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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1923
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun promotes community unity with lines about progress and local pride. It notes a rise in mosquitoes from unclean tin cans in yards and alleys and stresses the need for a city clean-up day to reduce pests. It also references an ad rate notice and encourages reading Acres of Diamonds in Texas.
About one hundred Grayson County Odd Fellows and Rebekahs gather in Whitewright for the fourteenth annual session of Gray County, noting community aid and fraternal activities.
The Son County Odd Fellows Anniversary Association and all of Whitewright extend a hearty welcome to the best little town in Grayson County.
In Whitewright, after stores shut, busy businessmen flock to their gardens to work like bees. With warmer sun, weeds will overtake areas where grass is now scarce, signaling a changing scene as labor shifts outdoors.
A single Albion oat head, selected in 1906, yielded a crop on over 1.5 million acres by 1919. This white variety produced more than 6.5 million extra bushels annually, illustrating extraordinary reproductive vigor and yield.
Massachusetts public utilities commission approves a five minute limit on telephone calls in New England. Investigators say men hang up quickly after a brief snort while women converse longer with female friends, and business men are the main complainants.
The Whitewright High School senior class voted to wear simple cap and gown for graduation saving parents several hundred dollars. Twenty four students participated in the decision, reflecting a practical approach. The class made another wise choice last Thursday.
The day they chose plain printed invitations from The Sun instead of engraved ones, avoiding much higher costs. Hats off to the senior class.
A State Press in Dallas News urges grocers to direct delivery drivers to avoid driving in yards or onto park strips and to prevent damage to ditches, grass lawns, and shrubbery. It warns against leaving trucks curbside that threaten homes and trees and notes past drivers ignored complaints.
A collection of satirical quotes and opinions from multiple papers lampooning crime penalties social reforms and political leaders. Items joke about life terms flexing legal moves missionary goals and public wit across newspapers in the early era.
The church announces May 6 as homecoming day inviting all current and former members to attend. The roll will not be called but attendance will be noted and the pastor K R Isbell urges full local membership to be present.
J. H. Reeves, in Denison, inventories the Elkins Dry Goods Company which filed a bankruptcy petition in the Sherman U S District Court. He also handles Kinder Brothers shoe store, another debtor in bankruptcy, as trustee for both firms.
The Canaan school finished a successful term last Friday with a ground meal and a general good time for patrons and students. Teachers Haydon Hamilton and Miss Sallie Hamilton led the term, serving for several years.
A few seats remain for the final lyceum performance to be held at the grammar school auditorium Friday night. Miss Emma Dee Randle, a Whitewright entertainer with national reputation, was chosen by Whitewright to close the lyceum season and her return promises a royal welcome.
The Central Christian Church held its annual business session and officer elections on Sunday. R. C. Brown was re elected elder and Sunday school superintendent. W. W. Dossey advanced from deacon to elder, W. H. Davidson became deacon, Gladys Ray named choir leader, and Mrs. J. L. Kirkpatrick named organist. The church lists eleven deacons and four elders with several hold over members and two deaconesses.
Agricultural Director C C Willis Jim Hollingsworth and Dan Hollingsworth visited three miles from Savoy on Sunday to inspect Dee Hood’s poultry farm. The Hood's operation includes nine hundred young chicks and seventy English White Leghorn hens in two coal heated brooder houses. Mrs Hood noted oil burning but details end.
Mrs Hood explains switching from oil to coal stoves after last year and notes hens laid steadily since October. They buy chicks from a commercial hatchery, with 400 birds in one flock and 500 in another. She prefers two-year-old hens as sources, and she earns more from Fox Terrier dogs than her husband from theirs.
Mr Claud Cox and Miss Olive Neff were married last Sunday afternoon at the Neff home with Rev John Skaggs officiating. Only family members and a few friends witnessed the ceremony. The couple will make their home after the ceremony.
Mr. Cox will manage the new hardware store at Krum Denton County as the hardware firm expands. Claud Cox has spent a year and a half with the firm in Denton and will lead the Krum store. The bride, reared locally, is active in church work and has long headed the millinery department at Hudson Davis & Company. Best wishes pour in for a long and happy life together.
In a classroom exchange George boasts of outsmarting the teacher by claiming Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was not written in his town. The teacher questions the claim and the class laughs at the joke.
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