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Newspaper
Bowie Booster
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
1
Local residents and families are listed visiting relatives in Fort Worth Dallas and other towns. Easter, illness, and hospital visits mix with trips to Gainesville Wichita Falls Mineral Wells and Detroit. Several engagements include club events, church meetings, and school events across Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana communities.
The $50,000 Hall of Religion is under construction at the Texas Centennial Exposition grounds in Dallas. The World’s Fair, opening June 6, will showcase 400 years of Texas religious lore, sponsored by Lone Star Gas stockholders. A 75 foot tower will feature "The Eternal Flame of Life" from the exposition’s opening on November 29 until its close.
A pastor urges Montague County voters to oppose the Beer and Wine legalization ballot on May 2. He cites rising crime and bootlegging after legalization in Wichita Falls and warns the public against “evil doers” during the centennial Texas year.
A Buick sedan used by burglars who robbed the Bellevue Henrietta National Bank branch last Monday was found abandoned Friday afternoon about three miles south of Fowlkes station near Electra. The car had buckshot in the front seat and a flat spare tire. No trace of the two bandits was reported.
Marion Ridinger was elected queen of the Junior-Senior banquet after Friday events at the high school auditorium. The play Her Emergency Family directed by Mrs. Overfelt and Mr. Barrett Johns featured Joellen Precise Billy Gaddy Luine Ryan Jean Harrison Dale Brown Zelma Louise Ryan Hazel Brown Sam Nolan Laura Grace Philley George Cline and baby Charles Martin. Proceeds benefit the junior banquet over which the queen will preside. Marion Ridinger is a senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Ridinger.
Mrs. W A Flowers and Miss Inez Rudy returned from Fort Worth where Rudy was elected state president of the Texas Federation of Music Clubs at its session held in the Texas Hotel. She presided at the American music luncheon on Friday during the gathering with attendees from across the state.
Bilsey Sperr and J T McCorkle Jr head to Denton to represent the Wichita District in doubles after earning a regional berth by defeating the Wichita team at the district meet.
In Belton Texas two candidates Nunnallee and Crocker tied with 66 votes in the April 7 regular city marshal race. A second election on April 17 produced 117 votes for each. Hollan, Bell County residents face another vote on April 18 as Mortie A Nunnallee and Claude Crocker again fail to decide. Citizens urged to subscribe.
The Centennial Folk Festival planned for April 21 in Bowie is indefinitely postponed. D M Major Bowie Chamber of Commerce secretary says the event is likely to be combined with the July 4 celebration.
Mrs. W H McGee of Montague shows improvement at the Bowie Clinic Hospital. Mrs. J W Foy of Seymour recovers from pneumonia at the Bowie Clinic Hospital and is remembered as Miss Lela Overstreet formerly of Bowie. Bernice Preston, 9, daughter of Mr and Mrs J E Preston, operated on Tuesday for pneumonia complications. condition satisfactory. Millard Downes, 10, of Ringgold is seriously ill at the Bowie Clinic Hospital.
In Austin Texas on April 18 the state commission announced about 160 000 applications for old age assistance have been filed. Director Orville S Carpenter stated the rule is to interpret the new law liberally and not to deny worthy and needy applicants over minor technicalities.
The Church of Christ issues Sunday worship times at 9:45 a.m. Bible study 11:00 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. Communion at 11:45 a.m. A Ladies Bible Class meets Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. Evening sermon themes include Not a Hoof Left Behind and The Day Spring. Sunday 2:30 p.m. service at Hancock School House. Minister W. D. Black invites attendance.
The listing highlights films and showings including The Trail of the Lonesome Pine with Sylvia Sidney and Fred Mac Murray, Flash Gordon chapter 3, Follow The Fleet with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Lady Consents with Herbert Marshall and Ann Harding, Woman Trap, Mysterious Avatar, Air Mystery cartoon, and related news and screenings across Friday through Thursday with Big Gift Night and multiple comedies.
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