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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1958
Page
7
Over 50 years match companies offered free matches with tobacco purchases and the tactic now yields no cost to more than two fifths of U S matches. Early automobile clubs aimed to ease motoring and counter livery stable operators who barred horse less carriages from premises.
The bridegroom's party mimics a battle with the bride's guards and pays mock ransom in some Malay weddings. Female relatives may join the fray. The custom persists from old times of capture. The text notes coal derivatives like phenol and aniline as chemical reagents and dyes.
The schedule lists summer games for Pee Wee Minor Little and Pony leagues with dates in June and July. Matchups include Hawks Hornets Panthers Bronchos Leopards Longhorns Buffaloes Bobcats and Leopards hosting or visiting across multiple doubleheaders.
Soil Conservation Service at Nocona reports over 1 000 acres seeded to perennial native grasses this spring with more acreage possible if seed supply permits. Advise farmers to prepare land now by plowing and drilling Sudan grass or sorghum in stubble, with mulch chop at 20 to 25 pounds per acre and 6 inch stubble height for a ready seed bed next spring.
B E Watson had a kidney removal operation Wednesday and is reported to be doing well in excellent condition. Family members A C Watson Arcadia California Stuart Watson Houston and Mrs Walter W Oliver Graham remain in Bowie to support his recovery.
Roy Coffield is resting comfortably after major surgery Wednesday morning at the local hospital, with hospital attendants reporting good condition. Mrs. Margaret Martin of Dallas joined her father for the procedure as Barbara Winn of Boston, daughter of Bowie residents, visited New York with Bowie seniors on a trip. Barbara, formerly of Bowie, works as a stenographer for the editorial desk of the Christian Science Monitor in Boston.
The Little League Pony League lists four evening doubleheaders from 6:00 to 7:45 with matchups Cardinals Coyotes Bulldogs Tigers and a slate of games through June 30. June 30 includes makeups for cancelled or tied games affecting the championship with makeup dates in late July and early August.
The Reverend Perryman moved to Bowie last Thursday to become pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. He and his Arkansas native wife are parents of Nita Ray Bohanan a school teacher in Oklahoma City and a son who pastors the North Beaumont Church of the Nazarene. He formerly served Nazarene Churches in Oklahoma and earned his degree at Nazarene College Bethany Oklahoma. While pastor at Mineral Wells he oversaw a new $40,000 sanctuary.
Bowie residents report Miss Virginia Foster and Miss Genevieve Hoeldtke returning to Texas Tech for the summer term with Miss Hoeldtke’s mother Mrs. Louise Hoeldtke. Several couples and visitors travel to Dallas for a Rotary convention and to host or visit friends in Bowie and nearby Plainview.
The state proclaimed independence from England two months before the other colonies but was the final among the original thirteen to ratify the U S Constitution.
Only during total solar eclipses can surrounding stars be photographed. Even then very sensitive photographic plates are required to overcome the sun’s bright corona observed in an eclipse.
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