Front Page Tales Of Trust And Trash In A Small Town
Reading like a chaotic local column, the piece recounts Jake Taylor selling 80 acres to Willie Brooks and Raymond Clement amid a disputed deed and a $10 note. It also follows Carl Fitzgerald’s alleged purchases, a missing 35mm negative saga, and a city dump recovery led by Randy Kaisner finding important negatives in a pile of News trash.
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Jake Bridgewater
Willie Brooks
Raymond Clement
Brooks
Clement
Jake
Bowie
Randy Kaisner
Bowie News
Randy
All Stars To Meet Jokers In Fund Raising Game
Bowie All Stars meet Harlem Jokers Monday at 8 00 p m in Jackrabbit Gym as a fundraiser for Bowie Athletic Program. Jokers boast 604 wins 11 losses in five years and will provide comic play. Tickets $1 students $1 50 adults in advance or at door.
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Bowie All Stars
Harlem Jokers
Jackrabbit
Bowie Athletic Progam
Jokers
All Stars
Ben Hill
Bowie
Sherwood McKinley
Jerry Cantwell
John Carver
Bob White
David Rice
Hal Heeler
Paul Peyton
Leonard Mayo
Royce Baker
Ron Treston
Terry Bradfield
Charles Garrett
Bob Garrett
Bowie Welcomes First Baby of Year Jason Cole at Bowie Memorial
The first baby of the year arrived at Bowie Memorial Hospital at 10 48 p m on January 4 weighing 8 pounds 11 ounces. Born to Alta Marie McCarley of Bowie the newborn Jason Cole will go home Sunday to his sister Rachelle 10 and brother Burk 9. Jayson's grandmother Mrs Alta Medley also lives in Bowie.
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Bowie
Bowie Memorial Hospital
Jackrabbits
Alta Marie McCarley
Jason Cole
Rachelle
Burk
Jayson
Alta Medley
County Road To Receive Seal Coating In Montague County
The Texas Highway Department will seal coat several miles of farm to market roads including FM 455 in Montague County as part of a Wichita Falls district project. About 10 miles of FM 4585 near Forestburg will also be coated. Bids for the statewide plan are due by 9 00 a m January 23 1973 to the department in Austin.
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Montague County
Texas Highway Department
Wichita Falls
U.S. 287
U.S. 283
U.S. 183
U.S. 277
U.S. 281
Forestburg
John Maroney, Jr
Highway Department
Austin
Montague Highway
Stoneburg
Bowie
Sunset
Old Bowie Hospital
Prowler
Duncanville Varsity Girls Dominate Lady Rabbits in Two Wins
Duncanville swept both games against the Lady Rabbits, winning 48 to 34 in varsity action and 82 to 52 in the B Team contest. The varsity squad outscored the opponents and restricted pace in the opening period.
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Duncanville
Lady ‘Rabbits
Bops Girls Bow Out as Duncanville Fights Back
In a girls basketball game, Bowie leads at halftime but Duncanville overcomes the deficit in the third quarter and seizes the lead. Duncanville's sharp shooting seals the win as Bowie accumulates fouls in the later minutes.
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Bowie
Duncanville
New Year Quiet in Bowie Police Log
Bowie police report a quiet New Year week with few accidents and minor arrests. Investigations centered on prowlers missing persons runaway youths and civil disturbances with noted incidents December 31 1972 at Ragsdale Mobile Station and a late night civil disturbance inquiry.
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Bowie
Kenneth Stevens
Ragsdale
Eddy Bell
Rabbits Split Week's Games
The Jackrabbit varsity basketball team moved to 10–4 after losses to Nocona 55–47 and a 73–62 win over Whitesboro. In the Nocona game Bowie fouled 20 times as Nocona hit 21 of 28 free throws. Bowie fouled 12 times. The Rabbits led until the fourth quarter when Nocona pulled away.
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Jackrabbit
Nocona
Whitesboro
Bowie
Rabbits
Indians
Rainfall in Bowie Surpasses Last Year as January Totals Rise
Bowie records 1.41 inches of rain on the first of the month, edging above last year’s moisture. The January total sits near the long term average, with 1968 showing a peak 4.39 inches in Bowie during the past 16 years. W.E. McKinney of the Texas State Welfare Department to visit Bowie January 12 to discuss Food Stamp Program staffing, offering two welfare workers and a secretary positions with specified hours and salaries.
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Bowie
Oran Stovall
Et Oclen
W.E. McKinney
Texas State Welfare Department
Ringgold Girl Named to Dean’s Honor Roll at West Texas State
Donna Earp daughter of Mr and Mrs T S Grimsley of Ringgold Texas was named to the Dean’s A Honor Roll at West Texas State University Canyon Texas among about 7000 students in the top 40. She will enroll with H J Earp husband in Midwestern University next spring majoring in biological ecology with plans to work in pollution control in North Texas. She attended Gold Burg High School and Terral High School Terral Oklahoma class of 1968.
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Donna Earp
T.S. Grimsley
Ringgold
Texas
West Texas State University
Canyon
West Texas State
Made An Orphan At Twelve Missouri Pioneer Heath of Montague
This profile recalls Samuel F Heath born October 15 1843 in Marion County Missouri who became a long time Montague County Texas farmer near Queen’s Peak. An orphan at twelve he served in the Confederate army then wandered west via Oregon Idaho and Wyoming before settling in Grayson and finally Montague with a 433 acre farm and two marriages to Lizzie Kincaid and Coral Presswood. He aligned with Democratic politics and the Missionary Baptist church.
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Samuel F. Heath
Montague County
Queen's Peak
Empire State of Missouri
Marion County
Missouri
United States
Mr. Heath
Pacific Coast
Missouri River
Nebraska City
South Platte
Fremont’s
North Platte
Bitter Creek
Wyoming
Idaho
Boise
Columbia River
Dalles
Portland
Oregon
Payne and
Custer
Lewiston
Helena
Overland Freight Transportation Company
Fort Benton
Sioux City
Heath
Texas
Grayson County
Samuel
McLoud
Oklahoma
Alice Chrisman
Myrtle L
Homer W
John P
Andre May
Ann Rachel
Thomas Heath
Jack County
J.C
Washington State
Lizzie K
Coral B. Presswood
Joseph VanVader
Austin Presswood
VanVader
Nora Belle
Hermine G
Norman
Thelma B
Arvelle T
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Ron Taylor
Carl Fitzgerald
Richardson Furniture
Carl
Jason
Bops Girls
Stephens and
Bell
DWI
Joe Nance
DPS
Speeder
Cont
Ringgold Girl Among Leaders
Area
Gold Burg High School
Terral High School
Terral, Oklahoma
Missouri Lad
Samuel Heath
North and West Texas
O.F. Heath
Bowie Machine
Lone Star State
Col. Porter
Price
Newark
Kirksville
Palmyra
Lizzie
A.H. and
Andre (Barnett) Kincaid
Arvelle and
Joella Heath
Old Heath Homestead
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