Deaths, relocations, and local notices in Whitewright region
Obituaries note J. D. Badgett 77 dying at home and M. D. Holcomb 81 passing in Nobility. Cotton ginned and prices listed. Local weddings, a beer election order, and a first bale premium are reported along with cyclones, accidents, and a Baptist ordination. Several residents attend Chicago expo. Want ads tease vital news.
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J. D. Badgett
Mildred
Laura Elizabeth Cantrell
Robert Cantrell
Pennington River
Oklahoma
W. C. Bailey
Corsicana
Commissioners Court
Oscar Mears
Mears
Whitewright
Charley Wells
Maggie Montgomery
J. W. Davidson
Naomi Swindle
Lloyd Stowers
Mac Pierson
Sonny Hancock
Thomas Sears
Chicago
Divorce Petition Filed Between Chester Glenn Bond and Mary Ellen Bond
Legal notice in Grayson County Texas requiring Mary Ellen Bond to answer a divorce petition filed July 28, 1958 by Chester Glenn Bond. Citation sets 42 day response window, first Monday after 42 days, with court in Sherman. Court clerk S V Earnest signs. deputy Gladys Hamilton. published notices in The Whitewright Sun on August 21 28 and September 4 1955.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Mary Ellen Bond
A. D
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Chester Glenn Bond
V. Earnest
District Court
Gladys Hamilton
Whitewright Sun
Ss. W. Earnest
Brooks
Burnett Avenue
Corman
Earnest
Gerk
Shirley
Davis
Youth with five thousand dollars aims to corner token market
A Brooklyn youth with a $5,000 bank account planned to profit by buying subway tokens at 15 cents. transit police stopped him as his pockets bulged with tokens. Officials warned that rising fares would kill token value and that the city would buy back tokens at current rates. The case sparked debate on legality and morality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn
Transit Authority
Subway
Vincent Curtayne
Land Suit Targets 1.2 Acre Denison Property
The petition filed in Grayson County Texas seeks judgment for title and possession of a 1.2 acre tract on Iron Ore Creek in Denison. Named defendants include Denison Bank & Trust Co and several individuals with unknown residences or heirs. The suit was filed July 30 1958 with citation return unserved after multiple notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Denison Bank & Trust Company
A. L. Southworth
T. G. Southworth
R. L. Southworth
Raymond Southworth
E. Thoman
Jennie Cahill
W. C. Cahill
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Lewis H. Christman
Denison Bank & Trust Co
Grayson
State of
L. G. Belcher
Denison
H Brooks
Public Road
J. T. Caudle
Dear Editor Cartoonist Letters on Jackasses and Mules
Uncle Dan from Tom Bean riffs on jackasses as animals and a metaphor for people. He recalls Washington conferences about mules and jokes about 1960 politics and party emblems. He then pivots to a rural shop talk on chair designs based on rear axle measurements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horse and Mule Association of America
Jackass
Wayne Morse
Oregon
Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Washington
Subscription Rates in Grayson and Fannin Counties
Rates list for Grayson and Fannin Counties with outside areas and foreign subscriptions. Includes price for foreign subscriptions and notes for soldiers exemptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson and
Fannin
Fannin Counties
Not Yet Invented a Comfortable Chair
The note claims in two thousand years no comfortable chair has been created. It reports life expectancy in the U S at 73 for women and 67 for men. It notes Tasmania has nine unique cone bearing tree species.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Dan
U. S
Tasmania
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Lois
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Opal Cates
Dorothy Hamilton
Virginia Belcher
Frances Giles
Ethel Gordon
Oleta Chambers
Euna Mae Mangrum
Mary Gay Wood
Frances Gillespie
Grady Fay Coley
Johnnie V. Dossey
Margaret McMurry
Lucile Giles
Van
John Vestal
M. D. Holcomb
Nobility
Clyde Hansard
Ava Curry
Virgil
Pete) Clark
Bells
Roy Martin
Charles Medearis
Leon Wade Hampton
C. W. Hampton
Uplands
Thurston Montgomery
S. B
Prudential
Ron Faison
the Prudential Insurance Company OF America
Mutual Ife Insurance Company
Sherman Office
N. Rusk St
Nat
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The
American Institute of Public Opinion
W. T. Adams
W. T. Adamson
W. B. Ryans
W. B. Byers
J. A. Haning
Fifteenth District Court
J. D. Olvey
Hove
A. Jabez Hanning
W. D. Arnspiger
Howe
E Court
Will Ston
Robert v. Hami
Th Court of Civil Appeals
Afl-Cio
J. Edwin Smi
Ballas Moran News
the Post
Houston
FO Pol Ao
Dan
Tom Bean
T. Glenn Doss
National Editorial Associations
AND
Texas Press Association
Hearing Aid Service
W. T. May
Peeler Drug
Bonham, Texas
Stephens & Bryant
Insurance & Real Estate
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