Ferguson to reshuffle Texas state departments and highway office
Analysis of Governor Elect Miriam A Ferguson’s likely removal and replacement of state department heads including highway commissioners. Examines the six year term commission structure and possible paths to control, including resignations, statutory removals, legislative amendments, or an elective commission. Notes pay scales and other key appointments and the broader impact on state government personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
Ferguson
Highway Department
Highway Patrol
Cone Johnson
Tyler
W. R. Ely
Abilene
D. K. Martin
San Antonio
Ross Sterling
Fergusons
Dan Moody
Sterling
Highway Commission
Commission
Forty-Third
State Board of Control
State Health Department
Board of Pardons
Board of Water Engineers
Commission Aid Court of Criminal Appeals
State Board of Insurance
Game, Fish and Oyster Department
Industrial Accident Board
State Board of Education
Board of Directors
Court of Criminal Appeals
Confederate Women’s Home
Local Want Ads Roundup at North Texas Seed Co
Classified notices advertise chicken feed milk cow and farm services. Pu rina mash offered by North Texas Seed Co with other feed items. Jer sey milch cow for sale with calf listed by C J Meador. Planters Gin Co promotes meat hulls grind feed. Cream buyers offer 15 cents this week. S Young offers private music lessons at half price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Texas Seed Company
Local social notes from Pilot Grove district
Mrs Nan St John visited Mrs Fannie Swanger in Trenton last week. Families attend the State Teachers Association in Fort Worth and many local visits are noted among Binion Ownby and Reagan families. A child asks about angels and radios as a lighthearted closing anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nan St. John
Fannie Swanger
Trenton
J. L. Robinson
Valda Smith
State Teachers Association
Fort Worth
Ira Carr
Elizabeth
Rose Hill
Bud Caraway
Margaret Doggett
van Alstyne
Helen Taylor
Billie Hopper
Clint Hopper
E. E. Benson
W. D. Ownby
Whitewright
Lee Binion
Texarkana
R. E. L. Binion
Leslie Andrew
Sherman
Warren Ownby
Broken Arrow
Okla
D. M. Taylor
Helen
David Taylor
Sarah Binion
Martha Jo McAfee
Tom Binion
Sam Forshee
San Diego
Calif
Z. W. Binion
Lloyd McSpedden
S. T. McSpedden
Tom Reagan
West Shady
Tom Gibson
B. G. Gibson
Elza Taylor
Carl Reagan
West Texas
Cow Visit Delights Boston School Children
One thousand Boston students saw a cow and calf at William Blackstone school after Dr. John P. Sullivan demanded demonstrations to teach where milk comes from. Russell I. Prentis pulled milk from a bucket, delighting the open mouthed pupils who asked if the cow is the one that jumped over the moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
John P. Sullivan
Daisy
Jessie
William Blackstone
Russell I
Bethel pastor resigns to lead Pecan Gap church
Rev S D Lindsey former Bethel Baptist pastor resigns to accept the full time pastorate at Pecan Gap church. Local social notes mention visits by Velma Marie Holland Pauline Dixon Grady Brown Haskel Williams Vera Holland Lillie Maye Holland Margaret Lowery Elizabeth Hedgpeth and a Merry Makers Club social at Haskel Williams with twenty members. School to observe Thanksgiving holidays Thursday and Friday. Bum This big Italian fighter has to have a bed over seven feet long. Much Say that is bunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. D. Lindsey
Baptist Church
Pecan Gap
Velma Marie Holland
Kentuckytown
Pauline Dixon
Grady Brown
Haskel Williams
Vera
Lillie Maye Holland
Margaret Lowery
Sherman
Elizabeth Hedgpeth
Margaret Coggins
Merry Makers Club
Dancing in the Nineties Raid Echo
A scene shows an uncle and niece watching youths dance. The niece quips about dancing in the nineties, while the uncle recalls a raid that disrupted such revelry in the past.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Whitewright Burial Association
Whitewright Trade Territory
First National Bank
Whitewright, Tex
Whitewright Burial Association of
Carl May
Lloyd Moore
Purina
Jersey
C. J. Meador
Planters Gin Company
Norris
J. L. Denton
George German
J. T. Marshall
E. W. Fields
L. LaRoe
E. D. Barlow Nursery
Greenville
Byrne Commercial College
Dallas
Tyler Commercial College
Sun Office
R. L. Johnson
Armour & Company
Brook Mays & Co
Reliable Piano House
Houston Street
Auto Finance Company OF Sherman F. W. Creager
MGR
S. Travis St. Sherman
Pilot Grove News
Joan
Bethel News
The
Pile
Sr Rarole
Sir di
Griffin
Hale’s Leader
the Sun
Federal
Nicholson’s
Post’s
Baby Beef
Nicholson
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