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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1936
Page
5
A fragmentary note indicates a student named Miss Dore Dunn is bound for a Virginia school. The garbled text suggests an obituary-like or notice context about a single student pursuing further education.
A fragmented report notes Germans finish a survey flight across the Pacific to speed postwar plans. The China Clipper service across the Pacific is mentioned as having sped up, with references to a completed survey trip across the southern route.
Carl Wireman South 18, son of Congressman C L South of Coleman, died after leaping from a tenth floor hotel room in Lubbock Tuesday at 2 50 pm. Justice of the Peace J T Trigg ruled death by own action. Funeral in Coleman Thursday at 10 am with Rev W H Vandlepol. interment in Coleman cemetery. Notes found in his room addressed to his father and to Chas Hickman, roommate in Lubbock.
Winters Blizzards host Hamlin at Blizzard Field at 3 15 p m in the opening 1936 football game weather permitting Coach Bob Fulkerson says the Blizzards will not take Hamlin lightly noting the visitors were district runners up last year Hamlin averages 156 pounds while Winters tops at 150 admission is 25 and 40 cents.
County pastors and one layman from each church gather at River Methodist Church in Winters on Tuesday September 24 at 2 30 o'clock per Rev J W Sharbutt county chairman. The meeting is described as very important for discussing county church matters as representatives from each church attend.
Lions Club members enjoyed a program on Yellowstone National Park presented by Archie Strother and Kendall Mullin. The two students from State University shared early history and personal summer work at the Old Faithful Inn, accompanied at the piano.
Mrs J Jack Wilkinson and Miss Bendena Spill were guests Tuesday in the home of Mr and Mrs Clyde Pratt in San Angelo.
Mr and Mrs Homer J Hodge attended the Frontier Centennial in Fort Worth and the Centennial Exposition in Dallas this week They were in Dallas Tuesday for Motion Picture Exhibitors Day at the Centennial Gov James V Allred participated on the program with stars Gene Autrey Andy Devine and Henry Armetta Present also were Herbert Yates and R J O'Donnell More than 500 theatre men attended the event with show men from Texas Arkansas and Oklahoma in attendance
Mr and Mrs R K Russell spent the past weekend visiting friends in Lubbock. They were accompanied home by Miss Geneva Craig.
The City Lake area experienced a week of daily rain with 11.0 inches total by 5:15 yesterday and a 3-foot rise in the lake. Heavy Wednesday night rain raised prospects of spillway overflow while cotton picking and ginning paused Monday and may resume only after fair weather returns. It is believed minimal damage occurred to cotton from the wet spell.
Local buyer P. Co. plans to acquire a site on Eighth Street near the Ballinger post office. The Chevrolet dealer sale is noted with Henry Jones handling telexed proposals but no final Washington confirmation yet. Postal officials eyed the Greenwood Texas space and other structures as possible locations, with completion anticipated in a few days.
A cryptic clipping notes a theft in a backyard with a garbled line about Mrs. WiCu, hinting at a domestic target. Police are investigating the puzzling entry and seeking local witnesses to clarify the names and details.
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