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The fragmentary item notes a horse named Daf foon i 154 achieving a time of 1 minute for a mile distance. Details on event, location, or participants are limited in the readable text.
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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1940
Page
6
The fragmentary item notes a horse named Daf foon i 154 achieving a time of 1 minute for a mile distance. Details on event, location, or participants are limited in the readable text.
Honored Saturday evening at 7:30 at the annuum Golf club, Miss Mary Bland Smith bride elect of Tom Graham of Austin, was feted with a buffet supper. Guests included Miss Smith, Mr. Rapam, Mr. and Mrs. Nunnelee Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Nunnelee, Mrs. Reagan Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. John Day, Mr. and Mrs. Randell McMahon, Miss Bettyjean Smith, Miss Virginia Rainey, John Wells Smith, and Paul Arledge Jr.
Members of the 99 Chile premi nt social club of Bonham contribute 15 dollars to the American Red Cross war relief fund.
Bonham resident Mrs Virgo Steger won a prize in a photographic contest conducted by the Dal News. Her winning photo shows an elderly woman by a window knitting. The editor praised the peacefulness and love of creative beauty in her portrait.
A children’s party is scheduled for tonight in a vacant building west of the Alexander Drug Store. Attendees may wear costumes for prizes for the best eye catching costume and for the best overall costume. Proceeds benefit the Free Kindergarten.
Fragmented notes reveal discussions on Sunday school attendance across denominations including Baptist and Methodist and a stray reference to venison possession in Texas. The text lacks coherent report but preserves entities such as Baptist, Methodist, Church of Christ, and Texas.
Bonham readers list personal visits and travel notes across Texas. William Foster visits Mt. Pleasant from the tax office. Peggy Buford travels to Wichita Falls to care for her hospitalized mother. H G Fields family from Waco visits Bonham. B Williams of Mansfield, La. stays with Joe Shaw relatives. Fannie German returns to Fort Worth to study after an injury. George Russell accompanies Dorothy Goetzke to New York for Columbia University. Varying family and social visits extend to Illinois Bloomingdale, Gainesville, Texarkana, Houston, and Dallas, including reunions and travel between Bonham and extended kin.
Bonham honors Sunday visitors with a breakfast at the Finley home on North Center street. The event celebrated Mr and Mrs Murry of San Francisco and other guests from Oklahoma and nearby towns visiting friends and relatives during their Texas and Oklahoma trip.
The closing revival service at Calvary Baptist Church was held Sunday with strong attendance. Pastor C P Sansom announced 34 conversions and rededications and 2 additions to the church, with 17 baptisms during the meeting. Rev R H Cagle of Fort Worth led the service, assisted by Edward Carlson of Fort Worth.
A mixed OCR page mentions events and names including Jacks state, Helen H Schwat, and the Extension Service of Texas A M College. It cites a survey of 35,977 girls with counts by age groups and regional polls, plus scattered schedule items and local notices.
Miss Elizabeth Lipscomb daughter of Mr and Mrs R T Lipscomb has completed the national aquatic school at Rockaway Beach Missouri and becomes a safety instructor in aquatics. She will visit Washington and New York City before serving as counsellor and waterfront instructor at Life's camp for girls in Sussex New Jersey from June 30 to August 30. The camp is run by Life Magazine for underprivileged New York City children.
Miss Dorcas Stewart of Farmersville and Wm H Dowlen of Windom married Thursday at the Stewart home in Farmersville. The couple will reside in Windom with both families and attendants Mrs Mary Lou Stewart and Jor Dowlen present.
Doris Nell Anderson, daughter of Milam and Mrs Anderson of Bonham, won Miss Bonham of 1940 at the Band Parents Club talent and personality pageant in the high school auditorium. Gloria Svoboda was named Little Miss Bonham and John Day II Little Mr Bonham 1940. The trio received silver dollars and the orchestra of Svoboda, McAnally, Pratt, and Baker won talent competition, earning a chance to compete in Marshall for a state contest and Hollywood screen-test consideration.
Bonham reports rapid response to a relief drive with a $1500 quota for Red Cross war aid. Local committees led by Joe Loy and Joe Denton tallied dozens of donations from individuals and businesses including Denton, Virgil Wilson, Farm Security Administration staff, Longmire and Stevens, and the Bonham Ice Co. totaling over the target.
Private James 5. Stuckey of Queen City was killed at Barksdale Field when a pistol discharged while he sat at a desk in the bombardi school office. He is the brother of Wilburn Stuckey Bonham a Baptist preacher. The body was sent to Queen City for interment.
Great Falls Montana workers were ordered to guard a mallard nest found within ten feet of the railroad tracks at Madison Mont. The duck, described as a wild hen mallard, laid nine eggs in the nest.
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