contractor Major Bill Long of Long & Harmon, heads Dallas Aviation School which won a key air mail contract. C. E. Harmon serves as general manager as the firm, based in Dallas, lays out routes including Fort Worth to Dallas, Galveston, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, Brownsville, Wichita Falls, Amarillo and other Texas points.
The PTA sponsored an all day program in Mentone last Friday with track and field events, women's contests, and fun games. The rodeo followed lunch, featuring calves and steers ridden by developing riders and two bucking horses owned by Smoky Rutledge. The day ended with a Mentone Wink baseball win and a Fort Worth business visit by Mayor B A Toliver.
Congressman Wright Patman of Texas sponsored a key crime bill allowing the federal government to pay rewards up to 25000 for interstate fugitives dead or alive. The measure targets notorious criminals including Dillinger and Barrow and also authorizes similar awards for information leading to arrests and convictions.
Francisco Sandoval and Francisco Frecas, two Mexican youths injured in a Barstow automobile accident last Thursday, returned to El Paso on Friday after hospital treatment. Sandoval sustained a finger injury, Frecas suffered a broken arm, while the other five occupants had minor cuts and bruises.
Rev. Baren leads a two week revival starting June 1 at First Baptist Church with services daily. The meeting aims to inspire the community and encourage attendance by parishioners and neighbors.
Under manager K B Kiser six new sleeping rooms are being added at Boulder Courts, built of boulders to blend with the site. The rooms will be large and airy with ample windows and doors and expect completion in about 30 days. The swimming pool will be enlarged on the west side by 20 feet to accommodate growing crowds.
Mrs J T Simpson departed last week for an extended visit to El Paso to see her daughter Mrs EK E Crowe, with whom she had been staying.
Mrs. E. E. Crowe and Mrs. Ione Caldwell returned Sunday after spending the weekend in El Paso visiting friends and relatives.
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