100, 75, 50 and 25 a long time ago: 1947, It was pocket knife clean-up weekend in Victoria | Characteristics

Misses Amanda Natho, Merle Johnson, Corinne Seffel and Grace Johnson, accompanied by Henry Edgar and Charles Edgar, attended the dance at Riverside Corridor past Saturday night time.

Max Lerner returned final Saturday evening from a journey to the northern and eastern marketplaces. He said that he was privileged in getting able to secure a good line of items for his tailor shop.

FEB. 10 – Fred C. Moss, Southern Pacific switchman, this early morning received a critical harm to his proper foot when he was caught amongst the couplers of two automobiles.

Mrs. A.W. Lee, Mrs. L. Bianchi and Mrs. D.E. McManus and daughter are spending the day in Houston.

Hauschild Opera Residence, February 11, “Follies.” Large dwelling expertise exhibit with the expert broadway punch. It is not a talk-a-piece and sing-a-solo, but a regular musical revue with quite girls and handsome adult males, adorable little kiddies, stylish dancers, clever comedy and every thing that goes to the make up a authentic New York “hit.”

FEB. 8 – Mrs. W.C. Tracy was elected president of the Bronte Club Wednesday afternoon in the dwelling of Mrs. M.O. Simon.

The Central Electrical power and Gentle Company this week will finish the set up of 70 street lights which experienced been purchased last yr by the city council but which could not be installed until eventually this 12 months thanks to the deficiency of products.

The prize calf in Thursday night’s scramble at the Houston Body fat Inventory Display, a registered Hereford donated by and flown from the English Ranch at Ada, Okla., was caught by John Barnett, next-year vocational agriculture pupil at Patti Welder Higher University. It was Barnett’s next capture in two several years.

FEB. 11 – It was pocket knife cleanse-up weekend in Victoria Saturday and Sunday, the Sheriff’s Department described. Much more than 30 long-bladed pocket knives had been taken off the man or woman of equally as lots of youths for the duration of that period of time. “There have been much too several chopping scrapes here a short while ago, so we believed we would check out some of the boys,” a member of the section said. Brief-bladed knives — the lawful variety — ended up left with their entrepreneurs, a deputy stated.

In facial area of a sharp raise in the variety of veterans trying to find farms in Victoria County, Farm Protection Administration Supervisor G. Fred Watson this week issued an urgent plea to local citizens to give him a hand in finding farms for sale or lease.

FEB. 9 – A new character path in Riverside Park was officially dedicated in a quick ceremony Monday in conjunction with the regular conference of the Victoria Park Fee. Fee Chairman Ed Pribyl and Dan Clark, metropolis parks and recreation director, cut a ribbon opening the trail to the community. The path, which has been roped off with cable to retain autos and horseback riders out, is found on the Guadalupe River near the entrance to Grover’s Bend.

FEB. 12 – Robert L. Seigel, president of Smolkin-Seigel of New Orleans, a organization specializing in internet marketing issues of developers and house builders, predicted huge development for Victoria around the next 12 months, but “this progress could be deterred by area authorities.” Seigel mentioned a major issue is value of land, which is forcing people today to identify residence outside the town on which to build. “Local authorities are also demanding freeway-variety streets and other limitations which are now generating a crisis for the nearby house builder.”

FEB. 10 – The warriors took off their gauntlets and place on their thinking caps. Poised pencils had been the weapons of option as groups took to the intellectual battlefield in the 3rd once-a-year Victoria Advocate Expertise Bowl. The Know Brainers of Union Carbide arrived out on major in a fight versus the likes of Bain’s Brains from Dr. Bain Cate’s and Witty Wattages from Central Electrical power and Light-weight. The Know Brainers took the title with 565 factors, beating professors from each local faculties. University of Houston-Victoria’s Quadrivians placed 2nd with 545 factors and the Victoria Faculty workforce arrived in third with 540 factors.

FEB. 13 – A second year as president of the College of Houston-Victoria may be in the playing cards for Karen S. Haynes. Haynes, when employed past 12 months, asked for only a 1-yr stint as UHV’s prime official. She cited private good reasons for that ask for. But the board of regents of the University of Houston Technique will fulfill Thursday in Houston to look at a next a person-year deal for Haynes, who claimed she is on the lookout ahead to the vote. “I am pleased that the board of regents will be contemplating this proposal,” she claimed. Haynes was named UHV president in June 1995. She agreed to a one particular-calendar year agreement at a salary of $110,000.