The Montague County Times (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 39, Ed. 1 Monday, January 18, 1954 Page: 3 of 8
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take their loan payments—well,
maybe a few dollars left over—
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last week on business.
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Were Those Good Old
How you can reach your savings goal
on the systematic Payroll Savings Plan
If you want approximately
$10,000
NOCONA ATHLETIC COACH
RESIGNS EFFECTIVE JUNE 1st
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organ re-
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nducted by
Mr. and Mrs. Andy Hutchin-
son of Munday were guests last
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The fire department still has
15 volunteer members and- three
pieces of apparatus—and use
water for fighting fifes from the
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junior and senior high school
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Saving is so simple—when you invest in U. S. Savings Bonds
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or in the auditorium in such a
way (as to merit the approval of
my fellow students and my
teachers.” 1
"I will show due respect for
all .property, of the school, such
as buildings, library books, and
on the Payroll Savings Plat
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Eoch week for
9 years and
8 months, save..
Each week for .
19 years and
8 months, save..
Thia chart ahowa only a few typical examplea of saving* goals and
how to reach them through Payroll Savings. You can eave any
■■ aum you., wish, frnm a couple of dollars a payday up .to as much aa
you want, The important thing is, start your Plan today!
are 1,900 telephones
compared to the 783 in I'.)13, ac-
cording to telephone company
figures. There were four hotels
Here'in those "good old days”,
but there are a bunch of top notch
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A dream? Not at all. Thousands of peopte with modest
incomes have been able to save the down payment, or the
whole price, of the home of their dreams—because they in*
vested in U: S. Savings Bonds on the Payroll Savings Plan:
Look at the chart on this page. See how you can accumulate
enough money for the down payment on ahome. Or enough
for your children’s college education or a retirement in-
come. And by saving only a few dollars a week, too.
The answer is that you save systematically on the Payroll
Savings Plan. All you have to do is tell your pay office how
much you’ve decided to save each payday (it can be as little,,
as a couple of dollars). After that your money is saved for
you, before you get your salary. Then-each time enough has
- accumulated, it is invested in a Bond, and the Bopd turned
over to you.
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And remember—your U: S; Savings Bonds now will bring
you an average of 3% interest, compounded semiannually, •
for 19 years and 8 months. That’s why the money you put into
o Bonds naw grows to such a. surprisingly big sum;
i U. S. Cmnrntnent does not pay fbr tbit advertising. The Treasury Department thanks, for their patrMt donathti, the Advirtidng CaettecO
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you can have your dream house—this easy way!
Wiy7foifryOT5tarr==^^ you wutk, for thff
Payroll Savings Plan. Or, if you’re self-employed, have your
banket enroll you in the Bond-A-Month Plan. It’s as easy
as the Payroll Savings Plan.
ing* iny appointments, since ,
punctuality is one of the neces-, school and to work
sary traits of a goo^citizen.” ly for' the maintena
“I will work diligtwtylo pre-
pare the daily schocw work as-
signed me, btcausey? doing so
I shall gain the Jj/bwledge and
habits needed-*?!) carry out the
larger responsibilities in life af-
ter school.”
‘'I, realize that honestyTinTroth
public and private life is a nec-
essary quality’of. a good Citizen,
will strive" to "be honOst to my
■own self, to my fellow citizens,
to my teachers^ and to my school.
“I.will strive to be courteous
at all times and to accord the
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Bowie Personals
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Daniel of
Dallas, Mrs. H. A. -Cdmcll and
children of Fort Worth visited
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
.White, and other relatives last
week. ■
Bob White and Mike Ash-
ford spent last week in Jlous'ton.
While there they attended the
Gdhejpl Motor Convention.
MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1954
club will ride In the downtown
parade '
The club will remain for Noco-
na Day at the show on the follow-
ing Saturday, Jan. 30.
The Nocona school band will
be in the opening day parade qf
the Fort Worth Fat Stock show
January 29. > • •
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postal receipts for the year 191^
showed $10,564.04. Surely it was
not the same four cents, but the
total postal reciepts which had
been counted up at the, close of
business of December 14, 1953
(up to that time for the year)
amounted to $42,938.04. /
Postal officials here said the
next 15 days from that report
would run a far higher percent-
, age nf 1
* 15-day. period in the year, and
made an Estimate of $47,500 as a
“fair figure” for the 1953 postal
receipts—about four times as
• great as those good old days.
Naturally, the new industries
which have come in since 1913 and pressers, 2 newspapers, 4
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. Days Really So Good?
Oh! Those-GOOD OLD Days! because they’ve brought in more
Wouldn't it be wonderful to | wealth and mor people to Bowie.
One thing the present genera-
so frequently ! tion of taxpayers might -prefer
about the 1913 days, thfeugh,
would be the- $2.30-per-hundred
i those wonderful things we-nud-'J'1* rate, as.cpuiihll&dJn tha $849-
----------- rate now in effect for all tax
purposes in Bowie! Still, some
would point out, look what we’re
getting.for the $3.80.
There isn’t any reference to a
radio receiver or a television set
in any of the stores about 1913
in Bowie. There wasn’t anything
about airplanes, but the same
two railroads
with streamlined train service to-
day were listed, and nothing said
about someday they may have
diesel, electric locomotives that
-will move -even—the freight
trains at 90-mile-an-hour clip.
There was a mention in the
papers of 1913, about a project
inti>rurban railroad to Dallas (or
from Dallas, as you wish), but it
never materalized, and no one
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where the cotton farmers could ‘why the project folded.
Someone said something ^bout
the raipfall and temperatures
and- the . fruit folks, probably .being better ' in “the good old
days”, but weather records for
the past 14 years show an aver-
age rainfall of 35.08 inches,
while only 21.31 'inches fell in
1952, the total for 1953 could
well be nearly up to the average
if it rains a bit more between
now and the time the 1953 total
is figured. (Maybe -you’re read-
ing this in .1954, but the rainfall
records are’ not totalled by the
official observers until about a
iiionth late, and the .atal isn’t
available yet. Ed.) " <
Temperatures have just about
matched up. year after year for
, you could call in Bowie iio\V, as
rendition of $2'.672,000, a Past 40-.
---- gam of imu'e than a million dol- There
lars. And, by the' way, there
wasn’t any great amount of fruit,
other than watermelons aifd can-
ktaloifpes gniwri in this area'fins
year. Most of ^he .big orchards _____
went with' the horse age'. So the motels and tourist courts here” “
valuation isn’t up on account of
fruit production, apparently.)
The school census (when claim-
ed a population of 4,000. in 1913)
was only 760. Evidently they did
not believe in children in those
days, because the school enroll- from wells and lake. There'were
< rnent now is 1,277, apd the bright-
est estimates of population shew
around 6,00(k That would mean
people in Bowie arc responsible
for more than half as -m'any chil-
dren as those 4,000 hhd running
around here 40 years ago. And
i - that an estimated 2,000 dchlitional
the medicaj si**tistics_ indicate
that families are smaller now
than ever before. H'mmm'mm.
There were nine rural mail
delivery routes in 1913, and the
nine mail carriers spent most
of their sick leave arid annual
vacation leave nursing saddle
sores. They started early and got
in late, whereas t-he carriers '
make the four routes from Bowie | gas makes it not worth while,
today cover about six' times as
great an area and get back, lots
. of times in time to cat hot lunch
—----with the wife and children at"
noon. And they don’t have to
start before daylight, either.
------There_were some automobiles
in Bowie then, but a panoramic
picture showing most of the
business district and the paved
streets of Smythe and Tarrant,
showed only three '‘horseless
carriages,” and they didn’t look
as if they had been driven on
. the boasted “Colorado to Gulf
and 98th Meridian national high-
ways”, which, permitted travel
if the motorist was a hardy soul
• . and was equipped* with camping
outfit ^nd complete repair kit
for roadside garage, work.
In those “good old days” the
Boude post office did a whop-
only wells in 1913. The lake was
built somewhat later. There are
two standpipes ' now, whereas
there was only one which held
90,000 gallons (still in service)
in 19J3. .
Therei were two weekly news-
papers here in 1913. There are
two papers published hero in
1953 although today they
published as a semi-weekly issue .
of the same ownership. The city
government is still aldermanic,,
as it was back then.
The abundant supply of coal
three miles, from Bowie might
i gov still .be worked if it could be ■
who I done economically, but natural
’ rrnc mnlznc if rtirtf xVrwth
Electricity, provided at prices
cheaper p,pw than in 1913, is far
more dependable at the much
lower rate, anefc the ■ nuiiiber of I
electrical appliances available
which caused some inventors to
be called Crazy in 1913 make liv-
ing mucETThore efftrifortablC Tn -
Bowie today.
■ There are 21 churches in Bowie
today, in some instances two'of
more of the same denomination
to take care of the memberships
of Christian people, h's’ compared
to the 11 churches in 1913.
City Secretary D. T. Wilson
recently made a survey of Bowie
and came up with these figures
to compare to your memory of
the “good old days”:
1,423 residence houses, 225
business buildings of all types,
396 platted vacant lots where
“■pmg' big. bUsineSs~The totalf+i-mws- can be -built. ■ -----
26. gasoline service stations
(there weren't any listed in 1913,
but there must have been one
dr two, anyhow), 13 garages and
tire shops, 8 motels or tourist
courts. ...
There are 12 grocery stores,
9 dry goods stores, four utility
apd land offices, 3 construction
and trucking firms, 6 laundries,
one broom and mop factory, 3
business liven any similar variety stores, 4 drug stores, 4
■ hardware stores, 12 plumbing
and appliance stores, 8 furniture
stores, 3 seat cover and glass
shops. *
Three depots and express of-
fices, 4 lumber yards, 4 cleaners
— ... fr.Mmn.AVf A, I .V OfTUfTY. 4
have swollen the postal receipts, I jewelry shops, 6 barber shops, 11
. “I, 'realize that my schodl
_\i'_kll_bej«l>t by he school
after I graduate, resolve to make
a record uf honest and worthy
achievement’.”
"I will strive' to respect the
rules and regulations of my
: constructive-
ly for the maintenance ofr cordial
relations between the students,
the faculty, and the principal.”
. will aij- my NOCONA RIDING CLUB
self 'of all the educational and AND SCHOOL BAND
recreational activities possible in
order that- my higli .school train-
ing may become an -acceptable
training for life.”
- “I will endeavor to live up to
the sportsmanship in Bowie
Higii School.” '
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TO FT. WORTH SHOW
The ChishbTm Trail
Club of Nocona will ride in the
grand entry on the opening night
and the next day, Jan. 29 and 30,
at the Fort ■ Worth Fat %Stock
Show.. .
H. W. Hudgens, captain of the I
SUll U1 ivxuiiuuy WCIU KUC3U5 AdSB
Nocona riding club, announced ' Week-end of Mr. and Mrs. Harve
that early Friday, Jan. 29,. the' Ratliff.
could” can the culls from the
crop—because the total deposits
,-in the banks of Bowie—all three
of them—amounted to only $878,-
000, plus a few extra.
(The latest statement of the
condition of the ONE bank oper-
ating in Bowie showed deposits
totalling-over $6 million and the
cotton grown in this county came'
from less than 5,000: acres, and it
wasn't a bumper crop, either—
\ possibly. 1,500 bales f< •• • the
county.)
The assessed' valuation -of pro-
perty in the city of Bowie was
$1,465,000, plus. (For u 1953 it
show a i
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shops, 6 insurance offices. The following .code of ethics.
13 warehouses, 4 machine-''’1- recently presented to a.11 ’school.equipment of all students,
shops, 4 trailer courts, 1 hotel, 1 iun'?r al’d senior high school -j ’realize that my school re-
mattress faetojrv. .2 nriin stu^’nts ’’y Faul Taliaferro, prin-
! televisinriT repair jrtrops, 6 feetf <’IP!U-
and seed stores, 3 stockyards; ' " strive-to be regular in
one tin shop^ 3 oil- field supply ,attendatice at classes and my
houses, 5 oil well mud and-chemi- halls, and prompt in meet-j
cab firms, 4 drive-in ice cream
and confectionary stands,' 2
photograph studios, one ice plant,
one cheese plant, one creamgry,
‘ 2 domino parlors, 5 used car. lots,
- 2-funeral-horned-31- -ehureh1 build-
ings, 3 dentists offices, doctors,
8 law firms (13 lawyers), 10
school buildings, 2 income tax
offices, 4 policemen' 23 firemen,
1 taxqollectojf'. ■
Following tfris list,’ Wilson add-
ed this, information:
“We havo.one dog catcher, six
drunks ana* a calaboose. Now
here is something bard to believe,
. , but it’s a fact—we have only 162
wrote in those days any reason i
ded organ
i e Lucht,
n-Lutheran
il numbers I
an address
Praise him.
rrents" and"
cafes and restaurants, 8 automo- chronis “grumblers, 47 confined [ same rights and privileges I
bile agencies and dealerships, one growlers and one dyed-in-the- should expect them to grant me."
bank; 5.fraternal lodge buildings, wool optffnist. . #. . .three bare- “I will strive to conduct i.ny-
5 beauty" shops,- 2 abbattoirs and faced liars and one wit who does self in the classroom, in the halls
butcher plants (loekers), 3 mov- not laugh at his own jokes.”
ie theatres, 3 shoe repair shops, ' Good Old Days?-—YEAIl!
one shoe store (exclusively ----------L---- .
shoes), 2 wholesale groceries. 7 RECOMMENDED STUDENT
bulk oil dealers, one sundry sup-
ply wholesale ‘ house, 2 flower
shnns K insivmnrn nffirns
were In Fort Worth on Monday
of last week. Mr. Curlde attended cal;education teacher, Jake Hal-
the distr^gt Brotherhood meeting ter, turned in his 'resignation to
Monday night' and Mrs; Curlee Superintendent Charles A. Lind-
visited her brother, and family, sey and the school board laat -■
Mr. and- Mrs. R. Y. Lane and week.
family. The effective date of Coach
. Halfer’s resignation is at the
close of the current school year,
—— ---June 1.—----7—■- ——■— ■ ’■? ’
He has been in his present po-
sition for (he past two years, com-
ing to Nocona from Claude, Tex-
Rldmg as near
Coach Halder did not announce
his plans for the future.
I
turn the clock back to “those |
good old days” one ,
hears- mentioned. J
Go, back, say, 40 years to all,
, die-’a’ged folks like to recall when
things- were thus and so, and
when the children really had to
learn things in the school of hard
knocks and came up being pretty
■ - , smart all ove'r town (we like to
say to each other).
Alright, let’s just turn the
pages buck for a fcwTHinatcs'and
look back 40. yeqrs. Let’s look at
Bowie as it was 40 years ago—
1913.
Whew! , E1 gh tee n- .thousand
-r-.- balcs^of cotton .were listed, as .the
, “yearly wagon receipts,” and
there were approximately 300
carloads cf peaches' and other
fruits shipped out that year >(or
somewhere aroqnd 1913, a year
back or forth).
And there were, three banks
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Tibbetts, Harlow E. The Montague County Times (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 47, No. 39, Ed. 1 Monday, January 18, 1954, newspaper, January 18, 1954; Bowie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1367835/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bowie Public Library.