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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1960
Page
8
Camp Fire Girls Blue Birds Horizon Club and others promote their annual candy sale near Saint Jo Texas. Proceeds fund camp construction and upkeep with some personal treasuries, while teaching gratitude and record keeping.
The first issue of Sunset Signal appeared on December 16 in a snowstorm printed on a hand powered press. Thomas McConnell started the paper in Sunset, South Dakota, from his residence with type set by his family and later moved to a drug building back room. The weekly ran for 57 years and was mailed from the Sunset post office. it paused around 1945 under Bowie Blade Publishing Co. Stella McConnell, now 90, remains the last local assister from that era.
The Sunset PTA holds a monthly meeting at 2 p.m. Thursday December 15 in the school assembly room with Mrs Roy Ellison as president in charge. Main features include planning for current activities and upcoming events.
A long list of Christmas visits highlights families from Sunset, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls and surrounding towns. The article notes Mr. and Mrs. Coy Heugatter and others visiting relatives, plus several trips by the region’s residents during Thanksgiving and the holidays. It also recounts the 57th anniversary of rural mail service from the Sunset post office with memories of the original four carriers and route changes.
The rural route service began under Postmaster W. S. Tremble with Mrs. Annie E. Finn as current postmaster. Village post offices at Pella and Denver closed due to route extension. Local residents and families, including the Clarys, Caswells, Rollins, Stokes, and Elli sons, are listed among Thanksgiving and holiday visits.
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