The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1939 Page: 6 of 8
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BOWIE, TEXAS
Rectal Diseases and Varicose
Veins a Specialty
E. Tarrant Street
Office Phone 192
If no answer (’all 101
HI-QUALITY
Innerspring and Cotton
Mattresses
Made in Bowie
Mattresses Renovated, Ma-
terial and Workmanship
Guaranteed.
0. K. Mattress
Shop
At Bowie Cotton
Warehouse
Fight the dangerous common cold this
winter with these simple rules: (1) Don’t
"huddle” but provide comfortable temper-
atures in every room so that quick body-
chilling changes will be avoided at all
times; (2) Introduce sufficient oxygen-
laden air into the home through adequate
ventilation; (3) Keep connecting doors
open so that a natural circulation of warm
air prevails from one room to another;
(4) If you should "catch cold” consult
your family doctor before it has an oppor- •
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939
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The Marx Brothers with Kenny
Baker and Florence Rice are
starred in “A Day at The Circus”
which shows at the Ritz Theatre
PreVue, Sunday and Monday, De-
cember 16, 17 and 18. Mr. and
Mrs. O. C. Garrett will be admit-
ted free to see this amusing pic-
ture if they will present a copy of
this issue of The News at the box
office.
"Huddling” is the unhealthful practice
’ of living in one or two rooms during the
winter season. "Huddling” invites colds
that are forerunners of many serious win-
ter illnesses. If you "huddle", with part of
the house blocked off in a shivering quar- ’
antine, sudden body chilling temperatures
are unavoidable every time a member of
the family leaves a heated room to go to
some other part of the unheated home.
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Mr.” and Mrs. John Matney of
Woodward, Okla, are visiting
their aunt, Mrs. J. E. Walthall this
week.
Specials on Oil
Permanents W
DON’T HUDDLE
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Hunters Kill Big Ocelot Wild Cat
Richard Cpx of Newport and
other hunters, whose names we
failed to obtain, in a big hunt
on last Friday night, killed one
~ of the “BIST Ocelot wild cats down
on the creek east of Newport
after their dogs had put the cat
up a large tree. The cat was shot
from the tree and Cox skinned
him and has his hide to show for
what they done.
Cox in conversation with Oscar
Underwood at Bowie said that he
never before saw such a vicious
animal as that cat was. He said
that his large' head and massive
taws and muscled neck with his
long sharp teeth and wide mouth
was capable of devouring any-
thing that the cat might attack.
Underwood also stated that he
was talking with John Michell of
— ' Dallas who is building a large
ranch east of Newport and who
has hunted in old Mexico and in
many other places and said that
Michell told him that the Ocelot
cats were the toughest wild ani-
mals that he knew anything about
— ----in all his hunts.—Michell said that
when dogs crowded them they
would lay flat on their backs and
do their fighting, He »id that
they could rip a dog to pieces in
no time.
These cats are found deep down
in old Mexico and the ones here
are cats that escaped from a cir-
cus out here at Big Spring about
four years ago. They drifted
down here and located at Boss
Bluff mountain where they have
increased in numbers from the old
mammy cat. To date four of the
number have been captured and
killed by hunters.
The writer probably will have
something more about this last
cat killed by Cox and the hunters
as soon as be can see Mr. Cox.
Cox was bom and raised in
near the big caves east of New-
port and has hunted all his life
in the jungles of that section.
Hunters Have Most Thrilling
Chase of' the Year
C, L. Hickey, Troy Times,
George Calley of Hancock, and
Jewell Parsons of Sunset with
their combined packs of hounds
staged one of the most thrilling
fox chases on Tuesday night of
lait week that has been had in
ganv years in the Newport coyn-
There were 16 dogs in the race
that lasted for four and a half
hours when the dogs put the tired
fnx up a Iftrgp .un the Dc*n
Cowley place east of Newport
about a naif mile.
Hickey stated to the .writer that
they were lucky in striking an old
fox that hunters have been chas-
ing for two years or more and the
old wily fox always came out
winner and eluded the dogs. But
this time the dogs were too smart
and swift for the fox and forced
him up a tree.
The old fox was jumped about
two miles ease of Newport in the
range of mountains, right where
the hunters expected to strike
"him when they took the dogs to
his hangout about 8:30 that night
where they soon jumped the fox’s
trail and boy, what a race and
what thrilling music that large
number of hounds did make on
the cleat still air of the night.
The fox run in a large circle
and at no time was over two
miles from his old range. The
boys just sit in their cars in the
middle of the chase in the lane
and enjoyed the music until 12:30,
when they run the fox up a tree
and then they bkw their horns,
and called the dogs away and left
, the fox for another race some-
time soon.
The fox at times would double
back on his track and jumped
from the huge rocks for quite a
distance in his efforts to outwit
the pursuing hounds but they had
no trouble in keeping his trail, be-
cause of the dampness over every
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Mrs. Hickey, who teaches the
Hancock school, Hickey stated had
never before took any interest in
the races but he said this race was
so thrilling that she jumped in
her car and came to them and
listened to the dogs until the race
ended and then said she had
never before enjoyed anything
so much.
Many others living in and near
the big race ait up and enjoyed
the race until it was finished.
Here’s Some Old Receipts That
Will Interest You
While in Bowie Second Monday
we happened up with A. A. All-
named William, and one named
Harvy.
Two Hundred Dollars in hand
paid. We assign our right for the
above amount for said negroes.
Attest: Francis Thomas, Harvey
Thomas, J. M. Carter.
October 27, 1865.”
This old bill was Written with
pen and ink and was hard to
make out as the writing was not
any too good but the writer, after
carefully studying the- document,
got the words correct ______
It is worn and faded very much much about shakes and
and shows plainly that it has been l-uh- __j -----:_n..
here a long time.
What Causes Snakes to Go Blind
At Certain Periods of Year
J. A. Huskey, foreman of the B.
Zuber ranch south of Newport
was in town Saturday and in con-
versation with the writer, stated
that fie-had a few days back went
to the big rattle snake den on
the ranch and investigated things
just to see what he could find.
Huskey said that he failed to find
any snakes out at the time but
stated that in the opening to the
big dep he never saw so many
old skins sheded by the snakes
before in his life. He said that
they were in piles.
Then he told the writer after
investigating the many hides
closely he determined what it
was that caused snakes to go
blind at. certain, times-of the-year.
homes and the writer predicts
that many patrons will be added
to the service from time to time.
Personals
Mark Farar-and Jack Simon of
Vashti were Newport visitors
Saturday evening. Farar stated
to the writer that a bunch of
hunters were coming up soon
around the Christmas holidays
and that they were going to
stage a big fox hunt at Newport.
Sheriff Ray Phagan of Henri-
etta was in Newport Saturday
evening meeting his many friends.
Mr. and- Mrs. Odice Bulls of
Carlsbad, N. M, spent the week-
end heye with relatives and
friends. They returned to Carls-
bad Sunday, going by Hereford.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Baldridge
and Ed-*F. Bulls, Jr., of Poolville
were here the week-end. They
attended the Second Monday
Trades Day at Bowie, Monday.
Leonard and Ervin Welch and
Cullen Phagan of LaVilla, Texas,
are here on a visit to relatives
and friends. The boys have been
laid off from their work there
for a while.
Kempsey Pitts of Wichita Falls
was in Newport - J—1
while Sunday afternoon.
• Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Thomasson
and children of Henrietta and C.
M. Lane, of Clarendon, who is
Mrs. Thomasson’s father, were
visiting in Newport Sunday after-
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He said that he looked i
hides that were shed by
snakes over carefully and
especial attention to the i____
dings at the head and around the
eyes and found to his astonish-
ment that a scale over the eyes
of the snakes was shedded also
with the hide and Said his mind
was then made up as to what it
Was that caused the reptiles to
be blind at times every year. It
was the scale growing over the
eye balls.
The writer does not know very
‘ z - “J their
habits and especially them los-
ing their sight and the cause,
but this idea of Mr. Huskey is
quite interesting and .likely to
be the real reason.
Newport Now Has Electricity
The electricity was turned on
the line —at Newport on last
Thursday evening at 4 o’clock,
thus finishing the line that start-
ed from Vashti and running to
Buffalo, Joy, Deer Creek, Blue-
grove, Windthorst, Scotland, An-
telope, Shannon, Postoak and
Newport where it ended for the
present. In answer to a question
made to John Middlebrook, the
J. A. C. Superintendent as to
whether <an extension' of the line
north was to be made soon, Mr.
Middlebrook said that there
wasn't. _»
People are highly pleased with
the service nf plpptririty in thp
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good, Who lives on route 1, Belle-
vue. Mr. Allgood informed us
that his father, Uncle Bob All-
good, well known over this ssc,
tion, was dead. We were sorry
to learn of hjs death.
He brought Out his book and
exhibited two old receipts that we
found to be quite interesting and
are giving them space in our
column.
One of the receipts Is an old tax
receipt issued in Owen county,
Arkansas, in the year of 1850, for
taxes of H. Forel, then a citizen
of that county. The old faded,
receipts quite different from the
tax receipts of today and merely
stated that the receipt is for
“Revenue and county Levy
Taxes.” '
The other old document is
what we would call in this day
a “Bill of Sale” and was for the
sale of four young negroes, one
girl and three boys, for. the con-
sideration of two hundred dollars.
It reads as follows: “I have this
day sold to Lanely Quisenberry,
one negro girl, named Celisha,
one -boyr named Washington, one
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Perry, Coy. The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1939, newspaper, December 15, 1939; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1363733/m1/6/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bowie Public Library.