10 Aug 1950
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1950
Page
1
Auction and classifieds note strong local demand for farms homes and business property. Units available include a money making grocery in Sherman with monthly gains and stock fixtures valued at 6500. An automatic wash house with clean output and low overhead is for sale. The drive‑in cafe offers a profitable, well located business at 2650 dollars.
Classified listings describe dozens of farms and houses for sale around Bonham including black land farms 130 acres with 300 acres improvements 1-2 in cultivation and pasture 6 room dwellings and modern outbuildings. Properties feature electricity school bus routes to Bonham and Bonham areas with varying acreages from 20 to 300. Also noted are two story homes 7 room dwellings and 75x150 foot building lots with price terms and exchange options.
Bonham Baptist Church invites all to revival meetings from August 11 to August 20 at 7:45 p.m. with morning services at 10 a.m. Rev. Ray Morrow of a Burkburnett independent Baptist church will preach. S. B. Erwin serves as church pastor.
Bailey FFA members meet to plan a clean up campaign and cattle spraying to raise funds. Charles Rodwich chairs the committee with Roger Pond and Cleveland Shockley assisting. A follow up meeting is set for August 11 to review the plan and report. Synthetic sapphire is noted as a new mortar and pestle material for grinding mineral samples.
Three sisters and two brothers who had not seen each other in over forty years reunited Sunday at D. B. Hicks residence. Participants include Nora Hicks and H W Smith, among others, as Davidson family members joined for the gathering.
In Weatherford Texas Nannie McBride hosted a midday meal with forty seven relatives attending. The gathering included siblings and their families plus Mr and Mrs Floyd Smith of Weatherford California travelers Clyde Robinson Point Wolfe City and others. Nearby residents Willie Bob Ticks Myrtle King and children joined with additional families and kin.
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