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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1937
Page
6
The second graders entertained the first graders Friday afternoon with a short program. David Lee invited the visitors and registration was directed by Junior. Ellen Ray and others explained scenes while Willie J presented each guest with a card. Readings and stories were performed by Billy Ward Norma Betty Margaret and Betty Lee. Games followed with refreshments.
A lecturer argues that failure trains writers and shapes success through experience. The piece notes pain teaches growth, from baby steps to spelling errors, and warns that early triumphs without effort often lead to later tragedy. End of term reflects student disappointment and renewed focus for next year.
A note from Lonnie Myrick and Louise Owens describes second graders enjoying flowers in the room. They drew bluebonnets pansies jonquils and old maids and played bird games during a Friday party with a cheerful remake of nature exploration.
Pupils study Mexico by mapping major products such as corn tobacco coffee lead silver gold cotton and oil. They craft Mexican dolls in bright dresses and sombreros and display vases with Mexican designs. On San Jacinto day Texans led by Kirk May were defeated by Mexicans led by Mary Lee Hughes.
Alma Jo Sanderson notes several seventh graders traveled during the weekend. Velma Holland Betty Atkinson Barbara Jean Gordon Mary Dale King and Dorotha Darwin went to Sherman. James Birt Phillips visited Dallas Saturday. Charlie Sue Childress stayed in Trenton Sunday night. Martha Lee Bradley and Marie Badgett spent Sunday in the country.
The fifth week honor roll lists students by grade. First grade names Betty Ann Darwin Alice Davis and Louise Owens. Second grade includes Billy Ward Evans Betty Jo Hamilton Junior Harrison Betty Lee Jones Betty Margaret Sears and Norma Smith. Third grade lists Margaret Ann Burnham Henrietta Jackson Janis Jayne Horton Katie Kincaid and Willie Ruth Maddux. Fourth grade names Charles Bradshaw Dorothy Nell Hall Margaret Hanna Joanna Harrison Billy Rhom Pennington and Mary Frances Stephens. Seventh grade includes Betty Atkinson Doretha Darwin Mary Alice Harrison Velma Holland and Mary Dale King.
Third graders learn about Texas flowers birds trees and the state song while drawing an outline map of Texas. Notable students who have visited Austin include Dorothy Lane Robert Merritt Virginia Pierson Billy Christian and Don Newman. They also welcomed two new pet turtles brought by Billy Joe Riddle Billy Christian and Robert Merritt.
Fifth graders imagine themselves as animals and write stories. Several children arrived at school with bandaged eyes knees and hands suggesting risky explorations. The weekly fifty word spelling test saw the boys beat the girls for the third time last Thursday.
Report notes busy Friday at Mr. Ricketts desk as students complete cards and projects. Fifth graders make number elves from triangles, cones, rectangles, circles and other shapes studied in arithmetic. Willys-Knights win in an arithmetic contest and social science students map country production, noting Brazil's 13 million bags of annual coffee, the hemisphere's top producer.
The Boy Scouts led activities with knots, oaths, laws, salute, handshake, signs, and patrol calls under Morris Fogle Gillett. The sixth grade followed with songs by Vergieline Hembree Naomi Waldo Lucille Starr Billie Burke Vineyard Grace Harris and a group song. A school play by Myrtle Taylor and pupils Lucille Starr Naomi Waldo Jessie Mae Coffey Billie Burke Vineyard, plus a reading by Billie Burke. - Thomas Sanderson
The Grammar School invites all to an annual spring exhibit of school work next Friday afternoon April 30 from 3 to 5. Parents and friends are urged to visit and view students’ yearlong work, with exhibits now displayed in individual rooms rather than in the hall.
For four mornings the sixth grade tests pronouns and learns about them. In arithmetic two captains Ina Marie Clark and Billy Rachel Dixon pick sides, with Model Ts facing Plymouths. A Thursday play titled What Dorothy Said by Myrtle Taylor Jessie Coffey Lucille Starr Naomi Waldo and Billie Burke Vineyard delighted the class.
A university president delivers his baccalaureate to a class with an audience of foreign parents. The mother asks what was said and the father, sleepy, asks who. The son is in the graduating class as the president proclaims that the school is out.
In a vivid, quotable exchange, Deacon Jones questions Gabriel’s reputation as a driver, while the assembly braces for a horn blast. The colorful dialogue hints at local character and a looming moment.
Two travelers, bonding in a railway coach, exchange offers of tobacco as one man asks about cigars cigarettes and a pipe. The other declines all, prompting a humorous aside about what he does with his mouth.
A surgeon, an architect, and a politician argue which is the oldest profession. The surgeon cites Eve from Adam's rib as a surgical act, the architect claims creation of order from chaos was architectural, while the politician notes that someone created chaos first, quipping about wings and fate.
A barber trimmed Betty’s hair with electric clippers and she told her mother on returning home that the barber used a vacuum cleaner on her neck. The remark reflects a humorous misinterpretation by the child about the tools used.
A superintendent visits a country school and asks pupils to pose an unanswerable question. After several tries a small boy asks, If you were stuck in mud up to your head and I threw a brick at you would you duck. The exchange ends with reluctant humor as the class challenges the educator.
A department store saleswoman touts oatmeal soap while a customer replies they never wash their oat meal. The lighthearted exchange captures a small moment of daily shopping banter.
A man asks why poor customers tend to tip more. The waiter replies that the poor man hides his poverty while the rich man hides his wealth, implying both fear judgment based on status.
A quip frames men into three classes, with Miss Gray delivering the punchline: rich, poor and good looking. The exchange reads as a sharp social aside in a light moment.
A brief humorous exchange shows a visitor surprised by a quiet rural life and an inhabitant admitting long residence. The humor hinges on the line I like 1M, implying boredom or a repeated refrain that signals contentment with inactivity.
Whitewright Grammar School boys filled in for Ida on Wednesday and beat Tom Bean 17 to 3. Players for Tom Bean included Sparks McMurry Trotter Vivan Grammer Langford Bigger Durratt. Whitewright lineup featured Ford Thornhill Simmons Pennell Hasting Russell Vestal Sears McFarland Thornhill. They also defeated Rose Hill 4 to 2 on Thursday, reported by G. W. Ford.
Two lessons describe dry and moist heat and dry and moist cold. Miss Druliner spoke to the class twice this week and handed out pamphlets on diseases. The patient last week was Margaret Coffey.
Norman Oklahoma report details Dr A J Carlson of the University of Chicago advising at a regional American Association of University Professors meeting to chew sticks soda straws or any handy item when hunger gnaws at the insides He notes appetite may be separate from hunger but appetite is pleasant not painful and hunger is an inherited system of machinery.
Norah confronts a charge of guilt as she explains that leaving fingerprints on the silverware shows she does not have a guilty conscience. The exchange underscores the dilemma between evidence and innocence.
At a social gathering a guest asks for the hostess to locate her husband while inquiring about a waitress who had been serving cocktails. The exchange highlights social mixups and domestic misdirection at a formal event.
A town bachelor discovers a handwritten message on a three minute egg claiming a girl will marry the man who notices the note. He replies proposing matrimony. Days later the response says she is now married with three children.
A theatre displays a screen notice asking elderly ladies to retain their hats to spare inconveniences. The message backfires as a stampede of audience members removes their hats before the performance.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a diner complains of an ant in soup and the waiter quips about vitamin bees, capturing a playful moment of dialogue over a minor culinary mishap.
A tenant asks why the chimney smokes, and the landlord replies that it happens only when a fire is burning. The exchange captures a humorous, everyday dispute about a fireplace.
A provocative Building Room exchange questions how easy it is to start a town. The plan proposes building a filling station and a store as a decoy to attract growth, with a forecast of about forty more stations and stores within weeks.
A man walks with his son when the boy exclaims there goes an editor. The father hushes him and warns that one may become an editor someday, urging kindness and humility toward those in the profession.
A skeptical boy’s plan hinges on preparation for a career. He completes a four year journalism course and then opens a news stand, illustrating practical steps from study to enterprise. The exchange emphasizes initiative and real world application.
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