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Newspaper

Winters Enterprise

Location

Winters, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 12, 1936

Page

2

Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers in Follow the Fleet Queen Theatre

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers perform nautical musical comedy Follow the Fleet at Queen Theatre with midnight prevue Sunday and shows Sunday and Monday. Other features include Whispering Smith Speaks with George O Brien and Leslie Howard, Bondace with Bette Davis, Petrified Forest, Every Saturday Night and notable action aboard a battleship with Astaire Randolph Scott and Dene Ware.

Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers Queen Theatre Irving Berlin Whispering Smith George O'Brien Leslie Howard Bette Davis Nortravale Petrified Forest Warner Bros

Grasshoppers Threaten Crops Across Localities

County agent Barton outlines late afternoon application and a bran mash poison mix to control grasshoppers before they devastate cotton and feed areas. The method uses 25 pounds bran 1 to 1 1/2 pounds white arsenic 2 quarts sugar or molasses 16 ounces anise oil or lemons and 2 to 3 gallons water to wet the mix, spread thinly.

Barton

Petrified Forest describes misfits in a desert hideout

In the Arizona desert near a roadside gas station a gang of killers haunt a group of misfits awaiting a border escape. Leslie Howard plays an unsuccessful author who seeks meaning by dying to free the girl he loves, while Bette Davis longs for life and Dick Foran as a conflicted college boy pursues the same love.

Petrified Forest Arizona Desert Groun Mexico Leslie Howard Bette Davis Dick Foran

Every Saturday Night Family Casting Surfaces

The piece describes how a happy family of seven and a grandmother is assembled for a film. June Lang is chosen as the eldest daughter after evaluating facial resemblance to the rest of the cast despite abundant Hollywood talent.

Hollywood June Lang

Regular N F Club meeting hosted by Mrs Alton Stehle

Eleven members and one visitor attended the regular N F Club gathering at Mrs. Alton Stehle home. Hostess served cake and iced fruit drink to all. Visitor Mrs Vera Balch of Big Spring visiting her mother Mrs Anna Davis.

N. F. Club Alton Stehle Vera Balch Big Spring Anna Davis Ray Tunnell Joe Crockett Ballinger Raymond Freeman Darlene San Angelo Kelly Brown Wayne Roberts Wright Reece Jones Baby Chapmond Beegy Fry Winters Selma Chapmond Johnny Minzenmeyer Homry Briley Hatchel B. B. Smith Jasper Shields Wingate

Expressions of Thanks and Local News Notes

A bereavement notice thanks friends for support after Joe Donald Parks death. The letter mentions floral tributes and a comforting dinner. Other items note Raymond Spill visiting from North Texas Agricultural College and Bill Mayo’s pneumonia at his father’s home with brief condition update.

Joe Donald Parks J. M. Giles W. L. Porter Raymond Spill North Texas Agricultural College Arlington August Spill Bill Mayo W. A. Mayo

Visitors from Dallas Stay in Austin

Mrs. T. C. Jennings and children Betty Ray and Tillman Jr. are visiting Austin for a few weeks, staying with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Dumas and with Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Carter.

T. C. Jennings Betty Ray and Tillman Jr Austin J. W. Dumas R. H. Carter

Denton Menu Advice Promotes Fresh Foods This Season

In June the article urges prioritizing fresh foods in meal planning while acknowledging canned goods as a staple. It notes high quality canned options but suggests appreciation grows with seasonal fresh ingredients.

Denton

Daily Meal Plan Through Each Service Day

Breakfast features blackberries cream plain muffins and bacon with milk. Lunch offers chipped beef on toast fresh spinach Waldorf salad cherries and cream and cookies. Dinner serves stuffed pork chops escalloped potatoes cucumber lettuce salad orange charlotte. Breakfast adds fresh pineapple bran waffle and coffee. Lunch includes sandwich with cream cheese olives bacon toast potato chips ginger ale salad cookies and tea. Dinner presents broiled steak baked potatoes creamed onions celery salad and peach shortcake.

Stuffed Pork Chops With Bread Dressing and Gelatin Sauce

Instructions describe slit thick pork chops filled with bread dressing and sealed with toothpicks. Bake in oven and baste with pan juices. A dessert style Orange Charlotte mixture with gelatin and citrus appears, including steps to soak and dissolve gelatin in water and add sugar and lemon and orange juices.

Cream Cheese Sandwich and Short Cake Recipes

A recipe fragment describes a cream cheese sandwich spread on bread with olives and crisp bacon. It also details a short cake method: beat butter and sugar, add eggs, mix dry ingredients with milk, bake in a buttered pan, cool, then spread with sweetened peaches and whipped cream if desired.

Suffering fractures sour road worker item

Earnest Bennett, an employee of a road construction company, sustained fractures of two left ribs from an accident last Monday morning. Mr and Mrs Dallas Murphy of Abilene visited relatives in Kendall County. Kendall Mullin departed for Yellowstone National Park for summer employment.

Earnest Bennett Here Kendall Mullin Yellowstone National Park

Moody greets voters in Ballinger for County Clerk campaign

Ernest Moody of Ballinger visited the area to meet voters on Monday as part of his campaign for County Clerk. He touted his qualifications and urged support from local residents.

Ernest Moody Ballinger

Mrs Carl Carr Visits San Angelo Parents

Mrs Carl Carr of San Angelo is staying the week with her parents Mr and Mrs H C Campbell in their home.

Carl Carr San Angelo Mrs H. C. Campbell

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Danger Dane Uncle Sam Astaire Randolph Scott Dancing Star Inger Rovers Trvine Berlin Waudevile O'Brien Dene Ware O'Brien Frank Sheridan Miss Miss Hogue Geo. T. Rosson Jewelry and Optometrist Ware Cochran K. Cc Dallas Murphy Abilene N. C. Terry The Standard Savings & Loan Association N. Melwood N. Rogers E. State W. G Bedford West Dale Street Sewall Musser Lumber Co
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