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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1940
Page
5
Kit confronts budding fame and romance as she learns of Mimi Purcell’s interest in Vance. A tense reunion with Vance foreshadows a birthday visit to a powerful patron, Mr. Sembler, while Myrna and Mimi’s social moves hint at rival ambitions in New York society.
Gladys Bowers of Gober wed in a 6 p.m. ceremony at the home of Rev. Neil Thomas in Sher. Attendants included John Bowling of Hons and Odane Paty of Clyde. Bride wore a wind dress with sequin trim. couple to reside in Houston after the ceremony.
Mary Liz Kuykendall guest of Miss Dorothy Smith at a holiday luncheon party in Ville. Rooms were decorated with Christ ery colors and white candles. A crystal fruit bowl, holly, red berries and peppermint candles adorned the table. Guests were present. Dunn of Bailey was injured in a fall Thursday and is in the hospital. JB Lair of Honey Grove is in case.
Local families and relatives from Bonham and nearby cities spent the Christmas holidays visiting kin across Texas. Reunions included Ivey, Keeton, Harrison, Hewlett, Donaldson, Dumas, Saunders, Dumas, Hale, Gray, Hunt, Gross, Maddrey, Ragsdale, Smiley, Moore, Baugh, Stor ey, Penn, Bradford, Philiis, White, Shipley and others. Several returned from Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Denton, Tulsa, Moody, and Forney after holiday visits.
Fort Worth resident Miss Durell Shipley returns home after Christmas with family. Bonham visitors include Wright Russell Jr. hospital notes report Mrs D A Biard with a broken hip, Louise Morris under treatment, Will Carson a patient, Earl Smith had an appendectomy. Church notices list services and events for local congregations.
The First Christian Church invites parishioners to attend Sunday worship at 9 45 and 10 50 a m for a New Year message by the Pastor and an evening service at 7 with the topic Watchers of the Night There is no Women’s Council meeting Monday The note marks the last Sunday in the church fiscal year and asks members to contribute toward a successful year financially and spiritually W O Harmon Minister
The program lists Sunday School at 9 45 a m with Superintendent J Toppings and a sermon at 11 a m by Harold Cummings. Training Union at 6 15 p m directed by Cleburne Hugue.
Willie Dee Ross a corporal in the U S Marines stationed at San Diego California is spending the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs C N Ross. This is his first visit home since enlisting twenty six months ago.
New York fashion editors pick 15 top style leaders for 1941 with Mrs. Harrison Williams named number one. Duchess of Windsor misses the list as Paris and New York fashion voices crown a new era of American and social figures.
About 60 to 70 Bonham children enjoyed a Merry Christmas at Lem Tittsworth's annual Christmas Eve party at his North Main store. They shared dinner a Christmas tree and small gifts. Sunday services led by Mr Tittsworth have continued after his wife’s death.
The Rev and Mrs J M Pirtle of Trenton will mark their golden wedding anniversary on April 26. They have lived in Fannin county for 20 years. Mr Pirtle, retired Methodist preacher and teacher, joined the North Texas Conference in 1891 and has recently written religious works. He was born March 7, 1858 in the Arkansas mountains and moved to Texas in 1876, later settling in Honey Grove. His wife Emma Spain, born February 5, 1868 in Farmersville, joined the pair in Trenton in 1910 where they ran a boarding house.
Mrs. Minnie Downs hosted a dinner in Ector Thursday at six honoring Dr Williams Dr H H Leeman Dr H R Scates Dr J W Whitley Miss Jennie Jackson Miss Gladys McMurray Miss Mary Foster of Bonham Beulah Skipworth Serene Downs Bill Skipworth and Mr and Mrs Ker mit Malone of Ector.
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