Whitewright News Highlights Local Deliberations and Life Events
Mrs J F Lilley and others travel to St Louis to buy for the Lilley store. Bows move to Hedley, births, engagements, elections and marriages listed. New hires, store sales, cotten sale at 12 1/2 cap, and community group actions noted. Obituaries: Winburn, Ashinhurst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Lilley
Monta Badgett
Ernest Lilley
St. Louis
Robert Bow
Hedley
Ben Roberts
Dallas
J. L. Cantrell
Sherman
Edna
Churches Schedule Across Town in Sunday Services
A listing of church names and ministers with service times including Sunday School at 9:45 to 10:00 a.m. Morning worship from 10:55 to 11:00 a.m. Evening services at 7:45 p.m. and various midweek meetings across multiple congregations in Royse City area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assembly OF God
Roy L. Ham
First Baptist Church
Newton Cole
Training Union
Church OF Christ
J. Roy Waldrum
First Methodist Church
J. W. Polk
First Presbyterian Church
North Texas
Lee H. Smith
Floyd Bassett
Bethel Baptist Church
Pilot Grove
Cross Roads
Nuisance to Millionaire: A Guitar Boy’s Early Years
A reminiscence recalls a boy who roughs a guitar and garbles country tunes, once seen as a nuisance rather than a future icon. The piece reflects on how early rough edges can precede fame.
Average American Earned 2300 in 1954 Census Report
The Census Bureau reports the average American age 14 or older earned 2300 dollars in 1954, similar to 1953. Men averaged 3200 dollars while women averaged 1200. About one in five men earned 5000 dollars or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
No Place Like Home Poem Ends With Shakespearean Note
A nostalgic verse celebrates the idea of home as any place from a mansion to a simple room. It echoes Shakespeare with the line there is no place like home and reflects varied settings and occupants without graphic detail. The piece presents a lyric reflection rather than a report or event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare
Complex Texan Citation Listing Fair heirs
A long citation enumerates parties in a Texas case including J C Fair Pearl Fair widow J M Fair Nellie L McEvoy and husband Charlies J McEvoy W C Fair B E Fair M R Fair Martha Jane Edmisten and husband John Edmisten Dixie Faye Oliver and husband Leo Oliver Edna Marie Gianformaggio and husband Antonio Gianformaggio Jackie Fair Jimmy Dale Fair Roy Lee Fair Ronald Fair L D Fair Essie Ickes and husband Earl D Ickes Winifred Fair a feme sole Russell Fair Ena Ferguson and husband Robert A Ferguson Frances Beggs and husband W V Beggs Hugh Fair Blanche J Miller a widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
J. C. Fair
Pearl Fair
J. M. Fair
Nellie L. McEvoy
Charlies J. McEvoy
W. C. Fair
B. E. Fair
M. R. Fair
Martha Jane Edmisten
John Edmisten
Dixie Faye Oliver
Leo Oliver
Edna Marie Gianformaggio
Antonio Gianformaggio
Jackie Fair
Jimmy Dale Fair
Roy Lee Fair
Josephine Gore
Altha Lee Fair
Wiley C. Fair
15Th Judicial Court
Grayson County
Said Court
Sherman
A. D
Gladys Fair Robinson
Herbert A. Robinson
Paul Gore
Sarah Ann Gore Tackett
William M. Tackett
Sammy Marie Gore Belisle
John M. Belisle
Nellie L
Winifred Fair
Feme
Russell F. Fair
Ena Ferguson
Robert A. Ferguson
Frances Beggs
W. V. Beggs
Hugh Fair
Blanche J. Miller
M. B. Lamar
Receiver sought for Wiley C. Fair lands in Grayson County
The 15th Judicial Court of Grayson County Texas orders all heirs and unknowns related to Wiley C Fair and others to answer by Sept 12 1955 in Cause No 63218 Gladys Fair Robinson et vir vs J C Fair et al. Plaintiffs seek a receiver to lease oil gas and other minerals on five described tracts totaling about 146 ½ acres with various exceptions and current owners named in the petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. King
Elisha Brown
Grayson County
eXas
W. A. Godwin
W. M. Perry
Texas
Perry
Copperas
Wiley C. Fair
L. E. Vigus
D. M
Mattie Lawrence
J. J. Lawrence
Prairie
S Bank of
Chisum
Wiley Co. Fair
M. B. Lamar
E. Brown
A. Ruyleetux
Reuben Donnel
Brown
D. J. Perkins
J. W. Owen
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Whitewright
Bernard Collins
Dyer & Jones
Old Settlers
Cecil Badgett
Waco
J. M. Carter
Julian Sloan
Ralph Wallace
White & Donigan
Chamber of Commerce
Sloan
Percy Darwin
Billie Earl Montgomery
Sonny Hancock
Tulsa
Oklo
Eugene Hughes
Opal Cates
Ray Cates
White
Lula Mae Caylor
Mary Lou Blanks
Fae Wood
Clovis Gates
Elizabeth Waggoner
Irene Rector
Mardell Pumphrey
Margaret Pierce
Lucile Giles
Maggie Horton
the Sun
Clay Horton
Palace Theatre
W. M. Brannon
Dorothy Hamilton
Board of Education
Whitewright Community League
City Hall
W. E. LaRoe
C. J. Meador
F. M. Echols
C. B. Bryant Jr
R. T. Pennington
John Reeves
Gomer May
Frank D. Layman
Charlie Ayres
Albert Lea Jackson
Whitewright Boy Scouts
Washington, D. C
M. E. Winburn
Sherman Hospital
Simeon George Ashinhurst
Feed
Pascal Farley
Ford
Eddie Cantor
Krld-Tv
Channel 4
Whitewright Motor Co., Inc
South Bend Street
Whitewright, Texas
Copperas Branch
D. W. Rankin
E. Morrison
Elizabeth Barnes
S. W. Earnest
Nancy Davenport
Whitewright Sun
Modo Custom Kitchen
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