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MONTAGUE COUNTY OIL WELLS
NEAR DECISIVE DEPTHS
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' GOVERNOR COKE STEVENSON
IS BOWIE VISITOR FRIDAY
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Ration Board Issues
45 Tires and Tubes
THREE DOTS AND A DASH FOR VICTORY
that , 'Texas
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Hot Check Writer
Bowie Last Week
Activity of a "hot check’
here last
T.vpey ‘
:n ag^«
person.
> Coffee
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?r sur-
around
into a
’• Long,
luilding
r. Long
nt that
mar^K
homes_
ere be-—
:ry. best
lay, 25d
fenry’s,
on Bel-
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are McNatt pointed out that in. the -
let- past three years the bonded in-I
debtedness of the City of Bowie I
,, urtu.. vauv», win, has been reduced some . $34,000'
ikin, sauerkraut, spin- from $310,000 three years ago to ,
£$276,000, This reduction 'Th--
; eludes the absorbtiion of $18,000 j
- auditorium Thursday, March 10, i Fort - Worth
under the auspices of the Bowie j Ward of Dauasr an. atne associa-
Rotary Club. Turner founded tiion president, A. J. Riddle of
Chile's first Rotary Club in 1923 Denison.
and that country now has 89
clubs with more than 2,000 r
bers and rangs second in F
among the nations of the world.
Rotarian Turner has lived in
Chile 26 years, knows the coun-
. .iresanted
by tht Chilean Government wth
a i *
only to -military men and diplo-
mats who have rendered some
special service to their country. | ua,I',seJ-’ ™esa^ uBtiC/1Ceu hST2
He has traveled in Mexico, |
p.m. Burial was. at Sunset cerine-
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It a
Dave M. Major has been ap-
pointed city air raid warden.
Mayor J. C. McNatt announced
this week.
1 Mr. Major, will in turn appoint
aassistants, who will be assigned
An air raid lefense program is
related to a similar program cov- store last week, Mr. Wood rtneked
‘ States the store with a large quanity cf
A rationing program for hit
types of new trucks, truck-trac-
tors and trailers, to be atfminist-
D . T „ V U **“• «<•» ■■■"‘•w «* “■ cred jointly by the War Produc-
Roy L. Coffield, who has been talker, July >9, .1005, and tian- Board and the Office of De-
----x ---x------. . . . - — fense Transportatiion, has been
announced.
Approximately 196,000 trucks
! and truck trailers will be avail-
able under the plan for ration-
ing during the next 22 months-
The rationing, effective March
9, will permit gradual release at
.Sinclair No. 1 Jones, in the Sin-
gletary survey, east of Forest-
burg is drilling at 6,800 feet in
shale and streaks of sand and
lime. The same company's No-
1 Henderson, southeast of Den-
I ver in the M. E. Martin suftrey, a
6.500 foot test, is drilling at 5,-
275 feet in shale.
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Rotary Club Hears
Mayor McNatt
The Rotary Club met at
Morrow Grill Wednesday with,
for the first- time in a number of
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days earlier at high schools. Reg-
istration dates probably will riot
be Set -for another week or so:
One adult may register for
each family unit; and a family
unit, generally speaking, will be
considered to be a group, related
by blood or marriage, living and
eating together under the same
roof. Servants, lodgers and oth-
ers who live in a household must m na «a • » ■ ■ 1
«. E W Daley Attends
min istrators have appealed to ■ fa .■
»h^M;1runSrK’13iiDairy Convention
back to retail stores any excess I __
sugar they have, at the daily E- Daley, manager of the.
shelf jince. If they do not, from Montague Dairy Products Com- the Offic eof Price Administra-
one to eight Stamps may be torn pany Jeft Thursay to attend the tion, wi|h the setting of L --- ---, ------------------1
from their books at the time they wartime convention of the Texas mum price regulatiion for can- months, every member of the
register, and they will not be Dairy Products Association that ners ^nd wholesalers., effective ’ ‘
able to buy more sugar until ls beinl> held at Texas A. & M March 2.
their excess supply has been College this week-end. • Canned fruits covered by the
used up. No amount has been The subject of the meeting, “A order are apples, apple- sauce,
determined yet for a ‘‘normal Wartime Responsibility,” will be apricots, cherries, fruit cocktail,
supply/, but it is expected to be dlscusbed by some the most fruit salad, peaches, pears, pine-
a figure near two pounds per important men in the dawy’rig apples and plums. Ccr.zcd '—
person. industry today; Namely, Dr. E. W. etables covered by the order
Special provisions will be' Gaumnjtz of Washington, D. C., asparagus, beans'
made later to provide househoHH wh°-^uss/‘Dairy Products. ies>, iima beans,
ers with sugar for home preserv-;apd.xNa9onal Pefe!??e1 P”
ing and canning. , mnrtz w> mrplus Marketing Ad-;
Chilean to Speak
Here March 19
Governor Goke Stevenson was ♦ - -—r--—— -------;-----
Sugar Books Ready
Probably Last of March
State rationing Administrators
in Texas, Oklahoma and . Louisi-
ana—the three states IK the’
Southwest -region of the Office of
Price Administration—have made
public the manner in which
sugar rationing books will be
issued, probably during the last
week of March. ,
A sugar rationing . book for
each ’ man, woman and child will
be issued, during a four-day
period. ’
Thousands of school teachers
-in each state will serve as regis-
ters under the direction of local
rationing boards. Family regis-
Numerous Cores Taken?
Progress Slow
The Continental Oil Com-
pany’s No. 1 Mueller, four miles
East of Bowie in the F. Hamilton
survey has "Been"shut down “far
repairs” this week. The present
rig is being moved off and will
be replaced with a heavier one
which is being moved in from a
well in Wise county. —
-Northeast of . Stoneburg » the
Continental No. 1, J. F. -Yowell—
recovered drv conglomeration ’
a core at 6.102-12 and is reported
to be drilling ahead in dry lime
at 6,180 feet. .
The Continental No. 1, Penn,
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breiu
• recovered three, feet of shale and
a foot of lime with slight show
at 6.109 14 feet and is coring
ahead.
Northwest of the Turner pro-
ducer, Walter Gant is rigging up
on his No.l, J. T. Brown, in the
southeast corner of the G. E.
Nabours survey, 1416, and will
start drilling within a few days.
The Continental No. 1 A.
Drummond; 5,000 foot' test in
block 4. Limestone county school
lands is drilling at 5,175 in shale.
This test is east of the sane
hf Howie: f??TnPa"Y’g w<>-, *■ A. Wind® to---
•k 43 of the same, survey
which baled acid water, Thursday
through seven inch casing at
6,506 feet.
The Sinclair No. 1 Collier,' in
the J. Collier survey, six miles
east Moontague is drilling in
Admissions to the hospital:
Doris June, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. A. Phillips, Stone-
burg, Linford, son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M. Roth, Sunset, Mrs.
E. J. Ruff, Bowie, Mrs. Joe
GarlingtKiHf*BoWie, Mrs. * C. A.
Shaver, Stoneburg, -v- ;
Dismissals: Mrs. E. S. Moore,
and baby son, Bowie, Mrs. J.
E. King, Bowie, Rt. 1, Mrs.
Cetjil Daniel. Bowie, E. R. La-
Neave, Bowje, Rt. 2, Mrs. W.
, H. Elenburg, Newport, Mrs. E.
J Huff ana baby daughter,
Bowie, Mrs: George S. .Lee,
Bowie. £'
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These usage
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’ Tire Dealers May
Dispose of Stock
21 plan vy wriwu me ucaieis,
whose business has been curtail-
ed because of the necessity for
rationing tires, can dispose of
their stocks of new passenger car
tires and tubes has been announc-
ed by the OPA. The “tire return
plan” provides that dealers and
jobbers may sell all or part of guay
their stocks back to the manu-
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E. G. Wood Buys
J. A. Brjje Store
A store name long familiar to
thii section was replaced this
week with the announcement
that E G Wood had purchased
the J. A. Bfite Dry -Goods Store
and would cofitinue its operatiion
under the name of the Wood Dry
Goods Company.
Mr. Wood has been employed
bj^ the J. A- Brite Store for the
past year, coming here from
Gatesville. The location of the
store will not be changed.
Following his purchase of the
The Montague County Ration
Board held their regular weekly
meeting in Montague Thursday
and issued the following purchase
certificates: Ebner N. Dunbar,
Saint Jo, two tires; Montague
County, precinct No. 3, two tubes;
Jesse C. Maxwell, Saint Jo, one
Governor Coke Stevenson, with the inevitable pipe in his hand, “dropped in” on the |
Bowie News and Publisher 5Mark Campbell last Friday. The Governor and his party were|
jn their .way to Henrietta, where he addressed a Henrietta Chamber, of ■Commerce gathxj
ering.
Bessie Kilcrease,
1 Ivimiiie uiuwii, x^wvi
1 Pauline McWilliams
five sons, Charles
Perryton, James McCartney, of
BowieL Cecil McCartney, Dallas,
Roy and Troy McCartney of
■0 » W
I Funeral services for Mrs. Floy ”
Bilbro Walker, 60, were held at g?
^yFX^onodaist^0urc^nrhurs-1 r uck
attack in Dallas, following a n ^>PIan Announced
eration two weeks ago.
—Mrs:— Walker prominent —-in-
club and civic affairs and former
plus 10 per cent for i Lat«?-America — the
expenses ilivoliedi >™-x6cnt of J
this merchandise* possibilities.
• ■ ■ oaioc were In 1936-37 Turrier made a trip-
I around the world, visiting 22
| countries, including a rrtrinth in
Russia, and Japan.
I he went he was a favorit espeaker
I at Rotary and other service
In addition to his talk here,,
artist I Ttimer will speak at tert other!
■was reported here last week Rotary c]ub gatherings in West
when a man said to have been of Texas.
nice appearance and. manner j All service clube organize1
victimized a local merchant of anad the public in general
$5.D0 following an elaborate cordially invited to attend,
build-up. -t_j_i—i— i-.su ——j
The man entered negotiations
with the merchant concerning a
purchase. After being in the
store several times he casually
inquired as to whether he could
get a check cashed. The bank
regretfully informed the
chant the following day
there was “no account’ in
name* of the check writer.
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Mrs. Rufus Brown of Fort
Worth is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Winfield Scott, this H
week.
Maximum Price of 26
Canned Staples Set
Twenty*six %anned fruits and
vegetables staples of the Amerl
can dinner-table, have moved
under the protective influence of
q maxl-
a brief visitor in Bowie last Fri*-
»■ day afternoon. Accompanying
the governor were Homer Leon-
el ard, Speaker of the House of
Representatives Ernest Boyett,
H secretary to the governor, Bob
■. a. Hicks, staff. correspondent for
■ the Star Telegram and A. E.
’ Jones of the Department of Pub-
lic Safety.
■.. The governor and his party
were on their way to Henrietta
■ I where he addressed more than
B '500^persons at the annual ban-
■ quet 6f the Henrietta and Clay
[ ' County Chamber of Commerce.
B Friday, previous to the Hen-
rietta address, Governor Stev-
I enson spoke at Decatur at a joint
meeting of Decatur and Bridge-
P DieLGoveSorbetold the group “Y*1"8;,,00/™5’ ,heamllly re®18-
I that a new financial crisis will £ants will go to the elementary
I .Jaaa the next session of the. Leg- family hves ^
I islature as a result of a sharp e retail
decline in tax revenues due to will register several
Sled gaminepurchasedfol davs earher at hiah
lowing in the wake of tire-and
automobile rationing.
H eestiihated that tire consump-
tion of taxable gasoline in the
state already has declined 30 to
I 40 per cent under what it was
before the war started.
I . “The Legislature either will
[U •' have to tap entirely new sOur-
. ces of revenue or the people
~-----will have to get -along—without
some of the state services they
> are now accustomed to receiv-
ing,” he said.
I 5 Stevenson gave no indication
which of these alternatives he
might make to the Legislature
when it meets next January;
At the Henrietta address-the
Governor declared
will see “a great upsurge
progress after this struggle is
aver.” He added that Texans
must expect to make sacrifices
before the war is over, but ex-
pressed Conviction that the Am-
erican way of life would survive.
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Basic Instruction
For Draftees •
- -County Superintendent J.—A
Fanning stated this week that
arrangements have been made to
give instruction in reading,, writ-
hing, and othcr basic subjects-tb
draftees who have been deferred
for lack of basic literary attain-
ment. ‘—
; Superintendent Fanning added
that aliens wishing to study r“
cedure necessary to become cil.
zens may now receive this in-
. . formation, and asks that .anyone
interested get in touch with him
so that he will be able to de-
termine whether the need will
justify special classes for this
purpose.
admission will be charged.
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J. Q. Reynolds Passes;
Rites Held Wednesday |
John Quincy Reynolds, 68, died |
at the home of his son. Mart
Reynolds at 5:30« Wednesday.
March 4, Following a prolonged
illness.
Born August 1, 1873, in Lamar
COUnty, lie had 'mvch a
of Montague county for 65 years.
Ha married George Ann Lofton
33 years ago and she proceeded
him in death 20 years ago.
Funeral services were held at
Smyrna Baptist church at 3 p.m.
Thursday afternoon with Rev.
E. H. Marshall presiding. Burial
was at the Smyrna cemetery di-
rected bv OWens and Brumley
Funeral Home.
He is survived by three sons.
Mart Reynolds of Bowie; and
Elzie and Jevvell ’ Reynolds of
Forestburg, five grand-chilcfren,
a brother, W. B. Reynolds of Ard-
more, Okla., and two sisters. Mrs.
Ollie Smith of Penyon, N. M.
and Mrs. J. E. Underwood of
Oklahoma.
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Mrs. G. W. Haltom Mrs. A. G.----r ----------------—
Adams, and Mrs. Ellen Thomas th etire ration priorities officials
of Fort Worth spent Wednesday said the percentage of collections
with Mrs. C. Y. Cosby and her so far was far beyond their ex-
mother, Mrs. Julia Cree. pectationg.
Thg deceased was born Octob-
to'zdnes throughout the city
------ more than 50 years He^B An raid fefense program
iLriton Port urJrfh" beine worked out which will i
Rankm of Fort Worth, rela«d to a similar progr:im ro,
• Okla., and Jack Rankin of David-
son, Okla; two sisters, Mrs. B. C.
C1UDS. Miss
First Lt. and Mrs. A. I. Davies
| and daughter, Carolyn, of Camp
| Wolters, Mineral Wells, sperit the
' week-end with his mother, Mrs.
Alfred Davies..
to canners repairing
" * J ; the City Lake -and $,500 spent ■
• in extending the city water serv- 1
,1 'music teacher, was a native Tex-
an. She was married to H. S.
x u^xxx ixyxaxuyiu, xxii.v,xv«u x> < omy jusiuicauon lor price au- noy la. voineia, wno nas oeen w.i|.-r t..|v in ions and
t^Milk aVd MeCn ”b olher^eaki^F Vr "kTS abaettt for the Past several weeks lived in Bowie for the past
m i^Tacement due to iUness was present at here her huStomd’is .
Conege Btatiion, Mark McGee of ( -in the absence of direct price the meeting. Ban^and* her daughter Vn°the
™rt ,.al’d Austin, A. L. control at the retail level, the- —Ray Beale and Ralph Hutchins, p11M;c «r.hr>n1 cv.t»n>
The services were conucted by
Rev. James H. Westbrook, assist-
ed by Finis Crutchfield, Presid-
ing Elder of the District, arid
burial was at Elmwood ceme-
tery under the direction of Bur-
gess Funeral Home.
Pallbearers were David War-
ren, Henry- T. Ayres, David Ma-
jor, Tom Pierce of Bowie and L.
D. Eakman and Willard Shackel-I
ford of Montague.
Survivors include her husband,
a daughter Miss Kathryn Walk-
er, a son, Kenneth B. Walker of
Jal, N. M., and a sister,- Miss
Oscar L. Bilbro of Borger.
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Services Held for -
J. R. Williams. Thursday
J. R. Williams, 85 of. Bawie, iervicMJ (2) highway
• - ■ — - ’TLn- once, transportation of materials
affd persons directly involved in
t 20
due to illness, was present at years where her husband is em-
control at the retail level,' the-. Ray Ejale and Ralph Hutchins, p“trlca School system" “
------^Qtarii!rti(J from Nocona, were '
visitors.
which have been “frozen” since
the first of the year and will re-
main so until March 8, under an
extension of the original freest
order.
Under rationing, vehicles re-
quired by the armed services and
other designated war operations
will be released under a general
governmental exemptiion ' per-
mit.
Outside the exempted categorea,
five usage classifications are es-
tablished to indicate the order
in which new trucks and traileM
may be. released These usage
eipal jtryices, such as police, tire,
, garbage disposal, arttjf mail, tele-
phone and other communication*
1 died at his home, Wednesday,) a"Se’
the war effort; (3) transportation
service for essential civilian
-a r. wn .needs such as repair services,
1857, he married Sarah Wil- waste and scrap materials, and
m« August 9.3, 1R77 public and private schools; (4)
I Rev. A. _J. Quinn at 2:00 p.m. at cles used for' non-essential func-
tions ’ No encouragement is of-
fered by JYPB tq persons who can
qualify only under dlassificationa
4 and 5. - ”
Application forms will be
available through truck and trail-
er sales agencies. When com-
pleted. these forms will be sent
to Washington to receive, first,
ODT approval '.bm WPB s»t>-
Ip.raval in the form < f a “nertma-
cate of transfer.” Such certificate
will enable the buyer to purchase
through any dealer. The ^Mfiee
of Price Administration, which is
rationing passenger vehicles, has
no part in the rationing of com-
m. reiai vehmlcs.
three brothers, T”
Kiuiiact, xx. M. Rankin , ii^au.
Okla., and Jack Rankin of David-
ouii, vnia, vwv oioiqio, ivxia
Rice of Fort Worth and
(Rosa Rankin of Sunset. :~
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Forestburg Man
Injured in Accident
I Staff Sergeant Ernest M.
1 Shults, 25, of Forestburg was
| critically injured last week in
i a bus-freight train collision at
Enid, Okla, in which seven Army
Air Corps enlisted men were
killed and 24 others injured-
I The driver of the bus.carrying
the men said that he had shifted
into low gear to stop at the grade
crossing but the road was so
slick with-snow that he was un-4-«
August i, lorn, minimal Qble to t ^he islanti
he had been a resident freight plowed -nto the
bus abowt six feet from the rear
and carried it 60 feet along the
' right of way,
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Auto Use Tax Payments
Beyond Expectations
Washington tl*feasury 1 officials
said this week that at least 28,;
0000,000 motorists have paid the
$2.09 federal automobile use tax
and acclaimed the voluntary pay-
ment method as a “great suc-
cess.”
The Treasury Originally esti-
mated there were about 32,000,-
000 motorists liable to the new
tax, but figuring the probable
number of cars which have been
laid up by owners on account of
r of
‘more to i March 4, following an illness of
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come.” 1
new merchandise added to' that I
already in stock the Store will be 1
’ completely stocked. -
J.A . Brite’s retirement marked
the end of 20 years in the dry
goods business here in the same
location.
Final Rites Held for
Mrs. Ida McCartney
Funeral services ‘were held for
Ida McCartney 163, Sunday aft-
ernoon, Mnrch 1, at,,, the First
Baptist church of Bowie with
Rev. R; L. Cook of Nocona, of-
ficiating. Interment "was in Elm-
wood cemetery with Daugherty
Funeral Home of Nocona in
charge of arrangements.
Mrs. McCartney died at her
home north of Bowie Friday
night at 9 o’clock, February 27,
following a month’s iUness.
Mrs. McCartney was well
known in Bowie, having lived
here most of her life. She was -- -. —
loved, by all who.- knew. .her. Jtol. Topper purvey, six..miles north
her kindness and the loving smile Bowie in the Gant-Turner, an
she had for all. She was bom-
in Greenville, Hunt County, Tex-
as January 4, 1879 and moved to
Montague county while ' a small
child. She was married to M. D. I
iMeGar’fney in rt898 She was a
'good Christian and a member, of
the Baptist church a number of
years. • >
She is survived by her hus-
band, M. D, McCartney of Bowie,
four daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth
.Nichols of Detroit, Mich.; Mrs.
| Bessie Kilcrease, Bowie; Mrs.
I Minnie Brown, Nocona, and Mrs.
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McCartney, | blocl
Bowier Cecil McCartney, Dallas,
Roy and Troy McCartney cf
(l. Bowie; two brothers, H. M. Rat-
I litf. Kingsville, J. D. Ratliff of
Fort Worth; three sisters, Mrs. —— »x—
Will Price of Tyler, Mrs S. P. shale arid sand at 6,000 feet. The
club" present' for'"a* hundred per I Prentice, Anton, Texas, and Mrs. Sinclair Nn 1 Jon«« in Sin.
cent attendance.1^ W «■ Prater of Bowie.
Mayor j. C. McNatt, introduc- mi ° i g
ed by program chairman, Dr. C | kj-i+pc I niirCflA'V THY
J. Dodsworth, gave the club a XlllCw J. 1114.1 OtlCt jr 1U1
. . detailed statement of the finan- -air tt ci tit li
Canned veg- cial status of the city. Mayor i NlT'C H \ W A I kPK
--------------- -L_ „.1—• are McNatt pointed out that in the X 11 O. 11. M. HlUAUl
I>- C.,1 asparagus, beans( all dry variet- past three years the bonded in-
.x x„-xx ..uuxxumu- - bcanc, green and wax ■ ■■ •---- - '•■*-- - —- ■-
with sugar for home preserv-'^aBCi. National Defense-/ Dr. Gau- snap beans, bests, carrots, com,
Jmnrtz >s -nrplus Marketing Ad-1 peas, pumpkin, sauerkraut, spii
. - mmistretor-of the U. S. Dispart- • anh swrier pntatriry^-tb’matori- rtrf-
! ment Of Agriculture. J. O. CLarke,J sup an<j tomato juice. ’ ule ausuruuum iu *ic,wvi
Chicago, Ill., who is. Chief of; Although thp new price regu- additional, indebtedness incurred
Central District of Federal b ood igtion applies only to canners repairing washout damages to
l and Drug Adr iinistraUpn, ~ has-gs^and wholesalers, U, S. Price Ad-
! his subject “Quality Impnve- ministrator Leon Henderson has
. ment.” J. C. Nisbit of New York poirlted out that with prices stab
a w — . « ' I City, Director of Extension and iiz0d at the wholesale leveUthel’ce
Agustin Turner, of Valparaiso, Public Relatiions. American J.er- only justification for price ad-
rule, founder and organizer of - — m..<_ ...m —.... .... .c .
the first Rotary Club in Chile,
c ' will speak on Pan-American re- ... r—-
lations at the Bowie High School College Statiion, Mark "McGee of
under the auspices of the Bowie j Ward of Dallas,, an. dthe associa-j responsibility for keeping retail
Rotary Club.- Turner founded j tiion president, A. J. Riddle of I prices at a reasonable level rests
squarely on the shoulders of the 1
[as 89 ---------°--------- retailer,” Mr. Henderson declar-
■ fa ■ 8 -xm, 8--ed. “Should this responsibility*
world17 ’wUnSCl nCSluCIll prove too much, OPA wilt take
worm. | steps to control prices at the re-
. .. Passes Tuesday tail source
A plan by which tire -dealers; try and its people, was presented > £
!te"1 wSK&.’ffiS i7<« “S
rn.ii. who tai rondomd ^.V,’ weK Att Bald Warthl!
in Mexico Inela nev- "• wiarsnafi at
Pern; "Boli;ia7 'Argentina, Ura ’ ‘h*
-----r and* Brazil and can give P,m‘ ®urla* was.at Sunset ceme-
__ good reasons*why ’"he0 Uto^ ;^pdirected B“r8ess Funeral
iaOturgf or to mass distributors at fStates should be interested in . .
cost prices, plus 10 per cent for] La^-America — the unknown’ .
out-of pocket expenses ^"•ed^^nent pf wonders and large s{mge’t mor’ than
tn carrying this merchandise possibilities. survived h,
since tire and tube sales were In 1936-37 Turner made a trip- . „ . .-
hajted I around the world vicilina 99 ana C,rcei 1
the store with a large quanity
new merchandise with “me™ _j
He ‘states that with the ' two months.
Born in Kaufmdn, Texas. March
J, l-ov«, lie mat x «su ,aa
liams, August 23, 1877. .
Funeral services were held by retail delivery service; (5) vehi-
ing to any section which is iri j
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Selma, Thursday, March 5. Bur-
iaal was at Selma cemetery, di-
rected by Burgess Funeral Home.
Survivors include his wife,
two daughters, Mrs. J. F. Tucker
of Bowie, Mrs. Lewis Gibson of
Tulsa, Okla.; two sons, J. T. and
Hoover Williams of Los Angeles,
Calif., and one sister, Mrs. Mattie
Holland of Dallas, Texas.
VQLUME XXI
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NUMBER 1
BOWIE, MONTAGUE COUNTY, TEXAS, Kill DAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942'—C
15 truck
truck tires, 4 truck
Worth Poultry and
truck tire, one truck tul .
A. Tompkins, Moatague, Rt. 1, 2
obsolete tires, 2 obsolete tubes.
Total issued, five passenger tires,
5 passenger tubes; 16 truck tires,
15 truck tubes; two obsolete
tires, two obsolete tubes.
One application was refused, as
i incomplete.
passenger tire, one passenger
tube; Montague County, precinct
No. 3, 5 truck tires, 5 truck tubes;
Montague County, precinct No. 2,
1 truck tire; Louie C. Jackson,
Sunset, 5 track tires, 5 track
tubes; Roy V. Ellison. Sunset, 4
- ‘ tubes; Fort
Egg Co,, 1
tube; David
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