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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1956
Page
9
Mrs James Brite and Jodie of Ian Oklahoma visited last week with her parents Mr and Mrs Johnson.
Names of cases filed and tried appear in Montague County records including divorces for Patsy Parker and John Parker, William Lawler and Pearl Lawler, James Hall and Rose Mary Hall, and Ruby Marshall and J W Marshall. Also debt suit O W Ross vs Randall Oil Co and compensation case Ernest Roth vs Mary Land Casualty Co. Trials include Opportunity Publishing Co. vs Montex Oil and Specialty Co with judgment for plaintiff and partition suit F E Maxwell et al vs J C Maxwell et al. First National Bank Bowie v N L Sewell awarded judgment for plaintiff.
State of Texas vs Gene Chance charged with defrauding by worthless checks. City of Bowie vs Orth Vowell. C D Shamburger Lumber Co vs Ira Munday on account suit. Court actions noted in county records.
Norman Haskell McDaniel and Carol Ann Lindsey. Johnnie A. Breeden and Joyce Elaine Monize. Finis Merrill Workman and Mildred Jehe Welch. Gerald Elvin Johnson and Lucia Sue Painter. Clyde Allen King and Camille Hopkins. Snow Leslie Greenwood and Margaret Sue Greenwood. Laverr Phillip Phagan and Elena Faye Davis. Harvey E. Moore and Frances Fay Gayleen. John Robert Wright and Topsy Eddie Mae Roberson. Thomas H. Tettleton and Mary Jacquelyn Roberts. Dale Ewing Cartee and Helen Dodsworth.
At the county superintendent's office Saturday morning the board of trustees approved 170 transfers of students to and from Montague county school districts. Mrs Edith Gallia was employed as a county school nurse at the meeting.
Multiple deeds recorded including Louis Walker to Jessie Caswell for two lots in Sunset, Mattie Wilton to Raymond Henley for several lots in block 61 Nocona, and other transfers in Bowie and surrounding counties. Transactions cover blocks, surveys, and fractional interests, with several assortments of school land survey parcels and corrections by Veterans' Land Board and related parties.
A. L. Hays sells northwest of lot 7 and all of lot 6 plus 19 feet of lot 5 in Brieger addition Bowie. Hays also sells northwest of lot 10 all of lot 11 and 19 feet of lot 12 in Brieger addition. Floyd Morris transfers to Truman Poynor 95 acres of S T Pruitt survey and 73 1/3 acres of Masoner survey and 160 acres of Leatherman survey. T P Skinner Jr and wife to T P Skinner Sr and wife 41.07 acres in Lindsey Sub. Leon Sanford and wife to Walter Kohler and wife part of Hill County school land in Bowie.
A compilation of property transfers and leases involving George A. Wright Elizabeth Walker Eunice Walker C B Christie Mattie M Wilton Frances E Reichenstein M Butler Lucy Davis Leach August Nobbs F A Fenoglio Earl P Hall S H Chambliss C R Hart J A Haynie B R Grigsby and others to various grantors and companies including Marshall Pipe and Supply Co Nortex Oil and Gas Corp The Texas Co and The Sinclair Oil and Gas Co covering tracts from 40 to 257 acres with terms from 6 months to 10 years and dates ranging from 3-56 to 12-56.
A compendium of land and mineral deed activity listing transfers and releases dated March to April 1956. Parties include Bennett, Gouchie, Phillips, Glenn, Strickler, Coffelt, Stath, Connell, Ritter, Randall Oil, Rosenwalt, Greeburg, the Ohio Oil Co., Geo Gray, Paul Purcell, Edna Mask, and Jesse Wright. Measurements cover numerous acres across Sur. A parcels and Block 80 Kaufman CSL, with specific references to units like Wm Donoho Sur and Levi Bennett Sur. A mix of oil and gas leases, mineral deeds, and releases is recorded.
Readable entries show D D Echols of Montague registering a Ford four door while H W Phillips of Nocona registers a Chevrolet four door. Additional line lists D L Harvey of Nocona with a Chevrolet model.
A scanned list shows multiple buyers and vehicles from Nocona and nearby towns. Names include Betty Jo Thompson Wichita Falls and Lorine Fenoglio with Buicks Cadillacs and Chevrolets, plus firms like E W Moran Drilling Co and Ben C Williams Bakery Ser. in Houston.
A list of vehicles traded or sold includes D Holloway of Nocona with a GMC truck and J L Sullivan and W L Sullivan of Bowie with a Ford truck. Continental Oil Co of Bowie and Jess H Whatley of Bowie show a Ford pickup and a Chevrolets in the ledger. W H Lawler of Nocona and John L Petty of Nocona appear with Chevrolet and Ford pickups.
George J Morris 73 died at his Bellevue home Thursday June 7 1956 a retired farmer Funeral services were held June 9 at the First Presbyterian church Bowie with Rev Miller officiating Interment in Salona cemetery Burgess Funeral Home directed Survivors include wife Dora Morris of Bellevue three daughters Grace Lauflin Jowie Opal Gillaspie Kennedale Ruth Morris Bellevue one brother John Morris Sunset a sister Esther Walters Bellevue. Mr and Mrs Mack Wylie and Jerry of Houston visited Mr and Mrs E V Smith this week.
Nineteen girls enrolled in a week long play school class at Bowie High School with fifteen used in the home making department under Miss Henryetta Sands. Girls learn care of children, storytelling, singing, coloring, playground recreation, and refreshments. A sewing class follows next week and a Play School class will be supervised each morning by Mrs. Stanley Davlin.
An advertisement claims instant drying power for T-4-L fungicide to relieve Athlete's Foot within one hour with a money back guarantee. It directs readers to purchase today at Wilson Drug Store.
Rev and Mrs Witt and their children, longtime missionaries in Old Mexico for the Assembly of God Church, attended church services Sunday at the Bowie Assembly of God church along with members of the local congregation.
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