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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1945
Page
5
Director George Rucker reports the Bowie High School Band fund is $120.09 shy of the $500 goal this week. Recent donors include Patsy Ruth West five dollars Jane Foster five dollars Lyon Matthews Co. fifteen dollars Privitt ten dollars and others bringing total to $379.91.
A notice lists admitted patients from V L Luther Sunset Sam Harrison Saint Jo and Bowie including Mrs H W Johnson Mrs J R Finnie and others. Discharges include Helen Allen James Doughty Sam Harrison and multiple named patients with infants noted.
Tip H. Jimerson announces a new feed store at 19 West Tarrant named Tip H. Jimerson and Sons. The shop will stock Red Chain feeds plus whole and ground feedstuffs when available, with his son Billy Jimerson assisting. The venture operates alongside The Bowie Real Estate Exchange.
Fire destroyed the home of Mr and Mrs George Gossett in Bowie during the night. The couple escaped in night clothes about 1 am after awakening to flames. George Gossett suffered facial and hand burns while trying to save few belongings as the blaze started in a closet and origin was undetermined.
Rotarians hosted the Christmas party and banquet for the Rotary Anns at Morrow Grill. The program opened with America, included an invocation by W T Hamilton, and an address by Rev Fitzhugh Talbot on Optimistic Expectancy At Christmas Time. A quartet sang, with Mrs E P Harris, Paul Boedeker, Glynne Griffin and C S Henderson, led by pianist Mrs Will Young.
An unusual holiday program is promised at the Bowie Majestic and the Ritz theatres. Manager Frank Benson aims to present colorful varied acts and several Technicolor pictures. A double feature on Christmas Day and the Ritz to run full time with most films in Technicolor, plus comedy and news.
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