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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1925
Page
7
Dr. W. C. Abbot urges steady effort in a motivational verse about pulling through difficulties. The poem encourages perseverance despite wind, rain, or hardship, stressing never blaming fate and keeping effort constant to prevail.
Obituary notes Judge Lucas F. Smith died at his Santa Cruz home at about eighty. A Dallas and Bonham bar figure, he practiced with Tom Brown in Sherman and with Crawford in Dallas before moving to California. Survived by two sons and four daughters, the elder Dorothy visited Zac Smith last year. The piece recalls a long legal career and widespread regard.
Fragmentary notices promote winter clothing deals at Bonham and general sales events. Names include M. C. Spivy & Co and local organizations, with references to Royal Arch and meetings. The text resembles a late 19th or early 20th century local page of notices and advertisements.
The list records marriage licenses issued to J A West and Minnie Hendrix, Floyd Mannery and Flora Mleskins, Otis Adkisson and Josie Seals, Sam Chance and Vernie Scott, Sidney F Tingle and Birdie May Guess, and John Branch and Lucy Lowe. Also notes eleven major forest fires across California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington on August 1, with lightning as a suspected cause and the Chelan National Forest blaze burning over 600 acres of virgin timber.
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