Memory Lane Highlights From The Sun 1916 1921
A collage of local notices recalls births engagements and deaths from August 1916 and 1921. It mentions the Long Bane and Smith families, Mildred Browning’s appendicitis care, W Mason’s death, Irene McMillin and H T Atterberry engagement, John Hoard’s fishing trip, Louis Hopkins death, Lucian Andrews rural letter carrier events, bond sales for Grayson College’s high school conversion, J D Powell’s sanitarium death, cotton yields, and notes on Miss America fashion and a henhouse raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. C. Long
Bob Bane
J. Smith
W. T. Browning
Colorado City
Mildred Browning
W. Mason
D. S. McMillin
Irene
H. T. Atterberry
Glasgow
John Hoard
Aransas Pass
the Sun
Louis F. Hopkins
Whitewright
Lucian Andrews
Waco
Texas Rural Letter Carriers Association
Lucian
Texas
Washington
F. M. Echols
Supt. H. L. Durham
Austin
Old Grayson College
State Board of Education
J. D. Powell
Sherman
John Alexander
Ray
Chicago
Thieves Reported Nabbing Chickens At J A Harper Farm
25 years ago from The Sun on August 12 1926 J A Harper heard thieves among his chickens Sunday night and investigated. He caught the intruders or alerted help as the incident was recorded in local notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Harper
Veteran Questions And Answers
A set of veteran benefit Q and A items covers GI Bill training hours, funeral expense claims, unemployment readjustment allowances, and NSLI term policy renewals. It explains full time training requirements, two year filing limit for burial claims, eligibility rules for unemployment benefits, and conditions for renewing term life insurance before expiry.
Auto Radio Use Surges in New York Year Half
Radio-TV Manufacturers Association reports that auto radios accounted for 2,969,632 of 8,027,935 total sets in the first six months. Home receivers totaled 4,212,994 and portable units 845,309, indicating strong automobile adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Radio-Tv Manufacturers Association
Texas citation orders L L Goode to appear for divorce
Citation requires L L Goode to answer Roxie Lee Goode in a Grayson County divorce suit filed July 27 1951. Case No 59081 seeks divorce on cruel treatment custody of Babe Lester Goode and Richard Lee Goode with full costs and relief. Issued August 2 1951 in Sherman Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
Texas
L. L. Goode
A. D
Fifteenth Judicial District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Roxie Lee Goode
Babe Lester Goode
Richard Lee Goode
S. W. Earnest
Iva Davidson
The Spice of Life and Notes from a Newspaper Page
A collage of odds and ends from a historical page: epitaphs about commerce on Main Street, a Maryland cemetery marker, a radio writer joked as literate, a manager tweaking a map pin to test loyalty, a hay fever anecdote at a party, a note on artificial ice surpassing natural ice in 1914, a tourist’s joke about locals and a witty exchange between boarder and landlady about weather and accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Thompson
Main Street
Maryland
Jane Smith
Thomas Smith
Columbia
Cornell
University of Mexico
Concrete and abstract joke at school and church
A teacher explains abstract versus concrete to students while a boy jokes his pants are concrete. A popular preacher credits his success to a silent prayer asking for suitable words and a nudge to stop speaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimy
Reluctant draftee and barber jokes headline the issue
A wary conscript faces an army oculist and asks about a chart and a chair then hurries to a cinema after a deferred exam. A one eared man fears a barber nicking him while a mismatch of memory prompts a sharp comeback.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Grayson County Tax Reduction Cuts State Levy
Grayson County property owners will save about 11000 in state taxes next year due to a rate drop from 72 to 42 cents with 35 cents for schools 2 cents for Confederate pensions and 5 cents for a college building fund. Sheriff sale notices publicize a September 4 1951 foreclosure of Eugene E Jones and wife for delinquent taxes on Whitesboro lakeview addition property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
Robert Dean
J. N. Dickson
Grayson
State of Texas
A. D
District Court
15Th Judicial District of Texas
Eugene E. Jones
Texas
Lakeview
Whitesboro
G. W. Blanton
H. C. McElroy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Harper
Harper
Fred W. Smith
J. E. Montgomery
Joe Johnson
Anna
Sakrete
Whitewright Lumber Co
Markwell
Staplers
Cartwright
United States
S. H. Montgomery
Zour
Feu
L. LaRoe & Co
THE
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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