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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
5
An old classified notice advertises stoves chairs and cabinets for sale in Greenville area with furniture prices and contact details for purchase. The fragment mentions various items and a phone or call instruction for orders.
Bonham Public Library changes schedule for summer months. Effective Friday 25 hours are 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The revised hours aim to improve visiting conditions as warm weather arrives. The new hours will remain in effect until further notice.
Report says the United States Mint in San Francisco cost about $1,500,000 to build and was hailed as burglar proof. Three young boys allegedly breached a barred window before being discovered by staff, triggering security concerns.
An ad touts ETH as an alkaline denture additive to keep plates from loosening, preventing embarrassing slips. It claims the product makes dentures fit more firmly and eliminates plate odor, urging readers to buy FPASTEETH at any store.
The USC schedule lists a sewing class taught by Mrs. T. E. Lucas, informal games and dancing for cadets, a Thursday picnic at State Park, a Friday Slim Gym Club, and weekend church and social events. Sunday features Java hour, treasure hunt, and a ranch party under Women’s Club auspices with hostesses on duty.
Windom Book Club meets at 8 30 Thursday evening at Mrs E A Pulliam home with Mrs John Wheeler leader Miss Estelle Wood of Wichita Falls public schools to present highlights from Irvin Cobb Exit Laughing.
Windom Methodist WSCS met at Mrs. Max Wheeler's home with Mrs. John Wheeler as co hostesses. Ten members and guests were served refreshments after the Bible lesson. The Christian Missionary Study group met at the church and re elected officers. They voted to buy another war bond.
Bonham residents flex routine visits and travel plans as John Pilliod recovers from an appendectomy in Sherman hospital. Local officials and visitors include S G Denny, Luther Gordon, Claude Meador, and Moore Williams. Pfc Andrew Brown departs for Los Angeles with family support, while others visit from Dallas Mt Pleasant Baton Rouge and Houston. Robert Weddle leaves Bonham soon for army training in Pittsburg Kansas after Texas Tech studies.
A county cannery with steam pressure canning at the county home operates Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Mrs Sid Smith and Miss Avis Conine oversee volunteers who bring vegetables and fruits to be canned free of charge, with government providing cans. Call 319 to arrange times and avoid bringing fruit jars.
Members of the Woodman Circle will hold a barbecue at the State Park Thursday night meeting at the Woodman Circle Hall at 7 p.m. Members without cars should attend to arrange rides. Mrs. R. R. Whitlock is hostess and each family is asked to contribute 50 cents.
Bonham church youths are invited to a second recreation night at the USC building tonight at 8 30 p m. About 50 young people attended the first event for games and refreshments. If successful the Thursday night gatherings will continue with a ping pong tournament led by Rev T W Sisterson and refreshments provided by church Indies.
The second short course for elementary sanitary engineers started at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in College Station. Participants from COLLEGE STATION and A&M College attend to study public health and sanitation practices.
On June 21 the program will run and continue through July 17 under the direction of 8 R Wright acting head of the Department of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering. Only three schools of this kind exist in the country at New York University University of California and Texas A and M College.
New officers were introduced at a Lions Club meeting on Thursday noon. Van B. Case is president with Wesley Farmer Henry Burt and Harry Hancock as vice presidents. Hutch Leatherwood serves as secretary treasurer and Dennes Bales as Lion tamer. Directors include Clarence Elkins Charles McCleary John Farmer Curlee Cummings and Barney Gross. Chief Petty Officer Jack LeCroy attended as a visitor.
An underground Polish radio called for a “special sudden incident” against German towns in reprisal for the execution of 528 people in the prior two weeks for anti-German activities, as the Polish government in exile reported from London.
The Polish government states an intensified terror campaign across occupied Poland with wholesale killings in two villages later burned and 1,800 arrests in Warsaw. It notes 426 executions among the detainees, mainly from the intelligentsia, with Warsaw executions tied to the Ghetto
Gov. Harry F. Kelly appointed a four man fact finding panel to study causes of Detroit race riots and assess any link to the Telegraph Hill name in San Francisco and its relation to early ship information from Point Lobos.
The nation faces its worst racial disturbances as federal and state troops monitor workers returning to factories. A recorder’s court jail sentences 0day for 69 rioters followed deaths, injuries, and heavy property damage. Kelly orders a fact finding committee to identify those inciting planning or participating.
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