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Bonham Business
Shows. Uptrend
Special to The News
. BONHAM, Texas, Sept. 8. —De-
spite reports of a crop failure in
Fannin County, Bonham merchants
report an increase of 11.4 per cent
in business for the period of Jan.
1, 1951, to Aug. 31, 1951, as com-
pared to the same period in 1950.
These facts were revealed in a
survey made of local firms this
week. The survey included stores
of every type and they were
grouped together as food stores, de-
partment store sales, automobile
dealers sales and service, tractor
and implement sales and service,
auto appliance and hardware store
sales and drugstore sales.
Every group showed an Increase
over 1950.
Contrary to the state -wide trend,
department store sales were up 4.5
per cent and merchants reported
the outlook for fall as being good.
Automobile dealers reported an 8
per cent increase in sales and serv-
ice. Sales and service of tractors
and implements showed a gain of
12.6 per cent while auto appliances
and hardware stores showed gains
of 12.3 per cent. Drugstore sales
were up 7 per cent. All reported the
outlook for fall as being good.
The largest gain was reported by
the food stores which showed a
whopping 24 per cent jump.
The First National and Bonham
State Banks reported their farm
loans were up 9.5 per cent with
collections being good. They report-
ed an increase of better than half a
million dollars in their deposits on
Aug. 31, 1951, as compared to Aug.
31, 1950.
Two new department stores
opened their doors for business in
Bonham during the past year and a
new hardware store opened only
this week. One auto appliance store
moved into larger quarters and a
chain grocery store moved into a
modern and much larger home. An-
other completely remodeled, en-
larged and improved its facilities.
Sanitation Engineer
Named in Wood County
Special to The News
QUITMAN, Texas, Sept. 8.—E. I.
Dreschel has been employed as the
new sanitation director for the
Wood County Health Unit by Dr.
James Strong with the approval
of commissioners court.
Dreschel replaces J. C. Jones who
resigned the first of September. He
has been sanitation director of the
Gainesville (Cooke County) Health
Department for the. last ;siic years.
He also spent about a year as san-
itation director in'Lamar County.
Youth Benefit Show
Planned at Brownwood
Special to The News
BROWNWOOD, Texas, Sept.
The Horace Heidt show, with fifty
entertainers, will present a program
on the night of Oct. 16, in Memo-
rial Hall, under sponsorship of the
Brownwood Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Profits from the show have been
earmarked for the Jaycee Christ-
mas fund with which gifts and food
baskets for hundreds of Brown -
wood children and unfortunate
families are provided annually.
Athens Legion Elects
Special to The News
ATHENS, Texas, Sept. 8.—
Hubert L. Boyd was elected corn-
9, 1951
mander of American Legion Post vice - commander; Tom Baker, sec -
173 to succeed Ed Barron. Other and vice - commander; Joel Lusk,
new officers are Travis Scott, first adjutant; James Fulton, finance
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A LOT OF PORK
Otto Seeman, swine herdsman at Texas A &M College, looks over the big litter of
pigs of this 2- year -old college -owned Duroc sow, Miss Golden. Miss Golden broke out
of her pen the night of Sept. 3 and was found next morning with nineteen pigs. Six
months earlier, she had given birth to eighteen pigs, all of which were raised —
with the help of another sow that produced a smaller litter. Three of the litter of
nineteen, however, were found dead, as the sow was unattended.
officer; Norman Anderson, his at arms; Mack Stover. child wel-
torian; the Rev. D. H. Bonner, fare officer, and John K. Simmons,
chaplain; George Brown, sergeant service officer.
Presbyterian
Will Act on
Lake Lease
Special to The News
DENISON, Texas, Sept. 8. —1
Paris Presbytery is expected
take affirmative action next Tu
I day in a development plan for
X 38 -acre lease on Lake Texo
granted the First Presbyter
Church of Denison by the Co:
of Engineers. •
The church lease, announced
Resident Engineer Richard C. P;
of the Corps of Engineers, is
!twenty-five years. The site is
the east side of Preston Peninst
on a tract 'adjacent to a lea
granted last year to the Boles C
phan Home of Quinlan. It is a
proximately two miles 'north
Island View Camp.
The Rev. Edward S. Bayless, pa:
for of the Denisoh church, said the
the church entered into the leas
with the hope that the developmer
would be shared at least by th
Paris Presbytery.
Next Tuesday morning a grou
of Presbytery delegates, who wi
arrive in Sherman for the start
a 2 -day meet, will be taken out fc
a first -hand inspection of the sit
Out of this, Bayless said he hope
to get Presbytery approval. k ' • N �.
The Session of the Presbytiria
Church here has issued a form
invitation to the Paris Presbytei
to share in the control and develo
ment of the camp. At present,
3 -man committee composed of E
D. K. Jamison, E. L. Hopkins at
C. H. Waldron head the rest
planning. Rev. Bayless said Pre
bytery members would be added
the committee and later, a boa
of directors named to operate t
resort.
He said he hoped to develop 1
camp over the winter so that be
junior and adult groups will be a
to start using the camp next su