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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1937
Page
2
A long list of graduates, relatives, and visitors fills a busy week. Miss Kath Maddrey visits Dallas for events while Mary Dorchester Maddrey graduates. Heber Dobbs heads to Devon for summer study. many families travel from Paris, Greenville, and Lexington for commencements and ceremonies. Local teachers, neighbors, and friends attend the school exercises and celebrate the season.
The event featured Mrs Peggy Marston and Miss Ruth Cummings as brides to be, with guests at two showers and a luncheon. Guests included Margaret Taylor and Pauline Stabs, with tables set in Pan-American decor and Mexican motifs, plus gifts and a garden party centerpiece. The article also notes community notices, a wheat crop report by Dean Breedlove, and local graduations and social visits.
Mrs W M Mililord visited the Favorite office and praised the Hilliard farm for its fall crop quality. The J P Hilliard land lies south of Fiedd City in black land country where the family raises cotton, corn, and poultry. They report good yields with some replanting and a promising season as they compare new meat-type poultry and high egg production.
Mr Whlird Runoder and Miss Clara Sue Mhney of Honey Grove married Sunday at Fire Baptist church in Gran' Okla. The bride, a young woman of local favor, was attended by a friend and supported by many neighbors who send wishes for happiness and success.
James V Chapman dies suddenly of a heart attack at his Cross Plains home after a brief illness. His daughter Mia Saunders and son Jas Chapman Jr travel from Oklahoma to claim the body. He was born in Ladonia sixty seven years ago, married to Zechie St Clair, survived by three children and several relatives in Dallas Ada and Bonham. Funeral arrangements to be announced.
J W Calhoun, 64, named acting president of the institution at a May 31 board meeting to succeed HOY Benedict. A UT graduate, Harvard MA, Calhoun has led in mathematics and authored books, and is a longtime university employee with ties to the American Mathematical Society. He is married with one daughter, Mrs Kay Miller.
A fragmentary obituary mentions a deceased person with family survivors and burial planned at a local cemetery. Details such as dates, full names, and location are missing or garbled.
WFAA aired a 15 minute Bonham program praising the city. WPAA listeners heard remarks on industry like Southwest Pump Co and Kraft Phenix Cheese Factory, school improvements, highway and bridge projects, and crop prospects. Broadcast sponsored by the Bonham Chamber of Commerce.
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