100 years ago
February 17, 1920:
SHRINERS CLUB ENTERTAINS TONIGHT
Texarkana Masons and their families and friends will be guests of the Shriners Club tonight at a musical and speaking program to be given at 8 o'clock in the Arkansas high school auditorium. Dr. Charles A. Finch, pastor of the Central Christian church, will give a short address. The Shriners club has a membership of 160, and is prominent in the social affairs of the city.
Feb. 18:
EDITORIALS
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl in the dark. You know what you're doing but nobody else does. ALSO - The housing problem is the big question in Texarkana. About all the "ready-to-wear" homes for sale have been taken. Building new ones is the only way now to take care of our population growth.
Feb. 19:
TEXARKANA SOCIETY
The W. B. Oglesbys are happy over the birth of a baby daughter who arrived Thursday morning and who has been given the pretty, substantial name Elizabeth Anne. ALSO - This evening the E.D. Triggs will entertain with a dance at the Country Club. Mrs. Furman Oinson Trigg will bring out of town visitors from Shreveport for the event.
Feb. 20:
PROTECTED
FROM WITCHES
A bride and bridegroom in olden days used to be protected from the evil influence of warlocks and witches by using gray horses to pull the bridal carriage. To be lucky, they should not be married in a month the name of which contains the letter "A." Further, none of the wedding guests should be dressed in black or green. They will be unfortunate if the engagement ring has contained either opals or emeralds.
Feb. 21:
THE LENTEN SEASON
The penitential season is at hand and society for the most part has withdrawn from all gaieties. The Lenten period as observed by our Episcopal and Catholic friends is a beautiful custom which has impressed its sacredness upon all creeds. How fitting that the season preceding the anniversary of the Resurrection should be made a time for making one's heart a holy of holies with reflection, prayer and thanksgiving for that love which passeth all understanding as was manifested in the tragedy of the Cross. Time has not dimmed that tragedy and its subsequent triumph; and so this day finds a great number of folk true to the customs of those churches which keep the season holy and many others whose creed does not include such an observance but whose hearts are in tune.
Feb. 22:
EDITORIAL
It would be a good thing if the civic bodies of Texarkana would launch a rat killing drive. Set apart a "rat week"; enlist the Boy Scouts and all others in a war of extermination on the pestiferous rodents. Offer a bounty for rats. Aside from their destructiveness they are a menace to public health.
Feb. 23:
TEXARKANA SOCIETY
The Black Cats, an attractive group of young girls composing a part of the Girl Reserve of the Y.W.C.A., will entertain with a colonial tea. The mothers of the girls are invited to attend.
50 years ago
February 17, 1970:
BCYFA PICKS NEW OFFICERS
New officers of the Bowie County Young Farmers Association are: President Carl Poteet; Vice President Kenneth Kidd; Secretary William Sparks; Treasurer Billy Frame; Reporter Rod Taylor; and Parliamentarian Franklin Slay. Advisers to the chapter will be area agriculture teachers. Those advisers present were Glynn Spiers, Bob Benbow, William Little and N. B. Finley.
Feb. 18:
DAINGERFIELD GETS PRICE TAG
The Daingerfield school board has been given the projected price tag on the much needed expansion program. Architect Duane Scott of Longview told the board that the addition and remodeling at all the campuses would total about $1,150,000. The school will ask voters for approval of a bond issue to finance the building. The integration program plus growth makes the expansion necessary.
Feb. 19:
MISS TEXARKANA FINALISTS PICKED
Representing several outlying towns as well as Texarkana, 14 hopefuls will compete Saturday, April 11, for the Miss Texarkana title. Finalists competing for the Miss Texarkana title will be Connie Barkley, Peggy Stewart, Sherry Dorsey, Carole Kelly, Roseanna Knight, all of Texarkana, Texas; Bonnie Cate, Texarkana, Ark.; Kathy Austin, Dianne Lindsey, Linda Hellburg, Etta Henderson and Johnia Storey, all of Hooks, Texas; Cyndi Pound and Sherry Harris of Wake Village, Texas; and Suzan Womack of Naples, Texas. Gail Freeman is acting as chaperone and adviser to the contestants.
Feb. 20:
LOCAL DRAFT CALLS SLATED
Local draft calls for March have been set with Bowie County slated to call four for induction and Miller County due to call two. Jean Curtis, Bowie County Selective Service Board secretary, said that of the draft lottery list, the board could go as high as number 90 in selecting this quota. Grace Baxter, Miller County Selective Service Board secretary, said the call was a decrease from February.
Feb. 21:
GOVERNOR GETS THANK-YOU TELEGRAM
The Pine Bluff chapter of Freedom Inc. sent Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller a telegram thanking him for appearing at a demonstration in Little Rock. Dr. Mitchell Young of Texarkana, national president of Freedom Inc., organized the rally to protest what he considers federal intervention in education. Rockefeller told about 1,000 persons at the rally that he had not recommended busing of students to achieve racial balance in schools.
Feb. 22:
SCOUTS TO HEAR CHARLES DUMIS
Charles L. Dumis, a member of NASA flight control center at Houston, will be the guest speaker at the Bluff and Gold Club Scout banquet of Pack 12, to be held at the Wake Village Community Center. Dumis is a 1954 graduate of Texas High School and holds a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude E. Dumis, he holds the Scouting rank of Eagle. He currently lives in League City, Texas.
Feb. 23:
BIT DELEGATES ATTEND AWARDS PROGRAM
Representatives of Beauty in Texarkana are in Washington, D.C., for the National Congress on Beautification awards program. The Trigg Trophy, the highest possible award for civic achievement, will be presented during the program. Other awards to be given are Certificates of Honorable Mention and Distinguished. Among the delegates from Texarkana, Texas, are Mayor and Mrs. A. J. Womack, Mrs. Larry Patterson, Mrs. William Patterson, Mrs. William Roberts, and Mrs. Vasco McCoy. Texarkana, Ark., delegates include City Manager Paul Schriever and Ron Copeland.