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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1914
Page
3
Local notes list numerous visitors and travelers including Olive Neff in Denison and guests such as John Sears of Merkel visiting relatives. Multiple entries report trips to Tioga, Sherman, Dallas, Commerce, and other towns, with updates on family, work, and shopping, plus local business ads for Farmers Restaurant and dry wood delivery.
LaRoe Lumber Co. Mr and Mrs Grady Gillett celebrate birth of a fine son weighing nine pounds. Miss Thelma Joe Dyer and Miss Mildred Anderson visit Whitewright home after a visit with Miss La Velle Morrison. Barber shop ad promises best service with three trained barbers. Capt James Hamilton ill and aged eighty three. Jim Bristow visits his father W S Bristow after years away in the Philippines. Deputy Sheriff L L Nichols files complaints against Charley Lewis and Floyd Bryant for local option violations. Mrs Walding returns from Sherman after appendicitis operation. Walding doing well. Rose LaRoe returns to Greenville, accompanied by Lucile and Louise LaRoe and Artie Young. Kate Jones and nephew Ray Feltz visit sister Mrs Frank Smith. guests include Clyde Jones and son Kelley from Gainesville. Oscar Ryan in Dallas on business.
A patchwork of social visits, travel notes, and business notices fills the week. Residents include Mr. and Mrs. Biggerstaff at Big Springs, the Cochran family from Coweta, and Nannie May Shaw visiting Rosa Cook. Local services advertise shoe repair, sewing machine work, haircuts, and tensorial work at Simmons Bros. Community events mention a Methodist Bible study on Daniel and teacher certification exams in Sherman. The Katy deep well, a navy enlistment interest for John Nash, and shoppers eyeing kitchen cabinets headline a busy local page.
Sunday service outline lists August 23 at 7 15 led by Lowell Clancey with singing prayer and a sermon sequence on Eve the First Woman. Scripture Gen 2 18 24 and Gen 3 1 6 with essays Eve's Creation Eve's Failure and Eve's Hope presented by Harry Brown Harlie Glidewell Lena May Gowdy and Claus sie Glidewell.
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