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SERVICE OF BOWIE
VOLUME XIX
EOWIE, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1940" “ ’
NUMBER 26
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Observe Labor Day
Recreational
Project Planned
Community Gospel
Singers to Meet
At Bowie Sunday
First Bale of
Cotton Ginned
Here This Week
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Rex Hill Passes
Away Sunday
Ledgers to Play
Iowa Park Sunday
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Faculty Meeting for
Bowie Teachers Set
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splendid dancer. Un- For Holiday Monday
Thirty-four teachers will com-
prise the faculty of the Bowie
school system for the coming
school term which opens Septem-
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Miss Marjorie Ayres was select-
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contest sponsored by the High
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teachers are requested to be pres-
nt. Mr. Alexander said.
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Cake Walk and
Fun Festival to
Re Staged for Band
Griffin’s Drug Store is making
an unusual offer. They are giving
free to rural school children the
book covers required by law amt
which otherwise would have to be
purchased They win he distri-
buted aS long as they last,
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The first bale of cotton for the
1940 season was ginned Tuesday
afternoon at the Thompson Gin.
This bale of cotton was grown
by Bruce Summers, seven miles
west of Bowie in the Leona com-
munity and weighed 460 pc 1 nds.
This is the fourth consecutive
time that Mr. Summers has raised
| the first bale of cotton in this
' section.
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pose ’ long
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More Than Four Thousand Votes Cast Registration of
" “ ' - • • - — Students io Begin
Thursday, Sept. 5
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■ has not had any lessons since.
■ This is not only a ciedit to Ikey
■ but also to Mrs. Garlington, as a
■ very efficient dancing instructor.
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a How Bowie Voted in
a Saturday's Election
The Post Office will be closed.
Monday, Septembe 2. in observ-
ance of Labor Day. The city de-
livery will .be. made Monday
morning and the General Deliv-
ftill 9 o’clock Monday morning.
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Bowie grocefs will observe La-
bor Day, Monday by closing for
the entire day. In their advertise,
ment announcing their action in
this matter they state they are do-
ing so in compliance with many
requests they received from the
public. —----
“We are glad to pay this tribute
to labor.” the committee arrang-
ing for the advertisement, said
“and trust our customers will help
us by arranging to do their shop-
ping Saturday.”
The following grocers are co-
operating in this announcement:
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OF LIVE LOCAL NEWS.
RURAL NEWS, EDIT-
ORIALS AND FEA-
TURES IN THIS ISSUE.
tigation into the possibility of get- [ trees were unrooted and heavy
-.t-i-i™.. —j damage from hail resulted from a
30-minute storm that struck sud-
denly at Nocona Tuesday night.
An inch of rain fell and hail de-
stroyed'much of the fruit crop in
the vicinity. x. „„ „
Lightning struck the home of I FHA system" and
- .i— •»«__—*<---■} miles-lulvl. ...w.'.v-j OKC11>
northwest of Nocona and burned 'rent. A good many pf these
The first faculty meeting of the ing named queen of the fair, wu
i i • Bowie schools also winner of second place in
will be held Saturday, September each division of a talent and per-
”. ar)- sonality contest held-at Nocona
nounced Thursday. Teachers at- Tuesday night. She is a student
—’’I be paid for their in the Nocona High School and is
services for this day as a part of drum major of the Nocona High
their teachers' institute work, All School band. She is the daughter
‘■““'•u“~ —, i of publisher of the Nocona
News.
The coronation ceremonies will
be held Thursday evening, Octob-
er 3, at Pelham Park, under di-
rection of Mrs. Lynn Garlington. —
The ceremonial this year wffi be
. far more elaborate than any prev-
ious year, and promises to be the
high point in exposition's pro-
gram. *
In keeping with the policy of
the Fair Association, the Queen
will be Sponsored by different
towns in the territory and every
section of the county will be
represented in turn. Two years
ago, Miss Billie Rue Coyle of
Newport was Queep of the Fair;
last year a local young lady, Miss
Babe Johnson was honored as the
reigning sovereign. This policy
of progressive sectional selection —
of the queen of the • annual fair
will be a permanent one, accord-
ing to G. (Doc) Jackson, president
of the Fair Association.
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buy or build their homes on the cipal;
vua pay for them man. r..
with mohey they now spend for Gladys
hoqse. No one was a^'ple, however, do "nor know now
1 easy it is to own homes and how
little it takes to buy or build on
the liberal FHA terms.
“The Bowie meeting is a timely
one and FHA officials will be here
for the express purpose of ex-
plaining the simple steps neces-
sary to buy or build your own
home. The showing of slides will
be practical evidence that attrac-
tivee small homes can be built in
this community at a cost that
many of your residents cSn well
afford. It follows, of course, that
home build' brings a measure of
prosperity to ail business in the
comnlunity.”
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Alien Registration
At Local Post Office
Is Not Large Task
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secflbn for 54 years.
She is survived by the follow-
ing children: Mrs. Watson Self of
Montague, Miss Auda Doughty of
Sin Angelo, Boyd Doughty of
Sunset, Loyd Doughty of Mon-
tague, and Mrs. J. B. Lewis of
Bowie; one brother, Henry J.
Morrison of Montague; six sisters;' ’
Mrs. C. H. -Patrick of Wichita
Falls, Mrs. J. W. Bell of Bennett,
Mrs. .J. P. Sherley of Montague,
Mrs. F. W. Tucker of Wilson,
Okla., Mrs. J. H. Burgess of
Stratford, Okla.,-Mrs. G. W, Wal-
ters of Montague- “
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Dorothy Ann Coleman
To Make Appearance
In Los Angeles, Calif.
Miss Dorothy Ann (Ikey) Cole-
man of Lbs Angeles, Calif., and
formerly of Bowie recently took a
television test at Los Angeles, and
IT -.make her first appearance
there in six weeks.
Ikey is a ’■
til two years ago she made her
home here in Bowie with her
t, Mrs. L. D. Waltman and
tins, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Gar-
She received all her ollup
dancing training. Mrs. Phillip’s Beauty Shop,
Mrs. Garlington., and. closed Monday Septeml
f day with
ki if he did
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[community
don’t sup-
tor, “that
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said in announcing the meeting.
thing from his crop, when
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i uevause me larmer cannot buy
unless he has the money.”
Our county is adapted, to all
kinds of truck crops, and good re-
turns could be received if the
farmer could get a fair price for
his produce, Elliott said-
was’ spori-+' Business men and others are in-
vited to meet with the farmers
Saturday if they..wish.
“■If you grow any produce for
market, come,to the. meeting Sat-
urday afternoon, and take part in
ihe discussions,’ Elliott advised.
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Soil Officials io
Be Elected Soon
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Landowners living in the West
Fork of the Trinity, Watershed
will elect-three farmers to act as
supervisors of the activities in the
soil conservation district recently
created in that watershed. The
election wilt be held • Saturday,
August 31, and . voting will be
done by ballot at the city audi-
torium in Bowie, and the W. O. W.
Hall in Sunset. Landowners will
be in charge of the ballot boxes,
will count the votes, and make
their returns directly to the State
Soil Conservation Board in Tern- i
pie.
The three supervisors elected
will serve With the two appointed
supervisors, Abd these five farm-
er’s will be responsible for work-
ing out the program of work for
the district. They will be in
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presided work for the
L.. T. ,
The local Post Office has the
blanks necessary for the registra-
tion of aliens in compliance with
the alien registration law of 1940,
but no aliens. At least none have
appeared Postmaster Robinson
said.
The law requires the registra-
tion of aliens at any post office
some time between August 27 and
December 26. Failure to register
is punishable by imprisonment for
one year or a fine of $1,000 or
both
The territory .embraced within
response that o* ^S1' the land around Bowie and Ncw-
------1—port with h few terms south of
these-and north to the Fort-Worth
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Funeral " Home in charge of ar-
rangements.
Pallbearers were: Roy Bell,
Thomas Morrison, Milton Mor-
rison Vernon Qlark. Homer Wal-
ters and W. N. Dearmore.
Mrs. Doughty died Saturday,
it 24 at her home in Mon-
. She was born in Missouri
’ad been a resident of this
The BoWie Dodgers will play I
their last baseball game of the
Oil Belt League for this season
Sunday afternoon at Pelham Park
with Iowa Park. Games with
neighboring towns will be played
through September, however.
Plans are now being made for a
game with the Sherman negro
team to be played here Septem-
,ber 8. -«— .
Rev and Mrs. W. H. Symank
are the proud parents of a baby
boy, born Wednesday, August 28,
at the Bowie Clinic. The young
man has been'given the name of „
Donald Walter, Both mother and I ery window Will be open from 8
son are doing well. [till 9 o’clock Monday morning.
Seek Better Prices QUEEN MONTAGUE COUNTY FAB
John Marmaduke, three
R. N. Beacham of Dallas was I and Denver railroad ■ and to the-down the
business visitor here Thursday.' Cla^County tme- — — 1 ho'me.
Paul Donald of Bowie, candi-
date for representative and Dick
Lawrence of Montague, present
Z*>riff, were winners in the two
jfcjlnty races settled by the sec-
^Bnd primary election last Satur-
^>ay. The tabulation of the un-
official returns shows a total of
4,335 votes as compared with 5,152
in the July primary. Donald de-
feated Earl Fitts of Nocona and
Lawrence received a majority of
185 votes over W, B. Henley also
of Nocona.
In the state races H. S. Latti-
more. candidate for Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court, received
2,009 votes and J. P. Alexander
1,744. Olin Culberson for Rail-
road Commissioner led Pierce
Brooks, 2,114 to 1,990 in this
county. Atwood McDonald, can-
didate for Associate Justice Court
of Civil Appeals, second district,
received the largest majority ac-
corded any state Candidate, poll-
ing 2,495 votes to 1,337 for his op-
ppnent, Irby Dunklin.
the unofficial
elsewhere.
-. All the leading beauty shops in
the city including Evelyn’s Beauty
Shoppe, May’s Beauty Shop, Mrs.
Sara Seitz Beauty Shoppe and . — - —- —
rrrFs.—Foillip’o Beauty Sfiop, will G. CDoc) Jackson, Bowie Grocery,
be closed Monday, September 2
in observance of Labor Day. An
advertisement carrying their an-
nouncement will be found in this
issue. Other shops may close also.
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W. A. Jones of Bowie and Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Case of Fort Worth
spent Sunday visiting relatives
and friends in the Mallard vicin-
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Complete Unofficial Returns, Montague County, August 24th Primary
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TunefaTservices for Mrs. Mar- o
garet Doughty, 57, of Montague at Tulsa. Okla., fron/complica-
were conducted Sunday afternoon *!--- *-n—.:— —-----
at 4 o’clock from the First Baptist
Church at Montague With ReV.
Johnnie, Cox, pastor, officiating,
assisted by Rev. A. J. Quinn of
Bowie. Interment was in . the
The Band Parents Association
will give their annual Cake Walk
and Fun Festival Saturday night
at 7:30 p.m. and committees for
arrangement of the program have
been named. The purpose of the
Cake Walk is to raise funds for
use in the purchase of music and
other supplies for the Band. Last
year about eighty dollars was
added to the band fund and a
most enjoyable’ evening to the
memory of those that were pres-
ent. Aside from the fine enter-
tainment in the show last year,
many enjoyed the street dance
and general carnival spirit th«tt
rrrr«t*nilArb "C’’
Director Rucker has announced
splendid music and program for
this occasion, and Mayor McNatt,
as we go to press, has not an-
nounced the place of the festivi-
ties, however, the Cake Walk will
be held on the main streets, and
most likely on Tarrant near the
First National Bank building.
Every citizen is urged to attend
and have a part in the Cake Walk
and fun festival. • "
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Funeral services for Rex
■ 33, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs.
, , . Dan Hill of Bowie, were con-
The vote by boxes is given in I ducted at 10 o’clock Wednesday
’“ ’—record tabulated morning from the family home
with Fred Custip, Church of
Christ minister from Post, Texas,
officating. Interment was in Fim
Vvvwv, VCMISW,; WIU1 OUlgfiS r U- , J
neral Home in charge of arrange- Preclated-
ments.. 1
Pallbearers were: Robert Luth-
er, Robert Murphy, Bert Roberts,
Lee Burgner, Luther Hickey and
Jiarve Ratliff,---------;——
Mr. Hill died Sunday morning
tions following an appendicitis
operation. He wa§ born and
raised in Bowie. .
’ He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Thelma Hill of Tulsa, his father
.... and, mother, Mr. and Mrs. Dan
MontaguerCemetery with Burgess Hill of Bowie and the following
„r brothers and sisters, Layman Hill
of Tulsa, Sib Hill of Chico, Elzy
Hill of Dallas, Coburn Hill of
Dallas, Mrs. Winnie Nash of Dal-
las, Mrs. Opal Hill Munz of Hous-
ton, Ben Hill of Bowie, Maurice
Hill of Wichita Falls and Miss
Lois Hill of Bowie.
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Morgan & Hill, Chas.
Grocery.
Efforts were being made late ,.re
Thursday to secure the co-opera- controlled by the association,
tion of all the stores in closing 7;,^
Monday and it is indicated by the the district includes practically all
pnennnen that mnet nf tho niici- au- 1___1_______1 ____— j xt__1.
■nes's houses will comply.
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The regular, monthly m
the Communify Gospel
will be held at the First
Church in Bowie Sunday
noon at 2:30 o’clock, G.
Jockson, president of the conven-
tion said today.
“A feature of th emeetiri)
be a memorial service in
of the memory of the late lx
V. O. Stamps,” Mr. Jackson
One of th eStamps quartets
pected to be here for this *
service. The public is invil
come.■ ’ ' -7^ H|
THE NEWS IS THE
GREATEST AND THE
BEST ADVERTISING
Registration of students for the
1940-41 term of the Bowie High
1 School will begin iThprsday, Sep-
tember 5, when the senior • and
junior classes will meet at the
High School building at 9 a.m. to
select their courses. The eighth
grades will meet Friday morning
at the same hour.
“A close tabulation will be
kept of all courses signed for,”
Supt. Alexander said, “and as
classes are filled, they will be
closed. Those pupils wishing to
make sure they get the subjects
they want should be on hand to
sign for them. This will insure
that they will not have to take
some course they do not want.”
“The buses will make the
regular runs as tHey did last
year,” the superintendent said,
“and if they run late, students j
are urged to wait for them, be-
cause the new bus may not be
here by that date.”
AH home teachers are request-
ed to be on hand Thursday and _
Friday to assist in registration of T^Ayres and is a student at T. W.
---r„„ 1 Mr Alevandar said:- ~ ‘
wood Cemetery with Burgess Fu- services will be greatly ap-
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Rev. and Mrs. Symank
Parents of Baby Boy
The-three voting boxes at,Bowie
lolled 249 fewer votes- in Satur-
lay’s runoff primary than were
:ast in the first election. The
abulated returns indicate the
andidates for sheriff, with 1,208
rotes, led the ticket. The next
lighest vote was polled for repre-
lentative.
Tl^^otal Bowie vote Saturday
tjr IM^different offices follows:
Fo ” thief Justice, Supreme
[Jourt: Alexander, 603; Lattimore,
118.
For Railroad Commissioner:
julberson, 655; Brooks, 497.
■ For Court of Civil Appeals: Mc-
Donald, 726; Dunklin, 384.
For Representative: Donald,
M; Fitts, 271.
For Sheriff I
lenley, 514.
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kyO MONTAGUE COUNTY
tOUTHS ENLIST IN ARMY
Hiram P. Watts of Bowie and
Lrtis O. Lemmons of Ringgold
Lere accepted at Wichita Falls
Efrdny for enlistment in the
fcited States army, Sergeant
Sancis J. McDevitt, recruiting
Ificer for the district announced.
Key will be assigned to infantry
Evice at Fort Sam Houston, after
" lesday
in of P. W. Watte
a the son of Mr.
Mrs. Robert Lemmons.
Chief Justice Supreme Court
James P. Alexander _
H. S. Lattimpre
For Railroad Commissioner
Olin Culberson
Pierce Brooks _
For Justice Court of Civil Appeals
Atwood McDonald _; __
Irby Dunklin .
For Hepreseniativa
Paul Donald
Earl C. Fitts
For Sheriff
Dick Lawrence
W. B. (Bedford) Henley t...
For County Commissioner Pre. 1
John. Raymond' ___
G. J. Morris ’ ,
For Justice of the Peace Pre. 7.
Henry B. Burns *
D. M. Painter
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Leona Game Group Extends Closed
Season On Quail Another Year
A plan is under way tn pmviiio
a 'recreational project for the
adults and school children. The
project is in its initial stages an 1
if consummated will be sponsored
jointly by the city and, the Bowie
schools. It will be financed large,
ly through WPA appropriations
and will provide, for recreational
features to be arranged for the
adults at Pelham Park .and for
children after school hours on the
local campus. Details have not
been worked out- It.has. already •
‘ beeri submitted to the mayor and
council and will be presented to
the school board at its next meet-
ing. ' ■ " "
Miss Leta Jo Perry, charming
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Perry, has been chosen by the
Nocona Chamber of Commerce as
Queen of the Montague County
. Fair for 1940.
1 Miss Perry, in addition to be-
school year for
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v>ui wc ticivt oaiuiuaj1, ocptcii
7, Supt. Walter B. Alexander
schools also winner of second place in
employees with plans for the Wed.
nesday night meeting and it is
expected that a large number of
salaried people will be present.
“I feel sure.” Luttrell said, in
connection with the meeting,
“that many of your people can
pay for them
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AU truck growers interested in
trying to secure a better price
for their produce, and who would
like to see a more systematic
method of marketing produce,
should attend the meeting to be
held in the City Auditorium ini
Bowie, Saturday afternoon, Aug-
ust 31, at 2:30 p.m. ...»
A large number of farmers have tending will
signed a petition asking for some
kind of a movement to be started
to help get a better price for their
products.
“When the price is as low as it-
was this year, the farmer can. not
make his expenses back out of the
crop,” County A^ent A. S. Elliott
“When the farm thresnot ger any-
•l. . ■ ■; qrop,' when the
School Band and Band Mothers' j “because the farmer
Club Friday night, August 23,
and will represent Bowie in the
state-wide contest to be at .Dallas
in October. She is the .attractive
daughter of Mr. and-Mrs. Henry
C„ Fort Wuitli. She-
sored by S. Daube & Co. Depart-
ment Store.
At ,its annual session held at
Leona school house Wednesday
night, August 21, the Leona Game
Management Association voted to
extend the closed season on quail
and doves for another year. This
action was taken because of the 1
satisfactory showing made by the !
present year's program which has
resultedmrmdre quail in the ter-
ritory of the association than for
a number of years previous. the district. ’ They will 1 ’.
The president of the associa- charge of the soil conservation'
tion, G. E. Blackmon, presided work for the area.
oyer the meeting which heard the BjnCe these men arc to be in
report by the secretary, L T. places of responsibility, thnir ac-
Hunter, outrmmg-a ve.y Success- [ions as supervisors will affect
fu..Y,e®F' ... . every landowner in the 'water-
AH the officers of the associa- shed. They, have been nominated
tion were re-elected for another by petition signed by landowners,
"term. These include: G:E. Black, and are representative farmers,
man, president; Lee Tucker, vice- Those who have been nominated
president; L T. Hunter, secretary. arc N. c Denton,-Wise County;
treasurer. These officers, togeth- , Rollans Hill, Jack County; L. T.
ence Pyrtn, coniH*»tothp hoard Itagu^ciiiinijif ---—
Y®* ®r«etors.---' , , ,--’i Every landowner is urged to go
The meeting instructed the to the polls and vote in this elee'-
board of directors to make an. ef- tion on Saturday August 31
fort to have one or more members |
of the association named as game f
wardens and also to try to secure Cfnrm TaVac
the appointment of a government olorm *aKes "eavy
trapper for the county during the Toll in Nocona Area
trapping season.
The president appointed County '
Ideal Food StoreA A. & P, Store.. Agent A S. EHiott tn maW inves- One home was burned down.
ting some prairie chickens and
pheasants to be released within
the boundaries of the . territory
the
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er with E. C. Lovelady and Clar- Hunter and Lee W. Tucker, Mon- will be in charge of the meeting, released bv Supt. Walter B. Alex-
ence Dunn rnnstitiito the board,;.— — --H - vr... ' —- ■«
The faculty is listed as follows:
High School:’ Walter B. Alex-
ander. s. pc rmtendent; John B.
Lewis, principal; Miss Alleen Bur-
gess, Lucille Jackson, Leon Moore,
Willie Lee Dickerman, Helen
Hale. Elizabeth Noble, Thos. C.
Schneider, Robert Kincaid, Eu-
■ advised of this meeting in ord-I gene Medford- Hersbel Stephens, .
that they migrt ac^atnrffiliir JHSi^er Knight and George-Rock-
er.
Grammar school: Paul Taliafer-
ro, principal; Mrs. Jessie Precise, “
Mrs. Elizabeth Young, Minnie
Laney. Ellen Jopling, Olive Trim-
ble an<l Alice McDonald.
South Ward: Serena Dodd prin.
East Ward, Ruth Work-
principal; North Ward,
1 Chandler, principal,
leo- i Tyachers ,ip the Ward schools are;
Mrs. Gertrude Ham, Mrs. Ruby
Dickey, Mrs. Ruth Ragsdale, Mary
Lou Register, Clara Hoeldtke,
Lometa McAfee, Alice McMillan,
Loreta Eakman and Modena
Stout.
Mrs. Dickey, Mrs. Ragsdale and
Miss Stourt are new members of
the faculty having been elected
recently. Assistant Coach Louis
Robinson has resigned but no one
has been elected to fill the vac-
ancy. ’
A step by step explanation of
how residents of Bowie can buy
or build their homes under the |
Federal Housing Administration
plan will be Wednesday night. 1
September 4, at 8.00 o’ctock at fhe*
City Auditorium in Bowie, it was
announced today by P. S. Luttrell,
of Dallas, State Productiion Man-
ager for Texas of the , Federal
Housing Administration. He an-
nounced that Forest W. Gregory,
Field . Representative , of t
Northwest Texas FHA District ber 9, according to information
In addition to the explanation On ander today,
the FHA plan’of home ownership. —
there will be shown 36 slides, in
color, of houses anging in price
from $1,600 to $5,400 which have
been built and financed under
FHA during recent months
Northwest Texas.
All business firms in Bowie will
be advised of this meeting in ord-
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Perry, Coy. The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940, newspaper, August 30, 1940; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1363769/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bowie Public Library.