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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1936
Page
4
Miss Leora Short visits in Tyler. Dallas visitors include Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Baugher and Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Wilson. Joe Weldon Carr visits from San Angelo. Dallas and Sherman residents visit here. Relatives from Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, and Denton are seen with local families. Several local residents travel to nearby towns for visits and employment, including Honey Grove and Ardmore.
Mrs B Wrenn Webb attended a Sherman luncheon hosted by Mrs J A L Wolfe. Numerous visitors and relatives stayed with local families including Gordon, Peveto, and Fleming households. Activities featured Allen Short's new barber fixtures and a Whitewright Home Demonstration Club quilting day with twenty members and two new additions.
A roundup of local notices includes furniture pricing at Lem Tittsworth in Bonham with bedroom suites for 65, and other prices 59.50 and 49.50. Mr and Mrs Luther Skaggs depart for Roaring Gap North Carolina for state hatchery work. Birth announced for a daughter to Mr and Mrs C E Glass of Kona wa Oklahoma. Whitewright to issue automobile driver licenses without charge starting after April 1. Local visitors and community updates, school board election reminders, Red Cross flood relief contributions, and cold April weather impacts on gardens and water faucets.
Greenville authorities reveal Velma Patterson 34 of Commerce has been indicted for murder in the death of her daughter Dorothy Leon McCasland 12. It is the second indictment after a prior murder charge in Billie Fae McCasland 11. Patterson protests innocence and says they will know the truth. The grand jury was secretly recalled to avoid exposing witnesses.
The Rotary Club scheduled a fish fry for Friday April 3 at 6 30 pm with Rotaryanns as guests. If weather allows it will be outside in Orangeville. otherwise the basement of the Presbyterian Church will host. Officers will be elected from a nominating committee of Dr F D Layman W E LaRoe and Clay Horton. Gomer May was named Rotary International representative for June in Atlantic City. J H Waggoner was named district conference delegate with Clay Horton as alternate. John Reeves led the program and Miss Vivian Echols accompanied in club singing.
A Whitewright High School alumnus, formerly with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, is now employed by a highway construction firm in Leonard.
The Friday Literary Club gathered last Friday at Mrs. Newton Manning’s Mexico study. Resignations of Mrs. Bryant Jr. and Mrs. May were accepted. New officers and members named, program featured piano, talks on Early Mexico, reviews of books, and travel tips. Twenty three members attended. next meeting set for April 10.
Mrs Jack Montgomery received a miscellaneous shower Tuesday night hosted by Mrs Chas Butler and co hostesses Mrs Fred Tarpley Misses Rosa Simpson Dorothy Mullinix and Ethel Crawford. Guests included out of town attendees Mrs Mark Montgomery Mrs Bonnie Nicholson Mrs T J Rector and Mrs Louis May of Whitewright and Mrs Bill Moore of Bailey. Mr and Mrs Montgomery wed Feb 1 in Greenville. Mrs Montgomery formerly Miss Lou Ella McCarstin a 1932 Leonard graduate.
Mahurin News notes Mr. and Mrs. Ford Kitching spent Thursday in Denison. Mrs. P. H. Hall spent Friday in Ee tor with her sister, Mrs. Till Baldwin. Misses Elsie Bush and Alma Hall were in Denison Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hodges spent Sunday in Canaan with Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. Curless Aldridge of Trenton and Mr. and Mrs. Buster Aldridge of Pilot Grove visited Mr. and Mrs. Oland Bush Sunday. Leon and Lloyd Jenkins visited Leon Bush over the week end. Misses Elsie and Wyona Bush were
Visitors in New Fulp Sunday included Tom Hall and Oland Bush who went to Dallas on business. Misses Laura May Brown Katherine Hutchins and Audrey Fae Hutchins were in Ector Tuesday night. J B Johnson of Fairview visited James Burris Tuesday.
Janey notes hats cost more than radios after a window sign proclaims Hats 10 up while Radios 10 down. The Jones family on a Sunday drive recalls past quarrels and a donkey’s loud bray as a relative joke, with a gentle comeback from Janey’s mother.
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