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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1957
Page
5
Mrs. Paul Caylor rests in Community Hospital Sherman. Dallas visitors and Fort Worth guests frequent area homes. S/Sgt Ownby sails to Tokyo via Seattle with family. East Texas State College names William Russell new business manager of The East Texan.
Mrs. Bill Brown and daughter of Dallas visit her mother Mrs. Sarah Kilgree. Florena and Margaret Williams visit the Browns in Dallas. Joe Vestal and family welcome a boy Michael Thomas born July 26. Reeves family from McKinney spend the weekend with John Reeves family. M r. and Mrs Jerry Pierce and son Randy Edison from Fort Carson visit R. E. Pierce family. Grace Roberts returns from Honey Grove visit. Wendells travel in New Mexico and Colorado for two months. Glascow announces birth of a son. Ruth Ann Cummings is former. Elbert Price announces daughter Aret a Beth born at Allen Memorial Hospital Bonham. McCormicks from Los Angeles visit. Kaiser family hosts Joyce and Kaiser family from Sherman. Mrs. J. G. Simmons visits from Vernon while husband attends Extension Service meeting at College Station. Mrs. Ben Sikes and Mae Storll honor Dorris Ann Wallace at a Denison shower. Pierce family and Hill family visit Jones Pierce in O Donnell. R. E. Pierce returns from Lubbock after 80th birthday of Joe Dan McMillin. Addresses relations from Perryton, Wolfforth, Lubbock, Slide, Slaton, Irving, Trenton, Whitewright, and Fort Carson attendance total about 50. Ownby families host a Sunday gathering in Sherman and Bonham with many relatives and friends enjoying hamburgers, ice cream, and camaraderie.
S. T. Montgomery Jr. and H. O. Hoover attend the Texas football coaching school in Dallas this week. Mrs. Mollie Murley is critically ill after recent surgery in Sherman. Mrs. Walter Adkins of Walters Oklahoma and Mrs. J. Lee Smith of Bo gota visit their mother, Mrs. Jim Ayres, hospitalized in Sherman after a heart attack.
Mr and Mrs Jack P Farley announce the marriage of their daughter Patricia Ann Farley to John Dorman Ferguson of Fort Riley Kansas The wedding occurred August 1 in Durant Oklahoma Attendants were Yonnie Ruth Coonrod Bonham and Richard Deweese Sherman The bride a 1957 Whitewright High School graduate Mr Ferguson a 1954 Southmayor High School graduate and Paris Junior College attendee The Fermsons will reside in Manhattan Kansas
Rev Ed Barcus of First Methodist Church in Sherman spoke to the Rotary Club on Friday. He urged doing right, being kind, and believing, noting belief applies to family, town, and friends. Visitors from Sherman attended and John Biggerstaff announced the district governor will visit next Friday.
The junior department of Beth el Baptist Church sponsored a swimming party and picnic in Sherman at Houston Street Park. Mrs. J. B. Layman led the junior girls and Mrs. Jeff Harris led the junior boys. Miss Nancy McKinney gave the invocation. Thirty-five juniors and guests enjoyed fried chicken potato salad sandwiches cookies homemade ice cream and soda.
Poem urges caution for children and youths to stay alert at sea and avoid dangers posed by deceptive fishing lures and shadows, warning that awareness reduces risk. The piece blends nautical imagery with advice for safety.
The church schedules Sunday School at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. A Pentecost sermon is anticipated with junior camper reports. Ladies Aid met with nine members at the manse led by Mrs. C C Dooley and planned a late August social. Missionary Society meets next Monday with Mrs C P Daw son and Miss Mardell Pumphrey leads the subject Christ s Way Every Day in the Community. Rally Day set for Sunday Sept 1 with a special program.
Church activities span Thursday through Wednesday with officers teachers meeting Friday Rebekah Class party Sunday School Worship and Training Union. Monday Cherub and Carol Choirs meet, East Circle Royal Service, and T A meeting in Sherman. Tuesday Sunbeam Day Drama Workshop. Wednesday adult prayer group choir practice. Sunday message titled Strange Relations and evening sermon The Church That Triumphs.
The notice announces Sunbeam Focus Week from August 11 through 18 with Sunbeam counselors and Sunbeams seated together at morning worship. It notes special activities for the week and thanks for 198 in Sunday School attendance last Sunday, signed Fred Waldrop.
New York reports one American in 37 000 is 100 or older with 4 500 centenarians sharing longevity tips. Profiles include an Indian woman survivor of a Oregon massacre, Perry Duskin of Cincinnati ex slave, and Colombian Indian Javier Pereira whose age is debated. Doctors note vitamins and diet, cigars, rum, coffee as factors. a geriatrician recommends dancing and sunshine for longer life.
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