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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1933
Page
5
Leon Spindle went to Dallas for a tonsil operation. Multiple residents and visitors from towns including Dallas Celina Sherman and Quanah were noted visiting relatives or traveling for farming. Rob ert DeBerry and others spent a week at Turner Falls Oklahoma. Betty Jo Rich and Margreta Fender are listed among ill or recovering individuals.
Bill Jones notes grocery merchants will raise flour prices by 34c per sack in five days while Roberts Co. offers savings on flour purchases from 100 to 1,000 lbs and promotes oil stoves and second hand wood and oil stoves. Watermelons priced 25c to 10c highlight specials. Roberts Co. is an N R A member.
The column lists numerous visits and trips from area residents. Paul Cook joins Texas Louisiana Power as an engineer. Guests include Mrs. W. J. Barbee, Mrs. W. F. Holland, Dorothy Juan Gillett, Dr. and Mrs. Sears, J. L. Cantrell, R. Taylor, and many others visiting family in Whitewright and nearby towns.
Mrs. M. M. Sears and children leave for Roswell New Mexico for health while Dan Hollingsworth visits from Oklahoma City. Mr and Mrs Sam Bateman and son of Celina drop in. Mr Bateman goes to visit Congressman Sam Rayburn. Lem Tittsworth Bonham advertises low priced used appliances including a refrigerator piano and radio plus a two story building and furniture for sale.
A Katy Railroad special agent forced forty men to leave a freight train in Whitewright on Wednesday while hunting two suspects in Denison. By nightfall most had vanished. Clay Horton announced plans to operate Whitewright’s Palace Theatre by August 15 with R and R Theatres providing high grade sound equipment. Mrs. A A Hardin of San Antonio, sister of Mrs. J W Davidson, and daughter of John D Patterson, died in San Antonio. She is survived by her husband and two sons Maurice and J D.
R T Pennington president of the Wright Rotary Club and John Silman secretary attended the Rotary Club Presidents and secretaries conference in Jacksonville Sunday night and Monday. They decided to hold the 48th district convention at Sherman next spring, an event usually attended by 400 or 500 Rotarians.
Secretary Emeritus H G Hester of the New Orleans cotton exchange reports world consumption of American cotton for 1932 33 reached 15 307 000 bales including lint and linters, up from 13 331 000 and 11 856 000 in two prior seasons. Carryover stands at 11 783 000 bales with 444 000 linters and 787 000 bales in port and mill stocks. Southern consumption rises to 5 346 590 bales, up over last year. Exports total 8 616 000 bales, down 215 000 from the previous season. Further details are forthcoming.
Short tips advise cleaning wicker with mild suds and brush. Cockerels kept separate from pallets at six to eight weeks. If a lamp breaks off in socket push a cork in to unscrew safely. Women smokers may use a nicotine stain remover. The season’s gag warns Eat what you can and can what you can t. Cold buttermilk is a nutritious hot weather drink. Use oilcloth draperies in bathrooms instead of dotted Swiss. Cooking potatoes in skins preserves nutrition.
Bonham report by J. L. Dobbs lists results of 57 prohibition elections from 1876 to 1903. Twenty went wet, thirty five went dry, and two had no returns. Notable shifts include 1877 precincts 6 Pleasant Grove 2 Savoy 4 Ladonia wet, 5 Honey Grove dry. county-wide vote in 1881 carried, 1883 failed, 1895 carried then 1897 failed, and 1903 county dry, remaining so since.
The Star Grain and Elevator Company bought 1,500 bushels from Adams & Co. of Devine for 52 cents a bushel, totaling 780, making it the season’s first United States dry milling corn shipment. The cargo will be reshipped to Texas mills, and its early arrival is two weeks ahead of 1932 due to drought, said C. M. Taylor.
A Denison man woke Sunday night with a new wife and $300 but by Monday morning had neither. He sought help from Sherman justice C W Batsell who wed the Denison man to an Oklahoma woman. The justice quipped that some marriages don’t take and some women do.
A short note states Sun and Semi-Weekly Farm News will be sent to the same address for one year at a price of $1.85. The listing confirms a combined subscription option and annual billing details.
A compact historical survey traces shifts in American education from 1892 onward, naming figures, methods, and movements. It mentions six month schools, manual training, the Winnetka and Dalton plans, contract method, phonics, behaviorism, and vocational guidance, amid debates over bond issues and governance.
A housewife jokes at a tramp that she has a cord of wood to cut and asks him to fetch a man to split it. The tramp agrees and asks where the worker lives. The exchange ends with a practical plan in Whitewright printing ad context.
In New York manufacturers of bicycles and roller skates report rising demand. A New York restaurant celebrates its 2,000,000th beer sale while noting rising female beer consumption. A gallery hosts love letters of famous men. A new men’s magazine plans no women’s content and aims for broad acceptance.
The city notes that ordinarily the larger hotels resist convention business as it disrupts regular guests, a situation observed with several prominent properties.
A courtroom exchange features a judge accusing a defendant of drinking as much as before. The culprit retorts that he kept his promise, insisting he is not drinking anymore.
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