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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1944
Page
6
John V Lyles announces his bid for District Judge of the 97th Judicial District covering Archer Clay and Montague Counties. He stresses decades of courthouse service, commitment to lawful procedure, and impartial speedy trials, urging votes at the July 22, 1994 election.
Bonds are bought daily in small and large amounts. Gordon Cady of the First National Bank, secretary of the local Bond Drive committee, notes continued purchases. Although Bowie area goals passed the first week, officials urge all residents to contribute.
Jack Moss, a Bowie High School graduate who attended N. T. S. T. C. in Denton, writes from the South Pacific that letters are a welcome comfort while away. He entered the service in December 1942 and pens poems to his mother, Mrs. N. O. Moss, urging for correspondence.
Mrs. J. P. Embry of Saint Jo reports her brother T-5 Clarence Wade has been seriously wounded in action in Italy. Wade, described as No 1 Inductee of Montague County, entered service in 1940 and had been overseas only a few months.
Mrs. W. B. Henley of Montague reports son T Sgt W M Henley has earned the Air Medal for outstanding service with the Fifteenth Air Forces in Italy and has been awarded the Purple Heart after combat wounding. He is 25, in service three years, and married to the county draft board chief clerk. He has a Navy brother, Raymond Henley, and a brother in law, Glen Knox, a Dodge City test pilot and field engineer.
Pvt. James T. Ashton, husband of Bowie resident Nannie Lois Ashton, works at the Air Service Command depot in England transforming dehydrated provisions into tasty dishes. He creates new recipes that have earned his mess hall the base’s best reputation and his team sees soldiers asking for seconds. Before service, Ashton worked for Kaiser Shipyard in Long Beach, California. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Henderson and Evelyn Shaw of Bowie, with Mrs. W. L. Thomas of Wichita Falls, visited Llano last week to buy granite in two carloads.
Mrs. Emil Richier of Windthurst visits her mother Mrs. Love this week. Albert Love and August Page returned from harvest work. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan Love and family from Rocky Point and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Cloer of Newport visited Mrs. Love on Sunday. E. G. Fitzgerald, home from 15 months overseas in the service, was among those at home with all their children for the first time in seven years.
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