Poppies Bring in Funds at Buddy Poppy Day Sale
The VFW and Ladies Auxiliary held Buddy Poppy Day last Saturday attracting about 2300 purchasers. Contributions reached 280 dollars to support veterans relief. Camp Fire Girls and Blue Birds sold poppies with prizes for top sellers. Ronda June Braun led with 39.33 dollars. Stanley Roland placed second. many others won prizes for high sales.
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VFW
Ladies Auxiliary
Camp Fire
Blue Birds
Ronda June Braun
Stanley Roland
Sandra Terry
Marilyn Carpenter
Sylvia Hamilton
Nora Leu Gilmore
Janey Young
Peggy Underwood
Robbie Janders
Ann Orton
Teddie Marie Clark
Susan Duvall
Bill Ann Grigsby
Mary Tarver
Linda Fryar
Karen Taylor
Robbie Faulkner
Phyllis Gray
Linda Karsteter
Margaret Robinson
Firemen Stage Colorful Bowie Rodeo Parade and Contest
Bowie rodeo opens with a salty stock parade led by a new riding club. Attendance dips slightly as May event shifts from August, with prize money totaling 2067.48 and Don Mc Laughlin winning calf roping in 11 seconds for 319.40.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowie
Dick Allen
Allen-Miller Texaco
Mel Anders
Ray Miller
Phillip Finn
Bob McDonald
Don McLaughlin
Smithville
Texas
Dee Burk
Comanche
Okla
Willis Jernigan To Take Charge Of Church of Christ
The Bowie Church of Christ elders announce evangelist Willis G. Jernigan will begin work with the Commerce Texas congregation on Sunday morning June 6 1954. Jernigan, a Tennessee native educated at Treze Dale Training School Nashville Bible School and Middle Tennessee State College, has served three congregations Mineola Spur and Commerce over twenty years and led gospel meetings across Alabama Arkansas Colorado Florida Georgia Kentucky Missouri Tennessee and Texas.
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Bowie Church of Christ
Willis G. Jernigan
Commerce
Texas
Mr. Jernigan
Tennessee
Trousdale Training School
Nashville Bible School
David Lipscomb College
Nashville
Middle Tennessee State College
Mineola
Spur
Commerce Church
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Missouri
Jernigan
Recital Tonight by Mrs Benton Piano Students at First Baptist
Mrs. Carl Benton of Nocona will present her music students in a spring recital tonight at eight o'clock in the First Baptist church. Charles Goodyear launched the rubber overshoe era as a pioneer in vulcanized rubber production.
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Carl Benton
Nocona
First Baptist Church
Oil production rises as ten rigs active in Montague County
North Texas Wichita District reports weekly oil output up 777 barrels with Montague County second at 25 635 barrels up 135. New wildcats and field locations include Hunter Brothers No 1 Bonnie C Rich at 6300 ft east of Ringgold, Lloyd H Smith No 1 Nellie Wiley at 6000 ft east of Ringgold, and multiple tests at No 1 J R Trout et al in Miller Cong field and other fields. Operators testing this week amid several dry or abandoned wells.
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North Texas
Wichita
Montague County
Hunter Brothers
Wichita Falls
Bonnie C. Rich
Ringgold
Lloyd H. Smith
Houston
Nellie Wiley
J. H. Bostick
A-66
Johnny Clingingsmith
Dallas
Gordon Howard
Nocona
John Chamblis
A. B. Harmonson
Keller
Texas
McGaughey Heirs
Noecona
C. Chacon Sur
J. R. Trout
Miller Cong
Stoneburg
W. T. Minor
Montague
Donald and
Donald
Bowie
Marble Falls
H. J. Deavers
Alvord
Jesse W. Wright
A. L. Hill
J. Cummings
Roundabout Items by L B I highlights and hi jinks
A casual column recounts dance recital quirks with children and parents in the audience, Lions Club talk, Meyer Park picnic demand, a humorous note on plastic surgery noses, a reporter’s Oklahoma trip honoring her son's degree, a brag about a senior’s success, a plane call from New York, and Jaycees planning a pie supper for the community.
Hobo Evangelist to Speak at Bowie Bible Baptist
A. Hobo Evangelist and his wife will lead two Sunday services at Bowie Bible Baptist Church. The Wild Horse Shorty Hamby duo will perform music at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. They are described as missionaries at an Arizona Indian reservation and formerly linked to rodeos and show business.
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A. Hobo Evangelist
Bowie Bible Baptist Church
Lions Club to Work on New Tennis Court Back Stop
The Lions Club met in regular session with President Emin Heard presiding. They plan to meet Thursday evening at Meyer Park to work on the back stop for the new tennis court.
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Lions Club
Emin Heard
Meyer Park
Jernigan Family to Move into Church Preacher Home
Mrs Jernigan who has a Masters in elementary education and teaches in Texas public schools will move with her husband and their 17 year old son and married daughter to the Church of Christ preacher's home at 801 Central Avenue around June 5.
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Oklahoma
Central State College
Edmond
Ninteen
Airforce
Bartlesville
Okla
Jernigan
Public Schools of
Texas
Jernigans
Church of Christ Preacher’s
Central Avenue
Presbyterians Plan Big Reunion For 70th Anniversary Homecoming
Bowie First Presbyterian Church plans a 70th anniversary homecoming on June 13. Dr. Arthur V. Boand of Highland Park Presbyterian Church Dallas will deliver the sermon at 11am. A barbecue dinner follows at Meyer Park. The Rev. B. B. Breitenhirt former Bowie pastor will speak in the afternoon. Invitations sent to former members.
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Bowie First Presbyterian Church
Arthur V. Boand
Highland Park Presbyterian Church
Dallas
Meyer Park
B. B. Breitenhirt
Fayetteville
N. C
Bowie Church
Motorist killed West of Ringgold
A car wreck on Highway 82 four miles west of Ringgold killed 21 year old Mrs. C W Scott of Roswell New Mexico. Her husband A1C Scott and their five month old daughter were not seriously hurt. The Scott car struck a Jeep in a passing maneuver. Mrs. Scott died at Nocona after emergency transport.
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Highway 82
Ringgold
C. W. Scott
Roswell
New Mexico
Scott
Little Rock
Arkansas
Paris
Texas
C. L. Will
Baby of
Mrs. Scott
Nocona
Jimmie Merriman
Mr. Scott
Methodist Conference Attendees Visit Dallas
Rev. Warren McSwain and Hershel Stephens attend the Methodist annual conference in Dallas. Stephens serves Bowie Methodist Church as official delegate. McSwain plans to return Saturday and will fill his pulpit Sunday as usual.
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Warren McSwain
Hershel Stephens
Dallas
Mr. Stephens
Bowie
Opens TV and Radio Service Shop Here
Elmer Covey announces the opening of a TV and Radio service at 314 East Nelson Street in Bowie. He returned on March 20 after two years with the Marines and has built a building for the new shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Covey
East Nelson Street
Elmer
E. L. Covey
Bowie
Marines
Shopo
Mattingly to Coach South All Star Team in Murray Ky
Raymond E. Mattingly leaves Sunday by plane to Paducah Ky and drives to Murray Ky to co coach the South all star basketball team in the North South game on June 12. He will be joined by Jim mie Bond of Pampa and Temple Tucker who leaves the senior trip group in Chicago to meet him in Murray.
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Raymond E. Mattingly
Paducah
Murray
Jimmie Bond
Pampa
Temple Tucker
Temple
Chicago
Tractor Incident Injures Leonard Neal On Highway Right Of Way
Leonard Neal, employed by Beetle Cantwell under a State Highway Department weed mowing contract, was pinned under a climbing tractor on a steep incline. Passersby halted the machine, and he was taken to Bowie Hospital with a lacerated leg and serious shock but no broken bones.
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Leonard Neal
Neal
Beetle Cantwell
State Highway Department
Mr. Neal
Burgess
Bowie Hospital
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Wright City
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Walter Yeager
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Clingingsmith
Pete Carminati
Eagle-Strawn
Miami Operating Co
A. R. Agee
Bowie SW
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Bowie, Texas
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West of
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Covey T. V. & Radio Service
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