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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1940
Page
2
Julian C Fields company of Denison was the low bidder on 616 cubic yards of cover stone for the Fannin County Commissioners Court in a special session Friday. The stone will be delivered at Dodd City to form the base for the Dodd City Lantus road project.
Mrs Carl Hassell hosts and visits. Mr and Mrs Jack Burress of Houston stay with Mr and Mrs Emmett Martin. Mr and Mrs Luther Ford and children return to Shreveport after visiting WB Richardson. Virgil Hill and Roma Davis of Dallas visit the Richardsons. Mrs Ben Mayfield returns from Texarkana to visit sister Mrs Vir Mitchell who is ill. Lummas of Clinton spend weekend with Bill Moore. Rey Lummas preaches at Baptist church. Mr and Mrs Jim Bennethy and daughter Mary Dell visit Hugo with Frank King. Mrs Bob Lawson Aunt Molly Moore and Mrs Neva Bennethy call on Mrs Will Moore. Arthur Mayfield calls on Mrs Charley Moore. Jessie Gray of Dodson visits Mrs Carl Hassell. Lorene Bumpass visits parents Mr and Mrs Love and attends school in Commerce.
The list enumerates candidates for various Texas offices including Congress, sheriff, county commissioners, justice of the peace, judge of the Sixth Judicial District, representative of the 41st District, tax assessor collector and other local posts. It mentions SAM RAYBURN as congress candidate and notes re elections for several names such as CHANEY and WHITLEY along with precinct designations and election expectations. A stray historical fact notes New York’s 1861 experimental block-long subway with a quarter fare.
Eminent scientists from across the United States will address the first Cotton Research Congress in Waco on June 27 28 and 29. The event aims to discuss all facets of the cotton problem facing Texas and the South and is sponsored by the State-Wide Cotton Committee of Texas with Burris C Jackson as general chairman and L T Murray as secretary manager.
Flea hoppers in South Texas show little change with average infestations below danger levels. Some counties report increases and scattered damage, with boll weevils found in Austin County. Weather favors flea hopper and boll weevil multiplication, while showers boost cotton growth and potential bollworm damage. a hen mallard nest near Great Northern tracks at Matsdor, Mont, with nine eggs, is ordered protected by railway staff.
Notes from Bonham Daily Favorite dated June 22 1934 list visitors and returns for Denton Dallas Denison Pilot Point and Richmond Virginia. Mentions Mrs D M Penn W R McDaniel Mrs J K Crawford Mrs James Neighbors and Virginia Cunningham. Also notes first cotton bloom by W M Reese near Honey Grove.
First cut off piling for the Denison dam main embankment was driven late Wednesday by the Guy F P Atkinson Company. Approximately 6,000 feet of sheet interlocking piling will be driven in two strips to prevent seepage, using a steam pile driver to hammer steel sheets into the Trinity formation. The 3 8 inch steel pilings are one foot wide and up to seven feet long, with solid steel wall projecting five feet above ground. The first 500 feet extends from the Oklahoma edge of the river to the second terrace on the Oklahoma side. The second strip, 3,500 feet, will be farther north in Oklahoma.
July 6 is the deadline for Fannin county tenants sharecroppers or renters to file applications with the Farm Security Administration for loans to purchase a farm. PSA supervisor W. Kuykendall explained that land to be bought is appraised by a committee and if the price asked is too high the government will not purchase it.
With summer arrivals and a three month for 60 cent bargain, the Favorite attracts new subscribers from Honey Grove Bailey Ector Ivanhoe and nearby towns. Readers receive a free premium and a year of Daily Favorites. A daily list of new names will be published, including Celisa Purdy Moore Raymond Price Willard Stroud and others as the drive continues.
Through the state Department of Education and civic groups, literature is entering homes that visit not award books. Superintendent Stanley F. L. Atwood said fraternal and civic bodies are collecting books that had outlived their usefulness and are distributing them to needy households.
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