Local and Personal News Highlights from Sherman Area
Notes include visits by Hayden Hamilton in Sherman and Merkel native John Sears, a Sherman trip by Miss Leila Parrish, and Dr. R L Sears tending farming interests in Lubbock County. Local arrivals and returns from Dallas, Sulphur Springs, Glen Rose, Cooper, and Oklahoma City are listed, plus a Colorado Springs marriage of W O Womack. A rain shower brought cooler weather and better farm outlook. Principal advertisers Gordon Bros. pay 20c a dozen for eggs.
Local residents share visits and sells promotions
A parade of visitors stops through Sherman and nearby towns as relatives travel to Greenville Nashville Cookville and Dallas. Families like the May LaRoe Dyer Hill Gowdy Hamilton Blincoe and Blincoe groups plus Gordon Bros advertise groceries and mattress specials while road gravel is laid and residents visit hospitals and gravesides.
Social visits Highlight Local Families
Sheriff and Mrs. Floyd Everheart spent the weekend with Mrs. Everheart’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bryant. Judge Jim H. Reeves of Houston visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Reeves, and other relatives. Your friends patronize Pierce's soda fountain. Meet them there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dugan Whiting
Madill
Okla
Mrs. C. W. Bryant
Sheriff
Floyd Everheart
C. W. Bryant
Jim H. Reeves
Houston
J. H. Reeves
Pierce
Local residents make brief family visits across Texas
Charley Andrews returns to Dallas after days with his father J. R. Andrews. Mrs. Anderson goes back to Trenton after visiting sister Mrs. Mell Roberts and relatives. Ray Badgett and family of Floydada visit J. G. Sloan and J. S. Badgett families. Mrs. Walter Jenkins and daughter return from Greenville and Sulphur Springs trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. C. Clifton
Sulphur Springs
Charley Andrews
Dallas
J. R. Andrews
Ray Badgett
Floydada
J. G. Sloan
J. S. Badgett
Walter Jenkins
Greenville
Fresh fish and local visits fill Friday and weekend
Fresh fish is available every Friday and Saturday at Nicholson's Cafe. Local residents including Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Lott and Eva McMurry of Lorenzo joined Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Giles for a weekend visit. The community notes highlighted guests at several homes and regional travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholson
L. T. Lott
Eva McMurry
Lorenzo
T. J. Giles
City buys land parcel near water works
The city purchased a plot of 77 by 186 feet from O. W. Myrick paying $50. The tract lies north of and next to the water pumping plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. W. Myrick
Garland begins 3 stand gin at Pilot Grove
S F Garland started building a three stand cotton gin at Pilot Grove with plans to have the plant ready for the next cotton season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. F. Garland
Pilot Grove
Bow Family Returns From Northwestern Trip on Texas Special
Dr and Mrs J L Bow and daughter Miss Martha arrived home Saturday from a Northwestern trip. J C Gillespie, returning from the New York markets, was also a passenger on the Texas Special which brought the Bow party home with train personnel extending the stop here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Bow
Martha
J. C. Gillespie
New York
Residence work to start on West Grand avenue
S. E. Jones plans groundbreaking on his new West Grand avenue home around September 1. G. L. Baugher, away on vacation, will direct the erection of the modern brick veneer residence. W. C. Bailey leaves grocery work to take a traveling position. Whitewright voters reject an increase in school maintenance tax 73 to 77 in a special election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. E. Jones
West Grand Avenue
G. L. Baugher
W. C. Bailey
W. M. Cox
Whitewright
Whitewright Trades Day Bigger Than Ever Planned
Next Monday marks Whitewright's third Monday trades day with a push to boost participation. organizers urge everyone to spread the word and make it the most successful event yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Fannin County Precinct Singing Convention at Savoy
A Fannin County precinct singing convention will be held at Savoy on Sunday August 17. The program will begin at 1 30 p m according to announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannin County
Savoy
Rural letter carriers meet in Brownwood
Lucian Andrews secretary of the Texas Rural Letter Carriers Association attends the annual meeting at Brownwood. Mr and Mrs O C West of Coalgate Oklahoma and Mr and Mrs Ralph Brown of Petty were guests of Dr and Mrs W J Doss Saturday. Porch swings sale announced by Lloyd Moore's Furniture Store with big reductions from 3.50 up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Moore
The
American Legion
Department of Texas
Brownwood
Lucian Andrews
Texas Rural Letter Carriers Association
O. C. West
Coalgate
Okla
Ralph Brown
Petty
W. J. Doss
Mrs C L Terry and family visit Dallas sister
Mrs C L Terry and her children from El Paso are visiting her sister Mrs R S Morehead. Miss Algereta Terry has been in the Baptist sanitarium at Dallas for three weeks after an appendicitis operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Terry
el Paso
R. S. Morehead
Algereta Terry
Baptist Sanitarium
Dallas
Frank Montgomery Returns Home After Illness Trip
Frank Montgomery and his family traveled to West Texas and New Mexico where he became seriously ill. He has since recovered and returned home, with his condition described as considerably better.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Montgomery
West Texas
New Mexico
Also Mentioned on This Page
Laroe
Red Seal
L. LaRoe & Company
McAlester Coal
E. T. Cox
Ambrose
Hayden Hamilton
Sherman
Sallye Hamilton
Henry
Trenton
Jack Webster
Dallas and Ft. Worth
John Sears of
Merkel
Leila Parrish
R. L. Sears
Lubbock County
Gordon Bros
Robert Doss
Mrs
B. F. Fulkerson
Bonham
Hazel Jackson
Albert Lee
H. S. Mize
San Angelo
Ona Sears
Lubbock
Winnie Hamilton
Glen Rose
Joe Bailey Hamilton
Oklahoma City
Don Clayborn
Cooper
D. S. McMillin
L. LaRoe
Aliie Hicks
J. N. Carter
W. O. Womack
Colorado Springs
Colo
Lucian LaRoe
J. L. Dyer of
W. O. Bryan
Cleburne
W. J. Bryan
Asa Schooling
Gertrude
Hove
Mary Edna and
Carrie Blincoe
Clarksville
Rosalyn Blincoe
Paducah, Ky
George Gowdy
Lena
Nashville
Cookville
Tenn
Kim Henry
Chillicothe
Spurgeon Teague
Tom Bean
W. T. Hamilton
Commerce
Thorp Springs
Jewell Lovell
North Texas State Teachers’ College
Denton
Mrs. Grover
Stateville
Clay Horton
Eureka Springs
Ozarks
C. P. McGinnis
of Slaton
J. C. Russell
Guy Hamilton
Carrie Hamilton
Charley Sanders
W. F. Sanders
Imogene
Marguerite Sears
Whitewright Lumber Co “Neighborly Servivice
Henryetta
Condie
Bray
Lloyd Moore’s
J. T. Gillespie
Wolfe City
Orabel Nuhn
Ladonia
Morehead
W. H. King
Fort Worth
Ford
Bess Rogers
Elizabeth
Mandolin Willis
Eunice Turner
George Teague
Eugene Wallace
Ruth Southerland
J. W. Davidson
Bow-Wright Drug Co
Brown
Rexall Store
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