Local visitors travel across towns of Texas
A list of residents and relatives visiting in various cities from Wichita Falls to Amarillo and beyond. Names include Robert Emerson Sears Denton and Mary Dale King Dallas Kerrville along with families like Mr. and Mrs. Louis May Angleton and Mrs. G W Burke Beaumont visiting kin in DeKalb Dallas Fort Worth and other locales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Emerson Sears
Wichita Falls
Mrs
Louis May
Little Daughter
Angleton
Carl May
Whitewright Social Buzz Reflects Widely Traveled Visitors
A cascade of weekend visitors circulates through Whitewright with names from Caddo Dallas Gainesville Farmersville and Leonard. Notables include W E Taylor and J R Fleming plus families and friends from Fort Worth Bonham Oklahoma City and Dallas as well as a U S Department of Justice employee resuming duties.
County official buys road grader. local moves announced
County Commissioner Vaughan purchases a new road grader at about 1200 dollars to serve his precinct replacing an aging machine. Mrs. F. E. Douglas of Graham returns to Whitewright to crate household goods for shipment to Graham. the Douglases plan to move next week. Fred W. Smith, ex Whitewright Schools superintendent, heads to Ardmore Oklahoma for a new PWA post overseeing statistical and research work in the southern district. Hilton Horton of Greenville, Temple patrolman who lost his left leg in a motorcycle crash, is married to Fannie Lou Manning, daughter of Lon Manning of Whitewright. his leg was severed mid shin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaughan
F. E. Douglas
Graham
Whitewright
Mr. Douglas
Graham Mill and Elevator Company
Fred W. Smith
Whitewright Schools
Ardmore
Okla
Mr. Smith
Public Works Administration
Oklahoma
Hilton Horton
Greenville
Temple
Fannie Lou Manning
Lon Manning
Horton
Promotion Moves and Local Notices From Denton and Dallas
G F Bryant of the Internal Revenue Service is appointed supervisor of the Fort Worth office and will move his family to Denton by early September to access Denton schools. A group including Do A Giles and others filed for CCC veterans appointments in Dallas and head to Denton for exams on August 24. Alton Booher and Naomi Steadman Booher, newly married, visited Whitewright to shop for their first housekeeping setup and will receive The Sun weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. F. Bryant
U. S. Internal Revenue Department
Fort Worth
Do. A. Giles
Ollie Bartlett
Clay Hansard
Clifton Bridges
Bill Riddle
Dallas
CCC
Denton
Texas
Houston
Corsicana
Alton
Pete) Booher
Ely
Whitewright
Booher
Naomi Steadman
Ector
Why Christian People Suffer at Waldrum Church
J. R. Waldrum ministers a Sunday schedule with 10 a m worship and 10 45 a m communion. Bible study at 8 p m and a 6 30 p m youth meeting. The sermon continues last week’s topic on suffering and youth study covers Modern Amusement and its influence. The message praises punctuality as devotion to the Lord's work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. R. Waldrum
Methodists Urge Attendance Despite Heat
Pastor C W Dennis notes last Sunday was hot but urges all to attend church services this week. Morning and evening sermons planned with Sunday school at 10 a m and a young people's service at 7 p m. Invite extended to all to help exceed last Sunday's attendance and support the new superintendent and pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Dennis
Society notes on Nora Bryant bridge party
Miss Nora Bryant hosted a Monday afternoon bridge party for friends including Sue Barnes Norma Joe Mangrum Margaret Lilley Ina Mae Everheart Martha Bryant Dorothy Hamilton and Mrs Prentiss Compton. A salad course was served. Mr and Mrs J H Graves Mr and Mrs Bud Pennington and son return from a ten day visit to Childress Amarillo Lubbock and other points in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora Bryant
Sue Barnes
Norma Joe Mangrum
Margaret Lilley
Ina Mae Everheart
Martha Bryant
Dorothy Hamilton
Prentiss Compton
J. H. Graves
Bud Pennington and Son
Childress
Amarillo
Lubbock
Centennial to Have Agricultural Center
Dallas reports the Texas Centennial Exposition will feature an agricultural center costing over 1.5 million dollars. Six buildings will narrate Texas farming from cotton to livestock, with cattle brands, poultry exhibits, and crop displays. Two fireproof dormitories will house farm youth visitors.
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Dallas
Lone Star State
South
Southwest
Texas
Bus Routes Approved in Sherman County for 1935 36
County board approved multiple bus routes for the 1935 36 school year. The Whitewright extension to Fannin was denied while Trenton through Shady Grove was allowed. Prairie View merged with Southmayd. Elm View moved to Gunter and Dorchester. Prairie Valley becomes seventh grade.
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Sherman
Fannin County
Grayson County
Trenton
Shady Grove
Whitewright
Prairie View
Southmayd
Elm View
Gunter
Dorchester
Prairie Valley
Center
Macomb
Skaggs
Enterprise
Howe
Celtic
Haslip Corner
Luella Store
Choctaw
Bells
Pink Hill
Golden Rule School
Gordonville
Texas Local Taxing Units Hit 8 936 Count in 1934
State Auditor Orville Carpenter notes 8 936 local taxing authorities in Texas in 1934, up 194 from 1932. He cites overlapping assessments and multiple collectors across cities counties schools water drainage road irrigation districts and more. He warns of growing chaos in local taxation and taxpayer burden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Orville S. Carpenter
Carpenter
Moore Lynn
Funeral services for Mrs L L Binion
Funeral services for Mrs L L Binion held at her Pilot Grove home Tuesday afternoon with interment in the family cemetery. Born July 25 1886 she married L L Binion in 1902. Survived by husband two children Ben Binion Dallas and Miss Dorothy Binion Fort Worth mother Mrs N J Wilkerson Westminster and three sisters and two brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. L. Binion
Pilot Grove
Mrs D B Talliaferro Dies in Bonham Funeral Held
Mrs. D B Talliaferro daughter of the late G D F Whiting and Mrs Whiting of Bells died Sunday in a Bonham hospital. Funeral services were conducted at her sister Mrs H A McDaniel's Bonham home Monday at 9 o'clock with interment in the Sherman mausoleum after an overland cortege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. B
Taliaferro Rites Held At Madill For Mrs
Mrs. Taliaferro born December 8 1880 north of Bells daughter of G D F Whiting prominent landowners. Surviving include her mother sister Mrs H A McDaniel Bonham brother John A Whiting Denison four children B N and George Taliaferro Mary Byrd Taliaferro Madill Okla and Mrs Jack Rierdon Oklahoma City. Funeral conducted by Rev A P Johnson Wynnewood assisted by L Bowen First Methodist Bonham. Pallbearers listed and relatives noted attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bonham
Taliaferro
Bells
G. D. F. Whiting
H. A. McDaniel
John A. Whiting
Denison
B. N
George Taliaferro
Mary Byrd Taliaferro
Madill
Okla
Jack Rierdon
Oklahoma City
A. P. Johnson
Wynnewood Methodist Church
Wynnewood
L. Bowen
Claude Dobson
Durant
T. W. Erwin Jr
Dallas
Marvin Bryant
Claude Willis
Tyler
John Talia
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Paul Vestal
A. W. Alexander of
Longview
Mrs. J. E. Henson
Thomas Dan Sears
Myra
T. M. Johnson
Hughes Springs
George Brown
DeKalb
Chesley
Miss Lorraine Rutledge
Mary Dale King
Kerrville
Inez Coffey
Blue Ridge
D. B. Smith
San Antonio
R. B. Mack of
Winters
Lucian LaRoe
C. B. Bryant III
Bonnie Lou Hansard
Robert Doss of
Blanche Montgomery
Emory Christian
Floyd Everheart
Ben Hunter
B. W. Newman
Gomer May
Thomas Kirk
J. L. Kirkpatrick
Colorado Springs
Richard DIX
Arizonian
Alice Brady
Douglas Montgomery
Lady Tubbs
Warner Baxter and
Ketti Gallian
W. E. Taylor
Caddo, Okla
W. B. Head
W. J. Bryan
West
Howard Brodhead
Howard
Gainesville
Maxine Anderson
Paul Roberts
Cora Simmons
Clarence McMillin
Dallas and
H. L. Carver
Lillie Carver
Farmersville
Wm. Holsonbake
Rockwall
H. T. Atterberry
U. S. Department of Justice
J. R. Fleming
J. B. Dickson
E. R. Hancock
J. F. Spindle
Ambrose Sunday
R. T. Head
Leonard
Dave Chadwell
Cooke County
Canaan
I. R. Lines
The
Lem Tittsworth
Homer Caston
Caston
Luther Sears
Jean and
Marjorie Montgomery
Madill, Okla
C. W. Bryant
R. L. Sears
R. L. Johnson
Optometrist
A. W. Knagg
Cotulla
J. R. Murphy
Elizabeth Hardy
Mary Seidel
Brenham
Frank Miller
Midland
C. P. Johnson
Warner C. Butcher
Southwestern
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway Company
Ben Savage
Lewisville
Emmet England
Joe Johnson
Shawnee
Anna Ruth
E. G. Fields
Albuquerque
New Mexico
W. H. Horton
M. T. Craig
Witcher
Ramsey
T. E. Barbee
J. P. Barbee
Marshall
Harvey DeQueen
Franklin Sears Harris
Webb
Southeastern State Teachers College
Citizens’ Military Training Camp
Fort Sill
Church OF Christ
Bridge Party
Centennial
Sun Office
Guy Hamilton
Mangrum Grocery
Frost King
Manning, Clark & Meador “Furniture Headquarters
Finders
Rex
Nero
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