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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1940
Page
2
Classified notice for a medium size fire proof safe wanted at a cheap price with contact Claud Stewart 483 and an appointment for a sewing machine with ringing skip stitches or noise issues asking for Karl Colvin 217.
Rotary members report donations from John Arledge First National Bank A G McRae C R Jones H OL Rodgers Miller Yates Helsell Motor Co 8 McGlaston Babcock Bros Woodyear Store Gas Co Joe Denton MD Anderson Temple Lumber Co Joe Hrdlicka Cotton Mill Employes Gerald Newby Oovur Bellenger Geo Leatherwood Fenham Cotton MIN Dr J M Donaldson Rip Christian BU FEMI and others.
Members of the bulk cheese department in Denison and Kraft Cheese employees with families and guests gathered for a weiner roast Thursday evening at Bonham State Park. About thirty five members from the two groups attended.
President Roosevelt announced he wrote an editorial in the New York Times supporting universal compulsory military training. The remark was made during remarks at Washington on June 7.
A list of candidates announcing by party for various offices in Texas and nearby areas includes SAM RAYBURN for Congress from the 4th District, TALMADGE MOORE, TOM B. DENTON, HENRY CHANEY, and J. BE. WHITLEY for re-election. Other races cover Sheriff, District Clerk, County Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, and Judge Sixth Judicial District with names such as PAUL ARLEDGE, HUTCH LEATHERWOOD, JOAN J. McPARLAND, TOM M. HODGES, DICK WAITS, EURA GRAY TRAYLOR, J.P. MOORE, R. L. WILLIAM, RALEIGH ABERNATHY, T. J. COX, M. D. EMERSON, PINK STODDARD, JOHN W. CONNELLY, W. H. HARPER, and WESLEY FARMER. A separate note mentions San Francisco and Seattle fishermen losing wine due to a federal ruling.
County wide campaign urges a per capita donation and clothing drive for refugees. Women committees organize garments with 15 percent of county quotas returned for club purchases. speakers, including local judges and residents, donate services. Next week proclaimed War Relief Puna Week with quotas listed for Bonham Honey Grove and other communities.
Burton Franks of Bonham is executed in Huntsville for the May 10 1939 bank robbery murder of W D Wilemon. Franks offered only God bless my mother as he died. Body to Bonham for burial. services arranged by Mikel Brown Funeral Home. He is survived by his mother and sister in Bonham.
A list shows Allen's Point Bartley-Woods Ted Holland Grove Hill Jewel Clark Nobility Luther Golden each awarded a $25 prize. Names appear as separate entries in the readable fragment.
TRENTON June 7 The wait for Trenton's automatic telephone system has arrived and will be installed as soon as nine buildings can be prepared.
In June 1930 and 1934 items from Bonham show purchases of Hancock Doss stock by W M Hassell and Stewart Arledge, a two piano recital by Miss Margaret Tobin and Martha Kennedy, Vera Hall visiting Nashville, Carrie Alderson returning from Denison, Mary Louise Rountree graduating Kidd-Key College, the Kennedy family moving home from Ada, Colorado trip for strummer trio, Jean Mitchell Mary Williams and Bess Neal returning from CIA, Pauline Keeton earning UT BA, and Jock Aldridge Kenneth Haggard returning from A and M.
Anti aircraft guns fired and searchlights swept the sky as German planes were heard over the coast. Paris reported that air raid alarms sounded at 5 10 am, while reference notes plans for a new equipment house near a telephone office by Der WC Morrow of Greenville to rent to the company.
In a modest office in Dublin the New York born leader De Valera urged Irish abroad especially in the United States to rally to Fire's aid should a time of need arise.
The Agricultural Department of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce announces five June dusting demonstrations to show cotton insect-damage control methods. Events run from June 9 at Taylor to June 24 at Navasota, at Gilmer Clarksville Canton and Navasota with local chambers agents and Extension Service experts.
Federal Judge William Hawley Atwell criticized Waxahachie authorities for arresting 89 religious sect members distributing pamphlets and refusing to salute the Flag. The group withdrew habeas corpus pleas, posted 250 bonds on a disturbing the peace charge, and await hearing, with no date set.
Harry Black of Honey Grove was elected to teach chemistry at North Texas State Teachers College in Denton. He earned his degree there Monday and returns Thursday to begin his new post. He will teach during the summer session and be a regular teacher next year while pursuing a master's degree. The note closes with a warning that money sent or carried out of Bonham is forever gone.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary D Reeves of Bonham were held at the First Baptist Church with Rev A H Logan presiding. She died March 20 and is survived by three daughters and three sons, with burial at the Benham cemetery under Wise Pay.
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