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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1936
Page
5
Long roster of visitors and travelers stops by Whitewright and nearby towns. Dallas and Dallas–area residents like Miss Geneva Carr and Jack Lackey are named along with many cousins, in laws, and friends visiting relatives in Gainesville, Sherman, Bonham, and Durant. Local business appeals for Horace Gordon tailor services are noted amid community social news.
Pastor C. W. Dennis notes August has been a strong month for church work with high turnout last Sunday. Two remaining Sundays are advertised with morning and evening services, a 11 a.m. sermon, 8 p.m. service, church school at 10 a.m., and a Young People's service at 7 p.m. The pastor will sing of the mercies of the Lord and declare faithfulness to all generations.
Miss Dorothy Sue Douglas returns from six weeks with Uncle and Aunt Pat McMahan in Crane. Mrs J W Davidson comes back from Dallas after ten days beside daughter Mrs Simmons Powell and heads to Clarendon for winter with Mr and Mrs Powell. Powell had a surgical operation in Dallas and will move home when strong. Also local note about a postcard with the name Murphy from Pilot Grove near Whitewright delivered by rural carrier J P Darwin asking to be notified on delivery.
Rev. C. W. Dennis, pastor of the Methodist Church, spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon on Friday. The program was led by Rham Pennington who introduced the speaker. J. M. Parrish, a well known farmer southwest of town, was the former guest.
Miss Tommie Chenoweth presents her summer piano students from Whitewright Bells and Savoy in a July Bells Methodist Church recital at 8 15 p m August 25. Participants include Bettie Jean Brice Katie Kincaid La Verne Kilgree Christine Moore Susie Irene Hibbet John Edwin Hibbet Lorene Brown Irene Brown and others. The Savoy rhythm band directed by George Ann Morgan includes George Ann Morgan Sonny Dodson H F Bomar Jr Richard Wood Max Edgar Atterberry Betty Jo Bibby Tiny Bibby Wanda Lou Green Billie Ray Hodges.
Everett Burris of Savoy visited Aaron Burris Wednesday evening. Oland Bush and Roland Blanton were Sherman visitors Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Hall spent Saturday in Denison. Oland Bush and family and James Burris visited Travis Bush and Charlie Layman. San Antonio visitors Hubert Blanton and Mrs. visit Tom Blanton and Mrs. Layman this week. Virgil Ward of Walnut Bend visits T. B. Blanton. Mrs. Charlie Layman spent Tuesday with her parents in Enterprise. Mrs. P. H. Hall and son O. P. spent Thursday in Dallas for the Centennial. Oland and Leon Bush with Mrs. James Burris visited Whitewright. Vivian Grammer and daughter Joan visited Rullie Bush at Whitewright. Tip Phillips and family of Ivanhoe visited W. A. Burris. Oland Bush announces marriage of their daughter Elsie Bush to William Ideker of San Antonio. Married August 5 at 11 10 a.m. by Judge F. Onions of Bexar County. Witnesses were J. E. Fige and daughter Daveline. Ideker to live in San Antonio as he is a corporal in the U. S. Army.
In Augusta Maine a Maine hen at the State experimental station in Monmouth laid 214 eggs in 214 consecutive days. State poultry specialist H M Tucker said the national record of 200 eggs previously held by a Rhode Island Red from G E Treadwell’s pen in Spencer Massachusetts during 1933 34 has been broken.
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