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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1925
Page
4
A Royal Canadian Dragoons train with around three hundred troops heads to Cape Breton amid continued rioting and tense strike conditions. Looting of liquor stores in the mine war area sparks widespread intoxication and unrest.
W L Young of Fulp Texas and N H Ridings were in Bonham today on business. Several teachers and students including Miss Hope Stallings Arnold Hermer and Miss Lillian Carleton returned from Fort Worth and Boulder Colorado for summer work. Families and couples traveled to Chicago Dallas Houston Abilene and Boulder for summer visits and study.
Bonham residents celebrate local talent as Mrs. O L Couch earns fame abroad by writing and selling a second volume of her monologue book. Her readings showcase original compositions and prior success with the first volume. Local ads promote Eagle Lye, T A Taylor soap, and fabrics from M C Spivy Co with summer dress materials.
An advertising notice from Texas Power and Light promotes an automatic electric washer with $5.00 down and $7.50 per month. A large clothes basket is free for a limited time and the unit can be shipped out now.
Julius Kruttschnitt, retired chairman of the executive committee of the Southern Pacific, died in New York at 3 AM after heart complications following a minor operation. He served 48 years with the railway, 30 in the operating department, and would have turned 71 next month.
The article notes visits of residents to Tennessee and Chicago. Mr and Mrs Gordon Dunn travel to Chicago with daughter Miss Julia Catherine joining a party bound for Europe. The party plans to tour Switzerland and other European countries.
The 4A contract was let last Thursday for a free bridge across the Red River at Ayghur City on the Paris to Hugo highway. The price is 82000 dollars and the builders are the Austin Bridge Company of Dallas. A bridge at this point failed three years ago due to a flood.
The Natatorium was to open on Monday June 15 if $500 in tickets sold. Funds not reached, so opening postponed. City will run Natatorium as a community effort with no profit. any earnings go to the Natatorium Company. Boy Scouts solicit purchases to raise the money. preparations paused until funded. Mr. T L Coleman to manage when opened under W E Newton mayor.
Turner and Owen become proprietors of the Bonham confectionary on the west side of the square, taking over from A. J. Carver who bought stock on South Main from James West. H. P. Swann and J. B. Birdwell purchase Willson Drug Store on South Main from its prior owners, with Swann and Birdwell arriving from Tyler.
Miss Thelma Barber, former Red River county home demonstrator, has accepted a similar post in Fannin County. A Gulfport Mississippi native, she taught domestic science in Louisiana for four years and will lead the women’s department at the Fannin County Fair September 29 to October 3, 1925. She will share an office on the courthouse’s second floor with County Farm Agent Singleton.
In Pekin on June 15 machine guns have been placed ready for action and barbed wire entanglements mounted before the legation quarters amid rumors of violence by the Chinese. The diplomatic corps is in a special session likely to consider further protective measures.
Maxwell House 3 pound cans offered at $1.50, contrasting the usual $1.75 price. Advert possibly cites T. A. Taylor 6-t as contact or seller.
Local notice from Bonham Building and Loan Association invites homeowners to finance painting, wallpapering and modernization projects. References available loan options and contact details.
A brief item notes money to buy used cars with a repayment plan of ten monthly payments. Mentions Holmes, Office, Ist. Nat. Bank, Gronvig, and a phone or code 390-304.
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