SOME HISTORY of BUFFALO SPRINGS
Buffalo Springs hosts a long settler history with trails posts and forts noted. The article recounts 19th century travel along the Chisholm and California Trails, a Fort Sill link, a Butterfield mail contract, an old post office, and local landmarks and figures tied to Buffalo Springs in Clay County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
St. Louis
Springtown
Fayetteville
Fort Smith
Pryor
Bogy Depot
Indian Territory
Tolbert Ferry
Red River
Sherman
Queen's Peak
Buffalo Springs
Jacksboro
Fort Belnap
Fort Chadbourne
el Paso
Tucson
Yuma
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Butterfield Company
N. Fox
Elton Cozart
Montague News Notes and Social Visits
Mrs Wallis Mae Reece and son spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs E Franklin. Visitors to Mrs Florence Pribble included Mr and Mrs Wayne Moulton and Beverly Jean of Fort Worth and Mr and Mrs Delmer Norvell of Dye Mound. The Methodist Sunday School closed Friday night after a great success.
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Wallis Mae Reece
E. Franklin
Florence Pribble
Wayne Moulton
Beverly Jean
Fort Worth
Delmer Norvell
Dye Mound
Lucy Vineyard
Virgie Vineyard
Roberta Manley
Nocona
Don Richardson
Clarence Labours
Frankie Covey
Mary Nell Chancey
Ruth Sibert
Dallas
Old Buffalo location now owned by Buddy Fuller
A reminiscence notes the place miles south of Old Buffalo now owned by Buddy Fuller. It recalls burned telegraph poles and a memory of digging a post to make a puddle for peach snitter with the mother. The write up continues next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Buffalo
Buddy Fuller
Greenwood Assigned to Fort Chaffee for Basic Training
Pvt Treeman D Greenwood, wife at Kennedale, is assigned to Company C 399 Regiment at Fort Chaffee Arkansas to begin an eight week basic combat training course. He will study first aid dismounted drill map reading and military tactics and will qualify with the M 1 Rifle.
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Treeman
D. Greenwood
Kennedale
Fort Chaffee
Ark
Local Notes of Visits and Illness Across Texas
Mrs Covey's sister Mrs Leila Rogers and others visited in Texas. Trips included Bowie to Austin and Tyler. KR L Self’s son reports his father ill in Midliane. The wife of Billie Nabours injured in Tyler. Mary Jane Parker, 93, buried in Bowie.
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Covey
Leila Rogers
Conway
Mr. Gilcrease
Lousiana
Wilma Vann
Bown
T. J. Vann
Watt Self
KR L Self
Midliane
Bessie Walker
Wucster
Coules
Bowie
Austin
Julian Rushiner
Ringgale
Montague
Billie Nabours
Tyler
Preston Parker
Amarillo
A M. Cleveland
Parker
Mary Jane Parker
Laurence Hillyer Appeals Through Paper For Office
L D Hillyer and his Bowie schooling are noted as he appeals through the paper. He asks readers to write to Laurence Hillyer c o this paper or advise Mayor Spears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D
Laurence) Hillyer
Bowie
Hays Bowie
Brownwood
Laurence Hillyer
Spears
Also Mentioned on This Page
Becay
Art E. Cozart
Richardson
Sill
George Stephens
Buffalo
Buffalo Buffalo Springs
Jim Fox
Rube
Bob
James Hamilton Laker
North Carolina
Texas
Chisham
West Fork
Bellnap
Tolbert Crossing
Kansas City
Newport
J. C. Gowin
Melknap
McMurtry’s
Archer County
Bridwell Ranch
Kern Ranch
Sam Heard
F. H. Todd
E. Cozart
Ed Miller
Herman Cozart
Lovelady
E. N. Kimbrough
R. E. Cox
Darrel Kin
Gayle Bradley
T. Greenwood
Chaffee
Mrs. Fox
Wichita Falls Hospital
Tompkins Davis
D.C. Guillams
Bowie and
Vesta
North
General Electric Appliances
BIG
Uiet
Heerds Hardware
General Electric
Riess Fay
Lone Star Gas Service
Ead
H. B. Hillyer
First Baptist Church
Montague County Fruit & Truck Grower’s Association
Burgess Funeral Home
Bowie Cemetery
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