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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1956
Page
3
Third and fourth graders write Santa requesting toys and clothing. Kids mention guns bicycles dolls clocks coats a Christmas play on December 20 and invite Santa to attend. Parents list gifts while family names appear in the letters.
A gas odor prompted evacuation of many high school classrooms last Thursday as officials from Lone Star Gas Company and the fire department investigated. J W Inman and crew found the odor stemmed from a spilled odorant from a nearby truck, mixed with natural gas leaking from lines.
Abb Miller 65 a longtime Bellevue resident died in a Wichita Falls hospital early this morning Funeral arrangements are with Owens Brumley Funeral Home Bowie pending completion
A Wednesday incident at Russell's Department Store involved water leakage from a roof and a later small fire that damaged the storefront sign. No stock was harmed, and the building was among several in town affected by recent heavy rain and leaks.
About two hundred people attended the Montague County Hereford Association sale at Bowie fairgrounds. Forty bulls and females sold with 39 bulls bringing $7132.50 and 4 females $720.00, top prices $305 for a champion bull and $320 for the top selling champion female.
Mr and Mrs D T Wilson of Bowie were honored on their 47th wedding anniversary at the Fort Worth home of Mr and Mrs George Wright. The event, hosted by the Wilson children and grandchildren, featured Christmas decorations and a turkey dinner along with a dual control electric blanket as a gift.
City officials warn that no firecrackers or other fireworks may be fired inside Bowie city limits. An ordinance establishes a fine for violations.
Readable names from Bellevue Denton Montague counties list successful bidders in a county sale. C Miller Clifford Evans G FE Middleton from Bellevue and Ben Harvey Ben C Peterson Robert Bentley Doyle Selby from Denton County. Also W B Mansfield Calvin Greenwood W L North cutt Pete Cook R L Huegatter E L Covey Sarah Covey and R O Newman from Montague County.
Mr and Mrs J B Lyons of Fort Worth visited Sunday with his sister and brother in law the Hickeys and with his parents the Lyons of Stoneburg who joined them home to Fort Worth for medical care. The Garretts host Christmas Day guests from Bridgeport Denver City Duncan Dallas and Bowie families. Jackson and family plan a sixteen grandchild gathering at their Hutchison Street home. Nearby relatives from Bowie and Dallas visit George Hoeldtke Pam Shafer and Billy Jack Hoeldtke over the weekend.
The county court case City of Bowie versus Bettis Coffield and Fred Ford was postponed from earlier this week to December 27.
Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Pearce expect their six sons and daughters to join them for Christmas. They will stop in Denton to pick up son Harold on the way to Little Rock Arkansas where relatives Mr. and Mrs. K. O. Sites and family will host the family gathering.
Ensign Jake Gary, stationed with the U S Navy in Newport Rhode Island, is home on leave with his parents Mr and Mrs N B Gary. He will stay until about January 1 before reporting to Long Beach California for duty aboard the destroyer USS Cushing.
The Church of The Nazarene presents a Christmas pantomime The Three Kings Friday at 7 30 PM. The event features a staged portrayal of the biblical Magi and is open to the community.
Mrs Mae Fletcher will spend the holidays in Irving with her son and daughter in law the Starnes family. Additional relatives include C R Starnes stationed at Fort Knox Ky in the armed forces and Bowie E Starnes Er nie Halland and families from Fort Worth. The Fletcher children have hosted family gatherings since 1942.
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