Cotton Bale Prices and Sales Report
Fragmentary OCR notes show cotton bales priced at 1 408 each and mention of B10 bales of firat this year. Details are unclear due to corrupted text. Entities referenced include cotton and price figures.
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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1927
Page
9
Fragmentary OCR notes show cotton bales priced at 1 408 each and mention of B10 bales of firat this year. Details are unclear due to corrupted text. Entities referenced include cotton and price figures.
The committee chaired by C Hil and Sheppard discussed the January 10 event and a 30 year old program. Tailtwister fines were set at 9 cents per offense with 25 cents if not paid, plus a pecan tree planting campaign announced by Rev Riddle and a note of club camaraderie.
In Winters a four day event offers prizes valued up to hundreds of dollars. shoppers line up at four drug stores to pick a ticket and then visit cooperating shops to match or come closest to the posted number. At 3 p.m. each day, the winning number earns a prize from the hosting firm. prizes range from one to ten dollars in useful merchandise. many local businesses join including Palmer Geo Rosson Spill Bros Coupland's Watiety A Le Barrow Sparks Kroes Smith Drug Co Midway Barber Shop Higginsbotham Bros Co Gardner Tos Baldwin Grocery Harwell Hickman Co Carl Davis J W Schindler City Drug Co Winters Enterprise Main Drug Co R P House Grocery Winters Motor Co Krauss Dry Goods Co The Hub Dry Goods Co West Texas Utilities Davis Nash Motor Co Brannon Auto Parts Co Nance Brown Motor Co Dittrich Battery Station Model Filling Station Moore Service Station Jack Kelly Gambill's Store Morris Cohen Jordan's Studio Hoover Motor Co Gulf Service Station H. H. Hardin City Cleaners City Garage D Goldman System Jno G Key Song Norman Smith Dry Goods Gates Nunnally Dry Wilane Jackson City Bakery Skages Cozy Cafe The Winters State Bank.
A Christmas program at the high school organized by the Parent Teacher Association drew a good turnout. Second grade students, directed by Miss McCorkle, performed for both parents and teachers as part of the department activities.
Rauss becomes a member of the Federated Dry Goods Stores as about 3,000 progressive merchants join the national group. The federation offers strong buying power and collective advertising to its members, accelerating growth of the dry goods chain.
A fragmentary report notes good sale of greeting cards and post Easter hats. Mentions mailing items and a cautious outlook on future projects.
The Winters community chamber reports two more sponsors West Texas Utilities Company and Winters Oil Mill joining the effort as debt reduction progresses. Despite fiscal strain the organization expects to clear obligations soon and push ahead with Rural Community Development Roads and Highways Better Business Bureau Civic Development and Industry Agricultural programs and service and labor divisions. Winters aims to deliver tangible results in the coming year through money brains and cooperation.
Mrs D P Airport of Kingsville departed after a pleasant stay with Mr and Mrs R P House and traveled to Roby Texas for a relatives visit on Sunday.
Abilene December 15 Frank Bridges new director of athletics at Simmons University began duties this week with a squad of 36 basketball players. A former Baylor Southwest Conference coach he plans to lead Simmons in the Texas Conference race next year and will field fourteen lettermen for the gridiron season.
Jnc Q McAdams vice president of the Runnels County Health Association calls for purchase of tuberculosis Christmas Seals to fund a county health campaign. He urges generous local support during Christmas giving to aid schools and children and protect health for the coming year.
A Runnels County B Y P U zone meeting was held at Drasco last Sunday with fine attendance. Harmony B Y P U presented a special program and Pumphrey was chosen as the next meeting site with Drasco Union to arrange a special program for the occasion.
We wish to thank the many kind friends for their expressions of sympathy and the floral offering in the death of our husband and father. We sincerely appreciate your kindness. Mrs. T. A. Lewis and family including R. A. Lewis W. D. Lewis F. M. Lewis and Willie Lewis express gratitude.
Gunners Williams and Ashburn begin constructing a modern filling station on their lot just south of their gin plant. The facility will be leased by Mehghgher and is described as a modern addition to the area’s amenities.
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