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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1923
Page
8
Our hobby promotes fire protection and more insurance with the motto If you lose we pay. E L Collings Insurance Co. advertises coverage options and a reassurance promise to clients.
The Church of Christ congregation in Barstow Texas holds services every Sunday at eleven o clock. Members invite neighbors to attend and join their weekly worship and fellowship activities.
Pastor L L Thurston notes a good Sunday with Mrs Jessie Hurt joining the church and Joyce Curry's certificate announced due to illness. He mentions sermons to the Woman's Missionary Society and Leagues, plans to preach on Heaven's Missionary Society and Is the Young Man Absolom Safe, with special music and a cordial invitation.
Miss Elizabeth Bacon a Beall school teacher for seven years died Monday in an El Paso hospital. Funeral services were held at 3 PM at the Hudspeth home with pallbearers listed. Her body was sent to Shreveport for burial under J J Easter. She was born in Overton Texas daughter of Lemon and Mrs Bacon and sister to Edna Bacon and Mrs Mary B Miller.
The Christian Aid Society women host their annual Christmas Bazaar on November 23 and 24 with hot lunch served.
The planned program at the school by the P Kent Teacher association and town clubs has been postponed to November 16 due to unavoidable reasons.
A visiting professional golfer and instructor Mr. Davis offers golf lessons at Alamo links. Weather kept players away, but several ladies signed up for instruction. Davis has earlier given clinics at Carlsbad and continues to Phoenix for winter engagements.
Jack James of Lubbock and Mat Walker of Midland are assigned as inspectors for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association to replace H. R. Roberson, murdered here on the night of April 1.
On Wednesday morning the Pecos fire siren alerted residents to a small blaze at a residence in the north part of town. The fire department responded promptly and stopped the fire at the home of Mr. Roger White, previously occupied by Clem Calhoun. The exact damage could not be determined by the Enterprise.
A satirical exchange shows an insurance agent asking for a car, the applicant replies he drives none, and the agent quips the company will not insure pedestrians, highlighting a dark humor take on life insurance and risk.
A speaker reflects on a drowned brother who jumped into a river to escape the heat and failed to survive. The term pessimist is traced to two words pest and mist, describing a foreboding nuisance seen through fog.
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