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Winters Enterprise in Winters, Texas

29 Apr 1927

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Winters Enterprise

Location

Winters, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 29, 1927

Page

6

Drasco social, birthdays, and local visits noted

Drasco community life centers on church socials and missionary society events. Members attend district contests in San Angelo, ordination at Pumphrey, and close with school ending May 20. Several residents visit family in Winters Ballinger and San Antonio. J. M. Skaggs returns from San Antonio trip with Dr. Ray H. Skaggs family.

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B. M. Dye Douglas Moro Drasco Mesdames Townsend Hugh Baker Methodist Missionary Society Brownwood Mr. Hartzog Winters J. A Frank Yates San Antonio Messrs. Pierce, McAdams and Adams Walter Patterson Kress Walter Smith E. W. Swearingen Vesta Lewallen Ruth Wooten Ila Walker Evelyn Gannaway Beatrice Belew Effie Lewallen Elizabeth Tony Lois Short Mary Herrington Berta Mae Sandefer Alice Lila Mae Partlow Delcie Peters Aston Benton Pauline Gibbs Opal Baker Vada Richardson Messrs J. C. Massengale Lawrence Kelly Lois Cooke Raymond Allen’ Richardson Burl Belew Travis Downing Sid Kaufman S. H. Puckett Bonnie Puckett Tom Spencer Neal Douglas Big Spring Juanita Mayhew Mary Lenora Horn San Angelo Opal Alma Katherine Alice Partlow Buel Belew Raymond Richardson Downing Belew George Yates Alma Guion Knight J. A. Yates Baptist Church Pumphrey Methodist Church Swearingen Ira Tony J. W. Dixon of J. C. Watts Sid Lewallen W. A. Porter Elmore Mayhew Stanley Sanders Amherst Gordon Nix Ia Walker Ballinger J. M. Skaggs Ray H. Skaggs
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Bill Carlisle Returns From Central Texas Trip

The report notes Bill Carlisle came back Tuesday from a lengthy visit to Waco and other Central Texas sites. It mentions a half century of missionary work being threatened in China and comments on the ease of destruction versus construction.

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Bill Carlisle Waco Texas China
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One Dead One Hurt in Liquor Raid Near Snyder

Colorado Texas April 27 George Lackey of Sweetwater is dead and Jack Wright a local rooming house operator is wounded after a gun battle with Sheriff Brownfield and deputies while officers confronted two men loading liquor near a canyon twenty miles north of Snyder. Lackey died at 6:17 pm. one bullet pierced his back, kidney and abdomen. He will be buried Thursday at Hilton. Wright remains in hospital.

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Colorado Texas George Lackey Sweetwater Jack Wright Here Brownfield Scurry County Newman and Leath Lackey Wright Snyder Hilton Colorado River
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Prohibition Era Robbery Arrests Reported

After a stakeout near the creek, officers confronted three men loading booze from a cache into a wagon and then into a truck. A gunfight ensued with the suspects firing as police ordered surrender. One man wounded, Wright hospitalized and expected to recover. no charges filed yet. Liquor seized and taken to Snyder. Sheriff Brownfield provided details.

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Brownfield Snyder Wright
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Sheriff details crash at liquor cache scene in Texas

Sheriff F. M. Brownfield reports a woman accompanied George Lackey and Jack Wright to yesterday afternoon’s crash site south of Snyder in the Colorado river brakes. Lackey died from mortal wounds while Wright suffered a shattered right hip bone from a bullet. The sheriff says the woman did not shoot at him or deputies but drew her gun when deputies approached the truck and fled.

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Snyder Texas F. M. Brownfield George Lackey Jack Wright Here Colorado River Lackey Wright
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Lackey Dies From Wound In Clash With Sheriff Brownfield

George A. Lackey died in Colorado or Colorado late today from a wound suffered during a clash with Sheriff F. M. Brownfield near Sweetwater Texas on April 27. The incident involved gunfire and police action.

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Sweetwater Texas George A. Lackey Colorado F. M. Brownfield
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Roberts Elected Principal at Lamesa Grammar School

G M Roberts has been elected principal of the Lamesa Grammar School. He is known in the county for teaching in Dale Baldwins and Drasco and has many friends in the area. The item notes his promotion and local interest.

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Lamesa G. M. Roberts Lamesa Grammar School Roberts Dale, Baldwin Drasco
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Liquor Cache Raid Near Snyder Involves Local Proprietor

In Scurry County two deputies surprised Lackey and Wright at a liquor cache south of Snyder. The proprietor of Sweetwater Hatcheries was involved. Mrs. Lackey left for Snyder after learning of the trouble. Lackey and Wright were taken to Colorado by ambulance from Snyder.

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Scurry County Lackey Wright Snyder Sweetwater Hatcheries Colorado
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H. O. Davis Plainview Geo. Lackey Hatchery Proprietor Haynie Insurance Service Lumbing J.J. Street Claude. Mills Lampasas J. S. Neely C. D. Dillingham Abilene Fred Bedford Tulsa J. W. Dixon State Medical Association el Paso McSwain Harris of Georgia Star Bakery Zane Grey Bibles Jeanes Produce CO Ford Chevrolet Goodyear
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