Bowie Community Faces Growth and Development Trends
Local notes praise Jess Brown for modernizing the Smythe Street building and announce a new large furniture store soon after January 1. Community leaders like Mose Johnson and Gayle Bradley shape civic life while Fred L Raborn remodels the Elvin Butler building. Dallas bonds expand libraries and parks, urging Bowie to act to keep towns livable.
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Jess Brown
Smythe Street
Dallas
Bowie
Bowie Public Schools Honor Roll List Published
Honor rolls for Bowie Public Schools announced by Supt. Walter B. Alexander. Second grade through eighth grade and notable names listed by grade with seniors to fifth graders and one entry for East Ward fourth grade, showing numerous students across classes.
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Bowie Public Schools
Walter B. Alexander
Bowie Bright Christmas Street Lighting Attracts Crowds
Bowie business district shines with multicolor Christmas lights across the streets. Volunteers from Rotary Club led by president Glynne Griffin funded and installed the display, while windows in the area draw shoppers from near and far as the season’s decor earns praise.
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Rotary Club
Glynne Griffin
Grade level class rosters and ward listings published
A list of students by grade and a ward by ward roster includes first second and third grade groups with names such as James Cantwell Audrey Arnold Virginia Foster and Gerald Holt listed under NORTH WARD and SOUTH WARD. The subdivision names Cora Mae Stephens Treva Leek and Bobby Stambough appear among warded residents.
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Neta Ann Brooks
James Doughty
Frances Foster Walden Hickey
Geraldine Hoeld
Peggy Long
Patti Mattingly
Sid Morris
Lillian Reeves
Stanley Underwood
Robert White
Gail Wood
Charles Hawkins
Jimmy Hogan Millard
Lain
J. D. Roach Nelva
Jo Wells
Aubrey Winton
Audrey Arnold
Virginia Foster
Mary Beth Freaking Leon Garrett
Anetta Gaston
Ronnie Rucker
Juanette Trout
Jerry Winningham
James Cantwell
Donald Gresham
Judy Harrison
Sue Jones
Jane Peacock
J. H. Scruggs
Betty Watts
Barbara Winn
Bowie Public Schools Set Christmas Holidays in 1945
Christmas holidays for Bowie Public Schools begin at 4 PM Thursday December 20. Principal Paul Taliaferro announced the break runs through January 1 with classes resuming Wednesday morning January 2, 1946.
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Bowie
Paul Taliaferro
Former Bowie Man Named City Manager in Stamford Texas
Richard C. Giles has been released from the Army and accepted the post of City Manager of Stamford Texas. He served nineteen months in the Army with one year in England and previously worked sixteen years for West Texas Utilities in Cisco. A Bowie native and Bowie High School graduate, he is past president of Stamford Chamber of Commerce and resided in Stamford with his wife and two children during his service.
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Richard C
Dick) Giles
Barney R. Giles
Stamford
Texas
Giles
England
West Texas Utilities Company
Cisco
Stamford Chamber of Commerce
Bowie
Le’a Jane and
Rickie
Rites Held For L A Smith In Sunset Community
Sunset Baptist Church pastor Rev E H Marshall led final rites for L A Smith 60 of Fort Worth who died December 7. Born in Alabama and raised in Sunset, he was in business and a Baptist and Mason. Survived by wife, three sons Troy Bowie and two Marines, one daughter R Reese Fort Worth, two brothers, one sister, five grandchildren. Interment Rose Hill Cemetery Fort Worth Burgess Funeral Home directed.
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E. H. Marshall
Sunset Baptist Church
L. A. Smith
Fort Worth
Alabama
Mr. Smith
Sunset
Baptist Church
Masonic Lodge
Troy
Bowie
Clifton A. Smith
L. A. Smith, Jr
Marine Corps
R. Reese
Roscoe Smith
A. P. Smith
U. S. Army
Easley Walker
California
Rose Hill Cemetery
Burgess Funeral Home
Sunset School Honor Students Named by Mrs. Smith
Honor rolls at Sunset School list third and fourth graders Thomas Lauderdale to Ruth Stephenson, fifth and sixth graders Dorothy Harvey to Edward L. Hopkins, and seventh and eighth graders Norma Boone to Laucita Dyer.
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Clarence Belcher
Bill Jack*Evans
Mildred Fitts
Ruth Rhone Sybil Rhyne
Betty Roberson
Janet Swindler
Phylis Woolsey
Glenn Chambers
Donald Cleveland
Alyne Egenbacher
Joe Tarver
Cynthia Daley
Joyce Denson
Dorothy Gossett
Florena Simer Velta
Faye Roberts
Mary L. Kilcrease
Doris Williams
George Hoeldtke Maxine Horner Marcella George Glenna Mae Kilcrease
Wanda Jones
Dorothy McGregory
T. A. Wiginton
Mary Louise Manning
Minnie Lou Manning Mary Lois Ratliff
Loraing Zetzsche
Colleen Noel Evelyn Humphrys
Janette Brice
Don Fulmer Jo Ann Barnett
Marverine Covington
Jane Foster
Mary Latham
Barbara Mills
Naomi Tarver
Mary Taylor
Margaret Hancock
Joe Earl Vaughn
Charles Maiden
Marian Kistler
Patsy Webb
Lydia Hoeldtke
Pauline Fitts
Don Henry Wilma Hedges
Betty Spears
Bobbie Ann Trout
Delma Deaver
Lillian Gray
Ruth Henry Dale Jackson
Charlene Privitt
George Medley
Mona Raley
Paul Smith
Lillian Sneed
Evelyn Tarver Patsy Lou Swagerty
Helen Ruth Thompson
Helen Dodsworth
Nelda Jean Bowden
Carolyn Gregory
David Arnold
Bob Beale
Anne Bradshaw
Floyd Bilill
Ann Harris
Talmadge Liggett
Charles McGannon
James Oliver
Mary Beth Walden
Paul Worthen
Rose Moarie Bell
Annett Bowden
John Gage
Norma Jean George Jean Hancock
June Hancock
Don Hickman
Charles Miller
Charles Roth
Ann Sanders
Buddy Smith
Tommy Smith
Ann Speake
Dorothy Sullivan
Ronnie Thomas
Mary Ann Armstrong
James Burke
Donnie Rae Fox
Kathryn Hoeldtke
Barbara Humphrys
Jimmy Jones
Johnny Middleton
Ronnie Ray
Billy Wayne Ryan
Tommy Thomason
Joe Wyson
East Ward
Joan Bauknight
Sunset School
E. J. Smith
Thomas Lauderdale
Ronnie Simer
Joel Whitson
A. C. Miller
Jackie D. Barker
Billy H. Proctor
Charles Stayton
Loretta Davis
Wanda Durham
Katherine Elrod
Janice Jackson
Barbara White
Jeanette Brown
Latonne Parsons
Patricia Riggs
Ruth Stephenson
Dorothy Harvey
Jerry Hall
Lynn Cavasos
Lula Pearl Knight
Edward L
Notable Local Names List for Community Record
Margaret Ann Robinson Daniel Scales Mike Seitz Bobby Gardner Jerry Hill Genevieve Hoeldtke Bessie Underwood Louise Roach Shirley Mitchell Mary Lee Long Norma Sue Baker Troy Lee Martin
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Margaret Ann Robinson
Daniel Scales
Mike Seitz
Bobby Gardner
Jerry Hill
Genevieve Hoeldtke
Bessie Underwood
Louise Roach
Shirley Mitchell
Mary Lee Long
Norma Sue Baker
Troy Lee Martin
White Overstreet Displays New 1946 Oldsmobile Lineup
White & Overstreet Motor Company in Bowie showcases Oldsmobile’s 1946 models including 66 76 78 and 98 series with 119 125 and 127 inch wheelbases. The debut features a Club Sedan, sedans, coupes, and a station wagon powered by six or eight cylinder engines and an 110 horsepower eight in the 98 series.
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Oldsmobile
White & Overstreet Motor Company
West Wise Street
Bowie
Special Services With Dr Gardner At Baptist Church Bowie
Preparations are made for three special services at First Baptist Church Bowie with Dr T C Gardner State B T A Secretary and Mrs Gardner. He will speak at 11 am and 7 pm services and address county church representatives at 3 pm in the Associational B T U meeting. Mrs Gardner will address intermediates and juniors.
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First Baptist Church
T. C. Gardner
Gardner
Texas
Joe Trussell
B. T. U. Department
Theatre Calendar Bowi e Majestic Shows and Stars
Bowie Majestic features Pat O’Brien George O’Brien and Carole Land in Having A Wonderful Crime plus Sunset Carson in Oregon Trail Friday and Saturday. Sunday Monday brings Deanna Durbin in Lady on a Train with Ralph Bellamy and David Bruce. Tuesday showcases Tomorrow the World with Fredric March and Betty Field. Wednesday Thursday presents Along Came Jones with Gary Cooper and Loretta Young. Ritz hosts Raiders of Red Gap Friday Saturday and Star Spangled Banner with Bing Crosby Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour on Wednesday Thursday. Mr and Mrs W L Campbell of Wichita Falls were weekend guests of Lon Campbell's family.
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Bowie
Majestic
Pat O’brien
George O’brien
Carole Landis
Sunset Carson
Oregon Trail
Deanna Durbin
Ralph Bellamy
David Bruce
Fredric March
Betty Field
Gary Cooper
Loretta Young
Jones
Ritz
Bob Livingson
Ayres Plans Modern Frozen Food Locker Plant in Bowie
Horace Ayres of Oklahoma City, formerly Bowie, will build a frozen food locker plant on East Wise Street after purchasing the Jim Coulter Building. He will resign from Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co and move to Bowie to start the business, with details to follow next week. Roy Wesson buys City Drug Store at 20 Wise Street from Donald Bros and takes possession Monday.
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Roy Wesson
Wise Street
Donald Bros
Mr. Wesson
Wesson
Horace Ayres
Oklahoma City
Bowie
Ayres
R. &. Ayres
Jim Coulter
Halliburton Oil Well
Dr. Pepper Co
East Wise Street
NU Enamel to Deepen Laird Well to 7000 Feet
NU Enamel plans to deepen the Laird well to seven thousand feet while drilling at 5100 feet in the Laird B-1. In the area eight miles south of Bowie, other wells like Short No. 1 near Stoneburg and Winn No. 1 at Joy advance oil activity with multiple rigs testing new intervals and raw prospects.
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A. R. Dillard Et al Short
Stoneburg
Dr. Lawson
Stanfield
Nu-Enamel
Laird
Jones No
Joy
I. P. Reed
Saint Jo
Admire No
Nocona
Continental Report
McNutt
Henry No
Heard
Borden No. 2
Rocky Point
Jarrell No. 1
Wildcat
Bowie
Contributions To War Memorial Fund Grow in Bowie
New gifts push the Bowie War Memorial fund toward 11 000 dollars as weekly increases continue since the finance drive began. Solicitors Roy Coffield and Lester Miller urge gifts by delivering to the First National Bank or at the high school, with pledges payable in installments.
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Bowie War Memorial
Roy Coffield
Lester Miller
First National Bank
Bowie
Coffield
Miller
Cave Shorsx
Leslie Greenwood
Latham Services Held In Saint Jo
Funeral services for Clyde Latham died Tuesday in Bowie Hospital after a short illness. Born in Harrison County Georgia, he moved to Bowie at age 12 and resided there. Survived by brothers George Latham of Delta Colorado and Henry Latham of Bowie and sister Alma Latham of Palm Beach California. Interment in Saint Jo under Burgess Funeral Home.
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Clyde Latham
Bowie
Presbyterian Church
Saint Jo
Harrison County
First Presbyterian Church
George Latham
Delta
Colo
Henry Latham
Alma Latham
Palm Beach
Calif
Burgess Funeral Home
Soldier Mail Lost at Sea May Be Replaced
Postmaster Roberson at Bowie announced that Christmas mail sent Sept 1 to Oct 15 for APO 729 in the Aleutians was lost at sea aboard a small craft. Eligible Senders may now mail one package each by Dec 20 with special permission.
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Roberson
Bowie
Aleutian
Charles E. Oliver Dies Suddenly at 76 in Bowie
Charles Edward Oliver, 76, died suddenly at his Bowie home on Wednesday. Final rites by W. T. Hamilton at Owens & Brumley Chapel at 10 a.m. with Rev. G. B. Bradshaw assisting. Survived by daughter Eula Hembree, two sons Ellis of Wichita Falls and R. L. of Vernon, four grandchildren. interment Elmwood Cemetery.
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W. T. Hamilton
Bowie Church of Christ
Charles Edward Oliver
G. B. Bradshaw
First Baptist Church
Owens & Brumley Chapel
Oliver
Bowie
Fannin County
Church of Christ
Eula Hembree
Hembree
Ellis Oliver
Wichita Falls
R. L. Oliver
Vernon
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Mose Johnson
White & Oversteers
Gayle Bradley
Style Shop
Gayle
Wilbur Morgan
Bowie Art League
Fred L. Raborn
Raborn
Elvin Butler
Charles Smith
C. & S. Market
Bowie Streets
Stamford, Texas
Dr. Gardner
W. L. Campbell
Lon Campbell
E. L. Anderson
Anderson
War Memorial Fund
Latham
Charles E. Oliver
Elmwood Cemetery