Wingate hosts Ballinger boosters with free lunch
Wingate hosts a Ballinger Booster Club lunch with 200 to 250 attendees, a Turkey-in-the-Straw band, and speeches by Dr. Shook and Mr. Dorsey praising Wingate. Town news covers local visits, property deals, and Wingate’s new barber shop as the community rallies for upcoming events.
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Wingate
Ballinger Booster Club
12Th & More
Dr. Shook
Dorsey
Ballinger
Boosters
Clifford Rowland
Sylvester
Clifford
Crosbyton
George Miller
Guyrene
Cuttie Mott
Brownwood
T. O. Rowland
O. C. Parish
Taylor County
T. P. Childers
Mr. Parish
Fred Greene
Hearne
Texas
Lucile Smith
W. J. Smith
George Lietz
Weatherford
Lonnie Hancock
Lloyd Perry
Corpus Christi
M. WD. Hall
Greenville
Wingate Community Notes Show Social Ties and Local Church Revival
Messes many Wingate residents and visitors frequent Abilene Lubbock and Winters this week. A Baptist revival led by Rev. Smith draws large crowds with converts and reported additions to the church. Local weddings, visits by relatives from San Antonio Hermleigh and Dallas area, and a Wingate vs Angelo tie in baseball highlight a busy period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Barron
Will Barrette
Joe
Porter Gannoway
Hermleigh
J. A. Gannoway
Audrey Spear
Dallas
Wingate
Angelo
Angelo Diamond
George Miller
Stanton
Messrs
Troy
Lloyd Carter
Sam
Russe Lietz
Bill Dean
Abilene
Sybie Denson
Douglas Shaffer
Winters
Irene
Elizabeth Smith
A. J. Smith
Lonniee Hancock
Fluvanna
John Cathey
Lloyd Perry
Add Miller
Roswell
New Mexico
Short Course at Bradshaw Draws 300 Farmers and Wives
Bradshaw August 18 The Farmers Short Course closed with over 300 participants from fourteen towns and communities and about 95 percent attendance. Leaders included J R Masterson Taylor County Farm Agent G W Owens A M Extension Farm manager J Lynn Thomas dairy expert Miss Helen Hubbard Swift and Miss Eula Mae Key assisted by local Home Demonstration Clubs. A Dairy Club was formed with thirty youth joining and a Jersey heifer selection trip planned. The Bank of Bradshaw will aid financing and the court voted to hire a County Farm Agent C R Whitehead and family of Liberty Texas for local farm demonstration work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Lynn Thomas
A. & M. College
Helen Hubbard Swift
Eula Mae Key
County Home
Runnels County
Jersey
Bank of Bradshaw
Morris Family Ties Span City to Abilene Visit
Mrs J F Morris of Heaton visits her sons C H Morris and E J Morris then spends the week with her daughter Mrs R T Weese of Abilene. C E Flowers former Glen Rose First National Bank employee accepts teller and utility post at Winters State Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Morris
Heaton
C. H. and
E. J. Morris
R. T. Weese
Abilene
C. E. Flowers
First National Bank of
Glen Rose
Winters State Bank
Valley lands offered near Brownsville in Willacy county
The notice promotes available land in the Raymondville district Willacy county forty eight miles north of Brownsville in the new Rio Grande Valley. Soils are clay beneath with 25.7 inches annual rainfall and cotton yields average three fourths of a bale per acre countywide. Unimproved land trades around 100 dollars per acre and tours are arranged at low cost through Walter Neely at H Meers office or Tourist Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymondville
Willacy County
Brownsville
Rio Grande Valley
Walter Neely
H. Meers
Texas
Thas
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FE. E. Whitfield
South Main Street
Spill Bros. & CO
Leto
City Drug Company
Freeman’s Confectionery
Lee A. Wilson
Messers, Frank, Porter
Lee Gannoway
Effie Dugger
Olney
J. F. Dugger
Riley Howard
I. FE. Smith
Harmony
A. N. Cason and Son
Littlefield
Geo. Lietz
B. J. Smith
Pattie
Berkley Smith
A. L. Smith
Anson
H. Len Smith
George Lloyd
Pumphrey
Cora
Ola
Cecil Smithson
Cleare
Daughtr
Dorothy Faye
Houston
J. B. Moore
Will Dodson
J. D. Dunn
Lamesa
F. F. Merritt
Lubbock
E. N. Dean
Elza Renfrée
Dora
Renfore
N. F. Smithson
Gordon Ashby
W. R. Shook
Morris
Calvin Ropers
Sweetwater
M. T. Hensley
Floydada
Lakeview
R. L. Collingsworth
R. I. Collingsworth
Lillie Green
Lake Charles la
Queen Theatre
Jacqueline Logan
Clive Brook
Hoke S. & Kh. Co
Otsego
Mich
Bradshaw
C. R. Whitehead
Liberty
West Texas
M. M. Snelling
Fale
Star Bakery
A. Belitz
Prop
Simmons University
Abilene, Texas
Jefferson D. Sandefer
LL. D
Simmons
A. E. Chandler
Bursar
DR. B. Khan
Optometrist
Dr. Sander
First National Bank
Hell
West Texas Utilities Company
Winters Light & Power Co
Lower
Hidalgo
Willacy
Cameron
Missouri-Pacific
Southern- Pacific
Texas Land Investment Company
Houston, Texas
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