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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1936
Page
5
Local notices report numerous Thanksgiving visits across Nocona Bowie and Alvord with several families hosting relatives and friends. Community clubs meet as 4 H and arts and crafts groups hold events while the Doss 4 H group and high school pupils plan demonstrations and plays for later in the year.
Montague County 4-H girls earned pins for completing 100 percent of their goals at a Saturday rally in the district courtroom. The event showcased president and reporter schools, garden and bedroom goals, a Bowie High School skit, and a noon picnic for 125 participants from nine clubs including Salona, Forestburg, Montague, Pleasant Ridge, Prairie Hill, Peabody, Lone Star, Lindale, Mount Tabor, Saint Jo, Ringgold, and Bowie.
A jumble of short items notes a married man finds a wife's hat in a car back seat and an owner may claim it, a Bowie man on Centennial Day, candy bar larceny questions, a produce truck in laundry duties, butcher shop gossip, and a deer drawing in a grocery window. Frank Edwards, Charlie Perona and Joe McGreggory were in Wichita Falls on business Tuesday.
City of Bowie monthly account notes dated December 1 1936 show balances and figures for multiple funds including 3 593 50 1 436 74 104 500 00 134 000 00 25 000 00 and 5 727 28 with minor entries such as 10 00 55 00 63 79 2 90 5 727 2 138 05 HO 189 60 and AQT reflected in the ledger.
A village column lists holiday buys from Parker Grocery C H Parker and Miller’s Men and Boys Store. Readers are directed to Peanut Butter and crackers for children, pajamas at Daube and Co, and hunting rentals at Matthews Heard and Cady, with various brand names and local sponsors noted.
Verna Schlepp reports pimples cleared after Adlerika treatment. The ad claims the product cleanses both bowels and poisons causing poor complexion. G. O. Slaughter & Co., Druggists, in Foresburg by E. H. Medley Druggist.
Publicatio n of a four week citation summons the unknown heirs of multiple Read and Stewart family members and stockholders of Singer Manufacturing Company in a 1936 trespass to try title suit filed by Effie McGlasson and W C McGlasson. The case seeks possession of 258 acres in Montague County with a 20 acre exception, asserting title by sovereignty and adverse possession claims. The district court clerk is Fred McGregory.
Local Bowie residents and visitors share Thanksgiving hospitality in Texas and Oklahoma. Highlights include Tyson Roach and Bill Webb on a business trip to Bryson Frider, Edna Merle Crump visiting Dallas, Vera Clark and Elsie Chapman with Hilburn Motor Co. in Sherman, and families from Fort Worth and Pilot Point. A reflective note closes urging courage to say we can afford it.
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