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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1936
Page
2
Rural life report surveys cotton picking progress and weather woes with rain hoped for. Visitations include Rev O A Morton at Methodist church and Epworth league activity at Wingate. Baptist church events recur with attendees from Fairland association and bystanders from Miles area.
Mr and Mrs Howard Worthington and family of Cochran spent Saturday night with G R Green and attended church on Sunday Mrs Cora Maddox of Coleman visits the Truett Billups home this week Joe Stubblefield and family visited Mullen Sunday Keating and Miss Lee Rogers Keating accompanied them home Mr and Mrs Edgar Branham and son Dan attended Fairland Association at Bird church over the weekend H L Archie and wife traveled to San Angelo to meet his sister Mrs John Clark of New Braunfels visiting Harmony and Content relatives Roy Pumphrey and daughter Mozelle went to Brownwood for enroll ment at Howard Payne College Ferrell Gene Billups leaves Monday for Coleman to attend school Want ads get results.
Miss Alma Richards of Bronte, Chink Cathey, and Jessie Maude Humphries travel to Dallas for the centennial. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wheat and family return from a visit with his parents in Lubbock. Mrs. Roberts and grandson Billie Redwine of Dallas visit Mrs. E Whitfield. Margaret Ruth accompanies them home. School opens Monday the 14th.
Mrs. H L Chapman donated twenty five magazines to the Winters Free Library. Young patrons may borrow them for school projects on library days while supplies last. Readers are encouraged to use magazines for educational pictures and cut out illustrations after reading. Mrs. R H MacFarland notes the program.
The ocean holds vast wealth if a cheap large scale method turns seawater into fresh water. Cities near coasts face high costs pumping inland for water. innovation could yield fresh supplies. Seawater contains trace gold per cubic mile, but extraction costs exceed potential value, while bromine works at Brunswick process seawater for chemicals and hints at more discoveries.
A fragment notes public fear of sharks and claims a long standing reward for authenticated shark killings. It cites seasonal bites at beaches, reports of huge fish, and opinions of sailors who compare sharks to the “tiger of the sea.”
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