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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1932
Page
5
Community notices list numerous Sherman area residents visiting relatives and traveling for business. Names include W. L. Pratt Jack Silman Maud Mangrum J. H. Biggerstaff and many others with accompanying travels to Dallas Fort Worth Waco and Durant Oklahoma. Local bids and social visits fill the page alongside promotional offer 48 Pounds Flour for 69 cents at Silman s.
Oscar Bow exhibited large rice apples grown on his farm south of town. He has only one apple tree and gathered between four and five bushels. The senior B Y P U held a farewell party Friday night at the Ackleys home for Kath leen Pierson who left Sunday to begin training at Wilson N Jones Hospital in Sherman. Games were played and guests wrote parting words for Pierson. Refreshments were served to twenty three attendees.
A long list of visits and travel notes from Lubbock Sherman Denison Dallas and nearby towns shows Mrs McMillin visiting her mother in Lubbock Mr Short and Mrs Short from Savoy in town James Lackey heads to Mineola for work Oscar Bow and Roscoe Pace serve on a district court jury in Sherman Several families plan weekend trips to Dallas Greenville Turner Falls and Tennessee plus a birth announced for Lester Short in Big Spring
W. R. Hooper, president of the Whitewright Rotary Club, is attending the annual president's and secretary's meeting of the Rotary Clubs, currently in session at Tyler.
L. O. Lackey notes Texas voters will go to the polls August 27 to choose between Ma Ferguson and Governor Sterling. Judge John Manning of Lawton Oklahoma visited with his boyhood friend F. W. Alverson. Manning, an alumnus of Grayson College, has just won a fifth term as county judge of Comanche County with Lawton as its seat.
R E Burnham relocates family to Whitesboro for Munsey Chevrolet work while George Burnham continues operations at the Burnham garage. Tom King family moves from Amarillo to Whitewright occupying J H Reeves residence. Gomer May recovers from a foot infection. Presbyterian ladies host lawn party at Clarence Pace home with music and treats. Uncle Billy Ingram of Nobility is gravely ill with daughter Mrs. W M Cox frequently at his bedside.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Pennington and son relocate to Royse City where they plan to settle. He opens an insurance agency there after leaving Whitewright Lumber Company at month’s end to start his own business in his former hometown. Hubert Bookout, former county attorney, visited Whitewright Thursday amid a strong run in the district attorney race.
Residents are invited to help weed and beautify Vittitoe Cemetery near Kentucky. Gather Tuesday August 9 at the cemetery and bring tools to assist in cleaning and grounds upkeep.
Electric refrigerator used as demonstrator $135.00 from Lem Tittsworth Bonham. Green and tan bed suit $29.50. Mohair living suit $39.50. Piano $29.50. Shades 39 cents. Bonham vendor promotes discounted items.
John W. Washburn expresses gratitude for the nomination for county commissioner of precinct 2. He pledges vigilance to protect taxpayers and secure the best possible service within his abilities.
Proof Mrs Ross Sterling wife of Gov Ross Sterling will actively campaign in the runoff is shown by two speaking engagements in McLennan County this week. On Friday night she and District Attorney Sam McCorkle of Mexia headline a Sterling rally on the courthouse lawn in Waco and on Saturday night speak at Mart eighteen miles southeast.
The passage lists varied, sometimes sensational claims from different places and times. It mentions Scotland's clover superstition, Fort Smith postal lore for gypsy tribes, drug store dominance in sales, health records for early 1930s, library gaps, public hangings in England, Sing Sing inmates and home study, tiny fog particles, UC water plants, Johns Hopkins turtle derby bets, Chaplin sons on humor, Caribbean lemon farming, Peruvian lighter fines, Manhattan car horn novelty, Korean street etiquette, French publicist on debts, Bible purchases by Japan, Queen Joana's Seine fate, and rising US suicide figures in 1900s to panic years.
Wiley Wilson Cato a pioneer of Westminster southwest of Whitewright died July 25 at his home after two years of illness. Funeral at Westminster Baptist Church with burial in Elm Grove Cemetery. Born January 25, 1853 in Lamar County Texas he moved to Pilot Grove area as a child and lived there most of his life. Surviving children include W. N. Cato Dallas L. E. Cato Pilot Grove D. W. Cato near Whitewright Reece Cato near Pilot Grove R. E. Cato near Westminster Mrs N. F. Meadows Van Alstyne route one and Mrs W. A. Goodnight Whitewright route one. Three children preceded him in death.
The Ro tary Club Friday luncheon featured W. E. LaRoe in charge with guests Misses Louise Echols and Frances Bryant. The two Whitewright entertainers performed piano and vocal numbers, drawing praise from all in attendance.
Mrs Sarah K Webster wife of the late E L Webster died Saturday afternoon at D W Cato's home near Whitewright after several months illness. She was 38 and survived by three children Ray Norman 15 Jimmie Lou 13 and Aileen 11. her husband died eight years ago. Burial was at Elm Grove Cemetery. She had lived in the area eight months, from Farmington. She belonged to the Christian Church at Gunter.
A Cincinnati Enquirer cartoon caption references a nut cracker at work, joking about a host of witty remarks and a character known for sharp quips. The item plays on wordplay and humor within a newspaper humor page.
The Church of Christ announces a revival led by Bro Earl C Smith to begin on August 7 after a prior postponement. Smith, who led last fall, is expected to draw many listeners with messages of love, encouragement, and faith in morning and evening services, including open-air evening gatherings.
A quip questions DeGroot’s talkativeness. The joke implies his nightly routine includes staying out late and his wife responding with a strong rebuke.
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