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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1933
Page
5
Locals recount weekend visits and travels to Farmersville Dallas Sherman Iowa Greenville and Tulsa. Highlights include Craig's Cafe blue bonnet ice cream and 25 cent dinners. Guests include Miss Dorothy Hamilton Mrs Ethel Moss Mrs J J Silman and many others visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. Homer Sanderson recovering after surgery in Sherman. Numerous Texas residents from Dallas to Denison visit area families, attend events, and support ill relatives. Bethel drama, local auctions, club conventions, and district church delegates fill a weekend full of social and civic activity across Whitewright and surrounding towns.
Mrs. R C Norris at Whitewright improves after illness since November. Earl McCollum of Trenton dies at 42, survived by wife and family. W F Lewis, 77, dies in Whitesboro. once ran a Whitewright harness shop. Mrs. Allen T Short visits Chickasha for niece Barbara Jean Gordon’s operation recovery. Needlework Guild meets at Leora Short’s home with nine members. Eugene Hall returns from Roy Lenden orchestra tour. Baptist Missionary Society hosts reception for new pastor Rev G C Ivins at J P Darwin home with local church members in attendance.
The Mozart Midgets Music Club met Wednesday in Miss Tommie Chenoweths studio. Roll-call responses were musical quotes and the program featured piano and vocal numbers, rhythm band, musical games, and a Beethoven biography. Performers included Martha Vestal, Jack Smith, Dorotha Darwin, Martha Darwin, Mary Phillips, Ethel Harper, Glenda Rutledge, James Phillips, Willie Smith and Dale Watson.
The Methodist Church youth group met Thursday at 7 30 PM with good attendance. A debate on the resolution that Japan was justified in entering China featured the program, with J B Cates and Robert Doss for the affirmative and Leon Adams and J Y Russell for the negative. The group enjoyed a Friday picnic, reported Frank Hollingsworth.
Recommendation that Grayson County appropriate funds for survey of a route for the extension of highway 91 from Denison to Bells was made by Gibb Gilchrist state highway engineer according to members of a group of Grayson citizens who were in Austin Monday. Expense of surveys are borne by counties in which the engineering work is performed.
Thrifty 125-pound shoat offered for exchange for large hens. Advertisements list for sale or trade items including cottonseed meal, hulls, and grain buyers. Farm tools include two Case Planters, walking cultivator, John Deere, and Emerson riding cultivator priced around 17.50 to 22.50.
Executor Guy Hamilton of Mrs. J. Lee Yates estate in Whitewright Texas urges all debtors to settle and creditors to present claims within legal time. Appointed by J. J. Loy County Court judge on March 21 1933.
A cost around 1200 is cited for work by engineers from Fannin County. A delegation including Judge J J Loy and chamber officials will present to the commissioners court. The highway commission may approve surveying a route for an extension of highway 116 from Gunter through Dorchester to south of Sherman. A request to repair a Sherman Ida Whitewright segment damaged by detour traffic was presented, with the engineer to check records for possible state restitution funding.
J M Parrish has let the contract for a 30 by 42 barn and materials are being hauled to his farm this week. The new structure will replace the barn he lost several weeks ago of five. Parrish resides about six miles southwest of Whitewright.
A minister asserts matrimony should endure as the state of marriage. The comment appears in the Atlanta Journal. An advertisement urges readers to buy printing services in Whitewright.
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