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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1914
Page
4
A brief statutory notice lists candidates for county judge with the names Dayton B Steed J P Leslie Abner L Lewis. The page item presents multiple nominees in a local election context.
Miss Lula Hollingsworth spent weekend with her mother near Tom Bean and visitors include Mr and Mrs Shannon of Sherman. Glidewell’s offers glasses and T J Smith promotes groceries. Mrs Guy Dillon and son Jack visited from Bells. Mrs J N Fain left for Dallas to see her mother. Rev J L Truett preached in Howe. Beasley family welcomed a new baby girl born on the 5th. Mrs J H Waggoner returns from Mississippi with daughter Elizabeth. Mrs W E Blaine returns from three month visit in Luling. J M Simmons attended Luella singing convention and visited relatives. J M Carter of Whitewright advertises Love & Hicks Monumental Works. Women’s Missionary Society session in McKinney noted. Saleslady wanted by J W Madden Co in Denison.
Mrs W C Johnson and baby returned to Howe after visiting Rev and Mrs J L Truett. Prof Johnson, who moved from Westminster to Howe earlier this year to teach, has been elected superintendent of the Howe public schools. He is praised as a thorough instructor and strict disciplinarian. Simmons Brothers barber shop offers ready service. Local housewives favor T J Smyth for groceries for his attendants to please.
Henry Williams, operator of two McKinney movie houses, visited his seriously ill nephew Cleo Williams at home Friday. Sun reports the boy has passed the critical pneumonia stage and is expected to recover. Also notes Genuine Metane cotton seed from Lockhart, Texas at $1 per bit, with location details for Lester Haile.
The Love & Hicks Monument Co. of Sherman and Dallas are represented in Whitewright by J. M. Carter who offers designs and guidance for selecting monuments. T. J. Smith promotes fresh groceries to tempt spring appetites. Love & Hicks announces the Dallas store will operate as a branch with Sherman kept as the main firm. The firm began in Sherman fourteen years ago and is now a leading monument business in North Texas.
The Sun office lists chattel mortgage blanks for sale. Readers may purchase the forms directly from the newspaper office. This notice serves as a brief listing for readers seeking ready made legal templates.
The State Fire Marshal reports a fire every forty minutes and 9,600 fires yearly are preventable. Fire remains the most destructive force, while 80 percent of blazes are stoppable with preventive measures, yet funds favor fighting fires over prevention.
A referenced poem praises the Telephone Girl who sits at a wire answering calls all day. It notes the pressure of multiple tasks, the need for pleasant service, and the weariness of constant strain while urging readers to treat central operators kindly. It appears in the Nacogdoches Sentinel as a message supporting telephone workers.
A Cleve land Plaindealer editorial notes Jamestown’s early history with a ship carrying English women to Virginia to wed settlers. It cites selection from London tenements, only two deemed unworthy, and says descendants bear an honorable Virginia lineage. The piece praises the origin of the F F V aristocracy.
The essay argues that life transcends death, presenting quotes from diverse thinkers like Thoreau Emerson Shelly and Whitman to support belief in a continued, intelligent existence. It urges readers to live affirmatively, trust in a higher life, and embrace perennial life without fear, citing Jesus as example of resurrection.
Judge M H Garnett of the Fifty-ninth district court empaneled the grand jury for the April term. Members include James Biggs Sherman T W Brown Pottsboro W L Ashburn Denison L Embry Sherman H Luby Tom Bean J N Nevitt Ethel H L Nolan Whitesboro J B Wilson Sherman Fate Blackburn Howe D K Penn Sherman John D Hoard Whitewright and T H Massey Van Aistyne.
If your sewing machine needs overhauling or repairing notify us and we will come and get it and put it in shape. We do repairing of all kind. Dixon and Hayter.
A vintage barber shop notice from Simmons Brothers proclaims expert use of shears and razors and tailoring cuts to each customer’s needs. The brief copy emphasizes customized styling and skilled grooming.
Annual report of E K Turner treasurer Grayson County Texas covering a period from March 1 1918 to March 5 1914. Items listed include Jury Fund Bridge Repair Precincts 1 2 3 and 4 funds sale of bonds with accrued interest transfer of funds disbursements for year and balance on hand.
The speaker distinguishes from quoting scripture and asserts poetry philosophy and intuition reveal truth. Death is described as a ferry range or sea to be crossed not a grim grave. They claim immortality in the present and a deathless future.
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