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Newspaper

Whitewright Sun

Location

Whitewright, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 30, 1936

Page

8

The Glow Worm School Page Ends with Texas Under Six Flags

The Grammar School notes edited by Claire Doss and Glenda Rutledge include a yearbook style final by Mrs. J. B. May of Savoy. A six flags themed exercise features Margaret Benton and peers. Girls dominate recess with rope jumping and hikes. sixth graders beat seventh graders 4 to 0 in a recent game. Mr Manning batted four times for the boys. The girls also received a new soft ball Monday.

Manning Charlie Sue Childress

May festival at Grammar School crowned queen and pageant

A May festival at the Grammar School south entrance on Monday May 11 at 6 30 pm invites the public. Glenda Mae Rutledge will be crowned queen with Cecil Hodges as king. Train-bearers and attendants from each grade perform in a Texas history pageant featuring blue bonnets cowboys flags dances and a covered wagon scene.

Glenda Mae Rutledge Cecil Hodges Carol Jean Stubblefield Annette Harper Jacqueline Nossaman Betty Margaret Sears David Lee Johnson Bettye Nell Yeager Billy Christian Mary Frances Stephens Hugh Tim Atterberry Pattie Everheart Wallace Reeves Naomi Waldo Bob Sears Marie Badgett Brother Gillett Drunette Farley Texas Texas Cowboys

Gossip Origins and Fourth Grade Chapel Program

The piece notes gossip as a god friend from Krapp and quotes Ruby Pierson on tattling. Fourth graders presented America's Ideal Boy in chapel, with participants John Biggerstaff Pattie Everheart Charles Skaggs Ben Robert Jones Billie Phillips Jim Holmes Betty Jane Harper Ann LaRoe Wallace Reeves Margaret Benton Dorothy Sue Douglas, followed by a class song Texas Centennial.

Chapel America John Biggerstaff Pattie Everheart Charles Skaggs Ben Robert Jones Billie Phillips Jim Holmes Betty Jane Harper Ann LaRoe Wallace Reeves Margaret Benton Dorothy Sue Douglas

High School Glee Club Delights Assembly Audience

John Burma led the high school glee club in a set of selected songs during the regular assembly hour last Thursday, entertaining the grammar school compliment with a free chapel program.

John Burma Glee Club

Social notes from Sherman Trenton Denison and Tom Bean

Jack Wallace visited relatives Mr and Mrs Richard Key in Sherman. Dorothy Booker called on in Trenton. Lloyd Roddy was in Denison. Frandis Bennett spent the day at Carpenter's Bluff. Martha Jo Darwin was guest of Altha Mae Biggerstaff at Tom Bean. Drunette Farley.

Jack Wallace Sherman Richard Key Dorothy Booker Trenton Lloyd Roddy Denison Frandis Bennett Carpenter's Bluff Martha Jo Darwin Altha Mae Biggerstaff Tom Bean Drunette Farley

May Queen winner praised by campaign supporters

Glenda Mae Rutledge thanks voters for May Queen support and congratulates Pattie Everheart for her campaign work. The note highlights appreciation and acknowledges Pattie Everheart’s efforts.

Pattie Everheart Glenda Mae Rutledge

Honor Roll for Fifth Six Weeks Seventh Grade

Fifth grade students Claire Doss Lloyd Roddy Glenda Mae Rutledge earn honors. Sixth graders Betty Atkinson Dorothy Darwin Mary Alice Harrison Mary Dale King. Fourth graders Robert Owens Pattie Everheart. Third graders Hugh Tim Atterbury Bobby D Montgomery Billy Rhom Pennington Dorothy Nell Hall Margaret Hanna Mary Frances Stephens Kenneth Bernard Norris Monty Atkinson. Second graders Katie Kincaid Eugene Reeves Margaret Burnham Smh Sue Garner Don Newman Billy Christian Betty Nell Yeager Henrietta Jackson Willie Ruth Maddux Billy Cantrell James Montgomery Janis Horton. First graders Wandadell Sanderson Betty Margaret Sears Billy Ward Evans Betty Jo Hamilton Junior Harrison Betty Lee Jones Winnie Sue Queener George Hansard. Birds appear to be the main attraction in the first grade. Birds are on the boards, birds are on the walls.

Claire Doss Lloyd Roddy Glenda Mae Rutledge Betty Atkinson Dorotha Darwin Mary Alice Harrison Mary Dale King Robert Owens Pattie Everheart Hugh Tim Atterberry Bobby D. Montgomery Billy Rhom Pennington Dorothy Nell Hall Margaret Hanna Mary Frances Stephens Kenneth Bernard Norris Monty Atkinson Katie Kincaid Eugene Reeves Margaret Burnham Smah Sue Garner Don Newman Billy Christian Betty Nell Yeager Henrietta Jackson Willie Ruth Maddux Billy Cantrell James Montgomery Janis Horton Wandadell Sanderson Betty Margaret Sears Billy Ward Evans Betty Jo Hamilton Junior Harrison Betty Lee Jones Winnie Sue Queener George Hansard

Birds to Flags Switch in Monday Scene

Dru nette Farley notes that birds appeared in many places on Monday with bright and plain pictures, but by Tuesday they vanished and Texas flags occupied the spaces where the birds once fluttered, creating a vivid seasonal display.

Texas Drunette Farley

Second grade naturists tour Southeast Whitewright birds

The class went on a field trip to spot birds and gather wild flowers then returned to school tired. Each child drew a bird on an envelope and wrote a story about a bird they noticed, featuring species such as nighthawks, purple grackle, cardinal, sparrow, barn swallow, robin, black billed cuckoo, and mockingbird. Housekeepers listed include Board, Alice, library, Daniel, flowers, Max, ball, Roby, calendar, Janis.

Whitewright Alice Daniel Max Ball Roby Janis Martha Jo Darwin

Third Grade Prints Japanese Theme Bulletin Board

The third grade displays a Japanese themed scene with Gay Japanese fans, parasols, and cherry blossoms. Out of town names listed include Billy Rhom Pennington Jimmie Bartlett Dorothy Fay Simms Carl Pierson Margaret Hanna and Hugh Tim Atterberry. Kirk May traveled to Dallas last Friday and rode in an airplane for the first time. Grandis Bennett.

Japan Billy Rhom Pennington Jimmie Bartlett Dorothy Fay Simms Carl Pierson Margaret Hanna Hugh Tim Atterberry Kirk May Dallas Grandis Bennett

Sixth Grade Improves In Spelling and History

Sixth grade shows progress with a hundred spelling masters list expanding to fifteen. Fourth graders prepare May baskets, note long division mastery, and Pattie Everheart misses class after a tonsil operation. In English they study sentence parts and diagramming while geography shifts to Africa and Texas history moves from 1900 to today.

Squeaks and Squawks from the Seventh Grade Room

Seventh grade notes describe Cecil's unusual Monday absence and Evelyn delivering George's books. James resents a low house plan grade, while George and Miss Hamilton argue over a C. Dorothy avoids boys talk and Charlie Sue is seen with a toy car. Fifth graders earning A and 95 include Helen Childress, Louis Kidd, Billy Lanius Kincaid, Davis Parrish, Bob Sears, Fred Cook Jr., Grace Harris, Cecil Owens, Myrtle Taylor, and Lucian Vestal.

Cecil George Evelyn James Pacific Ocean Dorothy Charlie Sue Emma Joyce Hinton Helen Childress Louis Kidd Billy Lanius Kincaid Davis Parrish Bob Sears Fred Cook Jr Grace Harris Cecil Owens Myrtle Taylor Lucian Vestal Iona Bush

Judge Dismisses Speeding Alibi Howler

A courtroom rushes to judgment as a driver pleads a rummage sale alibi. The judge dismisses the case after Jim claims he was racing home to save his wife’s church rummage sale pants.

Jim

Doctor-Patient Quip Sparks Billing Banter

A humorous exchange in Parry's Pickings features a doctor telling a near fatal patient that their strong constitution saved them. The patient retorts by asking the doctor to consider that note when drafting the bill, highlighting a lighthearted clash over medical bills.

Parry

Dafoe Defends Dionne Quints Diet and Health

Dr Allan Roy Dafoe, physician to the Dionne quintuplets, denies reports of underfeeding and explains the babies receive thick vegetable soup daily. He emphasizes their health, testing and growth, noting each child has teeth and vigour, countering parental accusations.

Chicago Allan Roy Defoe Callander Ontario Emelie

Want Ads and Real Estate Listings

Want ads list sale of a single-row Oliver planter and two single-row Oliver cultivators by Harold Doss. Laundry work and sewing offered by Mrs. E A Lance, with tasks to suit. Real estate: buyers or sellers encouraged to see Tom Barbee.

Oliver Harold Doss Bog Joe Robbins E. A. Lance Tom Barbee

Political Announcements for Democratic Primaries 1936

The Sun announces candidates pending July and August 1936 Democratic primaries. For Representative Place 2: J. W. Adamson. For District Attorney: R. C. Slagle Jr. For County Judge: to be announced. For Tax Assessor-Collector: R. P. Hunter. For Public Weigher: Harold Doss seeking a second term.

The Sun Harold Doss

Parents Rarely Visit Hospitalized Daughters

A report notes that the parents visit their hospitalized daughters only sparingly, sometimes not crossing the road for days. The father and mother live nearby and claim the babies are not fat, asserting no baby is healthy if overweight.

Train signals clarified by Missouri Pacific executive

R C White assistant chief operating officer explains that passengers’ questions about cord signals in rail cars are answered by a whistle system driven by compressed air in the locomotive cab. The cord connects to this whistle, clarifying how signal meanings reach the train crew.

R. C. White Missouri Pacific Lines

Train signal code described by Mr White

The Eagle Lake Headlight explains locomotive whistle and signal meanings: two short blasts to start or stop, three for backing or stopping at stations, four for air brakes or speed adjustment, five to vary speed or recall the flagman, six to increase heat, seven to shut off heat, and one long blast to look back for hand signals.

Mr. White Eagle Lake

First Federal Bird Refuge: Pelican Island Established

Pelican Island reservation in South Florida, created in 1903, marked the United States first Federal bird refuge. The designation protected key colonial nesting sites and set a precedent for nationwide conservation efforts led by officials seeking to safeguard migratory birds.

Pelican Island South Florida United States

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