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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1950
Page
8
The Bonham Business and Professional Women’s Club will meet at Mrs. Bid Smith’s home on Main Street Tuesday evening for a regular meeting and a covered dish supper program. Prospective members are urged to attend.
Whitewright residents Mr. and Mrs. E D Lyons and Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Wilson with daughters attended a Fort Worth family reunion. Also present were Billie Lyons of Cooper Jack Godwin and son Ray G Wilson and daughter of Sherman Don Wilson Johnnie Wilson and son Belvin West A C Wilson and R A Scott and son from Fort Worth. The gathering and picnic lunch occurred at Forest Park.
1949 Dodge one ton truck with hydraulic drive trans custom cab dual rear wheels and tires US spare parts. Ex tra good truck with everything. Only 1145 dollars. YATES & MORROW Opp Post Office Phone 8
Mr and Mrs A L Vandagriff hosted a Sunday reunion at Mc Kinney Park with more than 100 relatives, including ten of their children. Attendees hailed from Anna Desser Garland Trenton Pike Greenville Snow Hill and other towns. Wayne Vandagriff stationed in Japan could not attend.
In Honey Grove on Wednesday a luncheon honored Miss Allarea Ford of Quinlan, fiancé of Ira Slack of Mt Vernon. Co-hostesses were Mrs Jack Shelton and Mrs JE Robinson Jr with Misses Yvone and Marjorie Dobbs. The bride elect wore a white carnation corsage with satin ribbon and chenille.
Mr and Mrs John Feastlane and son Bob Meade hosted a housewarming at their new home north of Oney Grove on Sunday from 2 p m. About 100 guests attended during visiting hours to welcome the family. Punch and cookies were served by hostesses Mesdames A I Collard Ermond Bloodworth Charlie Denson Bill Collard and H G Whitlock assisted by Mrs Cuthbert Green.
Miss Mary Charlotte Jones of Flintridge California and Robert Lynn Emett of San Marino California announce their betrothal at a family party. The couple plans to wed August 30 at Community Church of La Canada Valley with the date revealed by a bell-ringing parchment.
Leonard announces Sunday July 9 as the Savage Baptist Church homecoming with a sing song in the afternoon. All former and current members urged to attend the Sunday School and preaching, plus the South Fannin County Singing Convention meeting. Attendees may bring basket lunches to share on the church grounds at noon.
Bells Baptist Church begins its Vacation Bible School Monday with 8:30 am classes this week. Mrs Lloyd Beall supervises with assistants Mesdames Burchfield Layman McBroom Cross Burris Durham Shearer Haliburton Waiters Alverson Johnson Ford McCollough and Misses Ford Walters. Rev E CC Coleman leads devotionals.
Members of the WSCS started a study of the book We The People at the Ecumenical Church in Ravenna. Mrs Wel don Doggett hosted the meeting and Mrs Alverson led the program with assignments for next week’s study before the group dismissed with prayer.
Mrs Noel Burnett presented a program on Preparing Food For Deep Freezing at a Home Demonstration Club meeting. Mrs Lawrence Campbell opened with a reading and Lord's Prayer, followed by hostesses Mrs G W Clark and Mrs Howard Hickets serving refreshments.
Local residents and visitors from Bonham and nearby towns gather for church services, family visits, and social events. Notables include Rev. and Mrs. Moreland of Woodsboro, C W Kinkead of Dallas, and several Bonham residents attending Stunt Night at Lake Texoma Camp. State Senator C R Jones returns from Austin and Dr J W Shaddock's party from Lubbock visits Bonham.
Rev C E Moreland of Woodsboro will deliver the 11 am Sunday sermon at Clark Memorial Methodist Church in Bonham in the absence of Pastor Rev R E Porter who attends funeral services in Bogota. He will also preach the evening sermon at the First Methodist Church in Bonham. In the Pennsylvania coal mines there are more miles of railroad track underground than on the airfields.
The University of Texas College of Education reports a 56 percent rise in summer enrollment this year. Officials attribute the increase to stricter Gilmer-Aiken standards and the lure of higher pay for teachers upgrading credentials.
Reports from Dallas Fort Worth and Houston describe a bright red meteor flashing across the southwestern sky Friday at 7:50 p m. The sighting extended to New Orleans with similar echoes as observers noted a lingering vapor trail and a cometlike appearance.
Miss Ann Hunt and Miss Frances Wade hosted a four course dinner on the rear lawn honoring Mrs Ed Brent whose marriage to Frank Rogers of Cleburne is planned for June 27 at 8 pm in the parsonage of the First Christian Church An evening of gifts and a garden treasure hunt followed the meal featuring Shasta daisies and snapdragons gifts of hinen in small inscribed bracelets noted the approaching nuptials.
Miss Margaret Moore County Home Demonstration Agent spoke to Boyd Home Demonstration Club on selecting large kitchen equipment. She urged buying stove refrigerator and home freezer in order of family needs, ensure tested approval and reasonable price, and buy from reliable dealers with guarantees. Club voted prizes and noted gifts, with no meeting first of July due to July 4 holiday. next session set for July 18 at 2 pm.
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