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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1941
Page
4
Landmark Baptist Church and New Hope church plan a two day Fifth Sunday meeting at Tage June 28 and 29. A full program includes devotions sermons and discussions led by R L Cook S F Middleton O E Price T V Teakel and others with topics on church pastor cooperation and deacon baptism rights. Public invited.
The Wesley Guild gathered at the Methodist Church parlors on Monday evening with Miss Martha Ann Gibson presiding. Miss Ethel Wallace spoke as a prospective Missionary to Mexico describing her planned work, and she is noted as the niece of Mrs. John B. Hunt.
At 11:00 a sermon by C. E. Price and at 1:30 a study of Micah chapter four are planned. Speakers include Ww. W. Campbell and J. A. Wall.
Michael Kiser's second birthday was celebrated at his mother's home on a Wednesday afternoon. The party featured balloons and tops for the children, a white cake with two pink candles, gifts for the honoree, and visiting relatives and friends, including Mrs. A. H. Kiser and Mrs. J. H. Hawkins.
Mrs. F. M. Dick announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter Miss Oleta Hamilton to Ralph Wittenmeyer of San Antonio. The wedding is planned for Mineral Wells on June 20. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Dick and P. A Hamilton, once residents of Bowie.
A Morris family reunion gathered last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Morris and Mrs. E. Brashear on the north side of Sunset. Relatives from Enid Oklahoma Springfield Illinois Archer City and Bellevue attended and shared a noon meal under large shade trees. The Morriss are descendants of the late Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Morris who moved from Missouri to Salona near Bowie about sixty years ago where he served as pastor of Salona Presbyterian Church.
The Earl Hester Circle of the First Baptist Church met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. C. A. Holliday. Devotional led by Mrs. Sallie B. Harvey. Lesson from Royal Service taught by Mrs. C. E. Ryan with all taking part. Business session conducted by Mrs. Harvey. Refreshments served to members and guests including Colleen Ryan and the hostess.
A Children’s Day program will be part of the First Christian Church service on Sunday at 11 a.m. The program includes piano solo by Jackie Lovette That Sweet Story of Old and a Children’s Day Meditation by a group of Sunday School classes. Alfred Narramore performs Barley Bread and Jesus Loves Even Me Our Part in Today’s Crisis by Thurman Parker I’m Wingin My Way Home by the Children’s Quartet I Love Him by the Children’s Choir. Billy Tom Minor Jr. and his parents visited Mrs. Wilhite in Abilene for an extended stay.
Numerous Montgomery county residents visited friends and relatives across Decatur Nocona Ringgold and Vega over the past week. A miscellaneous shower at Mrs W M Wood honored Mrs Gene Deal formerly Vera Mae Owens with games refreshments and gifts from local women.
Durward Sherman Benham 18, son of Mr and Mrs G S Benham, will leave Thursday for Duncan Field San Antonio Texas to enter training as an airplane mechanic. He ranked 319th in a Civil Service exam of April at Wichita Falls and is a 1940 high school graduate. He is the first from this county to depart for military service.
The church announces a children’s program next Sunday at the church hour. The 8 p.m. sermon will be Creative Fatherhood. Pastor A. L. Porterfield and Superintendent S. S. Supt. Lum Lovette urge attendance at Father’s Day service.
James H. Westbrook leads services at 11:00 a.m. with the sermon Things We Can Believe. Evening worship at 8:00 p.m. features God's Hero Is Dead. Wesley Fellowship and Young People meet at 7:00 p.m. The pastor urges weekly church attendance and invites nonmembers to join the congregation.
Mrs. E. M. Stallings a Dallas public school teacher has returned to Bowie for the summer vacation. Mrs. Z. T. Lowrie a patient at Bowie Clinic hospital since Sunday is recovering and will be released soon. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Turns are accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. H.
Social notes list visits from M Harlow in Athens to Mrs Dana Benson in Bowie. Travelers include J W McDaniel and Lon Prater visiting relatives in Texas and Kansas City. Staff Sgt F M Dick and Oleta Hamilton visit in Mineral Wells. Tours include Terral Oklahoma and Crowell Paducah trips. Mary Maurice Benham returns from Fort Worth college for summer with Benhams.
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