(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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In 1912 the first newspaper was started, named The Bloomington Breeze.
In 1942, the eye of a hurricane passed over Bloomington
In March 1861, 500
Federal soldiers were
camped just south of Bloomington, awaiting
transport from Indianola.
The Joy Theater opened in
1946 with 3 movies a week.
The 1921 graduating class of BHS was 6.
Bloomington recorded history begins the journals of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.
In 1929, the basketball team won the school's first Loving Cup trophy.
Sunday afternoon dances became a favorite activity in the 1920s.
The Gulf Coast Line Railroad was an important factor in the growth and development of Bloomington.
Goods being taken over land from Indianola to Goliad crossed the Guadalupe River at White's Ferry near present day Bloomington.
In 1932, the first football team was organized.
In the mid-twenties the high school had enough for a basketball team
In June 1947, the water system was installed in Bloomington
Lonnie Farmer brought the first radio to Bloomington around 1920.
The first issue of The Bloomington Star, a weekly newspaper, was published Jan 29, 1921.
In September 1957, the high school was relocated
midway between Bloomington & Placedo.
In 1956, there were 210 telephone lines in Bloomington.
Bloomington would not be in existence with out the 68.05 miles of railroad laid from Refugio to Algoa.
In 1957, BISD became the first school district
west of the Mississippi River
to vote to integrate its' high school.
The town of
Bloomington
became
incoportated
and
the first mayor
was W.J. Manning.
In 1928, Zachery Construction
Company bought sand
from Skarda Farm and in the
process 13 Indian women skeletons were found.
The Bloomington area was the site of early Spanish exploration in the 1500's and the French in the 1600's.
The first Bloomington Baseball Team was organized in 1909.
The BHS Band was
organized with 36 members in 1950.
Scout Troop #68, Boy Scouts of America was organized in 1938
In 1940, the basketball team won district.
In 1941, the basketball team won state.
In April 1947, oil was discovered in Bloomington.
In 1941, the football team was the district football champion
In 1950, the first fire station was completed on Illinois Street next to the water office.
Until 1928, students graduated after ten years in school.
In November 1949, the sewer system was installed in Bloomington.
On March 3, 1925, the brick school house built in 1917 burned down.
Bloomington would not be in existence with out the 68.05 miles of railroad laid from Refugio to Algoa.
In the Roaring Twenties
the local economy was primarily base
on agriculture.
The Chamber of
Commerce was organized in 1928.
In August 1947, a new road was cut from Bloomington to Crescent Valley
The area's first oil well was drilled in Bloomington area in about 1920s.
The graduating class of 1925 was 4 students.
The Bobcat, the school yearbook, was first published in 1946.
