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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1944
Page
2
The Junior Arts and Crafts Club met Wednesday in the auditorium basement. Members made scrapbooks for hospital patients along with May baskets and pencil holders. Mrs. Walter Coffield, the director, served popcorn after the session.
The Lord is my light and my salvation in Psalm 27 1. The verse declares confidence in divine protection, framing fear as unnecessary when God strengthens life and guides paths. A brief devotional line emphasizes faithful trust.
An anonymous statement cited by R. H. Morris praises civic loyalty, claiming a town binds residents through work, schooling, churches, and government. It calls for citizenship over partisanship, cooperation over dissension, and personal responsibility to improve the community.
A Mother's Day message urges greater role for mothers in guiding boys and girls toward lawfulness and virtue. It links neglect of home to juvenile delinquency and stresses mothers' duty to nurture character, duty, and devotion in sons and daughters.
Sam Lovette and the local Lions Club propose a memorial in Bowie a physical education building for the school and community. The plan envisions a large gymnasium and spaces for youth and adult recreation to channel surplus energy, foster fellowship and good sportsmanship, and deter unorganized activity and crime among youth as postwar America faces rising juvenile delinquency.
The piece recalls Col Dick McCarty and Texas editors, praising the Albany News for 19 volumes. It recounts Fort Worth’s growth from a hamlet, the transformation of Western Texas, and the paper’s role in highlighting births, obituaries, marriages, and local progress across the years.
Mrs Will S Young presides as Montague Clay and Wise Counties chapter president at the Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority State Convention and Fifteenth Anniversary in San Antonio. The three day event at the Gunter Hotel featured notable speakers and a Birthday Luncheon program.
Friends note Mrs James Kyle Jr formerly Miss Dorothy Nichols is improving from illness. She and daughter Linda Kay are recovering at the home of her mother Mrs W B Garrett.
W P Sandlin Jr has bought an interest in Square Deal Grocery and is now active manager. Mose Sawyer, previously silent partner, buys Marvin Bell’s stake and Bell exits as manager. Roger Giles remains meat market manager. Sandlin recently moved from Fort Worth. Mrs Sandlin is Oletha Arnold by marriage. Dr and Mrs E W Wright returned from San Antonio after attending the State Medical meeting lectures.
J B Magee announces another Montague auction sale and Trades Day on Wednesday May 17. Livestock farm implements furniture and automobiles may be included. Musicians and singers are invited to perform. Sale starts at 10 00 a m.
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