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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1948
Page
5
An advertisement touts a 4-room house with a 150 by 250 foot lot and utilities including electricity natural gas city water and pavement. It promises immediate possession and urges buyers to compare, also offering another 4-room house with land windmill and barn on 16 acres at 2.9 percent soft water and nearby mineral field.
Miss Latrice Tucker daughter of Mr and Mrs Loyd Tucker and O L Slaughter Jr son of Mr and Mrs O L Slaughter Sr were united in marriage Monday December 20 at 7 pm in First Baptist Church College Station. W T Hamilton Frederick Okla read the double ring ceremony. The church glowed with white gladioli and candelabra. The bride wore a brown suit with brown and white accessories and carried a white Bible with a white orchid corsage. She kept old new borrowed and blue with a pearl broach from her mother and a necklace from Mrs B F Tinsley. June White was maid of honor in pale green with brown accessories and a white carnation corsage. Best man was Albert Frey. Sam Fox and Jack Sands were ushers. Mary Latham played organ and sang Because with Mrs Elizabeth Latham. The brides mother wore a black suit and the groom's mother a grey ensemble. A large number of friends attended. After a wedding trip they will live in College Station where the groom studies engineering at A and M College. The bride's mother hosted a luncheon at Wise Street for the wedding party following.
Miss Iris Hamilton daughter of Mr and Mrs A S Hamilton of Bowie married E H Rhyne son of Mrs Maude Rhyne of Bowie in a simple Henrietta ceremony. They honeymoon in Old Mexico. The bride worked for Greyhound in Austin. The groom works for Morris Jackson Company. Both are Bowie High School graduates. Bill Arrowood in Bowie visiting before soon headed for Alaska.
Sunset School ended for the holidays on Tuesday December 21. Mrs. A Rollins is on the sick list. Mrs. Joe Elrod of Wyoming visits relatives in Sunset. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meyers and son Eddie return to North Dakota after visiting Meyers relatives.
John A. Young Will S. Young and Miss Nell Longley spent Sunday the 12th visiting Mrs. John Young’s brother H F Prater in Healdton Oklahoma. Prater recently returned from Baylor Hospital Dallas where he underwent a major operation about three weeks ago.
Miss Wanda Ratliff of Denton is visiting the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs Harve Ratliff this week.
The notice catalogs numerous patients admitted to area hospitals, naming residents from Bowie, Nocona, Bellevue, Montague, Terral, Sunset, Vashti and surrounding towns. It lists patient names paired with guardians or family ties, reflecting a broad cross-section of the community's hospital intake.
Fruitland Nursery owners B S Henry advertise healthy well acclimated stock on Fort Worth Highway three miles southeast of Bowie. Ornamentals evergreens shade trees and flowering shrubs available with large display stock in the sales yard. See what you buy and buy what you see. A home is not a home until it is planted.
Mrs Will S Young attends the funeral of Mrs Merle Wag goner's mother Mrs Jeff Wag goner at Floral Heights Methodist Church Wichita Falls Sunday at 2 30 PM. Mr and Mrs Warren Tracy and children Warren Jr and Margarete of Long Beach Calif were guests in the home of Mr and Mrs JoAlan Spears this week. Mr and Mrs Jack Slayden and children visited his sister and family Mr and Mrs Bryan Sparks in Cooper Tex Sunday. Texan Theater Sunday Monday Tuesday dont miss A Date With Judy in Technicolor.
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