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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1939
Page
2
Bonham Texas reports Kathryn Pate serving as assistant editor at the post office with Frank Svoboda involved in business matters. The fragment references a second class mail designation and local Bonham, Texas context.
Bonham Laundry advertises home washing and laundering dry cleaning pressing and dyeing services. The notice highlights available options for customers seeking garment care in Bonham and nearby areas.
North Texas onion growers agreed to ship 300 carloads of surplus onions to the WPA Surplus Commodities Corporation for destitute tables. Shipments from nine counties to 100 national destinations begin Monday, priced at 42 1 2 cents per fifty pound sack, totaling about 6500 dollars net per producer and drawing a mild protest over a lower open market price.
Mrs V J Bradford colored pays up for the Daily Favorite for a year and receives one of the beautiful casseroles offered with a year subscription. The note thanks her and invites others in Bonham to trade in.
On Thursday April 27 a new bus service will run three daily round trips from Bonham to Durant Oklahoma. Departures are 7 00 am 11 15 am and 3 45 pm via Karma Yuba and Achille. Fare is 75 cents one way or 155 cents round trip. For tickets call the agent at 555.
Population 300 at Savoy nine miles east of Bonham on U S Highway 82. Town with bank, school, post office. Local busy scene includes farmers harvesting oats and post rain crop aid. Mentions Lloyd Jenkins under care, Mrs Sadie Burpe visiting Ravenna, James Ramey visiting Kemp and Okla relatives, Edith Hicks with Billie Ray from Oakland, Mrs J D Whitaire retiring home, and Marv Jenkins’s son injured by a ball six months ago. Also notes visits by Mack Cooksey, Carry Lane from Fort Worth, and gatherings with Mr and Mrs PF Whitehead, Mrs J Z Whitmire, Miss Louise Smith, and Mrs Jack Bellow.
Flee hoppers threaten cotton in South Texas with injuries in five Robstown area fields and rising counts in Nueces and Cush counties while Central Texas reports low overwintering flea hopper hatch but ongoing weevil activity. Weather favors cotton growth and pest development. some river bottom areas show few weevils but many fields face pest impact.
Federal entomologists report a maximum infestation rate of three weevils per 1009 units in the survey area, indicating a limited pest presence yet prompting ongoing monitoring and control measures.
The region reports plentiful rain and favorable conditions for crops. People are cutting grain, picking berries, and some work in other communities. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clements and families from Breckenridge and Glendale. Sunday school and singing are invited.
A. R. Davis of Stamford Texas visits his sister Mrs O M Biggerstaff. He traveled from Dallas to Antlers Oklahoma and says at 89 he walks a mile or two without fatigue despite years in Fannin County and later Has h County.
Schuyler Andrey Crozier, 85, finished a Shooting Star patch quilt he began last Christmas. It has eight stars with 128 diamonds per star, sewn on a foot-pumped machine over a century old. The quilt will be a wedding present for his niece.
Lands across Fannin County list multiple plots with 38 to 134 acres, houses, barns, wells, and varying down payments. Prices range from 25 per acre to about 2000 total with terms offered. Agents invite buyers and sellers, promising no charge unless a sale is made.
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