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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
6
Illustrated Sunday School Lesson includes dramatization Lion and Mouse and Christmas Story with readings and talks. Debating Society at the school house discussed country versus city youth prospects. Local visits noted, new family welcomed, and a bill allowing ready money betting and bookmaker registration mentioned as moving through Parliament.
A farmer near Newport reports a wooden bush block on a steel disc plow catching fire from sun heat reflection. The block burned along with a tow sack, then the next day the heat lifted the block and sack onto a rock, with another block burning in front of the back disc. Eyewitnesses corroborate the tale and a show window display in Bowie will speak for itself. The piece also covers a busy Sunday singing meet at Newport with communities from Joy, Buffalo Springs, Shannon, Post Oak, Vashti, Bowie, Jacksboro and Springtown, plus truck stunts on Guardner Mountain and a rattler den dynamite event nearby.
AURELIA Ruby Fenoglio and Patsy of Houston arrive for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nobile travel to Bowie on business. Ernest Berezza of Dixie visits the community. Jim Giaketti and Mae Fenoglio host Sunday. Reed and Hail families plus others in the area. Quill hunting and a cotton election noted in Montague. Trades Day in Bowie draws residents. The Bowie News.
A collection of satirical quips by Bill Braucher covering taxes in Germany race tracks horse backward training English tea with royalty jokes about the Dies Committee and European affairs quips on appeasement and Christmas gifts reflecting a mid century newspaper voice
A Salona report lists classroom assignments from Beginners through Sixth Grade with named students. The Monday morning assembly featured songs prayers scripture recitations and stories delivered by teachers Mr Sills and Mr Patterson and students including Phil Harper Imogene Johnson Albert Sweat Leon Chokas Bonnie Jean Wilhite and Johnnie Sue Patterson among others.
Sealed proposals for 6.202 miles of grading and drainage on US 370 from 2.385 miles west of Bowie to the Clay County line in Montague County due December 21, 1988. Includes subletting rules and prevailing wage rates. plans available from K P Kearby Jr. in Bowie and the State Highway Department in Austin.
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