Bowie News year end message and Christmas note
The Bowie News thanks readers for a year of support and announces no paper next Monday December 27 1971 with the Thursday edition due on schedule. Editor invites Santa letters from local residents naming a list of requested gifts for diverse community members and organizations.
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The
Bowie News
Santa Claus
Louis T. Holland
Paul Swint
Bobby Reader
Blake Freeman
Forestburg
Jack Winn
Bowie
Roy Hartsell
Bowie School
T. O. Morgan
Bobby Wood
Stan Airington
Nat Blake
Jim Winter
Willie Brooks
Raymond Clement
Helen Jefferies
South Ward
Goodyear
Santa
Wayne Nesmith
Don Hendrickson
Chamber OF Commerce
Alvin Roberts
Bowie Rabbits Edge Weatherford In Home Return Thriller
Bowie hosts Weatherford at Jackrabbit Gym for a 6:00 p.m. tip after a 53-52 three overtime win earlier this season. Freshman games start at 4:00 p.m. against Rider Wichita Falls with a Burkburnett trip looming Tuesday before a holiday break. The team suffers tight losses by small margins, including a 56-59 setback to Archer City last Tuesday.
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Rabbits
Bowie
Weatherford
Rider
Wichita Falls
Burkburnett
Bowie Jackrabbits
Gayne Shelton
Archer City
First National Enjoys Banquet and Longtime Service Pins
The First National Bank held its annual Christmas Party at the Top-of-the Lake Country Club with Tex-Sonics Quartet providing entertainment. President Charles Coffield presented service pins for five, ten, fifteen, twenty, and twenty-five years of service to numerous employees and officers. In basketball notes Archer City defeated Bowie in a tight game 54 percent shooting by Archer City and Bowie’s 38 percent. Gibbs led Bowie with 24 points in the Bowie loss to Notre Dame at the Midwestern Tournament in Wichita Falls.
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First National Bank
Charles Coffield
Sarah Barber
Glenda Bratcher
Jas Cantwell
Treva Fitts
H. B. Hamilton
E. A. Hill
Georgia McEuen
Dan Miller
Evelyn Parker
Margaret Raborn
Joe Spray
Flynn Stewart
Reba Webb
Dorothy Wit
Bowie
Archer City
Nets
Rabbits
Steve Gibbs
Lee Harrington
Gibbs
Bob Brashear
Jimmy Hachtel
Notre Dame
Wichita Falls
Brashear
Open House Set At High School
Bowie High School invites parents and friends to an open house at the Senior High School Building on Tuesday December 21 1971 from 7 to 8 pm. Classes and organizations have decorated classroom doors for the Christmas season and the public is invited to view them.
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Bowie High School
Bowie Students Head Into Christmas Break Next Week
Bowie students will end classes this Wednesday December 22 and resume after the holidays on Monday January 3. A Bowie School System spokesman confirmed all classes break for Christmas and return to normal scheduling in the new year.
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Bowie
Public Hearing Planned on U S Highway 81 287 Improvement
The Texas Highway Department schedules a public hearing at 10 00 a m Tuesday January 11 1972 in Alvord High School Auditorium to discuss widening U S Highway 81 287 from the Montague County line to near Alvord including four lane with frontage roads and right of way needs Maps and design drawings will be available at the Decatur Resident Engineer's Office The Relocation Assistance Program and acquisition timing will also be covered
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Texas Highway Department
Montague County
Alvord
Decatur
Santa Letters Deadline Soon
The Bowie News reminds area children to have letters to Santa Claus at the News office by noon tomorrow. Each letter received will be published in Thursday’s Bowie News and then forwarded to Santa at the North Pole.
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Bowie News
Santa Claus
North Pole
South Ward Program Tonight Presents Merry Christmas Mister Snowman
South Ward students present Merry Christmas Mister Snowman tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Jr. High Auditorium. The event invites families to attend the school performance and celebrate the holiday season.
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South Ward
Mister Snowman
Jr. High
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Ron Taylor
Ronald Rhoades
Tim Pigg
Junior Barnes
Danny Reaves
Jerry Miller
Phillip Thomas
Bobby Bra
First National
Ed Candy
Bowie Thursday Club
Grace Pickens
Lawrence Foster
Grace Morgan
Ellis Butler
Joe Spears
C. Overfelt
Cecil Allen
A, B. Cole
Junior Haney
Stanley Elkins
Oran Stovall
Gene Knox
J. B. Lewis
H. A. McCarty
Joe Bellar
Serena Dodd
C. C. Culp
Scott Avery
William É. Hawkins
J. Gregory
George Curlee
M. B. Powell
Roy D. Sanders, Sr
G. H. Golden
Joe Nance
Lady Rabbits
Archerettes
Jackrabbit Gymnasium
Janet Terrell
Janet
Beverly Andreasen
Barbara Proctor
Tina Roberts
May Morton
Archer
Jackie Pierce
Lassies
Shelley Adkins
Bowie Bees
Connie Geer
Beverly Beggs
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