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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1941
Page
5
Local residents and visitors are listed in a dense community notes column. Names include Carl May in Durant Ruth Howard in Farmersville and Jack Thruston in Jacksonville. Church events, school staff changes, and travel reports accompany a Saturday store opening and Easter plans.
Funeral services for the Rev John Connelly Skaggs 61 will be held Thursday at 2 p m at Forest Avenue Baptist Church Sherman. He died Friday in Phoenix and served as pastor here 1921 to 1930. Burial in Wittitee Cemetery near Kentuckytown. He is survived by wife three sons three daughters three sisters and eight grandchildren. He married Lucy Falls in 1900 at Whitewright.
Central Christian Church announces Sunday events with Dr B Wrenn Webb as pastor and R P Montgomery leading Sunday school at 10 a m. The Easter Meditation is set for 10 50 a m with both choirs performing. No evening worship. The church will join the Methodist pastor and congregation to close their meetings.
Mrs J D Russell was honored at an 81st birthday surprise dinner Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Marion Smith east of town. Relatives and friends attended including H H Booher Lubbock and families from Dallas Bonham Wichita Falls and Dodd City.
The Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet at the church Monday afternoon at 2 30 with Mrs. T E Barbee as hostess. The devotional will be conducted by Mrs. W A Kirkpatrick. Mrs Oran Sears will have charge of the event.
E. Morgan Vernon and Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. Russell with their daughter, plus Otto Russell and family, Ronald Vestal and children, Jack Brown and children, Gomer May and son, Marion Smith and Miss Maye Smith, all listed as residents in Shreveport Louisiana.
Spudding is due this week on a planned 5000 foot Travis Peak test in a 5500 acre block northeast of Bonham in Fannin County. Damon Oil Company of Tulsa will drill on the A L Craffin 101 acre tract in the southwest corner of the J C Ketchum survey.
The operation will test all zones from the Woodbine to the Travis Peak about 4,500 feet deep. Blocking of the acreage was by C. L. Sutton and J. A. Denning of Tulsa. Geological work by Claude Dally of Fort Worth. Drilling to be directed by R. L. Chander of Tyler.
A nervous youth sits in the chair wearing a striped silk shirt and check suit. The dentist frets about using gas, fearing he won t know when the boy is unconscious.
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