COUNTY LIFE
Scarecrow contest added to Chicken and Bread Days Sip & Stroll
It is time to mark our heritage with the 25th Annual Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival downtown on the brick streets of Bowie.
Why chicken and bread some may ask? Back in 1904 Mose Johnson and his wife, Mabel, began making history with just $15 and a shoebox full of baby chicks. The M. Johnson Poultry Ranch went on to become the breeders of the World’s Best Laying Strain of Single Comb White Leghorns. At its height, the range was the largest poultry producer in the world.
It is also how the start of our long-standing tradition of Trade Days began. The locals would sell chicken and bread to those stopped at the train depot in downtown. With this pioneering spirit, the tradition of Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival was hatched and is hosted the first Saturday of October each year.
This year Bowie Community Development is coordinating with The Bowie News for a Scarecrow Stroll as the theme for the preview evening Sip & Stroll on Oct. 2 starting at 5 p.m.
There will be horse-drawn carriage rides and mini-open house activities in nearly a dozen locations. Guests can sample wine at the merchants and visit the stores.
Cost for the sip and stroll is $10 for an armband and souvenir glass. Sippers may use a previous Sip & Stroll glass but must purchase an armband. Get the bands early at the BCDB office at 101 E. Pecan.
The board is encouraging all businesses to create unique scarecrows to help represent and promote their business or interest. This contest is open to all interested, not just to those participating in Sip & Stroll.
Read the full story in the weekend Bowie News.
The cast and crew of “A Family Reunion to Die For,” has been busy rehearsing for their murder mystery dinner theater production on May 30 and May 31.
The reunion soon turns sour with murder at a western-style bed and breakfast in the tropics.
Purchase tickets online at https://www.bowieallianceforeducationandthearts.com/events-1.
Show times are 6:30 p.m. on May 30 and May 31 with an afternoon show at noon on May 31 all at the Freedom Life Church. There will be live and silent auction.
All proceeds benefit Montague County students for scholarships in the arts. Come support these thespians.
Top photo – Rehearsals have been underway this past week for the new murder mystery dinner theater of the Bowie Alliance for Education and the Arts. (Photos by Barbara Green)
Speed limit changes are being put in place on FM 103 North of Nocona. The 60-mph zone is being pushed North of Grayson Street.
As part of the transition, the 45-mph speed limit will be extended just North of the Texas New Mexico Power Office. Drivers see 50 mph signs up to Grayson Street where it becomes a 60-mph zone.
Portable message boards were placed on FM 103 on May 27 to advise motorists of the upcoming changes. The new signs will be unveiled and be enforceable starting June 3.
Citizens and officials with the City of Nocona requested the changes. They were approved by the Texas Transportation Commission in April.
Drivers should be prepared to watch and observe these new speed limits signs in Nocona. Drive safely in Montague County.
Top photo – Bowie High’s class of 2025 arrives for the ceremonies. (Photos by Jordan Neal)
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