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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1940
Page
2
AAA reporters began checking farms on Monday to verify compliance with AAA allotments for 1940. Twelve reporters started work with more to follow if weather holds. Due to reduced paper work, AAA staff have been granted brief vacations and a skeleton office staff remains.
A partial ballot snippet lists candidates for Congress Sheriff District Clerk County Commissioner Precincts Justice of the Peace Sixth Judicial District Judge and Tax Assessor Collector for Fannin County. It notes incumbents and re elections and mentions a war era salvage drive by Westminster.
Courthouse records list transfers in Bonham and surrounding areas including First National Bank of Bonham to J W Goodwin and multiple plots in the Thomas Morris, J P Simpson, Montague and Windle surveys. Parties include Lloyd C Taylor Louie Melton Frances Melton and many others with various tract sizes from 1 9 to 169 acres.
Port Arthur June 1 Hal Forsythe a sailor saved a befuddled muskrat stranded in an intersection. He used a rope from a bystander to lasso the animal and towed it to a sidewalk before learning trapping musk rats without a license is illegal. He released it in a less busy area.
The State game fish and oyster commission began a trap experiment to extend wild hog range across several counties. Executive secretary noted multiple trap types may be needed before a successful design is found. Experiments underway in Crockett County as javelinas, currently in southwest Texas, are targeted by the program.
Funeral services were held for Sam Carpenter 63 of White Rock at Bailey Methodist Church with ministers officiating. Surviving family includes wife, a son Oren, and a daughter Mrs G D Bennett. interment at Gober Cemetery. Paul H Van Kirk 12 died Sunday morning. funeral planned at Bettis School with interment at Bettis Cemetery. Surviving parents and three sisters listed. pallbearers named.
Farmers rush to finish spring field work as cotton choppers and plows fill the fields Monday. Grain ripening fast with cutting likely in the next week if dry weather holds. Some worked Sunday to beat rain and catch up after delays in the season.
Highway 78 drainage work progresses toward August completion. Bonham grads hosted by Mrs. Herbert Buron with eight classmates among attendees. Dallas business visit by Grady McCulloch. Rev S R Smith returns from Mt Vernon. UT Austin students John Lannius and Ann Spies back for summer. Spies to receive BA. Dairy show winners named Reed Butler Hillcrest Farm West and Wise of Bonham. J H Cowley departs for National Locomotive Firemen convention in Cleveland and east, north tour. Fort Worth and Galveston trips noted for Kraemer family Cline and Stubblefield. Bill Caldwell returns from Texas Tech. Rural Carriers meet in Leonard. Hassell barbecue for employees. Five granite hitching posts to frame a fence around the Mother Orange tree. Salmon noted as saltwater fish swimming upstream to spawn.
A collision near a creek bridge involving a gravel truck from Sherman left Ollie Higgs with a severe arm wound and two other Black men injured. The truck driver Jun of Sherman Franklin fled the scene but later returned with officers. One man was jailed for drunkenness at the county jail while the third victim was treated at Higgsway Vincent hospital.
Political advertisement notes Dick Wait seeking re election to a county commission post with a brief campaign appeal.
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