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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1949
Page
1
July brings Lions Club picnic on July 4 and a major cleanup on July 6 in Bowie. Spraying campaigns target filth and insects on July 7 and July 21 with another spraying planned. Grape Festival is set for July 25 and 26. A honey gift from Henry Garrett is noted. A child questions why parents wed before she could attend.
S. J. Andreasen and W. E. Carpenter announce a new department at Bowie Machine Works 128 Smythe street for repair of motors and electric appliances. They offer rewinding and rebuilding of electric motors with four turning lathes, drill presses, welding and grinding equipment. They provide parts repair for farm tools, equipment, automobiles, and tractors.
Fire Department answered Wednesday at about 6 45 am when a trash box near the Highway Cafe ignited the blaze. Firemen extinguished quickly and smoke caused most damage while stock and shelves suffered little. Maborn Wail injured in a recent oil field accident is at Bowie Hospital with ribs bruises and neck back pain but his condition is no longer critical.
Bowie city faces compulsory action to enforce sanitation rules as polio cases rise. Health Officer warns noncompliance may trigger condemnation orders and prosecutions while sewer and water improvements proceed. Chamber leaders push cleanup, with officers visiting Wichita Falls for guidance on city-wide anti polio measures.
The State Highway Department plans to let the Newport road paving contract on July 20 at 6 a.m. for grading drainage structures flexible base and double asphalt surface. J E King of Bowie is the engineer. the project covers about x miles between Bowie and Newport and completes 25 miles of State Highway 59 to Jacksboro Chico highway. Work is expected to take 150 days with completion aimed for late fall and a bus line will connect Jacksboro Mineral Wells and Graham once paving ends.
Ten duchesses nominated to contest for queen of the Grape Festival with plans for July 25 include Betty Lou Blackmon Patsy Rolls Patsy Tomlinson Carol Rixe Peggy Cain Betty Jo Fuller Marilyn Gremminger Pat Bradley Winnie Hoover and June Gill. Towns未 yet announced their duchesses Alvord Decatur Chico Terral Jacksboro Henrietta Forestburg Bridgeport Waurika Sunset. A. A. Randolph will speak on fruits. JoAlan Spears will run coronation with a featured singer. Field Day tours of orchards and vineyards include a dinner sold by Montague County Home Demonstration Clubs. Louise Mason will discuss canning. Murry Cox may broadcast the coronation.
Dr. Thomas L. Harris of Los Angeles visited this week with his parents Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Harris and his brother Dr. E P. Harris and family.
Bowie News offers new or renewal subscriptions at a special low rate for a few days only effective now. The ad urges readers to act quickly to secure the reduced price before the offer ends.
The Bowie News offers a 50¢ savings for readers in the local Montague, Clay, Wise and Jack counties zone with the regular $4 yearly price to others. This annual proposition continues except during war caused newsprint shortages. Subscribe now to keep up with Bowie area news and oil development, local politics, and neighbors’ activities.
Edwards Motor Company owned by Frank Edwards, Bowie’s longtime Chevrolet dealer, announces the opening of a new body and paint department. The annex measures 50 by 50 feet in a modern concrete and steel building with ample light, under the supervision of M. E. McWhirter, a noted body and paint man.
Pelham Park hosts a large Fourth of July celebration organized by the Lions Club with a parade at 10 a.m. led by Bowie High School’s George Rucker, a morning band concert at 11:30, activities from 10:30 a.m., and a free fireworks display to cap the day.
In Montague county last Saturday voters defeated the $925000 Head Bonds Proposal II aimed at all weather roads on school bus and mail routes. The county total was 464 for and 767 against with precinct splits showing mixed support. The plan earmarked $800000 for gravel rural road surfacing and drainage, $100000 for fencing and right of way for future farm to market roads, and $25000 for three fire trucks. The election followed a petition to the Commissioners Court.
Williams urges all scholastic transfer applications be filed with the County Superintendent at the earliest date. The State Auditor requires preliminary state fund applications for each school by July 20 in Austin. Blank forms available at the County Superintendent or from Bowie Nocona Saint Jo Forestburg Ringgold Prairie Valley Stoneburg superintendents.
Businesses in Bowie close for the holiday as usual. The Post Office will open General Delivery and Stamp windows 8 to 9 a.m. Only one early morning city delivery will be made. there will be no rural delivery.
Clarence Newsom, manager of the C. H. Parker Super Market and Bowie School Board president, was installed as Bowie Rotary Club president during a Pelham Park Ladies Night meeting. Ariel Randolph, retiring president, chaired the event with a barbecue meal for Rotarians and guests. Jess Woods of the Nocona club spoke with Lee Vaughan, the newly elected Nocona president, in attendance.
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