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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
7
Registrar Truett Grant announced Baylor University's winter enrollment topped 4 550 at the close of December 10 marking the largest winter student body in the university's history.
A readable ad listing multiple tracts of land with acreage from 2 to 272 near Bowie and toward Fort Worth. Highlights include 149 acres with modern 6 room home and minerals, 16 acres on town edge with 4 room house and 6 chicken houses, 272 acres with 4 room house, 180 acres with 5 room house, and 193 acres with outbuildings and half minerals. Prices range from 4 500 dollars to 6 500 dollars, with notes on water, fencing, barns, wells, and mineral rights. An additional 2 acre corner lot with 5 room house and mineral rights for 3 500 dollars complete the listings.
Dr. E W Wright long associated with Fort Worth University and Baylor Medical College died after a storied career as physician and surgeon. He founded Bowie Hospital twenty seven years ago and supported the poor with hospital care. Survived by wife and brother Lester Wright, he was remembered for public service, church work, and community involvement with the Masonic Lodge and Shriner circles.
Lots of strong two year No 1 roses and other healthy nursery stock on display at Fruit Land Nursery located 342 miles southeast on Fort Worth Highway.
Bowie obituary for Frank J Moore 75 who died Wednesday afternoon at a Wichita Falls hospital. Last rites at Church of Christ Friday 2 pm with Ross-Dye minister. burial in Selma cemetery by Burgess Funeral Home. Survived by widow three sons Henry Dee Herman all of Bowie two sisters Maud Williams of Bowie and Mrs Claude DeArmour of Cody Wyoming. Longtime Church of Christ member since 1915 and a former prominent Bowie building contractor.
Mrs. J. T. Jones 93, a Bowie pioneer and Baptist Church member, died Thursday at daughter Mrs. Mose Johnson’s home after a fall. Survived by two daughters Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Eula Foster and three sons E T Jones Will Jones and Tom Jones. Burgess Funeral Home handling arrangements.
The News publishes the city ordinance fixing salaries for City Councilmen at 18 dollars monthly and the Mayor at 25 dollars monthly along with other elected officials. The publication precedes the April 1 election, with no candidate announcements yet noted.
Public acknowledgment expresses gratitude for sympathy flowers and church offerings during the bereavement of Mrs. Harry Karlsberg and the families of Levy and Mivelaz. It notes neighborly services at home and heartfelt thanks to those who attended or assisted.
Fort Worth socialite Miss Etna Bell spent the week visiting friends in Bowie and paying a call on her mother Mrs. Eva Grayson in Sunset.
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