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Newspaper
Pecos Enterprise
Location
Pecos, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1932
Page
5
W. L. Sherrod spent Thanksgiving preparing for the Toytown opening on Friday. He claims a greater array of toys and lower prices than ever before, promising shoppers a wide selection.
The Pecos zone of the Woman's Missionary Society selects Thursday December 1 for the final 1932 gathering in Pecos with hostesses The meeting at 10 a.m. features elections for 1995 officers, a playlet on disarmament, devotional talks, and a communion service, plus reports on Southern Methodist work in Korea and zone auxiliary plans.
Will Rogers recalls a wild stunt in the film Down to Earth where his camel car crash into scaffolding while bricks and lumber showered around. Director David Butler orchestrated the scene as Rogers jokes about thrills. Irene Rich Dorothy Jordan Mac tv Kemp Theodore Lodi Mary Carlisle Brandon Hurst support. Premieres next Sunday and Monday at the Grand Theater.
Wilma Ruth Hinson celebrated her fifth birthday on Thursday November 17 with a party. Many games entertained guests and refreshments of animal cookies cake and ice cream were served to attendees including Joan Bradford Sue Kidd Betty Nan Hinkle Billy Fay Bullock Bettie Lou Bullock Rose Eilen Taylor Norma Gene Taylor Lois Loring Kathylene Ragsdale Virginia Ragsdale Paul Winkles Morris Winkler Ellie Ilay es Bob Starley Bud Kidd Jimmy Wilson Charles Barry Jack Linsey.
United Dry Goods manager E. S. Scrimshire announces Christus merchandise will be on display the day after Thanksgiving. The store plans a holiday kickoff as customers anticipate Christmas shopping.
Rev Hall Pierce will conduct Episcopal church services at St Mark’s Pecos on Sunday November 27 while away on a preaching mission to Farmington New Mexico on the 6th.
Two circles of the Presbyterian church met Tuesday at Mrs. Bike Simmons home for their monthly session. Members wrote letters to M B Swinehart now in Korea and noted the Swineharts spent six months in Pecos on furlough. Mrs Ronald Roberson and Mrs J Craft presented vocal numbers. 17 members attended with refreshments.
The Enterprise congratulates Mr and Mrs We Creig on the birth of a baby boy weighing 7.12 pounds. He arrived on Saturday November 19, at Pa. The child has been named Je.
Mr and Mrs Bennett McCutch eon hosted a farewell party at their ranch in the Davis Mountains last Friday for friends from Pecos. They are relocating to Fort Davis.
Dr. M. E. Corbin formerly of Mentone has moved to Crane to engage in medical practice there.
Pecos is becoming a major bus crossroads with 61 continental schedules weekly and 42 local runs. Local agent Ted Seay says Pecos lies midway between north and south and east and west, aided by good highways, carrying about 500 passengers monthly and attracting one company spending around 2300 dollars monthly in Pecos, including 1000 dollars in state and federal taxes for highway construction.
The nightclub set designed by Gordon Wiles for Hat Cheek Girl draws comment at the Grand Theater as Sally Eilers, Ben Lyon, Ginger Rogers, Monroe Owsley and others perform in Fox Films adaptation directed by Sidney Lanfield. The story follows Sally Eilers as the lead with a swift romance and dramatic turn.
Rehearsals go well for the one act play The Valiant to be shown December 5 at the Grand Theater. The Pecps Little Theater presents the production between Grand’s regular shows with director Miss Nell Chism and a cast including Till Hudson Dick Toll Charles Ripley Ted Seay Bond Bradford and Miss Josephine Bryan.
The Juniors stage Beads on a String on December 2 to raise funds for the Junior-Senior Banquet. Nine dollars already saved, plus four dollars thirty cents from Friday candy sales. Stella Mee Card plays Mokey Mallerton. Karl Ligon, disguised as a girl, becomes Zezzale Davis. Ab Dinkler plays the detective who falls for Zezzale.
The Pecos grammar school, with city council permission and PTA aid, installed highway Slow signs at each corner of the Bankhead highway across the school campus. The goal is to alert motorists to the school zone while allowing children to avoid street patrols and improve safety for all.
Mrs Irma Leonard oldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Oskar Korn died in El Paso this week and will be buried at 10 o clock Friday morning in Dallas. She is survived by her two children and her parents. Mr Korn is manager of the O K Theater chain comprising the Grand Theater in Pecos.
Local shop advertises new mid season turbans and hats in boga-herra wool crepe rabbit hair velvet and soft felt priced at one and one dollar ninety five. Encourages customers to complete outfits with a new hat.
The Twentieth Century club will plant a memorial tree on the courthouse lawn next Wednesday in honor of George Washington and the Washington Bicentennial. President Mrs Beulah J Wilson calls all members to assemble at 8 p m at the courthouse before the regular meeting for the ceremony.
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