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Whitewright News Highlights Local Happenings 1926
Local events include Miss Myrtle Badgett opening The Leader millinery in Truett building, first bale of cotton from M R Chumbley, a 10 mph business and 15 mph residential speed limit ordinance, Junior Epworth League participants, and the death of John H Cox at 63 on Spruce Street. Cotton season opening by Cleophus Chumbley and E S Atteberry, local infant deaths, John Livingston and Emma Gordon marriage, grand honey moon trip to Eureka Springs, Mr and Mrs Livingston to Sherman home September 1. Rev W A Kirkpatrick’s 73rd birthday dinner, Will Mitchell’s birth of a son, B Y P U program participants, Whitewright beats Randolph 13 2 with Lowell Blanton pitcher, 400+ attend New R and R Theatre debut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Badgett
Truett
M. R. Chumbley
Epworth League
John Webster
Dee Little
John Philip Barbee
Marian Barbee
Owen Caperton
Lucy Stapleton
Elizabeth May
Vivian Smith
Jim Montgomery
Nora Little
Katherine Montgomery
John H. Cox
Spruce Street
Cleophus Chumbley
Ely
E. S. Atteberry
Westminster
Whitewright
W. L. Moran
W. J. Gregory
John Livingston
Emma Gordon
J. F. Fender
Eureka Springs
Ark
R. B. Gordon
Sherman
Livingston Brothers
Country Club
Sherman Chamber of Commerce
Grayson County
Mrs. Livingston
the Sun
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Ira Kirkpatrick
Altha Mae Vestal
W. T. Simmons
Gilliam Lindsey
Lucile Giles
W. C. Cook
Sears
Randolph
Lowell Blanton
R&r