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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1949
Page
11
Roy Curry of Commerce spent the weekend here with his wife and daughter DiAnne, enjoying the visit and time together in the local community.
J. G. Pickett of Kentucky is spending the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs G H Pickett. He is a member of the paratroops. Counterfeit twenty dollar bills are again reported in circulation. We don't have to worry though until the ones and fives begin circulating.
The Bowie Garden Club met in Mrs. M. Johnson’s home on December 19 to discuss Christmas in the Home. Mrs. M. W. Galladay spoke on Christmas Trees for the Birds, with a round-table on indoor and outdoor decorations and What to Do in December.
A local ad promotes late used records at 20c each or 3 for 50c at Moyer Dutton's. The piece also cautions hunters that a loaded or unloaded gun is dangerous and the unloaded gun often causes more fatalities.
The Bowie Company A 49th Renamed Battalion welcomes new members Glen P. Bush Jackson T. Thompson Billy F. Neeld Eugene Wall and Cecil W. Adkins all Bowie locals. Aged 17 to 35 encouraged to join as training runs for three months and a new school catalog covers radio clerical mechanics cooking and more with paid expenses and rank-based pay.
The family expresses gratitude for sympathy during the illness and death of their wife and sister. They specifically thank the Bowie Fire Department and the Post Office forces for their kindness and services, naming Wesley Hickman and several relatives and friends.
Readable text notes park access on Wednesday nights 8 to 10 and daytime hours 8 to 4 all days except Saturday and Sunday at Pelham Park.
Miss Bettye Spears arrived home Saturday from Chillicothe Missouri to spend the holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Joe Spears and sister Kay Spears.
Reader expresses view that instead of jailing a man arrested in an eastern city for giving money away, he should have been placed on a government bureau.
Joe Earle Vaughan of Arlington State College spent the weekend here as a guest of Mr and Mrs Joe Vaughan.
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