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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1948
Page
5
Ferndale Creamery announces in an advertisement that starting September 1 it will deliver retail milk to residences six days weekly. The note asks customers to mark bottles if Sunday milk is desired for Saturday delivery. George Wright resigns as teller at First National Bank and returns to Henrietta.
Real estate ad lists multiple parcels near Bowie including 4 acres with orchard and 5-room homes, 42 and 2812 acre holdings with utilities, 63 acre farm near Sunset Texas, 55 acre Bermuda grass farm, and city properties. Prices range from $2,500 to $6,300 with references to minerals, livestock, and rental income. Offers trade options and a service to locate additional properties.
J M Floyd advertising manager of Lone Star Gas Dallas spoke to the Bowie Rotary Club calling for stronger effort toward international peace through Rotary International. He warned of the crisis posed by Soviet expansion and urged support for peace even at a cost, stressing enthusiasm in advertising for any cause. Guests included T L Tucker and F L Carmichael.
Contractors block the south end of the Bowie to Newport strip of highway and begin rock base laydown. Dirt grading finishes this week at Bowie with rapid progress worldwide. County officials plan a September 1 meeting with the District Highway Engineer to push paving plans for the remaining unit near the county line.
Dairy cattle owners are invited to a free film show in City Auditorium Saturday August 28 at 10 am. Shannon Carpenter Extension Dairy Specialist will present a picture lecture titled how to fit dairy cattle for showing for the Dallas milk shed audience.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Griffin have returned from a trip to California. The couple arrived home yesterday and reported a pleasant journey with sightseeing stops along the way.
Numerous visits and travels are listed, with families including Bleasings, Bretts, Woltz, Bacher, Gates, Hudgins, and Morris, visiting relatives in Bowie Waco Wichita Falls and Dallas areas. Attendees travel from Amherst Beloit Fort Worth and El Paso to join kin. A wedding in Nocona and a funeral in Corsicana are noted along with a birthday and leisure trips to Turner Falls and Mexico City.
The families express deep gratitude for kindness and sympathy shown after the passing of Luther E. Lackey. They thank each person who sent flowers offered help at home and other thoughtful acts from Mrs. Luther Lackey Nina Marie Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Davis and family.
In Bowie 1887 Warren Bond and Roy Jackson started advertising second Monday as trading day from a small barn site. Early commerce included mules traded for horses, a fire department used horses, and saloons converted to barns. The piece notes these exchanges marked the start of Second Mondays, a tradition through years of weather and growth. Mrs. Guss Blakely and Mrs. Bill Purvis visited this week.
Mrs Ike Paris Mrs Gayle Bradley and son Richard Mrs Bob White and Mrs George Overstreet visited in Seymour this week, sharing greetings and social news during their stay.
Merle Hancock Fairy Hankins and Treta Cady are candidates for bachelor's degrees to be awarded at North Texas State Teachers College exercises Friday August 27. Hankins and Cady will receive the degree in elementary education, as will Hancock of Route 3.
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