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BOWIE, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1941
NUMBER 41
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Comanche Indians Wallop Bowie
20-0 To Win Bi-Dislrict Title
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Sadler Addresses
Christian Church
Rep. Ed Gosseit
Votes for War
thrusts
Indians
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is very quiet, opening with
iQjtafiptu talk by Henry
Wjfflich was very inspiring
_ present. The group
Elected a Defense committee
composed of Mayor J. C. McNatt,
Capt: A. A. Sadler of the Bowie
unit of the Texas Defense Guard,
Fire. Marshall Tandy Welch,
President p. W. Wiatson of the
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First in Montague County
First in Reader Interest
The PREFERRED
Newspaper ,
Red Cross Drive
Raises $427.95
The annual Red Cross 1
Call has been completed in Bowie.
■Bowie’s quota this year was $600
and the amount raised was
$427.95. Lum Lovette was chair-
The list of contributors fol-
lows:
Mr. L. H. Angove $ 1.00
Mrs. L. H. Angove . 1.00 ,
L. D. Falls ... ....... 1.00 Kenneth Shockley from the Cot-
S»K Rad Cross on Page Eight
pass.
« In the first
Bowie punt gave
possession on the
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$41,576.00.
Tuitton
$8,315.00.
Transportation,
paid, $18,399.00.
Bowie Jackrabbits
Open Cage Season
Prospects look promising for a
winning basketball team at
Bowie High School with about
30 boys drilling under Coaches
J. D. Stine and Dan Rhqme.
The Jackrabbit team will be
built around Pat Wright, Bob
Woodall, Paul White and G. H.
Hickman, four lettermen from
last year’s county tournament
champions. Other promising boys
are Jim Williams, Herbert Arl-
edge, H. L. Swann, Travis Under-
wood, Horace Bridgewater, and
Dr. M. E. Sadler, president of
Texas Christian University and
outstanding minister in the Dis-
ciples of Christ, will speak at the
first meeting of the new county
association at Nocona next Sun-
day afternoon.
Meanest Man Steals
Kiddie Christmas Money
The meanest man in town has:
There couldn’t be
much meaner than |
Dr. M. E. Sadler, president of
Texas Christian University and
one of the outstanding ministers
of the nation will «peak at the
firt meeting . of the Montague
County Christian Association
next Sunday afternoon, Decem-
ber 14, at 3 o’clock in the First
Christian church at ► Nocona.
Th three churches whose con-
gregations are inviting all Discip-
les of Christ or members of the
Christian church in Montague
county to join them in. this new
association are the First Christian.
churches of Bowie, Ringgold, and
Nocona. The motive of the as-
sociation is to bring everyone in
the county who belongs to the
church into one great fellowship
at meetings to be held four times i son'of“Mrs~ m7 a. Sigmon'and
brother of Mrs. Rex Calloway,
Dr. I was killed in a head-on collision
nead Dumas, Wednesday at 3:00
p.m. Two others were killed in
the accident. He is survived by
his mother his wife and two
sons, and nine brothers and sis-
ters. The funeral will be held
in Amarillo today and burial
will be from the home of Mrs.'
Rex Calloway here, Saturday.
His sisters, Mrs. Whitley and Mrs.
Wise Street W.P.A. Paving
Project Started Yesterday
The long-awaited Wise Street I
paving project got underway designated as a military road,
officially yesterday, according to I The project wil employ 35 or 40
”----- -■ ... - 'men t0 start with, but will have •
maximum of about 80, it was
sb id.
The WPA will furnish the la-
bor and supervisfoin. Jack Simp-
son, highway construction en-
gineer located here by the State
Highway Department will be in
charge. Herbert N. to. Rolls to
WPA superintendent and bto m-
stotant is David Seitx. 1WA.
N. Moody to general toeant
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U. S. A. Will Fight Japs, Germany And Italy
"THE SCARLET LETTER"
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hanksgiving .
Wales from
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all at noon.
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yard stripe. Coker ripped off 23
yards. Two more short gains
were made as the quarter ended
and bn the first play of the sec-
ond stanza Coker scored from
the two-yard line. The. extra
point was good and the half-time
score was 7 to 0.
The Indians were scoreless
during the third quarter but they
very ably demonstrated their
power. Pat Wright punted down
to the Comanche 4-yard line. In
IT playes the Indians, with Cokr-
er carrying the brunt of the at-
tack, smashed to the Bowie 1-
yard stripe. At that point a 15-
yard penalty set them back on
the 16 and they attempted to
pass on fourth down and failed,
the ball going over to Bowie. It
was Comanche’s only pass of the
game. t ‘
Bowie soon kicked and the In-
dians took the ball on the 50-
yard line and th few minutes
Coker again scored. The extra
point was good. Score 14 to 0.
The third touchdown followed
a few minutes later when Cline
was smothered as he tried to
pass. The ball was fumbled and
Spears recovered for Comanche
on the Bowie 15. f'——
in two thrusts, first to the 1-
yard line and over from that
point. The goal was wide.
Pat Wright suffered an injury
to his arm and shoulder in the
last half.which put him out of
the game. The Bowie pass at-
tack was good for several gains
in the closing minutes. The
greater part of the game the
Bowie offense was stopped Cold-
Comanche made 15 first downs,
Bowie 8. Comanche gained 231
yards ffom scrimmage, “
73. Comanche lost 4
Bmvie 16. Bowie
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tontail team of last year. Ex-
perienced rural transfers are
Clydell Bell, J. C. Gossett. J. D.
Faulkenberry, Cecil Adkins, and
Bob Byas.
Basketball will be played on a
conference basis this season in
three divisions. All the way to
a state championship. Bowie will
compete with th- esame oppon-
ents as in football. Bowie and
Nocona are pre-season favorite:
for the title m 11-A.
The district 11-A basketball
schools have announced plans for
the 1941-1942 basketball season.
Supt. W. B. Alexander of Bowie Pt”
is chairman of the district. Mem- ,
berfschools are Bowie Nocona.
Saint Jo, Henrietta, Jacksboro,
Newcastle, Bridgeport, and De-
catur.
Representatives voted to divide
the district with Bowie, Nocona,
Saint Jo and Henrietta in the
north half and Decatur, Jacks-
boro, ** a. xoort, and Newcastle
i" ? half. The two top
ill o« Pagto Eight
MORE SUBSCRIBERS
ADDED TO LIST
New and renewal subscrip-
tions to The Bowie News dur-
ing the past week:
J. W. Whitman, City
Mrs. Sue Denham, 242 No.
Mason.
W. W. Willliams, City
B. C. Bowden, 118 No. Mason
Will Knanow Rt. 3
Mrs/J. T. Wetsel, City
Miss Stella Wilson, City
W. J. Linnen, City
i L. O. Miller, 505 Live Oak
Mrs. M. F. Mitchell, City
Bob White, City
Mrs. Thomas Dutton, City
j Fred Gardner, Bowie
Mrs. L. L. Fenn, Stoneburg
M. Posey, City
Mrs. Bonnie C. Rich, Belcher-
ville
G. P. White, Star Rt
Nettie Zahn, Montague
Debs Garms. Sunset
F. M. Hamilton, Rt 3
W. B. Alexander, City
G. M. Evans, Rt. 1
Mrs. Mattie Cox, Calif. ’>
J. W. Robinson, City
Pvt. Arvin Williams, Calif.
J. B. Lewis,. 605 E. Wise
G. L. Jeffries, City
Mrs. Ethel Lankford, City
P. F. Hustead, City
Mrs. R. L. Warren, Bellevue
C. C. McNatt, City
Mrs. W. S. Burgnes, City
Jess Whatley, Rt 2
a year.
The program on which
Sadler will speak in the Nocona
meeting Sunday afternoon will
be presided over by W. B. Alex-
ander, Bowie chool superintend-
ent. Mrs. John Tompkins of
Ringgold will sing, “God Bless
America.” The young quartet
of the Bowie church, consisting
of Joan Lloyd, Alfred Narramore,
Norma Grace Narramore, and
Jacqueline Narramore will sing, I Cooper and daughter, Mrs. Shaw
Mrs. W- L. Stein, acting secretary are here With his mother, Mrs.
of the association, will be the | Sigmon, who has been ill
— accompanist, Mrs. A. V. Peterson several days,
heavy-: of Nocona will lead the prayer. < o--------
J Pastors of the churches at . __
Bowie, Nocona, and Ringgold Bowie Woman Is
are A. L. Porterfield, Joe Fred-!<-•„—J—OC
erick, and W. A. Welch, respec- IjTanamOineT at JO
tively. There will be a fellow- I
ship hour after the meeting. 1
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Chamber of Commerce and Supt.
W. B. Alexander.
The following signal will be
used at all times. Two blasts of
the fire siren signals a fire.
Three blasts will call the njem-
bers .of the Fire Department to-
gether and four blasts means an
emergency and will call out the
wrlome Defense Guard* Please
remember these signals and citi-
zens who can not help either unit
are advised to stay a thome and
out of the way.
Mayor McNatt stated Wednes-
day that people are requested to
stay from fires, to refrain from
following the trucks and get in
the way of department members
who are on the way to the fire.
Citizens driving a car at the time
of an alarm must pull over to
g£le curb and stop until the
trucks have passed. He stressed
particularly, the fact that they
must stay away from fires and
out of the way. Ordinances cov-
ering these vioilations will be
enforced if citizens do not .vol-
untarily obey them.
“Every effort will be taken to
properly guard our water, light
and power system,” said Mayor
McNatt.
Bowie Citizens Rally io The
Defense of Ciiy and Country
/ The Citizenship of , Bowie
,4Sprang to the defense Of America
f Monday in the country’s war with
Japan, which now is a War also
with Germany and Italy. Ap-
proximately 40 business men and
citizens of Bowie met in the of-
fice of Mayor J. C. McNatt Mon-
day morning to take preliminary
steps for the protection of - the
municipal power, light and wa-
ter system.
Bowie already has given heav-
ily of its manhood. Most of Co.
B. the 111th Engineers on duty I
at Camp Bowie and Bowie men f
Many of our boyys are on duty in
rk<he war zone. Efforts were
made to compile a list of these
men. but in many instances infor-
mants were not sure of the loca-
tion of -the men, and it was
found that several were serving
in other points, so it was decid-
—i -—ed not~to compile suclTanist un-
til more certain. —
.- .1 Tuesday night a mass meeting
of' Bowie men was held at the
City Auditorium with hundreds
of men being present. • The meet-
ing,, was vi------!** ----1-----!A“
an imi *
Moore,1
thoi.. .
Local Taxes, $59,893.24.
State Available, $118,462.50.
This does not include the local
taxes of independent school
districts.
~iis expenditure made it pos-
i for the comnton schools of
the county to have an average
term of 174 days, longest in the
history of the county.
Mr. Fanning stated that the
length of the 1941-1942 term will
be even better, because action of
the last legislature. The local
taxes to be collected this year
has risen from $59,894.20 to $74,-
444.06 and it is expected that
State Aid will ba paid 100 per
cent
of
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■b • t- tx x x1 ulv nuuse OI nepreseniauves
Bowie r ire Department ■ from the 13th District, like all of
| his fellow Texans, voted Monday
for a declaration of war against
Japan, following that country's
attack against Hawaii.
Many of his constituents no
doubt heard his splendid short
talk over the air Tuesday. The
following statement was pre-
pared Monday and released to the
press of his district. Congress-
man Gossett said:
"I have today voted for a dec-
1, war against Japan.
Like inany of you, I have often
prayed that we might never con-
front this grim necessity. It’s a
bitter cup, from the drinking of
which we cannot escape. The
only thing worse than war is
chains and slavery. For Ameri-
cans there is no' choice. We
have been attacked by ruthless
barbarians who. recognize no
. law'but that of force. They have
deliberately embarkc ’ upon a
campaign of rdbbciv and de-
struction. They would take from
us not only our material posses-
sions but als our possessions of Stamps,
far greater Value, possessions for
which they have no regard or re-
spect—honor and freedom. Al-
ready American altars are being
sanctified by the .tragic flow of
American bldod and tears. The
' toils and sacrifices of two cen-
turies of liberty-loving people is
at stake. To human decency both
now and hereafter we must again
dedicate our lives and all the
for things we hold dear. Before God
and our fellowmen; we can do no
more, and we can do no less.”
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Lions Club Will
Accept Donations
The Lions Club is accepting do-
nations now for the annual
Christmas Tree for underprivil-
eged Bowie boys and girls, which
they sponsor. Donations will be
taken by Glenn Troutt,
Hoeldtke and Ike Parks,
on the list this week are:
CocO-Cola Co.
Mrs. W. H. Denson _
Just a Friend ...
T ,E. Lundy, Wichita
The club wants the names t
all children who need to be re-
membered, and ask people to give
the parents names, age of child
and sex. Children must be un-
der 12 and live in Bowie or vicin-
ity. These reports may be made
to LaGrande Henderson, G. L.
Griffin, Thurman Parker or M.
A. Bryan.
The club has made no decision
about its building which was
damaged by fire. z '
Mrs. Leslie Parker is probably
the youngest grandmother in
Bowie. A present on her 36th
birthday was 4., six and one-half
pound bundle from heuven,
daughter of her son, Mr. and Mrs.
Travis Parker of Hobbs, N. M.
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Large Sum Spent
On County Schools
During the 1940-1941 school
term a total of $246,645.74 was
spent in Montague county for
the education of its boys and
girls, according to a statement
by County Superintendent J. A.
Fanning. This figure should give
Montague county people a good
idea of the cost of education in
this county.
This cost was divided as fol-
Saiary Aid, 95% per cent paid,
Aid, 81 per cent paid,
Group of Hunters
Kills Seven Rattlers
“There’s rattlesnakes under
them there • rocks, Pardner.” At
least under one big rock on the
S. M. Prater ranch three miles
northwest of Stoneburg, there
was plenty of them, if the evi-
dence brought to Bowie was any
indication.
D. E. McDonald iind sons,
Floyd and David, killed seven out
of fourteen discovered in one
den Friday morning. The larg-
est rattler was 5 feet long. 9%
inches in circumference and had
fifteen rattlers. The other six
were not babies, in the writers
estimation. No buyer of rattle-
snake steaks could be found.
Asked if the rattlers fought
back, McDonald said, "you bet.
A rattlesnake never runs.” They
killed three Thursday.
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A smashing, hard-charging,
yowling bunch of Comanche In-
dians swept out of the south
Friday at dusk and .invaded the
Bowie High School Athletic
Field, knocked the Jackrabbits
..off their feet to completely sub-
them 20 to 0, to capture bi-
•iistrict honors.
The Indians were led by Cok-
er. 195 pound, six foot chunk of
human dynamite who ripped the
‘ Jackrabbit team to shreds time
after time for long gains and
touch downs ,to earn the right
to play Stamford for regional
honors today. Coker is without
.indoubt the Indian’s ace card
and bis wallop gave the victory
edge to Comanche. However,
Coker is a poor passer and punt-
er, his chief ability consisting of
power and weight combined
with shiftness enough to bring
yardage nearly every
carries the pnll.
The type of power
I ». which Coker and the
I featured were too much for the
I Jackrabbits. The local lads had
1 never played against this type
tiffense in the fall campaign
which they had successfully
ended with .their second consec-
utive 11-A championship.
In the opening minutes of the
fray the Jckrabbits made their
only serious bid for a touchdown
when Williams returned a punt
mUo Indian territory. The ball
Was worked, down to the 18-yard
line and the drive halted when
Munroe •intercepted Wright’s pass
on his own two-yard line.
In the same quarter Abel Cline
intercepted a lateral and brought
Jackrabbit fans to their feet as
he made a brilliant 55-yard gal-
lop over the goal line only to
have it called back, as officials
r gfdled it was an illegal forward
quarter • bad
the Indians
Rabbits 4b
Bowie Clinic and
Hospital Notes
------------- Admitted: Mrs. A. M. Drum-
Monroe^scored’] mond of Bowie, Mrs. Frank
Biggar of Bowie, Sue Harris,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E.
P. Harris, Sue Weatherford,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
W. Weatherford. ,
Births: a son. Charted Ed-
ward, to Mr. and Mrs. C. O.
Young of Ringgold.
Dismissals: Mrs. ft. C. Reed
of Bowie. Mrs. James H. Wil--
liams of B6wie, .Mrs. C. A.
Shaver of Bowie, Mrs. L. C.
Parr of Bowie, Mrs. W ,L.
Carlisle and daughter, Evelyn
Joyce, Bbwie, Mrs. C. O.
Young and son, of Ringgold,
John Wiest of Montague.
^.nsw^rs 5 Calls in 2 Days
The Bowie Fire Department
set some kind of a record Friday
and Saturday, answering five
alarms in those two days, more
than the answer sometimes in
two months. The first alarm was
shortl after 1 a.m. Friday when
fire broke- out in the Walthall
building. Two other alarms were
answered before 4 o’clock that , i'
afternoon, both grass fires. Th<' - ■■
two Saturday calls were
fires.
Communiques Say Jap Invasion
Halted, Dig Battleship Sunk
The war drums ceased their
constant rumbling Sunday and
th ewai of air-raid sirens and the
thunder of guns ha shattered the
peace and quiet of a Christian
Christmas to which all America
was joyfully looking forward. It
was a typical American Sunday
—people had been to Sunday
school and church, families wre
gathered at their fireides, friends
were visiting friends, other*
were at the movies or Just driv-
ing around when the first flash
came.
Japan has attacked Hawaii!
That is American sil, protected
by our flag and American boys
in th euniforms of the Army, the
Navy and th eMarine Corps. And
at that very moment, our great
national leaders were still trying
in every possible way to effect
a peaceful settlement. But Ja-
pan chos eto strike a blow in the
dark, a blow that came while
Hawaii was just awaking to a
new day.
At first, the news was stun-
ning. Words were useless. . But
as the news kept cming through,
stunned America; became an ar-
oused America. It became angry
anad fighting mad, but it was a
calm anger, not in the least hys-
terical. “My buddy is over there.”
My brother—my son—my friends
---American boys are over there.
They asked for i. Not let’s get
the job over.”
Congress Declares War
In record time Monday Con-
gress heard President Roosevelt’s
message and in a little over 33
minutes war had been declared
on Itchy-Itchy the Jap. Great
Britain, Canada,. China, the Neth-
erlands, Dutch East Irides, Aus-
tral in. South Africa, Nicaraugua.
Honduras, Panama, and other
South and Cental American coun-
tries followed the action taken
by the United States.
Japan won the first battle.
Therd is no use beating around
the bush aboutit or trying to
blame someone for it. The attack
was a surprise, and trying to
place blame for th ebombing of
Pearl Harbor and Honolulu win
not brirt; our men back to us
nor will it win the war. If Am-
erica wants to do something,
joip th earmed services in some
capacity or spend money to buy
an interest in Future Freedom
by buying Defense Bonds and
Congressman Ed Gossett
Wichita Falls, representative
I the House of Representatives
num VIM- 4UVI1 U13UIVI, lirkt" Uli
his fellow Texans, voted Monday
underway designated as a
Mayor J. C. McNatt, with actual
work to begin Monday morning,
December 15. The project is spon-
sored and engineered jointly by
.the City of Bowie, the WPA and
the Texas Highway Department.
The total cost will be over
$47,000 and will take five or six
months to complete. In includes
the paving, curbing and guttern-
ing of Wise Street through the
city. Thia highway has been
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Texas Delegation
Passes Resolution
The following resolutioin was
prepared and passed unanimous-
ly by Texas members of the House
of Rep»?sentatitves at a special
meeting at 11 o’clock Monday
morning. It needs no explana-
tion. .
“WHEREAS, Japan has made
an unwaranted and unprovoked
and ruthless attack without
warning .upon the United States
while peace negotiations were
still in progress and has sunk
our ships and murdered our citi-
zens, when no cause whatever
had been given by the United
States therefor, and
i WHEREAS, the United States
1 had don eeverything honorably
’ possible to avoid war with Ja-
pan, and was still engaged in
peaceful negotiations when the
attack was made upon our Navy
and our soldiers and our’eftizens,
“THEREFORE, b eis resolved
by th eTexas Delegation .'in., the
House of Representativtes in -the
Congress of the United States,
that we resent with all our force
and vigor this treacherous and
murderous and dastardly attack
and as Representatives of the
people of Texas—a people whose
patriotic service in the.defense of anything
pledge our«Unfalteing .support a bit of Christmas joy to some
as Commnhder-in-Chief of our
Army and Navy in this period
of grave crisis.”
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No Outstanding
Oil Activity
There seems to be no outstand-
ing activity in the Bowie oil
area this week. Apparently the
Gulf test well on the Borden
ranch is a failure, according to
all reports.
Operators at the Continental
No. 1 Winder north of Bowie
have not yet made a producer
of the well.
Actual drilling operations have
begun at the Continental No. 1
Mueller, four miles east of Bowie.
This is a 7,000 foot test.
It is said an offset well to the
Turner discovery well, five miles
nrth of town, has been staked
and work will start immediately.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bob White wore
in Wichita Falls last Tuesday.
Representatives of
history ad traditions are, rjch in left his mark.
our country and our liberties— stealing money intended to bring;
we pledge oummfalteing .support a bit of Christmas joy to some
to our country and our President Underprivileged Bowie boy or
---kJ— s_ z-ls.x ---- giri :DO y0U think so?
Somebody removed several
dollars in. small change from a
Lions' Club Christmas bottle at
' the Shamburger Lumber Co. of-
fice last Friday, according to
Lee Hunter, manager.
Hunter’s colorful language, used
to convey his own personal opin-
ion about the theft and thief was
of necessity deleted by .the cen--
sor. ' '
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Golden Gloves
Tourney Here
The Bowie Boys’ Club, with the
assistance of the Service Club
are sponsoring the Golden Gloves
Tournament in Bowie. The fin-
als are to be held in the City
Auditorium January 16, Friday
night.
All potential entries are urged
to contact the Recreation office
in the basement of the City Audi-
torium; and begin training for
the bouts. All bpys 16 years old
and older arg eligible, if they
are amateurs. Punching bags,
skipping ropes, and the like are
available for training nt the Re-
creation*Center at all times. The
weight classes range from 112
pounds (flyweight) to 1
weight classes (175 pounds , and
over). ■
Winners will be sent to the
District bout at Wichita Falls, to
be held January 20, 21, 22 and
23. Official entry blanks and
other necessary preliminaries
have been produced by the
creation Department.
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Campbell, Mark. The Bowie News (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1941, newspaper, December 12, 1941; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1363836/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bowie Public Library.