The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1955 Page: 11 of 12
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Returns from Hawaii
MOHON JEWELERS
Bill Mohon
Bobbie Mohon
Change of Ownership of
The Gift Box
We have purchased and are now operating THE GIFT BOX.
We will offer a full line of jewelry, nationally advertised
watches, diamonds, silver flatware, hollow ware, china and
crystal as well as costume jewelry and other gift items.
We are stocking new merchandise which will be unpacked
in time for our Formal Opening.
Watch For Date
Guaranteed Watch and Jewelry Repairs — One to Three Day Service.
B. C. MOHON, Certified Watch Maker
Tom B. Medders, Wichita Falls,
plans a 6,900-foot wildcat south
of Bowie.
It is No. 1 T. H. Wheeler, 467
feet from northwest and south-
west lines of block 59, Hill coun-
ty school land.
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Jo Storey, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Storey, returned last
Friday from a summer tour of
Hawaii with a group of 250 girl
students. While there, she stud-
ied English and Hawaiian cooking
at the University of Hawaii. Miss
Storey flew to San Francisco and
then to Dallas.
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Star Oil Company Inc. complet-
ed the No. I City of Bowie as a
conglomerate discovery one mile
southwest of Stoneburg, in block
22, Limestone CSL survey.
The well flowed 180.37 barrels
of 40 gravity oil per day through
20-64-inch choke from pay per-
forated at 6137-45 feet Total dep-
th is 6289. Gas-oil ratio was 450-1.
Completion was natural.
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Production in the county fell
off 40 barrels a day last week for
a total production of 23,300 bar-
rels a day against 23,340 the pre-
vious week.
District production during the
week increased 1,040 barrels from
215,874 to 216,904.
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for his
Nocona Visited Mr. and Mrs. W. ’he afternoon.
Welcome To
Nocona
Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett Ketchum of
Nocona were Sunday visitors and
The Chris Usel'on family and
Pete Workman attended the Bowie
All Hope Of
League Berth
Montague’s hopes for a berth in
Ringgold visited Mr. and Mrs. Jie O‘l Belt league playoff went
Cecil (Sassy) Crenshaw and dau-1J J“i_
ghters, Sunday.
Scott Bros,
ince went after the body.
Bobby Eakin and son of
Dexter and Frieda Dowd have
moved from Muenster tn 104
Seventh street. He is a barber
emoloved bv C. C. Duckworth.
Mrs. Dowd is a member of the
Bantist church and her husband
be’ongs to the Methodist church.
They have a son, Dennis. 8, and a
son Stanley, 10 months.
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Jav and Helen Thompson have
moved to 208 East Oak street from
Kaufman. Texas. He is a junior
high teacher. . They are members
of the Episcopal church and have
wo children Jean, 2 and John 1.
More ‘han sixty colonies of
various foreign neople= are settled
■n di'foren* parts cf the Republic
nf Paraguay.
down the drain as they suffered
m _ a 12 to 4 loss to a strong Win-
Mr.” and Mrs. James Hall and nine Su"day ««ernoon on
... ....... r ‘he Montague diamond.
It was a nip and tuck ball game
Belcherville News Montague Loses
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry and Mr.
and Mrs. Ghomer Medearis were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Henry Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Linton Campbell
and son, Linton D. Campbell of
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daughters of Henrietta spent Sun- | A. Henrv and family Sunday,
day at their sister’s home, Miss i
Minnie Belle Manley.
Mr. and Mrs. John H»nrv of rodeo Friday and the parade in
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. for the first four innings as the
Roger Cowden and family.
Mrs. Roxie Miles and daughter,
Mrs. Marguerite Haefle were in
Wichita Falls on business one day
last week. Mrs. Miles also was
at the Surgical and Medical clinic.
Air, and Mrs. Earl Noel and son
Earl Vannoy Noel visited her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Vannoy,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Henry visited
.Mrgji Rosa Redmon of Nocona,
' Saturday.
Mrs. Ida Henry and Mrs. Julia
Henry visited Mrs. Nettie Cook
of Nocona Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Hilde Workman called on
Mrs. Weldon Hewitt and children
Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeves of
Prairie Valley spent Sunday with
his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John
Reeves.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeves and
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Bonds of No-
cona, were at the rodeo in Bowie
Saturday night
Mrs. Lloyd Winter and son Ros-
coe were in Wichita Falls on busi-
ness Saturday.
David Cowden of Casper. Wyom-
ing, is visiting his brother and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Cow-
den, Lee Carol and Johnny.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Mount and
daughter, Darlene of Floydada,
visited her parents Mr. and Mrs.
| R. C. Vannoy last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coffman and
daughters of Whitesboro spent
I Saturday with his folks, Mr. and
' Mrs. Edd Coffman and Lynn.
Lynn Nored, grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. Edd Coffman, has been
away this summer, first to band
School, and later spent several
weeks with his father, Artis Nored
of Eden. Texas. Lynn came home
Igst Wednesday.
” Nocona visitors last Saturday
were, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Reeves,
Mr. and Mrs. Will Hewitt, Mrs.
W. Paschall.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Crenshaw
were in Wichita Falls
check-un at the clinic.
Mr. Maxey, father of Fred Max-
ey, who has b°cn living with a
daughter at Kilgore, died Sunday
afternoon at 4 p. m.
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Colorado City visited Mrs. Ghomer
Meaderis and Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Henry and family Tuesday
nigh|(
Mrs. Eula Burch and Mike of
Wichita Falls snent Sunday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will
Hewitt.
Mr. and Mrs. Gre^n Manley end
score stood four to three at the
end of the fourth inning with
Winthorst on top, but Winthorst
broke the game wide open in the
fifth inning as they scored 4 runs
on Veitenheimer’s grand-slam
homer.
All of the runs were unearned
because of a costly error which
should have retired the side just
before Veitenheimer hit- his
homer. Winthorst scored 2 runs
in each the seventh and eighth
innings to account for their 12
runs. Montague scored a run in
the seventh, and the game ended
12 to 4.
Eddie Cooper pitched a good
game for Montague in the first
five innings as he allowed but 5
hits. Winthorst scored 8 runs
off Cooper, but all the runs were
unearned. Van Pool and Smith
pitched the last four innings for
Montague. Veitenheimer was the
winning pitcher for Winthorst.
Ronald Pribble and Nig John-
son were the leading hitters for
Montague. Each collected 2 hits
for 2 official trips to the plate.
Charley Van Pool hit his sixth
home run of the season in the
first inning for Montague with no
one on board.
Montague will go to Winthorst
Sunday where both teams will
close their Oil Belt league season.
Statistics for the game: \
Winthorst, 2 runs, 13 hits, 1
error.
Montague, 4 runs, 12 hits, 6 er-
rors.
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The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, August 26, 1955, newspaper, August 26, 1955; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1216599/m1/11/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.