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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1940
Page
4
The Thursday Study club held its annual luncheon with Mrs L C Biggers and Mrs heute as hostesses. The event featured a three course meal and decorated tables with red accents. Members exchanged gifts for needy families as core club activity.
Pupils under Miss Billie Benmary and Mrs Creekmore staged an active party with bingo prizes, checkers, and contests led by Sherer and Ray Sherer. Decorations, refreshments, and a lantern lit display set a festive scene followed by a bonfire, roasted foods, singing, and a possum hunt finale.
The ceremony united Hix and Nelda Ro on Saturday the 7th at Dr Ben M Th Dy Milam home. Milam official officiated with J T and Opal DeVault as witnesses.
Mrs Winifred Phillips and her son Henry Wherman of Fort Worth are visiting her father R. F. May and other relatives there.
Mrs FC Parker of Ector led a school of instruction for the Bailey Parent Teacher Association in the home economics room. Rex Coppedge led Christmas carols after the business session. Refreshments were served by the home economics class. There are 10 teachers in the Bailey school with an enrollment of 265 pupils.
Jewel Johnson and Miss Nina Pear Young daughter of Mr and Mrs Jess Young of Edhube were united in marriage at 6 54 o clock Thursday evening at the home of Rev C P Sansom with Mr Jane Bowen and Mr Sar Cirruthers in attendance Families and friends join in the ceremony and reception following at the same residence.
Mrs J W Rainey led the Harmony Club program on Christmas music at the regular meeting held Wednesday in the home of Mrs Hart Swann. Sixteen members and three visitors attended as selections were performed by Mrs Dick and others. Mr R E Risser told a childhood of Christ story. There are more than 600 wildlife laws in Texas statute books.
Members of the Business and Professional Women's club gathered at Mrs O L Couch home for a Christmas party with winners from a recent contest honored as hostesses. Decorations of greenery and Christmas lights filled three rooms as gifts were distributed and 33 members enjoyed singing and refreshments. A nominating committee was formed to choose officers for the new year and $380 was given to Mrs Martha Lowrey for Ralph Owens to distribute food toys and sticks to needy families.
The document lists 1941 crop price and payment rates for nondepleting land and various acreages, noting possible adjustments up to 10 percent and parity supplements of 212 million dollars if 1940 season prices fall below parity. It also reports Christmas program plans and meetings of Edhube and Longbranch Home Demonstration Clubs with members and upcoming events.
Santa Claus and opponents faced a sequence of matches as part of a local holiday sports event. The brief notes indicate several games occurred with results not specified in detail. Local teams competed in a festive program marking the season.
Representative elect John W. Connelly urges citizens to report unmarked or poorly marked Confederate graves for marker placement. The War Department will provide markers and forward requests through Connelly. He noted several graves have already been marked in Fannin County.
The agricultural and forestry department of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce estimates that AveLive products sold and the value of livestock on farms in East Texas have almost doubled in ten years, signaling a major regional growth in agricultural commerce.
Authorization to begin work on 27 WPA projects with 536,988 in WPA funds and 400,197 from local agencies has been given to Texas district managers. Stearns Tucker deputy state administrator announced the decision today.
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