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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1949
Page
3
The third annual reunion of former 144th Infantry Regiment members is set for Saturday and Sunday June 18 and 19 at Fort Worth. A Sunday business meeting will elect new officers, with Joe M. Faughry as chairman and final details to follow.
Saturday results across the Texas League and neighboring circuits note Briday’s Texas League games with Oklahoma City 10 Dalings 8 and Shreveport 9 Houston 48 in the first game followed by Shreveport 5 Houston 1 in the second. Other results include Tulea 4 Fort Worth 2 in 13 innings and Beaumont 8 San Antonio 0. Major league shows Chicago 2 Washington 1 and Philadelphia 10 Cleveland 3 in American League, while New York 9 Cincinnati 3 and Philadelphia 1 Chicago 0. Brooklyn 8 Pittsburg 6 in the National League.
Funeral services for Mrs Martha C Norman 63 held at 2 PM at Assembly of God Church with Rev R Pratt officiating. Burial in Lamasco Cemetery under Cooper's Funeral Home care. She died Friday at her son Joel Norman's home in Bonham after long illness. She was born September 8 1885 in Arkansas and lived in Texas 50 years. Survivors include five daughters, four sons, one sister, and many grandchildren great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Pallbearers were grandsons.
Mrs. Mush Stevens aged 86, a former Bonham resident, died at Evergreen Hospital Durant Oklahoma at 9 30 p m Friday after a four month illness. She lived in Durant 39 years, born Rockfield Kentucky June 16 1887. Surviving are daughter Kathleen Stevens Durant son Stanley Stevens Bonham daughter Angela Mathews Dallas sister Mrs W G Swinney Long Beach Cal. Funeral Monday at Murray Funeral Home Durant at 16 o clock with Rev Norman Dyer and Rev F Mond officiating burial Willow Wild cemetery. Active pallbearers include Ela Malone Albert Mason John Brae Hassell Hudspeth Jim Harley Tom Jones. Honorary pallbearers listed by name.
Funeral services for Dorothy Viola Binion daughter of Mr and Mrs W Binion Jr are held at Ware Funeral Home chapel with Rev O M Hume Church of God pastor officiating. Burial in Carson cemetery. Born Bonham September 1946 she died in Wilson Jones hospital Sherman Saturday morning. Survivors: parents grandfather George W Binion Sr Ravenna maternal grandparents A P Howery Bailey and sister Wanda Jean Binion. Bonham
Five Brownwood residents bitten by a pet squirrel prepared to begin rabies shots after the State Health Department confirmed the animal was rabid. Bites affected Baron Grady Leland Boles Ella Frances Mu sick Donald Seales and Claudia Seales.
National 4-H reports over one million homemaking projects tied to the 1949 theme Better Living for a Better World. Texas led with 44 886 projects as girls reported good records in clothing canning home improvement and garden and poultry among other activities.
The Cooperatives Extension Service oversees a program rewarding girls for achievements in the 4-H contest. Montgomery Ward supports scholarships with six $300 awards replacing $200, plus all expense trips to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago for state and county winners. Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico may enroll. champions receive a $100 U. S. savings bond. Lois Wilson of Morton won a 1948 trip to the Congress. 37 county medal winners named.
Two men broke into the Penton county jail in Corvallis Oregon and freed Howard Hall a four year old forgery suspect from Iowa They stole four guns handcuffs leg irons and deputy sheriff s badges then fled in an automobile after releasing Hall on the same day
Johannesburg reports a reported rich gold strike in Africa that electrified the market. Shares of a newly registered South African mining company surged on the London stock exchange as minting shares rose and fortunes appeared to be made rapidly.
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