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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1940
Page
2
Charles Beaudry captain of Marquette University track team endured years in Sanitarium before overcoming illness to win the Central Collegiate Conference 220 yard sprint title. He now rides a streetcar to school and trains hard to maintain his lead.
J Frank Devis Texas supervisor of the WPA Texas Writers' Project announces that Texas will join the American Guide Book series. A July release will rollout the most comprehensive Texas guidebook, sponsored by the State Highway Commission and UT Bureau of Research in Social Sciences.
Dear friends we express our thanks for kindness shown through sickness and death of our mother Maud Benton and Family Mrs Birdie Reynolds.
Mrs. R. M. McCleary applies to probate the will of W. J. Hales dated Oct 12 1939. Others seek probate of B. D. Ewing Moyles and related estates. Numerous filings show names of heirs and lands: Burton N. Work surveys totaling many acres, 40 to 150 acre tracts, with several sur veys and property deeds in Bonham Honey Grove and nearby locales.
Edna Vaughn and others sued Fannin County Electric Co-Operative Inc for removal of utility poles from land. The case was dismissed in 6th District Court Monday with costs taxed against the defendant.
Funeral services for Mrs G P May 57 were held in Lamasco with Rev Oliver Rowe officiating. Interment in Lamasco Cemetery with Mikel Brown Funeral Home in charge. She came to Texas from North Carolina about 50 years ago and lived in Gober and Lamasco. Survivors include two sons Forest and Fred May four brothers and five grandsons. Pallbearers named. Also funeral services for Mrs Evalyn E Dyer 89 to be held Tuesday at Randolph Baptist Church with burial in Randolph Cemetery. She died Sunday at 7 pm at her Randolph home. She was born in Louisiana April 11, 1851 and lived in Randolph more than 50 years. Survivors include three sons Grover Bill and Alfred Dyer and four daughters.
Bonham Daily Favorite items note Mr and Mrs Hampton Jones visiting in Houston and W L Tadlock in Gainesville on business. Irene Risser to receive M A from SMU. Katherine Elizabeth Hensley dies from injuries after a wagon fall. service held at Kentucky town Baptist Church with burial in Burns Cemetery Trenton.
The University of Texas Texana collection gains new items. Librarian Donald Coney announces deposition of the notebook il boom study were You in Ranger and a 1939 file of the I Give You Texas column. The donor details include involvement with Boom Town production starring Spencer Tracy and Clark Gable.
Fort Worth and Dallas would share a great commercial and military airport to be recommended to the Texas Aeronautics committee. The plan, part of a 10 year program for 171 new airfields, includes expanding Meacham Field and Love Field. Major B M Haight prepared the master plan.
Dr. Robert J. Nebesar, formerly of Skoda Munitions Works in Czechoslovakia, is appointed chief engineer for Bennett Aircraft Corp. in Fort Worth. He will oversee production this summer of a new plastic plywood plane for commercial and military use. Nebesar previously worked for American aircraft firms and led Howard Aircraft Corp since 1939.
Mr and Mrs W. Cash returned from a vacation to Houston San Antonio Sabinas and other Old Mexico locales. A fish named Labyrinth Bubble Nest Builders builds a floating bubble nest depositing and hatching 100 to 500 eggs with the young cared for by the adults.
A tech graduate from Lubbock has been awarded the Brown Study Fellowship. The fellowship recognizes outstanding achievement in technology fields and supports further research opportunities.
In Red Lodge Montana the city council hears complaints filed with Mayor Ji Friedt alleging disturbances from a 9 p.m. awakening and accusations about a resident not sleeping. The discussion centers on the alleged nuisance and mayoral action.
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