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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1952
Page
1
A collage of light items from Montague County including how to use powder for marriages, a joke about a boy fishing, and a note on a new automatic dryer. Excerpts mention Ferndale Creamery bottles in Bowie and local fishing at Lake Bowie with several anglers catching bass and catfish. Editorial remarks urge fair, civic restraint in judging presidential candidates and emphasize Christian faith without excluding any candidate.
Huge crowds fill the church lawn and rear area during this week’s revival with Dr. E. S. James preaching and Clarence Pruett of Nocona leading the music. A daily 6 a.m. men’s breakfast in the basement is an unusual feature, with forty seven men attending Thursday morning.
Mrs Andy Robinson and her daughter have completed a ten day vacation in Gallup New Mexico and returned home.
Two check forgers operated in Bowie over several days. One 20-year-old, named Elvin Butler, confessed to forging and cashing checks in Bowie and Fort Worth, including 25 dollars at Dodson's and 42.50 at A and P. He was stopped at C H Parker Store on a 41.30 attempt and is said to be in Ohio on vacation. Sheriff Buck Jameson and City Marshall Tandy Welch investigated. another suspect remains at large.
This three month old, 15 pound baby boy named Richard Don Berry is highlighted as a healthy promising future citizen. The piece notes proud grandparents Mr and Mrs A D Berry and great grandparents Mr and Mrs J E Brown.
Mr and Mrs J K Salty Brite of Bowie area welcomed a son born at Bowie Hospital on Tuesday afternoon at 2 30. The baby named James Kenneth Jr weighed 6 pounds 14 ounces at birth.
Bowie residents urged to turn on porch lights August 21 as Lions Club and civic groups canvass for pool funds. About 6,500 dollars remain to reach the 29,500 goal with 22,413.50 already raised. Home Demonstration Club sells movie tickets August 19 and 20 to aid the drive. Veterans of Foreign Wars sells steer tickets for pool construction.
Troy Lovelady ginned the first bale of cotton for Bowie this season at McNeill and Ayres Gin. The bale weighed 490 pounds of lint sold at 50 cents a pound, with 1090 pounds of seed valued at 40 dollars. Lovelady farms seven miles west of Bowie with about 40 acres and expects another bale next week. The Bowie Chamber of Commerce plans a bonus premium for the first bale owner.
R. V. Garrett of Garrett Furniture attended the Regional Furniture Dealers association meeting in Wichita Falls on Tuesday.
The Bowie Public Schools plan to open September 8 1952 for the 1952 53 session with a listed faculty across Senior and Junior High divisions. Several vacancies remain to be filled and announcements will follow as teachers are secured.
Hairy vetch and winter peas seeded this fall will be charged to the 1952 Program funds. These funds are limited and in order that each producer receive his share of assistance, all requests must be on file in the PMA office not later than Monday, August 25th. All we can promise is that you will receive your share when all the requests are received in this office. However, no approval will be issued before September 1st.
Former Bowie High School basketball star Paul Prater, now in Battery C 529th FAO, Baumholder Germany, sends a $10 cash donation to Bowie pool fund. He expresses hope it will be finished by his return and urges others to help quick, with money order turned over to the project secretary.
Committees of the Bowie Lodge AF and AM study remodeling a former J R Holbrook estate property on Tarrant now used by the Times into a lodge hall. Finance members include H L Turns Ike Parks J A Craver Ogden Clarke Joe Fulcher and D B Benson. Building group lists L D Falls Ray Ross Boyd Barjenbruch and Joe Butler.
Former Governor Jimmie Allred now a Federal District Judge at Corpus Christi vacationing several days in Bowie and Wichita Falls. He and Mrs. Allred are visiting his mother Mrs. R. Allred of Bowie.
Roy Curry of Dallas spent the weekend here with relatives, sharing time at family gatherings and local visits.
Rain totaling nearly one inch fell in Bowie on Monday afternoon, bringing relief after extreme heat. While some nearby communities saw showers, much of the area still faces drought with depleted stock water and dry grass on many farms and ranches.
Bowie man and public accountant Scott Whaley was elected Republican District Chairman for the Thirteenth Congressional District at a Wichita Falls convention. The event covered 15 North Texas counties and set a record for attendance, with plans to place Democratic nominees on the Republican ballot for the November 4 election. Whaley succeeds O R Hart who has chaired the party for 24 years.
Residents awoke to a week of fires across Bowie and surrounding areas. The most costly blaze damaged part of the Brashear home on East Tarrant Street, destroying the Buick and causing about 2000 in interior damage. Firefighters saved the house. Brashear retrieved his Cadillac during the blaze. Earlier fires struck Foster residence, Cantrell lumber pile, Anne's Cafe grease fire, and a grass fire near West Cowan Street. A lightning sparked pasture fire burned 100 acres until rain ended the threat.
Bowie shows a better water outlook with light showers easing heat and a new water well at Watson Reservoir delivering 115 000 gallons a day. Mayor David M Major says the well will bolster supplies as reservoirs gain small reserves and pumps continue to run.
Bowie High School reveals a ten game 1952 football slate with five home games and five conference matches. The schedule opens September 19 at Electra and includes trips to Fort Worth Diamond Hill Henrietta Wichita Falls Handley Jacksboro Nocona Decatur and home dates against Olney Graham and others. Coaching staff includes R. L. Mattingly M. L. Massey Milton Kresse and Buck Krause.
The Gregory and Winn Feed and Grain store advertises as a dealer for Ful O Pep feeds for poultry and livestock. It highlights growing pullets laying mash turkey calf hog dairy rations and range cubes.
An extended Firestone advertisement in the News proclaims a pre Labor Day sale from August 13 to September 2 offering half price on Firestone DeLuxe Champion tires. Widlake Bros. in Bowie serves as the local Firestone agency with a large stock and a wide range of sizes and prices.
Mrs. Tommie Ayres of Ver mont California visited friends here last week.
G. Doc Jackson owner of Jackson's Department Store will receive a national window award today for a display in a Bowies population class city. Notables from Higginbotham Baily Co and Fieldcrest Mills will present the prize to Jackson's, following a district win among 1000 stores. Carroll Davis arranged the winning window with Jackson's.
The Texas State Highway Department invites bids for a 5 072 mile Farm to Market road starting two miles northeast of Bowie on Montague highway to Salona and for resurfacing 65 244 miles of highways Nos 81 and 82 from Red River to Bowie and Henrietta to Nocona and Montague county line to Gainesville. August 20 let in Austin. Additional small Montaguy County Farm to Market sections to be let soon and next month bid notices issued for routes from US 82 north through Belchervile to road intersections and for Farm to Market 103 from Nocona extending about three miles west and north.
Carl Russell owner of Russell's Department Store announces Cullen Phagan is now a full time employee in the store. Phagan, with extensive clothing store sales experience, will lead the large shoe department and greet his many friends.
John Turner from Ringgold traveled to Bowie on Monday for business purposes. He is noted as a visiting businessman with ties to Ringgold.
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