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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1952
Page
2
A biblical quote from Daniel 12 2 3 speaks of awakening to everlasting life or shame and everlasting contempt. It notes that those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the firmament and those who guide others to righteousness as stars for ever and ever.
A warning notes that dry grass and parched pastures cause frequent wildfires each summer, with losses running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. It cites careless actions from trash fires and discarded cigarette butts as major causes and urges smokers to extinguish every match and cigarette butt to prevent rapid spread when water is scarce.
The Quartet of the First Baptist Church led by G. Doc Jackson Marvin Baker Ike Parks Roy Overstreet and Joe Earl Vaughan played at Camp Copass for the Brotherhood meeting. About fifteen hundred men attended and a fish supper was served.
L. T. Hunter and sister Mrs. C E McKinney attended a Hunter family reunion at the home of Mr and Mrs Bob Hunter in Claude with over thirty relatives and nine Hunter children present. The group attended Sunday services at the First Christian in Amarillo where Rev Joe B Hunter of Lynchburg VA filled the pulpit. Rev and Mrs Hunter plan to leave soon for Japan on special mission work.
Sunday School lesson outlines Saul’s decline from disobedience to ruin. It traces his first sin offering at Gilgal, failure to utterly destroy the Amalekites, and final downfall as envy and fear erode his kingship. The lesson underscores obedience over sacrifice and the cost of rejecting God’s word.
Mr and Mrs John Murray plan to return home this weekend after a two week vacation in Minocqua Wisconsin and Chicago. Mrs Murray works as a lino type operator at the Bowie News.
Dr. Geo W Cox Texas Health Officer urges fact based disease control citing polio theories without proof. He notes dysentery deaths and infant losses, highlights funding and staff shortages, and announces fly and cockroach research with two monkeys from Bellaire as initial gifts.
Miss Virginia Johnson of Wichita Falls visited her mother Mrs. Hazel Smith over the weekend and spent Saturday in Fort Worth with family.
Dr and Mrs D E Whitehead were alerted by a Longview call to illness of C E McGee 79 grandfather of Mrs Whitehead. He died Friday at home and funeral services were held Saturday afternoon August 9 at Teatown church.
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