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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1936
Page
2
R L Odom of Jaspe Texas advocates a counterattack against a parasite issue in a pecan grove, naming trichogramma as the fighting agent to curb the 34000 infestation. The report notes the debate over the approach and farm impact.
Barham observers note visits from Mrs Henry N Rhode of Bryan Texas Miss Mary Hunter hosts Mrs P H Cooke Dobson and Co representative travels Percy Williams of St Louis is in the city Miss Mary Sweeney arrives from Danville Ky to teach at Center College Miss Inez Inglish leaves for Benton to attend North Texans State Teachers College Mrs John Russell and children return from Kilgore Mr and Mrs Lawrence Rogers and family to return from Austin Miss Louie Corzine Mrs Von Fratt Miss Greta Mae Donaldson Mys van Garner head to Commerce for summer school Mr and Mrs Morgan Spivy return from Georgia visiting their daughter Mrs John Philips and family Phillips daughters accompany them
Elkins Grocery meets Edhube tonight at Edhube with a 8 00 PM start. Clines Cleaners faces Hall Furniture of Sherman, the league leaders, at present. Also preaching by Evangelist Burton Coffman at the Sherman Church of Christ Thursday at 8 PM, public invited.
Governor Cochran touts Nebraska as a tax payer's paradise noting the Treasury shows a debt free status with a balance of $21,123,935 as of May 6.
In a New York Sun attribution, a statistician claims fifty four percent of the world's telephones are in North America prompting a chorus of doubt and a warning that the figure may be inaccurate.
Members of the Kenton American Legion post organize a minute man corps to respond to county or state emergencies. City siren will be the call to arms. Advertisement lists damaged solid porcelain gas range for 35.00 and other used ranges from 2.95. Read the Daily Favorite.
The Bonham Ice Cream Co. has operated in Bonham for twenty five years and during this period its business has grown to be the envy of some of the best ice cream plants in North Texas.
National sports writer lauds Eddie White a UT senior and 1936 Walker Cup teammate. The Texas golfer relies on a brassie over a driver for accuracy and distance, practicing about once weekly between five lab periods while majoring in petroleum engineering. He recently carded 66 at the Austin County Club.
Mrs Stephen Krainik of Manitowoc Wisconsin received a check from an Oak Park Illinois man for a pair of boots her husband made in 1486. The husband had been a cobbler for fifty years before his death.
Washington report notes Po Neenan William Truesdale lent Charles Evermon a half dollar five years ago. A lawyer notified officers that Evermon has died leaving a $1300 estate.
A long piece recalls Chas Halsell and family gathering at a grove near Bonham to mark his birth day rather than a formal occasion. Relatives enjoyed bacon and coffee as neighbors shared in two warm hours of food, memories, and community spirit. The article notes Halsell’s Missouri origins in 1876 and praises his years of service and family partnership with Cora. The tentatively planned centennial anniversary invitation to his birth is mentioned.
Hale county farmer Cll Day, 47, former chairman of the state cotton advisory board, announces candidacy for Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. A native Texan, Day has farmed 25 years, is married with six children, and led 4500 farmers to Washington on national farm program support.
Dr Charles C Selecman of Southern Methodist University reviewed the year's achievements at McFarlin Memorial Auditorium in Dallas. He cited SMU footballs Southwest Conference tie Rockne trophy and Rose Bowl invitation, noting disillusionment with education divorced from religion. He urged rededication to Christian education and moral foundations.
Dan Buford is laid to rest in a service at Wise Funeral Home at 3 pm conducted by Rev R Smith of First Baptist. Burial followed at Willow Wild Cemetery with pallbearers led by Buster Johns Perry Caldwell Kenneth Moore G C Rumsey Pete Priestly and honorary pallbearers Herman Denton and Glenn Sanders. Out-of-town relatives attended including four brothers Edwin Clarence Clark and Bradley Jimmie Buford hospital-bound in Dallas.
Six convicts escaped from the state penitentiary on May 13 face murder charges in the death of C D Powell the prison brickyard foreman who was beaten shot and thrown from a commandeered automobile in McAlester Oklahoma on June 2 Bull Anderson Claude Beaver Julius Bohannon Jess Cunningham Claude P Fugate and Arenie Herrig Bohannon remained at large.
James Henry Hughes a 69 year old Sherman wholesale grocer died Tuesday at his son Jack Hughes in Fort Worth. He had visited here three weeks and will be buried in Sherman Thursday. Survived by sons James Hughes Fort Worth Lloyd Hughes Dallas and FE Hughe Amarillo a daughter Miss Irma Hughe Sherman and mother Mrs Enzibdeth Lackey Sherman. He was well known to many Bonham grocers and traveled the territory for years.
A mob of about 100 men and women beat former film star Willan Haines and Jimmy Stelds four companions at an El Porto Beach house near Manhattan Beach. They fled with 19 friends after the assault as sheriff reports cite a lynch mob driven by rumors. Haines blamed wild rumors and a possible secret group while locals spoke of a White Legion. Haines and Stelds suffered black eyes and severe injuries.
The column reports a few sore throats improving and a resident named Williams recovering from a road mishap. It notes road work by the commissioner, late rains hurting oat and fruit crops, hoped for cotton price benefits, and mixed corn progress. It lists local visits to Denison Whitewright Rose Hill and a 21st birthday surprise for But Lambden with cake and grape juice.
The speaker questions recommending the lawyer who secured the last divorce. Peggy notes that while the charges are reasonable others have gained more publicity for the client. The exchange centers on seeking legal help and public attention.
A fragmented conversation references stamps on a dog named Fido and dampness issues. The garbled lines mix intimate dialogue with nonsensical phrases, yielding no clear event, person, or place to summarize.
Hospital reports a surge of admissions amid cold and snow. Officials note many cases involve respiratory congestion, while city traffic also experiences heavy congestion and delays.
An Oklahoma editor recalls a tale of a Cree Indian who subscribed to a newspaper. The man pays but demands a receipt, insisting on documented proof of payment for passage to the afterlife. The editor wonders why such a receipt matters, and the Chief explains that after death he must show a receipt to pass the gate.
Sue Ulric of Los Angeles, a trapeze artist, died after the rope on the second trapeze broke during a leap, sending her about eighty feet to the ground. The accident occurred at a touring circus venue as onlookers witnessed the fatal plunge.
Heavy rains raised monthly moisture beyond nine inches, triggering severe core rot in tomato fields between Poynor and Frankston. The crop, already damaged by erosion, faces further losses feared by growers.
A man named Mabitteau in Tours France attempted suicide by various methods. He shot himself in the head twice and then jumped into the Loire river. After returning home he drank poison and hanged himself in his barn. Authorities found these actions did not all succeed.
A 240 year old bomb weighing about 200 pounds from the 1696 siege of Azov by Peter the Great was unearthed near Rostov on Don. The USAR A device had failed to explode during the siege and was recovered recently.
The ministry of communications divides Brazil into seven radio zones and caps station numbers per zone. Rio de Janeiro can hire six stations while seven zones total six or five for major cities Brno Paulo five Porto Alegre Recife Belo Horizonte and Salvador two each. Other state capitals may have one.
Mr and Mrs W B Matthews own an unusual pet alligator in Charlotte North Carolina. The reptile shares a home with their household cat and their six year old child. It reportedly grows temperamental if its diet or routine is disrupted.
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