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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1956
Page
5
Classified listing from Bonham Texas detailing lots for sale in Bradford addition near schools and churches, several FHA financed homes on Liberty Evans Avenue Jet 3 Marston, and ranch land options including 700 acres black land with 260 cultivated acres. Corner 4th and Center contact numbers JUS-3525 JUS-4331.
Real estate ads detail several 4 to 5 room houses with baths, multiple lots, and paved streets. Properties include a new 3-bedroom at 2004 North Main asking $10,000 with financing options, and a reduced price 3-bedroom at 1120 Evans Street for $8,500 with owner leaving town. Listings note showings by appointment and rental options.
D B Deupree Real Estate lists several properties in Ravenna and nearby areas. Listings include a 204 acre blackland farm with two improvements and good wells, a 152 acre fenced pasture, a 90 acre tract near Ivanhoe, a 261 acre blackland cotton farm with 100 acre allotment, a 315 acre dairy farm with modern 6 room house and barns. Each on market for sale with favorable terms.
Grayson College Ex-Students Association will hold a reunion on Sunday June 10 at the high school building once used as Grayson College. Miss Gladys Ray president says the day starts at 9 am with a business session devotional memorial and scholarship awards.
Funeral services for James Samuel Martin 85 a former Bonham resident were held in Casper Wyoming Saturday with interment there. He died in Casper Friday after an extended illness. Born February 22 1871 in Kentucky he lived in Fannin County 50 years before moving to Casper in 1921. Survivors include three daughters Mrs George Wolf Bonham Mrs Vinnie Lyons Lewiston Idaho and Mrs Bertha Richardson Casper two sons Floyd Bonham and Harlan Casper three brothers three sisters 18 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Pvt. Doug M. Rivers, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tump Rivers of Bonham Texas, qualified as expert in firing the M-1 rifle at Fort Sill Oklahoma. A canvas and leather repairman in the 1st Ordnance Company, he entered the Army in July 1955 and finished basic training at Fort Ord California. Rivers' wife Anita lives in Lawton Oklahoma.
The following persons will be guests of the Favorite at Bonham theatres Ruth Houston and guest Dave McNabb and guest Mrs J W Barker Rt 2 and guest Tickets available at the Favorite Office.
Bonham area land and property offerings include 106 acres deep sandy land 36 acres pasture 70 acres cultivated good cotton and peanut allotment with a large house, well and sheds priced at 150 per acre 48 acres blackland 45 cultivated 3 pasture lots and 18 cotton with a 4 room dwelling two wells and tanks at 125 per acre 125 acres sandy land 50 cultivated 75 pasture two hog pastures well fenced two tanks a 50x30 barn and 4 room house at 6000 total 165 acres black mixed sand 50 cultivated 115 in two parcels with a 5 room dwelling barn two tanks well at 8000 85 acres mixed land 215 cultivated with pasture fences six tanks three deep wells 20 acres prairie meadow two old dwellings barn corrals four miles of Bonham price upon inquiry 49 blackland 37 cultivated 12 pasture with a ranch style four room modern home concrete foundation hardwood floors barn tool shed chicken house concrete storm cellar four wells two tanks good road south of Bonham price 11500 five-room dwelling garage attached large attic West Bonham bargain at 4500 four room dwelling 2 1/2 acres south side owner offers financing good value at 2650
Classified notice offers farms and ranches of any acreage in Fannin County. Contact Rocky McMillin at JU3-2837 in Bonham Texas for inquiries about available properties.
Multiple properties on offer near Bonham include 100 acres on an all weather road eight miles from Bonham with 30 acres cultivated and 70 pasture, 5 room dwelling and water features priced at 82.50 per acre. 109 acres with a 6 room dwelling and fenced pasture. 33 acres with 4 room dwelling and orchard. heavy black land tracts with 158 acres cultivation and 98 acres pasture. a 3 bedroom FHA home with modern features for 1000 cash plus closing. 2 bedroom on one acre priced at 3500. plus 200 acres heavy black land with multiple outbuildings and water.
Leonard high school athletic coach Jack Johnson, who served in the U S Naval Reserve at Sherman, has resigned to reenlist as a lieutenant. He will be stationed in San Diego with his wife and children to join him soon in California.
Dr J R Jackson, optometrist, located at 204 East 4th Street, is listed as a member of the Texas Optometric Association.
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