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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1932
Page
4
A son, Edward Lynn Williams, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Williams of Balmorhea on November 5 at Pecos Sanitarium. The birth is announced in the local notices.
Reeves County will obtain relief money from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to fund work relief for distressed individuals. The exact amount is unclear but at least 33000 is expected. Pecos, Toyah, and Balmorhea show requests totaling 7000. Local committees and the Associated Charities plan to dispense funds for public works in exchange for labor.
C R Troxel of the highway department based in Fort Davis was in town last Saturday on business. Clyde Barton and his wife from Kermit Texas visited Pecos friends over the weekend. Wynn Hamilton of Saragosa and Percy Douglas of Balmorhea were here last Thursday shopping and visiting.
Mr and Mrs Charles Ross arrived at their ranch area on Thursday for a social visit with friends.
A. H. Dunlap of the State Board of Water Engineers attended the Red Bluff conference in Decos Monday night. R. H. Gray, county judge elect of Fort Stockton, also visited Decos Monday night for the Red Bluff conference.
Miss Virginia Thomas left last Sunday for a two month visit in New York and Boston where she will stay with relatives. Rev J A Kidd returned this week from zona where he conducted a revival meeting. To Fort Worth for the Armistice Day football game between Texas University and TCU go Dr and Mrs Hilliard Camp and Mr and Mrs Keith Camp.
J. B. Cashell left Thursday night for a short visit at Greenville, his old home. He will see the T C U Texas game at Fort Worth en rinute.
Mrs Serimshire is steadily improving at the Camp hospital after a serious operation performed Monday this week. Her husband Mr J S Serimshire and many friends are relieved by the update from the hospital.
The Sheriff of Reeves County Texas announces a foreclosure sale under a 1927 order in the Bernice and Robert Deutch vs Percy H Duncan et al case. The property includes all of Section 7 Block 2 Houston and Great Northern Railroad Survey Reeves County with specified exclusions. The sale is set for the first Tuesday December 1952 at the Reeves County Courthouse. Cast of defendants includes Texas Irrigated Land Company and related trustees.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Beauchauip Jr left Thursday evening for Fort Worth to attend the Armistice Day football game between Texas and Te Mes Ae.
Flake Young and C. Jones left Thursday night to attend the T.I. U. versus Texas football game in Fort Worth.
Dave Wood and two teammates left Bozeman and Trapye War for a Thursday trip to Fort Worth to attend the game.
Mrs. Willie Miler, formerly of the Orient dining room, returns for a visit to old friends in East Texas oil fields. She is accompanied by her brothers Tom Ashmore and Arch Ashmore.
Mr and Mrs Dudley of the Yard at Hotel Brandon plan to leave Thursday night for the hotel convention in Mineral Wells.
Mr and Mrs Paul Harvey of the Paso Del Norte Hotel in El Paso were in Pecos Wednesday night en route to the Texas Hotel Association convention in Mineral Wells. They stayed at the Hotel Brandon.
In Midland a sermon titled The Ragged Man was preached by Rev. Winston F. Borum who spoke while dressed in ragged clothes as part of a message to welcome those wearing worn garments to the Midland Baptist church. The audience wore patched clothing reflecting the theme and purpose of the night.
Congratulations go to Mr and Mrs Ernest Colwell on the birth of a fine boy named Charles Edward Colwell. The baby arrived November 1 and both mother and child are reported as doing well.
Maurice Chevalier performs seven of ten numbers in Love Me Tonight directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote the songs including Poor Apache and The Song of Puree. Jeanette MacDonald sings five numbers solo and with Chevalier. the ensemble features Charlie Ruggles Aubrey Smith Myrna Loy and others in this Broadway style musical.
Jack Holt stars as a vengeance-seeking army officer and polo player in This Sporting Age at the Grand Theater. Evelyn Knapp plays his daughter in a tale set at an exclusive country club and army post with Hardie Albright and J. Farrell MacDonald also in the cast. Mr and Mrs Fenton Alley were in from the ranch Thursday.
The Department of Agriculture reports a net gain in farm population for early 1932 and projects a yearly increase near 1931 levels. If trends continue, farm numbers could nearly match 1910 peaks, offsetting 1920–30 declines and signaling a broader rural rebound. Major figures include a 265000 net gain for the first three months and a 656000 gain estimated for 1931.
A legal notice from Reeves County Texas states a sale to occur on a specified day. The document shows sheriff Louis Roberson and deputy Isola DeRacy signing and dating the notice as November 1832.
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