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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1937
Page
7
April brings opening buds and the daisy as special flower while Arbor Day is noted though not a holiday. In the third grade, a goldfish companion joins the lone survivor, and two new pupils Wanda Lou Green from Savoy and Robert Merritt from Frisco enroll the class, now 46 students.
First grade students examine a vibrant Easter display with rabbit and egg decorations in the sand table. Children read Easter related words and stories as part of their learning activity, guided by Robert Waldo and Jackie Lee Thompson.
Betty Lee Jones writes Chicken Little about a Rhode Island Red chick brought to school. The three inch tan chick inspired second grade drawings with Roby Wilson winning first, David Clabhorn second, and Glendon Magers third. Easter imagery decorates the room with a sand table showing baskets eggs rabbits and related items.
Third grade girls completed Dutch paper dolls stuffed with newspapers and displayed them in a room show. First place in the boy dolls went to Japik by Mary Helen Hill. First place for girls went to Alois by Jimmie Lou McCorstin. Monday chapel program featured chart stories, songs, poems, and a parade of dolls with narrated stories by the students.
Friday morning chapel program presented by the fourth grade featured piano duet by Margaret Hanna and Dorothy Nell Hall readings by Dorothy Nell Hall and Billy Rhom Pennington, plays The First Easter and The Small Pink Flower, with performances by numerous students including Charles Bradshaw, Hugh Tim Atterberry, Mary Lee Hughes, and others under Marjorie Mears and Charlie Sue Childress.
Friday fifth graders at Lincoln battled in a division themed baseball game, Zephyrs 15 Packards 6, with Mr Ricketts umpiring. Edith Harper's letter earned a perfect score. bird houses were crafted by Charles Skaggs Lester Simpson James Arney Jones Ray Vestal Jim Holmes and Foucheaux Vestal. Students studied Western States with maps of population and fruit, linking interdependence and West products. Wallace Reeves visited Sherman. Ben Robert Jones visited Sherman and Greenville. Betty Atkinson and Mary Dale King mentioned.
Seventh grade spelling class split into two groups last Friday amid spelling competition. No injuries reported as students competed for top marks and classroom bragging rights.
Velma Holland and Barbara Jean Gordon led the Cats and Dogs sides in a split display. Students created posters and compiled notebooks for Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze while Mr Ricketts announced long division study. Mrs Roby Childress taught the seventh grade English class.
Martha Lee Bradley visited Leonard Friday night. Visitors in Sherman include Velma Holland Charlie Sue Childress Mary Dale King and Otto Russell. Lydia Mae Arney visited Greenville Sunday Lewis Vestal visited Celeste Alma Jo Sandreson.
Local notes tease a series of tensions as Charlie Sue fails to draw, Laddie Sanders resists hair curling, Wilton McFarland skips tan, Dorotha Darwin shuns study, Barbara Jean Gordon drops reading, while Robbie Mae Brown remains unnamed in the household update.
The girls take a break after Sherman games as bad weather postponed outdoor play. An injury is noted with Mary Alice Harrison hurting her finger during a game. statement from Charlie Sue Childress expresses regret.
Mrs. Fred Howell and daughters Magdelene and Eva Gene spent Monday with Mrs. O W Wilder and children. Raymond Brown of Desert visited his parents over the weekend. Law rence and Bramlet Burden went fishing in Red River on Wednesday night. Several families visited O W Wilder Sunday including Mayse Savage Howell Burden Bowen and Peggy Gene Smith. Our last report on Mrs Lucian Jones says she is in a serious condition. Billie Booker of West Texas is here visiting friends.
The Clarksville Chamber of Commerce fought fake advertising schemes by distributing placards that warned merchants no ad schemes without a chamber endorsement letter. Merchants who refused the placards showed little doubt, and the nuisance faded. The paper suggests using similar methods against charity beggars, proposing an investigative fund and required statements to deter transient solicitors. Japan can turn out goods cheaply, selling American flags to the American Legion and beer to Germany.
Mahurin News Loften Grammer visited in Bonham Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Mullican and family visited his brother and sister Elmer and Miss Dessie Mullican at Westminster Sunday. Vivian Grammer and child spent weekend with the Bush family at Whitewright. Arthur Mullican and sons were Sherman visitors Tuesday. T C Hall and Mrs Aaron Burris attended church in Savoy Sunday and night. L H Grammer and son Billy visited Oland Bush Sunday night. Talmadge Harvey visited her parents Frank and Mrs Clevenger Sunday night. P H Hall and children visited in Denis Saturday night. Oland Bush and son Leon transacted business in Bonham Monday.
Michigan Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg said on meeting ten years in Congress that exposure to realities has liberalized his views. He cites need for judiciary reform and labor profit sharing, warning the national issue transcends party lines and could realign politics. The final line about a buttered saucepan appears as non sequitur.
A jumble of classified ads offers wagons planters sulky plows and other implements for sale plus listings for typewriters a hatchery operation baby chicks and hatching eggs farm machinery tractors mules and horses also a used Ford tractor and a Chevrolet coupe trade or sale. Auto loans and a card of thanks follow, noting community buyers and sellers in Sherman area.
An obituary note from B M Nelson family expresses gratitude for condolences and flowers after the loss of R F Broyles. The notice then announces Whitewright Texas election day on April 6 1937 to elect two City Commissioners for two year terms with Horton Montgomery Henry Wright as election officials and F M Echols mayor.
Entry blanks and simplified yield quality cost record forms are now available for distribution to communities planning to enter the $1,000 five year one variety cotton contest. The deadline is April 30 and awards depend on the number of participating communities with prizes from 100 to 1,000 dollars each year.
C V Russell head of horticulture at Texas Technological College says sap does not go down in autumn nor rise in spring. He notes sap draining means death, describes dormancy in fall and reactivation in spring, with fruit trees varying in timing. Peach often breaks rest earliest in the southwest, apples before cherry here, reversed in colder regions.
Blair Nebraska telegram from a transport company driver reports seeing a shadow, firing at it, then discovering he hit a milk truck instead. He declares the incident and wires fifty dollars. The office received the message and the driver collected the money.
In Evanston Wyoming pink snow covered the town on Easter. Charles Lackey an oil camp operator said the pink layer had to be scraped away to reach the white snow beneath used for water. Authorities blamed a dust storm for the unusual color change.
Sherman reports that added federal funds for the Grayson County soil conservation camp could start an erosion control project on a 10,000 acre watershed between Denison and Red River by midsummer. Since July 29, 1935 the camp has surveyed 18,000 acres on 82 farms, started work on 41 farms, terraced 3,986 acres, planted 30,000 trees, built five temporary dams and 360 structures, with CCC workers planting 68.3 acres of meadow, contouring 624 acres of pasture and planting 5,323 acres in strip crops. Cooperation with Sherman Conservation Association under E. B. Scott aids the program.
Colorado Springs hotel manager James Barton Smith recounted his trouble paying with silver dollars, noting locals refused the heavy disks, thinking them fake. he observed paper money held real value while the coins looked phony. He also noted that a high altitude drink can feel stronger and linger longer.
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