Garden Club Hosts Wichita Falls Speaker on European Gardens
The Bowie Garden Club welcomed Mrs. T. A. Hicks, a Wichita Falls leader, as guest speaker at Monday afternoon’s meeting. She described European garden beauty, churches, and artworks she encountered on her trip. Club president Mrs. John B. Hunt and hostesses Mrs. W. R. Potter and Mrs. F. O. Baker assisted.
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Bowie Garden Club
T. A. Hicks
Wichita Falls
Hicks
W. R. Potter
Europe
John B. Hunt
Potter
F. O. Baker
Mrs. Hunt
Phone your news Items to the Bowie Nes
Message asks readers to phone in local news items to Bowie newspaper to share community happenings and short notices for quick publication.
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The
Bowie Nes
Social Security Tax Extended to Domestics
The new law requires anyone employing a maid cook or similar servant two days a week or 24 days in a quarter to report the work. Postmaster offers explanatory booklets for employers. Mr and Mrs Joe Barnett and daughter visited relatives in Oklahoma City Thursday. Guests of Mr and Mrs E L Anderson over holidays were Mr and Mrs Charles Miller and children of Austin and Mr and Mrs James Edward Anderson and children of El Reno Oklahoma.
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Joe Barnett
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
E. L. Anderson
Charles Miller
Austin
James Edward Anderson
el Reno
R. C. Boehm
Wichita Falls
R. C. Walker
David and
Robert
George Hoeldtke
Pamela Ann
Walter Hoeldtke
Bowie
W. F. Hoeldtke
Final Arrangements on Sgt McDowell Reinterred
Funeral services for Sgt. Edward L. McDowell will be held Sunday November 26 at 2:30 PM from Burgess Funeral Chapel. Reinterment will take place at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Sgt. McDowell
Edward L. McDowell
Burgess
Elmwood Cemetery
Thanksgiving Visits Highlight Regional Social Mix
A string of holiday gatherings spans Wichita Falls Denton and surrounding towns as families host relatives from Amarillo Jacksboro Bowie Athens and Lawton. Notables include the Whitehead Younger Covey McMurry Henson and Russ households with travel to Dallas for Sadler's Wells Ballet and a Veterans Hospital patient in McKinney.
Bowie Texas notices oil and gas lease auction details
The Bowie City Council schedules a public auction on December 22 1950 at 2 00 p m in the City Auditorium for oil and gas leases on multiple tracts in Montague and Hill counties. Bids may be for individual groups or all tracts, with inspection at the City Secretary’s office. The council may reject any or all bids.
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Bowie
Texas
City Auditorium
Hill County School Land Survey
Montague County
Camp Fire Girls Elect Bowie Officers at Meeting
Jack Bradley was elected president of the Bowie Camp Fire Girls Council for the coming year with Mrs. E W Wright as vice president and Mrs. C J Dodsworth as secretary. A meeting November 28 discussed work for Bowie Camp Fire Girls with several officers and visitors in attendance.
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C. J. Dodsworth
Gennie Bradley
Marjorie Dodsworth
Betty Jane Butler
Yvonne Robicheaux
Jane Ann Dowis
North Ward
Patterson Studio
Mark High
Bowie
Camp Fire Girls
Jack Bradley
E. W. Wright
Jo- Alan Spears
Paul Taliaferro
Virgil Blair
W. E. Farrell
Sue Tipps
Wichita Falls
Mmes. E. W. Wright
Byron Henry
Jack Slayden
E. P. Harris
Horace Ayres
Christian Science December subjects announced
The schedule lists five services with topics and golden texts. December 3 features God, the Only Cause and Creator with Acts 4:24. December 10 covers God the Preserver of Man with II Samuel 22:2, 3. December 17 asks Is the Universe Evolved by Atomic Force with I Chronicles 16:23. December 24 presents Christ Jesus with Isaiah 9:6. December 31 offers Christian Science with John 16:13.
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Christian Science Services
God
Christ Jesus
Beloved Mrs S V Nix Dies in Stoneburg
The Stoneburg community heard of the death of Mrs. S V Nix who passed away Friday morning. Out‑of‑town relatives attended the funeral, including Mr. and Mrs A O Stillwell and children of unknown origin and many others from Oklahoma and Texas towns.
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S. V. Nix
A. O. Stillwell
Richard Hallmark
Chickasha
Okla
W. T. Lyons
Petrolia
A. G. Lyons
Wichita Falls
Emma Pennington
Mamie Nail
R. F. Mize
Fort Worth
W. A. Collins
Boyd, Texas
Irene Pennington
Cecil Pennington
Gravill Pennington
Curtis Pennington
Minnie Zorger
Clyde Moore
Raleigh Moore
Nona McMillion
Lawton
Joe England
Ryan
Oak Reynolds
Woodford
Mattie Murray
Marlow
Arlington State College Choir Tours Under Dan Burkholder
Jimmy Vaughn of 705 Elba Street is a member of Arlington State College mixed choir. The eighty five voice group, directed by Prof. Dan C. Burkholder, sang spiritual and classical pieces at a Fort Worth high school concert and plans several postholiday tours.
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Jimmy Vaughn
J. C. Vaughn
Elba Street
Arlington State College
Fort Worth
Texas
Dan C. Burkholder
ASC Music Department
Holiday Visitors at Samuel E Hyatt Home
Professor Jack M Lande of Auburn University spent Thanksgiving with his cousin Samuel E Hyatt and his wife in Fort Worth Texas. He is doing special work at the University of Texas in Austin. Miss Jeannine Lee, a Harris Memorial Hospital senior in Fort Worth, visited Saturday and Sunday.
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Jack M. Lande
Auburn University
Alabama
Samuel E. Hyatt
University of Texas
Austin
Jeannine Lee
Mrs. Hyatt
Miss Lee
Harris Memorial Hospital
Fort Worth
Gift Admission to Legion Auxiliary Party
The American Legion Auxiliary sponsors a "42" and Canasta party on Friday night December 8 at 7 30 p.m. at the Legion Hall. Public invited. admission is a gift for a veteran in McKinney Veterans Hospital, for the veteran or a family member.
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The
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
McKinney Veterans’ Hospital
Joe Garlington Honored on Birthday
A surprise birthday dinner was held at the Joe Garlington home on Thursday November 23 honoring Mr Joe Garlington. Attendees included Mr and Mrs L F Taylor of Seymour Mr and Mrs Phil Garlington of Dallas Mr and Mrs C V Dickey Jack Garlington and Mrs D F Underwood all of Bowie with a birthday cake baked by Ann Speake accompanying Thanksgiving dinner.
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Joe Garlington
Ann Speake
L. F. Taylor
Seymour
Phil Garlington
Dallas
C. V. Dickey
Jack Garlington
D. F. Underwood
Bowie
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Clark Wheeler
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West Wise Street
Wayne Whitehead
Allen
Earl Kiefer
Ronnie and
Gregg
Denton
Barney Whitehead
M. E. Younger
Jack Younger
Amarillo
Rex Younger
Jacksboro
Richard Thomas
Ann
Mmes. H. T. Ayres
Homer B. Latham
D. B. Benson
Glenn J. Thompson
Sadler’s Wells’ Ballet
State Fair Auditorium
M. B. Gilson
Athens, Texas
Roscoe Covey
Mary E. McMurry
J. T. McMurry
George Henson
McKinney
Veterans’ Hospital
Raymond Elliott
A. T. Russ
Lawton, Oklahoma
Sneek Sox
Uev
Gillett’s
Bowie, Texas
City OF
D. M
D. T. Wilson
Camp Fire Counsel
Stoneburg
Harry E. Moore
Arlington State College Choir
Canyon
Ann Ann Blyth
Howard Duff
George Brent
Edgar Bucwanan
A” Ane Carwell
Sae
Jimmy Ellison
Hayden
Wn Hatton
Bowie News
Smythe Street
Legion Auxiliary Party
Teo Marco
Bek Ps
Evans Estelita Rodriguez
Pat Bral
Champ
Joe
Ee ‘Oe Kirkwood
James Gleason
Robert Coogan
Lois Hall
Myraua Dell Franc
Greg McClure
Gary Cooper
Ruth Roman
Dane Clark
Raymond Massey
Robert Douglas Morgan Farley
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