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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1949
Page
5
Local brief lists residents visiting relatives in Corpus Christi Harlingen Wichita Falls Dallas Sherman and Fort Worth. Bassett Station gains a truck and tractor mechanic. Births marriages and hospital stays include a daugh ter born July 28 and patients at Wilson N Jones and St. Vincent's Hospitals.
Publication lists personnel moves and social visits in Whitewright and area. Miss Evelyn Burns resigns from Whitewright High School after reelection to join Sherman schools. Several families visit relatives in Whitewright and surrounding towns, with church lodge notice and local business ad included.
Mrs H M Gentry hosted junior Sunday school on the church lawn with a picnic and games. Mr and Mrs Willard Young moved to Sherman for work at Barrett Funeral Home. Lt Davis Parrish, West Point graduate, heads to Panama City Florida for duty. Mrs Ross May will visit relatives in Dumas Arkansas. Teresa Henninger leaves for Tallahassee Florida for a summer course and then to Austin for teaching. A C Byars Jr brings open cotton bolls awaiting first bale. George Simpson and relatives hold a surprise reunion in Amarillo. Barrie Blanton and fellow scouts head to Galveston for a week of camps and navy and gulf trips.
Fort Worth personnel director C Waggett addressed the Rotary Club luncheon Friday. Introduced by program chairman W M Davis he discussed labor relations and compared the Taft Hartley act with the Wagner act. Visitors E H Danner and B V Dulaney of Sherman attended.
The Whitewright Home Demonstration Club met at Miss Lola Scott’s home with Mrs Tom Brown presiding. After the business meeting Mrs Brown presented a textile painting demonstration. The group donated canned foods and began quilting a quilt for Roy Tay.
The Lor family of the burned home plans an August 18 lawn ice cream supper at Mrs. Lee Norris to raise funds. Refreshments were served to 12 members.
The Sun announces new additions to its honor roll this week. Among those listed are E. QO. Young, Mrs. Florence White, Rev. E. A. Doty, A. L. Scott, Mrs. Kugga Hansard, W. K. Alexander, J.H. Gosnell, Prilla Ann Hinton, Mrs. J. P. Jenkins, B. R. Super, Mrs. Fred Henninger, Chas M. Chumbley, O. S. Bass, Drewie Caylor, C. W. Pope, W. D. Taylor, Mrs. Sam Sorrells, Mrs. Willard Young, and E. P. Jackson.
MINNEAPOLIS Acknowledge acts of generosity in trade as a widow and her 11 year old daughter receive occasional luxuries. The writer notes the young widow supports herself and child with limited resources while neighbors and associates step in on special occasions to provide small comforts.
A young girl saves pennies from her grandmother to buy a corsage for Mother's Day. After being offered a single flower for 45 cents, she insists her mother deserves more and declines until a florist provides a wrapped corsage and card. The 45 cents come from her grandmother, and the Barr Floral Co. corsage proves the finest.
In Salt Lake City Walker Bank and Trust Company staff and customers cried not from finance but when a girl clerk mistook a tear gas cartridge for a pencil. The device was kept for robbers and caused a startled scene.
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