Local Social Notes and Events Highlight Whitewright Area
Brookshire visitor H P Donigan. Leon Ard and Richardson families visitations. Addison Vestal from Pittsburgh weekend with Vestal and Follis families. hospital visits in Dallas and Sherman. PTA to meet April 9 on Looking At Our World Today program led by Lillian Neathery. Miss Paula Geers wins Miss Congeniality at Sherman pageant televised on Channel 12. Burglary at Bethel store. Robert Doss improving after surgery in Denison hospital. Clower open house and flowers by Clower event noted in Van Alstyne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Cole
Sherman
Ralph Wallace
Lola Scott
Clower
van Alstyne
Parent - Teacher Association
Lillian Neathery
Whitewright
Mildred Bow
D. L. Buchanan
O. G. Bow Jr
Paula Geers
Paul Geers
Carolyn Clark
Channel 12
Miss Geers
Kilgore College Rangerettes
Sherman Residents Share Family Visits and Funerals
Mrs Lynn McKinney and children of Sherman visited her parents Mr and Mrs Jim Grider Sunday. Mr and Mrs W A Bower attended the funeral of Theo Conner at Denison Tuesday. Mrs Maude Belew joined her brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs George McCoy to Blue Ridge Tuesday for the funeral of G M Dowland. Dr and Mrs H L McAlester of Hobbs New Mexico and Mrs A G Smith of Dallas spent a few days this week with Mrs John McAlester and Mr and Mrs Homer Gentry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn McKinney
Sherman
Jim Grider
W. A. Bower
Theo Conner
Denison
Maude Belew
George McCoy
Blue Ridge
G. M. Dowland
H. L. McAlester
Hobbs, N. M
A. G. Smith
Dallas
John McAlester
Homer Gentry
Little Rock H D Club Hosts Dorchester Guests
The Little Rock Home Demonstration Club met at Whitewright firemen hall at 11 A.M. with Dorchester Club guests. Mrs. Vestal led song. Mrs. Spence played. A noon luncheon served to 12 members and 26 guests. Easter décor featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Whitewright Firemen’s
Dorchester Club
Ray Vestal
C. O. Spence
Jim Grider
Billl Ireland
J. C. Wetzel
O. H. Noel
Roy Morrison
WSCS Meets at First Methodist Church in April Session
The Woman's Society of Christian Service met April 1 at 2 30 p m in the First Methodist Church for a regular business meeting and current study. Eight members attended with Mrs Kenneth Frisby opening with a meditation from Ephesians. The study Dimensions in Prayer covered chapters two and three led by Mrs James Bryant. Assistants included Mrs Ott Lackey Mrs A M Bryant Mrs John Streun Mrs G C Stateville Mrs G C Hardcastle Mrs R P Childress and Mrs Kenneth Frisby. The group adjourned with sentence prayers and the April 8 meeting will be at Mrs Otto Russell's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman’s Society of Christian Service
First Methodist Church
Kenneth Frisby
James Bryant
Ott Lackey
A. M. Bryant
John Streun
G. C. Stateville
G. C. Hardcastle
R. P. Childress
Otto Russell
Battle Wagon Fitted As Fallout Shelter
The 35,000-ton battleship North Carolina, docked in Wilmington as a tourist draw, will be stocked with food medical and other provisions to serve as a fallout shelter. The Battleship Commission says it can shelter 2,500 people and with ventilation upgrades more than 5,000 could stay aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
N. C
North Carolina
Battleship Commission
Cape Fear River
Civil Defense
This Week's Wildlife A Texas Native Wildlife Series
A weekly column introducing Texas wildlife highlights. This issue features native species, habitats, and brief notes on behavior and conservation, offering readers concise facts about local fauna and natural history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Color Variants of Anguilla bostoniensis Eels
Fishermen note both silver and yellow eels as features of Anguilla bostoniensis. Young eels hatch in ocean saltwater, migrate into rivers, become landlocked, then turn silver on spawning migration. They die after laying eggs in the ocean, completing a life cycle. Eels are scavengers and in some southern regions their flesh is a delicacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anguilla
South
Owed to a tax collector
A reader quotes a Frost quatrain about money and memory, tying it to the IRS crackdown on expense accounts. The note suggests the verse as commentary on tax collection and spending accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue Service
Robert Frost
Frost
Incentive Killing in Engineering Education Debate
A Lewisville Leader opinion quotes J H Gad dess of Texas A M engineering blaming parents for youths avoiding engineering. The writer condemns modern educators and politicians for incentive killing programs and urges responsibility on society for the decline in arduous study paths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockdale
Texas
J. H. Gaddess
Texas A and M
Johnny
Mr. Gaddes
Mr. Goddess
Lewisville
Population rises 4.4 percent to 187 million
The U S population grows by about 7.99 million since 1960 to an estimated 187,293,000. The figure excludes 769,000 servicemen stationed abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Do Just the Best You Can No Indispensable Man
A collection of moral anecdotes and jokes about humility, vanity, and impractical promises. Included are the water bucket fable on being missed, the oyster stew pearls, a boy’s reaction to his father’s tuxedo, a whipping reprimand, a lampoon of male vanity, and a joke about a book titled What Two Million Women Want.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pop
Ted
Coach Leads Players to Fire Escape in Dormitory Fire
The football coach woke to a dormitory fire and directed his team on the third floor. Firemen pointed to one escape and the coach urged the first team to use it while ordering everyone else to jump to safety.
Woman's puzzle ends with clever kitchen fix
A housekeeper helps install a new can opener then returns to find it in use. The cook explains that lack of formal education forces practical thinking. The exchange highlights resourcefulness and humor in domestic life.
Chaplain of Congress Prays for the Country
A child asks about the Chaplain of Congress and the father explains that the chaplain rises on a platform, surveys Congress, and offers a prayer for the nation. The exchange captures a concise view of the role in a reverent, period voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonny
Congress
Daddy
First trip misadventure on the bus
A young wife on her first fishing trip keeps changing sinking corks as her husband asks what she is doing. An old lady pokes the bus operator asking for the First National Bank, only to hear the operator respond with a joke about his ribs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
Utterly-Utters Spark Social Climber Tag Ivy Named
A light social note highlights the Utterly-Utters famed for high society antics. They are said to be so image conscious that they christened their youngest daughter Ivy to fit the social narrative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ivy
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. P. Donigan of
Brookshire
Mrs. Greenwood
Leonard
Bill Pierce
Joe Sonville
W. A. Thurman
Addison Vestal
Pittsburgh
Mrs
Rolla Vestal
J. T. Follis of
Carl May
Joe Rich
Laura Rich
Lena Mae Gowdy
Holmes Connelly
Trenton
Paris
Ella Johnson
Max Ray Wilson
Jana
Randy
T. L. Ingram
Fred Cook
Harold Doss
Bonham
Eugene McIver
L. F. Jacks
Risser Hospital
Berniece Davis
Howard MecSpedden
Pilot Point
Bertha Knox
Krum
Lillian McSpedden
Jimmie
Joe Ashinhurst
Eula Andrew
Bethel
James Williams
Robert Doss
Madonna Hospital
Miles Philley
Gladys Hall
Anna
Frank White
Printess Compton of
T. J. Lilley
Clay Horton
H-D
WSCS
Stephens & Bryant
Insurance & Real Estate
Chuck
Folger’s
Supreme Chocolate
Give
Adc
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!