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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1927
Page
6
The Interscholastic League event unfolds here today and tomorrow with hundreds of students as guests. Events include volleyball, tennis, declamation, spelling, arithmetic, essay, music memory, and track field, plus finals in debating and rural pentathlon.
A city discusses fining a Kansas visitor $12 for an idle engine while in a drug store. Residents urge friendly welcome and voluntary traffic cooperation to avoid adverse publicity and protect the town’s reputation.
The Little Theatre Group finally presents Kempy at the new high school auditorium Tuesday evening April 12 at 8 15. An orchestra before the curtain and vocal selections accompany the comedy with Bob Bacon's Bowl-Bearing Boobs as a headliner. The entire cast promises a top performance for lovers of comedy. Reserve seats early to avoid a packed house and hear Sheppard's orchestra.
Mrs W Love James and her baby of Galveston visited Mrs Jim Eoff last week. They traveled to Coleman to visit relatives and friends Wednesday and returned Thursday. Lanham Brown and S H Nance were in Dallas for business earlier in the week.
H. W. Lynn was expected home yesterday from Memphis Tennessee where he attended a meeting of the rules committee of the National Cottonseed Crushers association. While absent he visited relatives in Covington Tennessee.
The Lions Club entertained the High School Girls basketball team after they won the Runnels County championship. Miss Mildred Spill was elected captain for next year. Coach J. E. Childers introduced the squad as officers and members attended to club business.
Winters boosts water security with a $30,000 bond funded water project. The city constructed a reservoir on land bought from the Daugherty property and drilled two wells testing about 100 000 gallons each. Additional wells are in progress and none affect the others. Officials anticipate an unlimited supply to supplement the city lake.
Albert Roberts, the present incumbent, was reelected mayor in Winters last Tuesday defeating J. T. Stevenson. The vote count showed Roberts with 125 and Stevenson 55. Voters were unclear about two-ticket ballots, causing light turnout in the mayoral race while alderman results favored J. W. Copeland for reelection and Fred Bedford for the vacancy left by Wiley Handa.
The Runnels County Co-Operative bankers held a meeting at Wingate in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dun can Hensley with a program on service charges. Harry Lynn of Ballinger was elected president and Lyle Deffebach was re elected secretary treasurer. Next meeting will be in Ballinger on the fourth Tuesday in May. The group plans an educational campaign to inform the public about service charges and whether they are necessary. Behrens of Abilene transacted business in the city earlier this week.
Rev and Mrs Hal F Smith and Mrs V Vanzandt with Mr and Mrs W W Hall attended Presbytery in Menard on Wednesday and Thursday, with others possibly present.
Mr and Mrs J A Huffhines arrived Wednesday from Hot Springs Arkansas where they have been for his health. The note mentions his post and duty in the company.
The Enterprise announces a reader cash giveaway with five subscriber names to appear in five merchants ads. If your name is chosen, visit the corresponding ad merchant and receive one dollar in cash by next Tuesday week. Read the ads and claim your prize.
Grace Louise Floyd 18, daughter of Mrs. Roxie Floyd, died instantly when the car she rode in overturned last Sunday. Born August 22, 1906 in Sarah, Mississippi, she moved to Texas at 16 with her mother after her father died. She attended John Tarleton College, was active in the Baptist Sunday School, and served as a worker with children. Surviving: mother, brother Max Floyd of Dallas, and Mrs. Al Jennings of Lubbock. Funeral Monday at 4:30 pm at First Baptist Church, Rev. H. H. Stephens officiating. burial in Fairview Cemetery. Pallbearers: Gladden Bedford, John W. Norman, Vivian Colburn, C. R. Syler. flower girls: Ruby Nell Roberts, Thelma Colburn, Lucile McWilliams, Bellinger and Melba Sue Bledsoe of Baylor College.
Last week Winters witnesses three incidents. A nine year old boy, Norman Compton, was struck by a car on West Dale street and rushed to a local hospital, then to a sanitarium, with internal bruising but improving. A picnic party on the highway near the Country club suffered minor injuries after being forced into a ditch. Grace Floyd died when a Dodge touring car flipped after speeding seven miles from Winters. Ruth Cathay and others were injured, Floyd crushed beneath the rear door, and emergency crews could not save her.
Jordan’s Studio will close all next week to attend the Southwestern Photographers’ Association meeting in Dallas. Calls for portraits accepted today or tomorrow. Kodak films and other work will be attended to upon return. Leave films in the drop box at the door with Mrs. A. P. Jordan.
Tender condolences are extended by Higginbotham Bros and others in charge of tone arrangements amid the peely and surrounding events. The note of sympathy is aimed at the affected parties.
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