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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1941
Page
8
Advertisement lists five acre parcel with fruit and good soil, eight acres with orchard and well water, eleven acres with new barn and sub irrigated frontage, all electrified and near Bowie along highway 81. Prices range from 450 to 1100 dollars. Partial cash with easy balance offered by W. C. Russ at 309 Live Oak St Bowie.
The family of Mrs. G W Chancellor thanks friends for kindness during her illness and dearth. They praise visits, words, tributes, pallbearers, and Rev Quinn's words, asking blessings for all who showed support. Signed: The family.
Camp Bowie residents Sgt Altus Griffin and Sgt von Griffin visit Mr and Mrs G A Griffin over the weekend. Weldon Dane and family from Levelland join Mr and Mrs G A Griffin. Nearby families Mabron Wall Saunders Keene attend gatherings. Lola Kemp visits Georgia Faulkenberry as singing convention is set for Sunday June 2 with all invited. Junkman dialogue noted in local scene.
The Farm Security Administration announces emergency loans and small grants for Montague County farmers hit by floods. FSA supervisor C Ray Brown says funds are limited and prioritized for those unable to bear losses, to protect crops, livestock feed, seed, fertilizer, and fuel needs.
Montague residents report visits andcomings among family friends. Many guests travel from Lawton Wichita Falls Henrietta Bowie Fort Worth Nocona and Dallas to see relatives. The Home Demonstration Club plans a Negro Womanless wedding and Plantation Party event.
Farmers may harvest all peas for sale as green peas from government land while keeping soil conserving status. Plant sorghum for silage to replace lost corn and hay, improving feed weight in silos. State lends jacks and stallions after July 1 1941 with a one year lease and 30 dollar fee.
A promotional piece extols butter as delicious and digestible, rich in vitamin A and some D, urging butter with every meal. It advises weekly large batch churning to save time, with steps to seal churns and chill cream before use.
Step by step dairy procedure covers churning temperatures for summer and winter, cream handling through strainer, butter color addition, churning pace, washing out buttermilk, salting, working, molding into one pound prints, wrapping with damp parchment, and cleaning the churn with hot water and dairy powder. It emphasizes maintaining granular butter and avoiding off flavors from buttermilk.
Producers with a wheat marketing quota card may sell or dispose of their wheat as they wish once the quota is issued. H A Reynolds, Montague County AAA chairman, notes quotas require satisfaction of any AAA claims on excess acres before obtaining a card, after which the wheat can move through normal markets. County AAA offices offer fuller explanations.
Mr and Mrs G O Smith longtime Taylor public school teachers move to Walnut Bend north side of Cooke county to teach next term He becomes superintendent of Walnut Bend consolidated school Mrs Smith will teach High School English and music They previously taught at Walnut Bend 1930 1935 for him 1931 1934 for her Both hold degrees from Denton North Texas State Teachers College Smith has 12 years and Mrs Smith 11 years teaching experience.
Farmers with government loans on cotton are promised full payment if the government takes title to the cotton. AAA official F P Martin cited that public notice would precede any title transfer and that repayment would equal principal plus interest and carrying charges, offset by fair market value determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
The article argues that careful planning and good farm management should guide dairying, not speculative fears about the postwar market. It stresses focusing on better production, crops, and livestock, while noting exports have never been large and that healthful milk and meat demand matter more than foreign markets.
Little Miss Jacquelyn Ewell daughter of Mr and Mrs Elvin Ewell of Farina Illinois won a popularity contest by 200 votes. Although the Ewells recently moved to Farina the girl is already a favorite with her winsome smile blue eyes and olive complexion.
James H. Westbrook is pastor with church school at 9 45 a m led by Lee Hunter. Morning worship at 11 00 a m. Wesley Fellowship and Young People at 7 00 p m. Evening worship at 8 00 p m. The notice invites attendance and the slogan Follow the Crowd to the First Methodist Church.
D. H. Terrell of Stamford spends several weeks visiting his daughter Mrs. Ernest McWilliams and family in Bowie and his son J. A. Terrell and family in the Leona community.
The local Lions Club voted at its regular meeting to install a sweetheart alongside officers. A committee led by Henry Moore, Gayle Bradley, and Howard Brooks was appointed to nominate. Regular routine procedures closed the session.
Brief notices report Paul McNatt’s Thursday trip to Austin to visit his brother. Gra ford residents Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lee visited Bowie friends. J A Russell of Sunset and B F Husted of Decatur made business trips to Bowie. Sunset’s J I Caswell, Sunset school superintendent, conducted business in Bowie. An elderly nurse asks for a heart slowing remedy and a doctor replies with a verse about comrades. A teacher and pupil exchange a grammar error about went.
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