Lake Texarkana Captures Attention With Size and Access
Lake Texarkana spans over 20 000 acres with a 3400 mile drainage area ensuring ample water. The earth filled dam runs 18 500 feet long with a road across it and Texarkana Chamber of Commerce offers full information on nearby tourist facilities. A premium fishing reel, the Arson Fighter, sells for 55 dollars and works in salt or freshwater. Remington Arms Co reports shotgun shells are mostly used on rabbits, then squirrels, quail, ducks and geese, with dove and pheasant hunting shares noted.
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Texarkana
Chamber of Commerce At
Remington Arms Co
Texas
Chicago Emerges as Nation's Great Rail Center
The city handles about 1,770 trains daily in arrivals and departures. Historical notes show Texas overtook oil as the leading industry between 1947 and 1953. The word acre is defined as land ploughed by one man in a day. Texas paid 3,025,000 acres for the present Capitol building.
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Chicago
Texas
Acre
Capitol
Healds to be honored July 19 for long service
Cherokee county to honor C Metz Heald a longtime county agricultural agent and extension worker with an open house July 19 in the Home Demonstration Council room basement courthouse Rusk. Heald retires this month after 22 years in Cherokee county and 33 years with the Texas A and M Extension Service. Rev John Thomas Adkinson Jr will lead music and plans. The Chapel a historic site 11 miles east of San Augustine in piney woods was designated by the Texas Centennial Commission as a key early Methodist organization site.
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C. Metz Heald
Veteran County
Cherokee County
John Thomas Adkinson, Jr
Methodist Historical Society
Piney Woods
Texas
San Augustine
Texas Centennial Commission
Pilgrimage Planned to Texas’ First Protestant Church
McMahan's Chapel near San Augustine will host a pilgrimage on Thursday July 24 starting at 11 a.m. The Rev Jester White will preach, with welcome by Dr E O Dubberly. Mrs R S Noble, oldest living member, is noted in the event.
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McMahan
San Augustine
C. A. West
First Methodist Church
Crockett
Texas Methodist Historical Society
Jester White
First Methodist Church of
Huntsville
E. O. Dubberly
Nacogdoches
R. S. Noble
McMahan's Chapel
President Urges Observance of Farm Safety Week
President Eisenhower proclaims National Farm Safety Week for 1958 set for July 20 and urges nationwide education to reduce farm accidents. The Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council backs the effort, calling for neighborhood inspections to root out hazards and stressing safety as a life and economic saver.
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Eisenhower
Texas Farm and Ranch Safety Council
United States
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