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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1936
Page
2
Ollie Webb assistant to the president of the Texas and Pacific Railway will address the Bonham Rotary Club Wednesday evening. He will also speak at the First Baptist Church banquet invited by Pastor Rev. Ross Smith, visiting an old friend S MceGlasson. Webb is noted as a fine speaker with many Bonham friends.
Mrs. Sarah Ellen Edwards 81 widow of W K Edwards pioneer of Leonard died at her daughter Mrs. R V Leach in Irving. Born in Missouri she moved to Texas at age 3 and lived in Leonard most of her life except recent years in Irving. Funeral at Leach Funeral Home Irving Tuesday 2 p m burial in Sowers Cemetery. Survivors include five sons Tom Clark Leonard J J Clark Hereford Harve Clark Dallas Charles Edwards Billy Edwards Leonard and her daughter.
Constantine Lodge will confer the Master Masons Degree on two candidates Tuesday December 8 at 7:30. A visiting team from Denison will lead the ceremony and visiting Master Masons are welcomed. Refreshments served after the ceremony.
Mrs. M. E. Cox of Hemphill Street in Fort Worth and two relatives restrained a prowler who entered via a rear door at about 2 am. Cox, weighing around 100 pounds, fought the intruder with kicks and blows until he fled. The three women survived the attack with no police injury, while identities of the prowler vary per witness.
Oslo reports Premier Nygaardsvold said Leon Trotzky must depart or risk expulsion when his permit expires December 18. Trotzky may request permission to live in Mexico while authorities await official Mexican response amid tight security at his Storsand villa.
A Houston core drilling company won the contract for the second and final exploration borings in the Denison area for the proposed Sted River dam. Capt. Lester F Rhodes announced from the Vicksburg flood control district. 2800 square miles have been tested for soil texture. Final explorations will inform dam planning and design.
In Dallas on December 7 a drunken cow drew federal officers to a whisky still in a pasture. Officer J. C. Harston reported the discovery after the cow wandered near the mash source. The still was seized and one man arrested by the Alcohol Tax Unit.
Mrs Belle Baird Gober of Benham will be an honored guest at the children's operetta The Cotton Doll Farm Inc presented by pupils of the College demonstration school with Floyd Graham guiding the orchestra. The production features a 70 voice chorus and five songs translated into French and German. Noted donor Gustine Courson Weaver has gifted 400 international dolls to the State Historical Collection.
Four people die and another is fatally injured in a two car crash at the intersection of Highways 50S and 175, 18 miles south of here. Gormley and Wentworth die after hospital arrival. Vautrauver, a WPA geologist, killed instantly. Dale Ruff injured but expected to recover. Drivers from both parties observed no signaling at the four way stop, coroner says.
San Benito Texas December 7 Jesus Hernandez earned a heroism award and $1000 from the Carnegie Fund Commission for saving a child from an automobile that plunged from a bridge. He dived through broken glass to free the girl and bring her to safety and may receive further financial aid and a Coast Guard appointment.
A series of local social notes lists visits and movements in Dallas today. Includes Mr A Englander and Brooks Moore, Mrs W T Lockhart, Mrs J E Broyles, Rev S R Smith at a Baptist Board meeting, Gent Rogers party with Carlton Henderson and Tom McDougal, Mr and Mrs Steve Pharr visiting T F Carter, and Mrs W B Cecil reporting strong ad results from a Daily. Also Mr and Mrs John Day visiting Hackley family before Christmas. Day plans to return to Post Texas after holidays from New Braunfels.
Gibb Gilchrist president of the American Association of State Highway Officials praises highway de-stabilization as a major 1936 achievement. He urges four year ahead planning, regular Federal aid, and longer layouts to reduce bids hazards while prioritizing secondary road improvements and roadside beautification.
Texas supporters who contributed to the Democratic National Campaign fund will be listed on an honor roll prepared by state headquarters. The list will include names and amounts and will be sent to Vice President John Garner and national party leaders. The roll will cover past contributions of about 275000 and a new Texas drive to raise ten percent of a 500000 deficit.
United States Senator Tom Connally rode through the Capital with two eight point bucks and four gobblers on his car. He said he and his son Ben, a Houston attorney, brought down eight deer and four turkeys near Kerrville.
The Laymen of Bailey Baptist Church will meet on Thursday December 10 at 7 15 PM. Speakers from Honey Grove will present the program and all men are invited to attend.
A local business announces a bigger building and larger stock of bed and living room suites and perfection stoves with kitchen cabinets. Special prices on living room suites at 69 dollars and 50 cents. LEM TITTSWORTH runs the ad under the phrase Trades for Anything.
Ruth Marie and Nellie Oglevee, twin freshmen from Somerset, Pennsylvania, were chosen as the Harvest ball queens at the School of Agriculture of Pennsylvania State College in Nittany, ensuring the event would feature a reigning pair at the pageant.
In Columbus Ohio seven unruly inmates at the state pen, armed with improvised weapons, tried an escape by arming a pillow to signal guards. A fellow convict alerted guards, who overpowered the attackers as they entered the cerbs for incorrigibles. The six were subdued and placed in solitary confinement.
Fragmented notes show the First Christian Missionary Society meeting on Monday with scattered references to Florida citrus estimates for the season and guests. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
Classified notice announces a two room apartment for rent at 609 Beech Street offered by Mrs Loyd Toftin with contact 135-21p.
A man buried in a black walnut coffin he built from a tree he gathered walnuts from since childhood. The piece references Turkey disaster deaths and homelessness, with scattered odd phrases about a boy named Fincheys and a Versailles setting.
Robert Keene and Miss Laura Stephens were married at Bro B Milam’s home on Monday afternoon. Both reside in the Ivanhoe community.
Soldier Hume stationed at Fort Francis E Warren in Cheyenne Wyoming is at home on a furlough of several weeks visiting his father C C Magness. He has served two years in the Infantry and says he is pleased with army life. He notes Cheyenne temperatures drop below zero for days and weeks with only about three months of summer and little warmth.
An 18 year old blind girl Priscilla Love tried hitchhiking across the country from El Paso to Batavia. Police say she will be sent back to the Batavia school at the request of Lowville police. The girl claimed she tired of the institution and wanted to travel.
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