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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1937
Page
6
Local residents and relatives are mentioned visiting from and to places like South Carolina Gulfport Dallas Leonard Westminster Kentucky Sherman Collinsville Fort Worth Little Rock Hot Springs O Donnell Bowie Plainview Kilgore Trenton Honey Grove and Whitewright. Several residents vacationed with family while others hosted guests.
Miss Sallye Taylor of Johnson City Tenn guest of Mrs C J Mead. Several local visitors and trips noted including Miss Nell Holmes of Denton. Mr and Mrs H T Atterberry visit Kentucky. Mrs A M Bryant and daughter return from California. Dr and Mrs Ross R May and Davis Parrish travel to Colorado. Rotary district meeting at Tyler. Four piece vanity bed suite advertised at Lem Tittsworth. Pan American Exposition attended in Dallas. Local families visit relatives in Sherman Fort Worth Dallas Abilene and Waco regions.
Joe Hamilton returned from Lubbock where he checked farming interests and found crop conditions good in the region.
Mrs. W. E. Wall of Frisco visits Tampa sister Mrs. A. L. Mitchell. Tulsa visitors Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Weeks stay with Rev. and Mrs. Joe M. Connally. Clinton visitors Mr. and Mrs. Julian Boone return home after a stay with Boone family. John Hollingsworth improves after heart ailment. Many local residents attend or host over the weekend and several travel for work or family. Farm Credit Administration official A. E. Waters visits Whitewright for loan collections each Wednesday. Sell it with a Sun Want Ad.
Mrs Fannie Masten, daughter Eva, and Lee Hampton from Cooke County visited Whitewright early in the week. Jarvis family near Trenton held a reunion with five daughters, four sons, and spouses totaling forty two including twenty two grandchildren. Guests from Aransas Pass and Houston joined Mrs S H Montgomery for a weekend. Band members Dan Marsh and Jo Akridge travelled with the Fred Martin band on a Texas-Oklahoma tour via Dallas and Galveston. A Durant State Park picnic near Durant Oklahoma celebrated Mr and Mrs Lee Ford of Calera Oklahoma's 50th wedding anniversary with many locals attending.
The West Circle of the First Baptist Church met Monday at Mrs. J. A. Bixler's home for Bible study led by Mrs. W. M. Gates. Eleven members attended along with one visiting guest.
Miss Maurine McMillin daughter of Mr and Mrs Clint McMillin of Trenton and Jesse White son of Mr and Mrs W O White south of Whitewright were married at Durant Oklahoma August 4 by Elder S M Shirley pastor of the Church of Christ in Durant The groom is a former student of Whitewright High School The bride was born and reared at Trenton and is a popular member of the younger set at Trenton
Mrs Julia Ann Blanton celebrated her 90th birthday Sunday at her South Bend street home. Eight children survive, five attended, with thirty five grandchildren thirty three great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Neighbors and friends called to offer congratulations. She was the widow of B F Blanton who died two years ago past 90.
Mrs. Blanton born August 4 1847 has lived near Whitewright for over sixty years. She has eight living children: Mrs Emma Teel Vernon John S Blanton Vernon James F Blanton Chas S Blanton Whitewright Jesse A Blanton Houston Mrs W A Badgett Denison Mrs N C Sweatt Whitewright and W A Blanton Oklahoma City. After lighting 90 candles on a two tier cake her granddaughter Mrs J A Jackson of Oklahoma City sang That Wonderful Mother of Mine and dinner for thirty four children and grandchildren followed.
Mr and Mrs Luther Skaggs of Roaring Gap North Carolina, formerly of Whitewright, entertained Sunday afternoon for their daughter Marjorie in celebration of her fourth birthday. The home was decorated with dahlias. Children played under a grove and then joined in the dining room for favors ice cream and cake. Mrs Skaggs was assisted by Mrs W R Skaggs. The honoree received many gifts.
Rev. Joe M. Connally announces no preaching services at the Methodist Church Sunday morning and Sunday evening. Sunday school and Epworth League meet at 10 am and 7 pm. Rev. Mr Connally will fill the pul pit at the First Methodist Church in Paris in the pastor’s absence, Dr. Homer T. Fort. Buy your printing in Whitewright.
Ames Iowa report quotes Iowa State College sociologist R E Wakely on why rural youths move to town. He says after high school the loss of social contact drives girls to marry later and seek city life, while boys follow for wives. A few return to teach or remain home due to limited options.
A Department of Agriculture home economics survey in about thirty Southern cities shows two thirds of white and four fifths of negro workingmen families spend under 2.50 per person weekly for food, yet this buys a better diet than higher spending in the North and East. Coast regions report one third under 2.50, with California Washington and Maryland New York averaging 3.40 to 10 for whites and 2.80 to 9.50 for negroes, about 30 percent of family income.
Thirty boys employed by the National Youth Administration under the State Highway Department finished 50 erosion retard trenches in highway ditches along Highway 75 from Sherman north to the Red River. Victor Jaeggli, assistant district supervisor, reported to J. C. Kellam, State Director.
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