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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1951
Page
12
The Liggett family held a reunion and picnic at the Baptist Shed in Vashti on Sunday June 24 with 68 attendees and many friends stopping by throughout the day.
Mr and Mrs Embry Privitt and children of Fort Worth spent Sunday in Bowie visiting relatives. Mary Privitt and daughter Charlene were business visitors in Wichita Falls Wednesday. Charles William Eddie and Elbert Roach spend a few days in Alvord with grandparents C E Jackson. S P Merrick returned with Mary Dowdy to Crosbyton after nursing Mrs Merrick who suffered a stroke. A W Alexander hosted Irl Ream of Hubert Okla and Carl McGothlen of San Angelo. A C Houston hosted Robert Legate and daughter of Wichita Falls and Capt Charlie Nuessler and three daughters of Brooklyn. John Parchman and son of Ervin visited Elvin Butler over the weekend.
Sunset girl Miss Sue Jeanette Brown earned the highest grade in a Fort Worth Williams James Junior High class of over three hundred students. She attended Sunset School and was a 4-H Club member before moving to Fort Worth with her parents last year. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Sawyer of Sunset. The item lists numerous weekend visitors and travels among families in Sunset, Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, and other Texas towns, along with notes on a surgery recovery for Opal Jones.
Vacation Bible School started Monday June 25 with good attendance. Sessions run 8:30 to 11:50 a.m. daily through June 29, followed by Commencement Friday at 8 p.m. in the Baptist Church. Everyone invited.
The Home Demonstration Club held an all day meeting on Wednesday June 20 focusing on craft demonstrations and selection and storage of cleaning equipment. Members present included Mmes Pet Pickett Dunk Cordell Leo Jeffries Clyde Miller James Ogle Wallace Horton John Lemons W A Kistler E E Williams Foy Ford and John Hubble. Meetings for the next few months will occur on the third Wednesday afternoons.
J. T. Swagerty and relatives visit Amarillo this week while John Lemons travels on business to Borger. In Wichita Falls on Monday evening were Mrs. Roger Giles Mrs. Gordon Cady and Mrs. Bailey Taylor with Joe Bailey. Pat Bradley home from Denton for the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Gayle Pradley who accompanied her back Sunday. Bill Heard of Weatherford was also a weekend guest at the Byley home.
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