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Newspaper
Bowie News
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1952
Page
2
Night club singer and composer Gene Austin known for That's My Baby will appear in person at Ringgold Ring gold at 8 30 p m Thursday night May 29 under the Ringgold Cemetery Association. Reservations may be written to Cemetery Association Box 145 or by calling 153 at Ringgold.
Bowie High School Travel Club members sponsors and some parents depart Wednesday May 28 for an educational trip. They travel from Bowie to Kansas City on the Rock Island Texas Rocket then to Des Moines Iowa and on to Chicago via Rock Island Corn Belt Rocket arriving May 29. Four nights in the Conrad Hilton Hotel Chicago and return sequence includes a morning ride on the Ann Rutledge to St Louis and a Wabasha Railway return to Kansas City with a stopover in Kansas City and final Texas Rocket return to Bowie June 4. Tickets for Welcome Travelers May 30 are secured along with visits to multiple Chicago and St Louis sites and a guided tour of the Conrad Hilton.
Bowie High School schedules regular summer school starting Monday June 2 for eight weeks with morning classes. Students may enroll in two half unit courses for 15 dollars first half and 25 dollars for a second half. homemaking also in morning for four weeks focusing on yearbook planning, a play school, crafts and leatherwork, and a camping week in Craterville Oklahoma. Vocations agriculture project work led by instructor N F Lewis.
Mrs. M E McMurry visited her son J T McMurry and his wife and daughter in Wichita Falls last week.
A Belle vue High School banquet at Morrow's Coffee Shop on May 13 featured seniors in a posed photo. Standing left to right are Margaret Sigler Shirley Rater Mrs Louis Johnson Peggy Johnson and Bobby Taylor. Seated left to right are Louis Johnson Mrs G F Plaxco G F Plaxco Mrs Frank Brown Gerldeane Shoemaker and Margaret Reeves.
Miss Josephine Jennings 20 of McGregor died last Friday after a month long illness at Bowie Hospital. Burgess Funeral Home carried the body to Lubbock where Rex Funeral Chapel held services Saturday at 3 p m with Dr A Rogers officiating. Interment followed in Lubbock Cemetery. A Baylor University senior native to Lubbock, she lived there until moving to McGregor two years ago. Survivors include her parents Mr and Mrs J W Jennings of McGregor a half sister Mrs Tony Ullrich of Houston and an aunt Mrs Prentice Crumpler Sr. Attending from Bowie were Dr and Mrs Prentice Crumpler and Mrs Crumpler Sr, with Crumpler families nearby.
Announcement calls for a cemetery working at Selma Cemetery on Thursday May 29. All who are interested should bring lunch and a hoe to help. candidates are invited to participate as well.
Mrs. Claudie Burke of Dallas spent the weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. John White, returning to Dallas after the visit.
Rev and Mrs C R McDaniel of Dallas visited Mrs White and Mr White in Dallas as guests of her parents John and Mrs White last week.
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