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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1939
Page
3
County agent Miss Oleta Yarbrough outlines economical pineapple canning, from selecting ripe fruit to making syrup and proper processing. It covers ripeness, pre-cooking, juice extraction, and pressure for water bath times by can size, plus sealing, labeling, and storage.
An obituary style verse laments the loss of David Crockett Whitt. The poem speaks to a daughterly grief, a lonely mother, and a vacant chair, noting his work on earth finished and God calling him home with angels beckoning. The piece reads as a memorial verse in sympathy.
An advertising blurb promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a trusted remedy for malaria chills and fever. It touts tasteless quinidine and iron, claiming quick relief from chills and fever and an energizing buildup, urging immediate use during the next attack and noting price options.
Rev B F Milam left Wednesday for Port Worth to attend the Baptist Pastors Conference at the Baptist Seminary. The gathering opens Monday and runs through Friday with Baptist leaders from across the country and about 1,200 Texas pastors present.
Mrs O B Wolcott in Sherman at the bedside of a friend who is seriously ill. Mr and Mrs J C Metouirk proprietors of the Blue Bonnet Hotel have as their guest their daughter Mrs B Pree man of Big Spring. She will be here several days. Friends remember her as Lorene Magouirk.
Bill Sherill of the editor 1 de partment of the Fort Worth Star Telegram and C. H. Jeter of Fort Worth were in Bonham Wednesday on a vacation trip.
The Tuesday Bridge Club gathered yesterday afternoon at 1202 North Center Street. Mrs Pred Johnson won the high score prize for members and Mrs Walter Boyd earned the guest high score prize. Mrs Lawrence Denton took the Bingo prize as Mrs Anderson’s home featured spring flowers and a salad course.
The Bonham Camera Club met June 5 at the Bonham Herald office with 20 present. Elbert Shea led the meeting in Lynwood Massey's absence. Home movies by Sim Smith, Jack Starnes, David Puteet, and G. R. Newby were shown, with prize awards for the months assignment Trees and a vase of flowers. Massey won first prize in Trees, with honorable mention to Herschel Shelton and Willie Mae Wheeler. vase prizes went to Wheeler and Starnes. The club set future prizes with 1 for first, 75 cents for second, and 50 cents for third, and announced upcoming assignments Shore Line and Machinery. A window display project and eight new members were noted, with the public welcome.
Word has been received of the marriage of Bertha Jean Price to Whitney Walker Jr in New Orleans. Price, a Benham High and Allen Memorial hospital training school graduate, has nursed in Longview for two and a half years. Walker, a St John's college Shreveport graduate, they will reside at 2536 Copial Street New Orleans.
Jimmie Sweeney of Breckenridge son of Mr and Mrs Albert Sweeney receives a degree at UT by vicar with air ness administration as his major. Mrs Charles Inglish of Bonham noted as sister to A E Sweeney, previously head of a bank at La Conia.
The revival meeting at Calvary Baptist Church opens June 14 with Rev. Coffman, former pastor of the church, delivering the opening sermon as state evangelist lead. The event gathers congregants for a week of preaching and spiritual renewal.
Harry Wilbanks, a Trinity University graduate, arrived in Bonham to lead the Presbyterian U S A churches in Bonham and Odd City. He is brother to former pastor Rev. T W Wilbanks, who moved to Cincinnati to resume studies. He is a son of Dr T Wilbanks of Texarkana.
Masonic lodges of Panin county name officers for the coming year per deputy grand master W A Barr. Listings include Lanham Constantine Lodge No 196 Tom Hymer WM and others, Tile retor present, with designated wardens, secretaries and treasurers for several lodges.
Crowds fill First Methodist as evangelist Mrs Gerald E Bonney delivers sermons on A Daring Devotion and Paith while her husband leads the Bonney Bocoster Band and their youth group the Bonham Win Some Club holds nightly devotionals. Extended activities include church nights and a members contest between Hustlers and Bustlers.
Savoy Texas high school 32 seniors led by Supt J W Moulton embarked on a week long bus trip through Austin San Antonio into Mexico and back via Galveston Huntsville. Students include Barbra Monroe Mildred Burys Asalee Bilnmer Jimmie Lee Woods Helen Edwards Vernelle Colvin Alene Flemming Clara Merce Dorothy Jeh Juanita Medsaw Bonnie Mullins Ruby Smith Katherine Hitchins Kathryn Sperceveins Lee May Prann ey Smith Loraine Baldwin May Pinnell Imogene Pierce Irene Trown Elizabeth Gillenwater Trankle Lee Jones Millie sur Kelly George Filion Roy Gene Kirkpatrick Johnonte Lambert Ralphines Granville Payne Galhon Moore Homer Whitehead Connie Garner Harold Ohin ert.
Sally Lipscomb of Bonham, a University of Texas student, is named in the university’s Who’s Who list of 48 outstanding students compiled by the Daily Texan. She served as Students’ Association secretary, on the Texas Union board, Delta Delta Delta member and chapter president, Mortar Board member, Pure Mathematics assistant, and alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Beta Kappa member.
Mrs Broyles of the Bonham Style shop describes communal delight after rounds around the square. She notes their household subscribes to five newspapers, but she reads only one, sharing a mural of local routine and quiet pride.
Bonham readers share lighthearted items from the county clerk’s office. Sidney Anderson doodles while claiming work, Mrs. Broyles sends praise, and local figures like H A McDougal receive compliments. Orchard peaches, chicken and spaghetti requests, and a homemade crocheted item highlight community charm.
Scoutmaster L. D. Parsons reports Troop 27 of Commerce and twenty local Scouts spent a week at Lake Fannin near Bonham. The encampment was full of scouting activities and all boys had a good time.
In Commerce Miss Milbeth Sharp traveled to East Texas State Teachers College for a daytime visit to the campus and events, meeting students and faculty during the stop.
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