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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1939
Page
3
Fragmented local report recounts plant care lessons, a savings claim, and health education. Ruth Bugeer's squib prompts daily sunshine for a community vine while Glynn Jeter pitches a clock sale and a silver dollar prize. A health talk stresses heredity and tuberculosis caution, with grooming hints and a June meeting planned.
The Lovely Dinner and Bridge event at Bonham Golf Club capped the Dodo Club’s season with a three course dinner. Mrs Stewart Arledge won high ladies score and Olvin Gross took high men. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Arol Darling and many others with guests such as Mrs Douglas Steger and Miss Margaret Tobin.
George Frink, 82, famed fox hunter, erected his Woodstock Hill Cemetery gravestone to recall his hunting days. The panel shows him in hunting costume with a shotgun, a dead fox, and his hound Panny. The inscription proclaims, I have shot over two hundred foxes with the gun I hold. Trade in Bonham.
Miss Oleta Yarbrough taught 4-H girls cake making tips at a June meeting held at the sponsor’s home. Advice covered whiteness, lemon juice, non greased pans, flour sifting, and baking at 300 then 325 degrees for 30 minutes. Lucille Cuddy and Marguerite Ward were elected delegates to council and A M Short Course respectively.
Blighted areas in St. Louis cost the city about 5.5 million dollars annually, per Harland Bartholomew, consulting engineer for the City Plan commission. He warned roughly half the city is blighted and said expenditures will double soon unless conditions causing decay are addressed.
Eighteen year old Isabel Caldwell McDougal of Greenwood Mississippi has been chosen Miss Osmopolitan by a panel of judges for Cosmpolitan's national competition. The freshman at Mississippi College for Women is described as vivacious active and music loving with interests in acting secretarial studies and dancing.
Letters note C F Brown subscribes from route 3 to the Daily Favorite and Dallas Semi Weekly News. Mrs Ethel Jones route 1 and Mrs G H Baldwin Windom join under a three month offer. I C Commer’s son in CCC at Santa Fe asks for the Favorite until October 7. Several subscribers pay and thanks extend to George Brent and V A Brackett. A reader complains about missed local news while threatening to drop the paper.
Presbyterian men and women gathered for a banquet Thursday hosted by the church circle. The event showcased fellowship and community hospitality with local members attending and applauding the shared social graces.
Bonham social notes list guests and travel plans including Mrs O O Porterfield and family visiting Dodd City, Mrs Edith Ramsey visiting San Antonio organizing a New York World's Fair tour departing August 12 with stops in Washington and Niagara Falls. Also multiple visits and hospital updates among residents and families in Bonham Paris Sherman Greenville Nocona Sulphur Springs and Dallas suburbs with health and travel details.
Revs C P Sansom and S R Smith return home after attending a statewide pastors conference at Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth where about 1200 pastors and Baptist leaders were present. Joe Risser, Tulane medical student, visits his parents Eugenie and Riser Sr. He will return to New Orleans Sunday for a medical school trainer session. The Summers family heads to Kansas City and Br ions to visit relatives before returning Tuesday. Kimmers, Southwest Pump sales manager, travels to Indianapolis to visit his grandmother for two weeks.
Frances Smith daughter of Mrs H J Smith and Frankie Lee Jones son of Mr and Mrs Walter Jones share first honors at Savoy High School center class with a 95.32 average. Smith delivers a valedictory address and is named best all around end and all tournament basketball team.
Descendants of Joseph and Mary Fenner, a pioneer Fannin county family, gather for the 15th annual Fenner reunion at a State Park on Sunday. More than 100 descendants from Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas are enrolled and will travel to Boonham for the event.
F M Williams son of Mr and Mrs F Williams of near Ely received a dental surgery degree at the Dental College Houston after studying at Whitewright High School and State University briefly. He plans to take the state board exams in Dallas June 1 to 16 before starting practice and returning home temporarily.
Billie Willingham of Petty underwent a Milnor operation at Allen Memorial Hospital after an automobile accident near Bentam weeks ago. He is reported doing all right. Mr and Mrs James W Thompson of Bavey are the parents of a fine baby boy born this morning at Allen Memorial Hospital. Mother and baby are doing nicely. Classified Ads get results.
A basement church banquet featured hosts arranging food and service while guests enjoyed a buffet. Flowers adorned the room as a short program closed with Rev Barney McClean’s address and an introduction for Rev Harry Wibanks the new pastor. Prominent attendees included Rev Charles Dickey and Rev Harmon. Interest in the Bonney revival at First Methodist continues to rise.
A front-page column ruminates on the phrase round the square and explains the title’s meaning as a daily quest for news around the courthouse. It notes WPA street paving talks, a palmetto fan shortage, and quips about revival meetings and old-fashioned comforts like palmetto fans and even furs.
Miss Oleta Yarbrough spoke to the Ravenna home demonstration club on Tuesday afternoon, June 6, about heredity and environment shaping a child’s health. The discussion covered how background influences growth, development, and well being.
Shawan Kwan and her husband prepare a months long trip to China via Hong Kong and Indo China to find their 5 year old son missing in the interior. They express strong hope and say they will follow leads near Japan and the area.
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