Four new tests staked and five wells completed this week
E P Gallagher Wichita Falls staked the No 1 Lessie Roberts 3 miles northeast of Salona for a 7100 ft wildcat test. Dwight M Ross Drilling Co staked the No 1 Bonnie C Rich 3 miles NW of Belcherville for a 6000 ft rotary test. Standard Oil of Texas staked the No 2 Susie Wilson near Saint Jo for a 6800 ft rotary test. Completion reports include several dry holes and productive wells with specifics on depths, outputs, and leases in Montague and Saint Jo areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. P. Gallagher
Wichita Falls
Lessie Roberts
Salona
Fn&els
A. O. Dudley
Dwight M. Ross Drilling Co. Et al
Bonnie C. Rich
Belcherville
Fn&wls
S. Rogers Survey
East Ringgold
Standard Oil Co. of
Texas
Houston
Susie Wilson Et al
Saint Jo
West St. Jo
W. Wood
G. E. Perry Et al
St. Jo Field
J. W. Kelley
Star Oil Co
C. F. Phillips
Wildcat
St. Jo
H. Cox
Judge Roy Bean Court Aids Bowie Christmas Drive
The Bowie Lions Club will stage a Judge Roy Bean court on Saturday on the main street in front of Slaughter Drug to raise funds for the Lions Christmas program. Volunteers and committees coordinate toy and food baskets with donations accepted at the fire station and from Lions members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Bean
Bowie
Lions Club
Bowie Lions Club
Roy Baan
Slaughter Drug Store
Lions
Sunset to Forestbury Road paving completed extension opens soon
L S Partridge of the State Highway Department says the farm to market road from Sunset toward Forestburg is paved for about six and a half miles. The Bowie to Carter Lake extension awaits Rock Island railroad crossing planking before opening, extending about five and a half miles beyond Rock Hill road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. S. Partridge
State Highway Department
Sunset
Forestburg
Bowie
Carter Lake
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Hill
Goodwin's Store Wins First Prize for Christmas Window
Mrs Earl Goodwin keeps a file of holiday show window photos and a multi year award record. Her Bowie store recently earned first prize for its Christmas window and has been featured in Junior Age in London and Infants and Children's Review in Philadelphia along with other outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Goodwin
Bowie
Goodwin
Junior Age
London
England
Infants and Children’s Review
Philadelphia
Lions collect nails and solicit firms by streets
Paul Echols, W. C. Koonce, Stanley Elkins are listed with a team of Lions to work from 3 p.m. to closing. Volunteers include Joe Hamner, D. L. Kirby, J. B. Zetzsche, Harve Ratliff, Emin Heard, Tom Lindsey and others to canvass business firms along designated streets. D. W. Maness, Norman Branson, Monte Long, Bruce Sadler, and several others are named for street work and hours from morning to evening with J. P. Bradley and Lum Lovett as alternates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Hamner
Thomas Evans
J. W. Clark
A. E. Roberts
Stanley Elkins
Emin Heard
C. O. Stom, Jr
J. B. Zetzsche
Fred Hoeldtke
Monty Long
D. L. Kirby
Harve Ratliff
Tom Lindsey
D. W. Maness
Norman Branson
Monte Long
Bruce Sadler
C. E. Hill
Robert Lanier
Howard Rainey
Bowie High Student Named Most Progressive Farm Boy
James B. Zetzsche of Bowie senior high school earned the title Most Progressive Farm Boy at the Montague county awards meeting. He served as parliamentarian with Green Hands, won multiple first and second place honors in FFA and 4-H events, led projects in wood work and welding, and held roles in National Honor Society and camera club while active in church youth groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie H
Bowie
Montague
James
Bowie High School
James B. Zetzsche
Green Hands
Angus
Lincoln Ave
Lone Star Farmer
Zetzsche
Science Club
First Methodist Church
MYF
Arrowhead Chronicle Personal News across Christmas Home Visits
Jackie and Stanley Arrington of North Texas State Teachers college will spend Christmas vacation with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Jack Arrington. Mr and Mrs Cecil Keck and daughters of Nocona visited Friday at the home of his brother Mr. and Mrs. Jack Keck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackie
Stanley Arrington
North Texas State Teachers College
Mrs
Jack Arrington
Cecil Keck
Nocona
Jack Keck
Former Bowie Resident J R Overstreet Dies
J R Overstreet 80 former Bowie area resident died December 11 in a Fort Worth hospital. Funeral services were held last Thursday at Harveson Cole chapel with burial at Greenwood cemetery. He was an early Fort Worth auto dealer and Magnolia Petroleum wholesale distributor, later retiring. Survivors include his wife daughter Mrs William Spice of San Antonio and two grandchildren. His two sons Ellis and Robin Overstreet died serving in the Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Overstreet
Salona
Fort Worth
Harveson & Cole
Greenwood Cemetery
H. Overstreet
Bowie
J. H. Overstreet
S. H. Overstreet
Overstreet
Overstreet-Loveless Company
Abilene
Ford
Magnolia
Fire Damps Out at Al Cure Residence on Tarrant Street
Bowie fire units responded Saturday to a blaze at Al Cure’s home on Tarrant street. The fire was extinguished on arrival. Gene Bennett and family plan Christmas in Grand Prairie with Mrs. Brooks and James Brooks. Col Eddie Stone and family visited, moving to Charleston to reside after Col Stone’s posting at the service base. They previously lived in St John Newfoundland for three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie
al Cure
Tarrant Street
Gene Bennett
Grand Prairie
Mrs. Brooks
James Brooks
Col
Eddie Stone
Nocona
W. M. Hagler
Charleston
South Carolina
Col. Stone
St. John
Newfoundland
Record Turkey Buying Season At Bowie
Bowie has become a major shipping center for turkeys in North Texas with more live birds sent out than in prior years. E L Kersey states Bowie Poultry & Egg Co reports over 750000 pounds of turkeys purchased locally to date. Thanksgiving and Christmas purchases were high with birds from several counties and parts of southern Oklahoma. Feed price pressures reduced growers profits this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie
Texas
E. L
Mitt) Kersey
Bowie Poultry & Egg Company
Oklahoma
Jack Miller Honored as Outstanding Psychology Student
Jack Donald Miller of Bowie named outstanding psychology student in Who's Who at North Texas section of the Yucca yearbook at North Texas State College in Denton. He is a senior, son of Mr and Mrs Samuel I Miller of Ambler Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Miller
NTS College
Jack Donald Miller
Bowie
North Texas
North Texas State College
Denton
Jack
Samuel I. Miller
Ambler, Pa
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Felderhoff Drilling Co
E. I Lemons
Scona
Mary Burnsides
Hildreth
Marshall Pipe and Supply Co
W. S. Davis, Jr
W. A. Morris Survey
Montague County
L. W. Powell
Mep&p Survey
Continental Oil Co
J. W. Rowland Abc
J. Chambliss Sur
Yuletide
W. R
Ray
Harlow Tank Trucks
General Electric
Debase Automatil Cogpee Unker
Portebee Steam Shon
Heard
Brectaic
Bowle
Fred Bloom
Paul Taliaferro
Jack Tage
Slaughter Drug
Mark High
Bill Brewer
A. Hill
Bill Fox
W. A. Brinkley
Service Pipeline Co
Jack Bradley
Ogden Clarke
Robi. Lanier
N. B. Branson
Barry Eastin
Roy Slaughter
J. J. Walker
Paul Tiliaferro
Ray Ross
Joe Spears
R. H. Gray
D. M. Shelton
Ike Parks
J. P. Bradley
R. E. Mattingly
Page Howard
George Selsor
Gayle Bradley
Forestbury Road
Goodwin's
Paul Echols
W. C. Koonce
Mike Co
D. Allen
Lum Lovett
Cosco
Coscoat
Gary - Nees Lumber Co
Merry Christmas
Farmer's Eat Shop
Hilerry Onistons
Bowie Butane Gas CO
G. W
Jake” Dorsey
Billy K. Broom
Burl Yarbor
Billy May
Mozelle Henry
Bill Henson
Roy Guston
Sebe L. Williams
C. A. Newby
West Wise
Glorious Yuletide
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