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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1938
Page
2
Fulton residents award four cash prizes to children judged most polite by a local panel. The plan aims to curb careless driving and foster courtesy, highlighting parental teaching at home as the root of polite behavior.
A Chicago Grandmothers Club with 89 members features women of notable achievement. One candidate for mayor, another runs a candy factory employing 800, another leads a major department, and a fifth manages a large gravel pit with 18 grandchildren. They favor swimming riding bowling and gardening, showing Grandma’s modern vitality.
A column urges readers to service cars for safety and reliability in summer, noting oil grades batteries and tight fasteners. It then pivots to critique budgets and politicians, comparing ships and budgets, and lampoons mind changes and public spending with sharp witticisms.
Americans eat an average of 139 pounds of meat per person with two thirds produced west of the Mississippi and two thirds eaten east. Farmers could eat and consume more fresh meat and dairy locally through home processing and better use of feed crops, potentially increasing livestock without more sales.
The piece urges voters in primaries and the general election to support the Democratic Platform and New Deal legislation. It argues Republicans and conservative allies seek to roll back gains, warns of Supreme Court challenges, lists key acts to be tested, and calls party members to uphold promises and push forward bills on housing, relief, and rural electrification.
B F Dearmore reports on local farming conditions with Joe Rich growing 25 acres for family use and rising berry and grape concerns. Wheat and oats yields are lowered from earlier estimates amid prices around 50 cents for wheat and 14 to 16 cents for oats. He also praises Savage sisters of Denver for their dairy and poultry farming and promises more on pioneer families next week.
Rev. B. B. Breitenhirt Miss Laura Grace Philley and James Edward Anderson left Monday for a ten day Presbyterian Encampment at Kerrville Breitenhirt will teach one subject.
AURELIA Henry Fenoglio left Monday for Denton to enter college in the summer term. Several Fenoglio relatives and friends traveled between Bowie Montague Nocona and Wichita Falls visiting kin. Mae Fenoglio, Lena Nobile and others were seen visiting relatives over the weekend.
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