COUNTY LIFE
Hospice Thrift Store evolves to meet the needs
By DEBRA DUNLAP
One of Bowie’s more popular stores, the Hospice Thrift Store has a bounty of riches just waiting to be found.
There is a certain amount of excitement to the hunt; although you rarely know just what you’re hunting for until you find it. Discovering one special item that you just can’t live without is much like finding a buried treasure.
A half hour before coming into the store, you had no idea that your life wasn’t complete without a mushroom-shaped cookie jar just like the one Aunt Beatrice used to have. Oh, and that blue jacket will be perfect to wear to work next spring!
Hospice of Rural Texas is a division of Bowie Memorial Hospital. Most people prefer to be at home at the end of their lives, and hospice makes that possible. It provides care and comfort for the terminally ill, making the transition less stressful for both the patient and the family.
Read the full feature on the Hospice Thrift Store and its volunteers in the mid-week News Pictured: Members of the Hospice Thrift Store team. (Photo by Donna Ashley)
Jerry Browder recently donated his grandfather’s antique tractor to Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum in Nocona in an effort to perpetuate it past his generation. It has been in his family for 90 years.
By Jerry Browder,
Denton
In 1934, during the Dustbowl and Great Depression in Southwestern Oklahoma, my grandfather, Benjamin Browder of Gould, OK in Harmon County, OK, acquired this new 1934 first year Model A John Deere S/N 410666 from Lowry Malloy Implement Company in Hollis, OK.
Between 1930 and 1935, 750,000 farmers in the U.S. declared bankruptcy. The “Yearbook of Agriculture” for 1934 reads, “Approximately 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land have essentially been destroyed for crop production…. 100 million acres now in crops have lost all or most of the topsoil; 125 million acres of land now in crops are rapidly losing topsoil….”
Read the full history of this tractor and how it came to the museum in your weekend Bowie News. (Courtesy photo)
Visit noradsanta.org to track Santa as he heads out on his worldwide trek tomorrow night. The site has games and other fun activities for the entire family before the kids head off to bed and sleep before the Big Guy arrives in Texas.
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