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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1952
Page
4
Richard Thomas Clarke dies Wednesday. Native of Montague County. Services set for 2 p m Saturday. Arrangements by Owens Brumley Funeral Home Bowie.
The Student Council and Senior Class vote to use Lyceum proceeds to buy a movie and slide projector. A visual aids room will be provided and the last Lyceum show on December 3 featured Smith and Danes Varieties and acts like ventriloquism and Canine Capers.
Dr. George W. Cox warns carbon monoxide endangers lives in closed rooms garages and cars where burning wood coal gasoline or natural gas occurs. Cold weather increases danger as houses and cars are sealed. Ventilate stoves heaters and cars and avoid sleeping near running gas heaters or in a closed garage.
Private Joe B Evans son of Mr and Mrs George Evans Route 3 Bowie Texas graduated from the European Command Medical Training Center at Degerndorf Germany The center trains in Army field medicine including a medical non commissioned officer course hospital corpsmen and Army nurses Evans a Bowie High School graduate entered the Army in February 1951 The Almanac note and local Bowie ads accompany the news with commercial items from the Bowie News Office
Texas 4-H members earned top honors in the 1952 National 4-H Canning Dress Revue Field Crops and Poultry programs. Jo Ann Glover of Quanah will enter the Dress Revue with a self designed terra cotta linen ensemble. Wayne Shipp of Hale Center, an eight year 4-H member, earned top Field Crops honors with diversified crops and strong soil practices. Ernestine Wolf of McDade led Canning with 450 jars and 38 ribbons. Robert Fuhrmann of Gainesville, a poultry winner, raised 767 white Leghorns and won a trip to Chicago. Trips were provided by Kerr Glass International Harvester and Debarrah Motors.
F. E. Blaine aged 74, longtime Bowie area resident, died in Frederick Oklahoma Sunday. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Snyder with Rev. M. F. Sullivan officiating. Relatives from Bowie attended, including Mrs. E. A. Boyd and Mrs. H. F. McDaniel.
A brief note states the first blood shed in the American Revolution occurred in Massachusetts. It references quality printing available at the Bowie News.
Minnie May Pippkin 75 long resident of Montague County died December 1 in Wichita Falls after a lingering illness. Funeral services December 3 at Owens-Brumley Funeral Chapel with Rev R N Powers officiating. Interment Briar Creek cemetery. Survivors: son L A Pippkin of Bowie, grandchildren Edith Dee Weldon, brother Lee McNutt of Post. Pallbearers Chiff Duwayne Brooks Mark Mauldin Bill Lancaster J K Hunter.
LaGrande Henderson of the Henderson Monument Company presided at Lake Murray Oklahoma over a two day session of the Monu ment Builders of the Southwest Association convention. Bowie of the Monument Builders of the Southwest attended as a member. The program featured many prominent national figures. Henderson presided over most sessions.
The hospital column lists numerous residents and newborns including Patricia Carol Hutson at Saint Jo, James Dow Fulton at Bowie, Lawrence Mike Thompson at Sunset, Bettye Lou Jones at Bowie, Stephen Wayne Deweber at Bowie, and Vickie June Funk at Bowie. Also named are local residents with connections to Sunset Bowie Fort Worth Fort Sill Forestburg Alvord and other towns.
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