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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1938
Page
3
The article advises farmers to harvest forage before frost and ensile quickly to preserve feeding value. It compares trench silos and field storage, notes maturity versus dough stage tradeoffs, and gives practical cutting tools and methods to ensure proper fermentation. It emphasizes excluding air and maintaining moisture for quality ensilage of corn and sorghums.
Romance and comedy blend in Rich Man Poor Girl featuring Robert Young Lew Ayres and Ruth Hussey. Young a socialite millionaire falls for his secretary Miss Hussey, while Ayres plays her imperious cousin as the Thayers thwart his schemes and his fortune remains at stake.
Two news items appear. A Texas election notice in Pecos Town calls for a November 12 1938 vote on 25000 bonds to extend repair and improve the Pecos sewer system and sanitary disposal plant with a 4 percent interest rate over 25 years. Beery and Rooney star in Stablemates a two day Grand Theatre road show opening next Sunday.
Members of the Christian Science organization redecorate the Carnegie Library basement. Improvements include painting throughout and the addition of 50 folding chairs. The interior has been redecorated after renovations.
Regular stated meeting of Pecos Valley Lodge No. 736 AF&A M second Tuesday of each month at 7 30 p m Your attendance expected Visitors welcome J N Miller W M W W Ruhilen Sec
Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 388 meets regularly each Wednesday at 7 30 o clock Jno Oglesby C C welcomes visitors to attend meetings in the lodge room
Funeral services were held in Dallas for the Rev Harvey Beauchamp age 74 a longtime Baptist Sunday School worker author and church architect who died October 21 after a six year illness. He served 35 years as field secretary for the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention and wrote many standard works for the denomination. He planned numerous church buildings from Florida to Texas and was known as the father of the Graded Sunday School. His mother Mrs Jennie Bland Beauchamp organized Texas WCTU.
Dr. Hilliard Camp attended a convention of the Southwest Medical Association in El Paso last week while Mrs. Hilliard Camp visited relatives and friends.
A pound of soap dissolved in a gallon of hot whitewash produces a glossy appearance for the whitewash.
Church of Amarillo Texas lists survivors widow Laura English Beauchamp of Dallas son Harvey Beauchamp Jr Pecos daughters Mrs O M Crenshaw and Miss Jennie Beauchamp Dallas sister Mrs Clara Babb Columbia Mo Interment was in Restland Memorial Dallas
Miss Mary Sue Johnson of Pecos is listed as an active Cowgirls member at Hardin-Simmons University Abi lene. The co ed group, founded in 1925, promotes sportsmanship on campus and selects new members by invitation. this fall twenty six new members were elected.
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