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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1955
Page
11
A Belcherville item by Hilde F. E. Workman mentions Mrs. Chris Aselton Mrs. Cecil Maxey and Mrs. Donald in a June note. The fragment provides social notices and names dates or affiliations tied to local residents. The piece lacks full context but preserves names and a June timeframe.
An ad claims T-4-L provides powerful keratolytic action to remove outer skin and kill embedded fungi on contact. The product is described as greaseless and instant drying with a money back offer at Wilson Drug Stores today.
Grigsby Jo Boy and Linda Asel ton with Susan Grigsby spent Saturday in Wichita Falls. Earl Milam family of Nocona and Ringgold Milams dined at the Mac Swearingen home. A W Coleman and Johnny Coleman visited Possum Kingdom and with grandparents. Lloyd Winter family picnicked in Wichita Falls. Hewitt family hosted visitors from Wichita Falls and Corsicana. Mrs T C Hewitt visited daughter in Wichita Falls. Mrs W H Farmer gathered with all her brothers and sisters.
Miss Robbie Harlan bride elect of Sonny Ratliff was honored Thursday afternoon at a display wedding shower from 3 to 5 p m at the home of Mrs. Fred Hoeldtke. The event drew about fifty guests including out of town relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Baccus and Mrs. Joe Bacher hosted Pvt. Richard Bacher who graduated from Baylor University Friday night. He is to report to Camp Harford in Washington this week. Also visiting were Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bacher of Albuquerque. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Covey hosted their daughter and husband Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Fife of Albuquerque for the weekend.
Rev James Meadors and wife left for the Dallas conference. Vashti Home Demonstration club gathered seed for Korea friendship. Bellevue FHA installed officers in a candlelight ceremony. Mrs Lee Gill hosted a shower for Mrs Harlan Bridwell. Mrs N T Gaines undergoes surgery. County agent Mrs Bellar spoke to the Bellevue Home Demonstration. Vacation Bible School plans run from June 3 to 17 with a parade.
Fred Raborn Jr former Bowie Jaycees president traveled from San Angelo with his wife to attend the Bowie Junior Chamber of Commerce installation banquet at First Methodist Church. The Raborns’ children stayed with his parents while the couple visited over the weekend. Raborn now works for an insurance company in San Angelo.
Mr and Mrs O W Adkins recently visited their daughter and family Mr and Mrs M E Teakell in Wichita Falls during a short family trip.
Daughter of Dr and Mrs C J Dodsworth held a business education degree at North Texas College last Thursday night and will work at Yellowstone National Park this summer.
Mrs. Lynn Garlington presented the junior students of the Garlington School of Speech and Dance at the city auditorium. The program based on the ballet Coppellia featured Virginia Rae Henry as narrator and included numerous named participants, with Mrs. Garlington handling adaptation, staging, and costumes.
Daily and Sunday four months by mail priced at 4.75 dollars and daily four months by mail at 4.25 dollars as advertised by the Bowie News.
Mrs Hermon Gisiger from Brownsville visited Mr and Mrs Allan Howell. The Wades and boys of Sunset visited Mrs Bessie Greenwood and family. Buddy Lanier Calif and Willie Orrell visited Mrs Riley Lanier. Robert Jones Alvord visited Joe Hunt. Zoe Culver visited grandmother Zoey Culver. Fay Magee Lawton OK visited Mr and Mrs W Greenwood. Allan Howell visited relatives in Arlington for his birthday. Pauline Moore and children and Sim Freeman visited Virgo Greenwood. Sarah Dean Goree left for senior trip. Mrs Joe Hunt and children and others attended church at New Harp Sunday. D D Echols and children and Harvey Echols visited Mrs Buford Greenwood. Stanley Cox and Dickie Mallard visited Grady Greenwood and Debbie. Clara Armstrong and daughters from Dallas visited Billy Bob Greenwood.
Pfe. Paul E. Fitts, 22, of Newport Star route Newport, spent a week in Tokyo on leave from Korea where he serves as a radio repairman in the 7th Infantry Division Signal Company. J. C. Wright, son of Mr and Mrs Herbert A Wright of Bowie, serves aboard the cruiser USS Manchester as an interior communications electrician fireman apprentice, USN.
Mr and Mrs E L Covey are named members of the American Hereford Association the world’s largest purebred registry organization headquartered in Kansas City Missouri.
Set and Mrs James S Medley and Jimmy of Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana left today after visiting for the past week with her parents Mr and Mrs O C Fox.
Sunday morning services begin at 11 o clock with a 9 30 Sunday school for pupils up to twenty. Evening services are at 9. All are welcome to attend. Church building located at 30 West Tarrant. Notre
Mr. and Mrs. George Stom of Fort Worth visited over the weekend at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Fox, and his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Stom Sr.
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