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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1939
Page
8
The family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown at the death of Vivian Lewallen and her fiancé Lawrence Edgin. Floral offerings were deeply appreciated by Panel and the Lewallen family.
Gene Autry, the ace Western star, appears Friday and Saturday at the Majestic Theatre in Blue Montana Sky. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Lovelady admitted free with a copy of this issue of The News.
A Texas letter questions past political stances and Senate Bill No. 12 while narrating a Bowie Texas 1939 incident near Lake Bowie where Miss Lewallen and Edgin drowned after a boat collision. C. A. Wilson Hershel Stephens and others aided but could not reach the Sunken victims. Bodies recovered by D. M. Major and C. D. Perona near shore.
O. W. Watson addressed the Rotary Club at the Morrow Grill discussing sand and gravel grading and washing methods. The gathering, led by W. H. Stephens, included Rev. J. H. Westbrook, Rev. John Hughes, Rev. M. S. Peek, and Rotarian Ralph W. Morgan as guests, ending with a song and piano by Miss Ella Frances Golden.
President W. H. Stephens announced standing committees at a Tuesday directors meeting. Members include Community ServiceDr. C. J. Dodsworth Club Service W. B. Alexander Vocational Service T. R. Cofield International Service S. B. McClure Program W. F. Robinson Fellowship T. B. Coffield Finance Coy Perry Information A. W. Cline Youth Service Harper Knight Student Loan R. L. Burgess Dr. C. J. Dodsworth replaces J. Lee Hanchey on the Board of Directors.
Rev. B. B. Breitenhirt pastor of the First Presbyterian church returned home from Kerrville where he attended the Young People's Conference of Texas Presbyterians in session June 6 15. He served as athletic director during the encampment directing tennis swimming baseball and other games.
Mr and Mrs E Scott Avery and Mr and Mrs S G Jones of the Avery Electric Shop will attend a Frigidaire Sales Convention in Dallas Friday. The shop will be closed all day Friday.
Funeral services for William Henry Hickman pioneer resident of Clay county were held Wednesday at 3 30 PM at the Newport church with Rev B L Baits of Wichita Falls officiating. Interment was in Prairie Branch cemetery Burgess Funeral Home arranged the services. Hickman died at his home Tuesday at 7 50 PM after two years ill health. Born January 7 1861 at Blackjack Grove Hopkins County Texas he married Clara Alice Mayfield October 6 1889. They lived in Bowie before moving five miles north of Newport. He is survived by his widow a daughter Mrs W W Patterson two sons W W Hickman and C H Hickman four grandchildren and one sister Mrs Ellen Williams who lived with him twelve years.
Lawrence Edgin and his fiancée drowned Thursday night at Lake Bowie near Bowie Texas. He was born January 22 1919 in Byrd Hollow and was a Bowie High School 1938 graduate captain of the football team. Survived by his parents D L Edgin and unnamed mother, six uncles, three aunts, grandparents in Sweetwater Bowie and Monroe Oklahoma. Funeral notices list lengthy family survivors across Texas Oklahoma and Colorado with services pending.
Weekly News Review covers multiple submarine disasters with Japanese, American, and British losses totaling hundreds of lives this year. It notes the Squalus incident off New Hampshire with fifty-nine aboard and only thirty-three saved, and the Thetis sinking in Liverpool Bay with 103 men on board and just four survivors.
A man received two years in prison and a 5000 franc fine in Paris for narcotics smuggling into the United States. He had hired a bookbinder to sew secret pockets into Bible covers and claimed the pockets would hold holy sand for Jewish refuges. An auto wrecker later freed a horse from a well near Alton, NL after a long extraction.
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