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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1924
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun notes second class mail designation and states ads for entertainments dinners and other benefits with admission fees will be charged at regular advertising rates. Obituaries and memorials also incur regular rates. Any erroneous reflections will be corrected upon notification.
Duval County backs Mrs. Ferguson for governor with six hundred votes for Ma and minimal support for Robertson. Whitewright urges an aggressive street advertising plan to attract cotton buyers as gins run and supply grows. Republican inquiries follow Ferguson’s nomination. Times Herald urges Democrats to back Ferguson in November.
Local figure Miss Peachie Sims declares she will let her eyebrows unplucked until a Democrat is elected president. The statement signals a playful political stance amid upcoming civic discourse.
Silas Palmer of Bells is seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia, according to local information. Lucian Andrews, an officer of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, will attend the association's national meeting in St. Paul Minnesota, opening September 12.
Mrs. M. A. Burnham and her daughter Miss Clyde with Mr. and Mrs. George Burnham of this city and Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Burnham of Sanger returned home this week after a car trip to visit relatives in Independence Kansas.
Notice declares a section of street north of the Methodist church and parsonage will be blocked to traffic and parking for one hour each night during the meeting on the lawn west of the church.
The Dallas Chamber asked about operating a bakery in Whitewright and whether locals would buy home-baked goods or merchants would stock them, but the chamber could not guarantee market demand or merchant interest.
Newt Briscoe, who has worked here for several months, has returned to his home in Commerce.
Four automobiles were stolen in Denison last week with three taken in a single night. Some of the stolen vehicles have been recovered. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Parsons and two nieces returned Friday from a ten day ranch outing in Clay County.
R. B. Turner of Winfield Kansas and Rufus S. Turner of Covington Indiana have returned home after a visit with their father J. E. Turner.
The Westminster Guild of the Presbyterian church will hold a bazaar at Dyer & Jones on August 29 and 30. Items include linens embroidery and home made cakes and candy.
Rachel Lively, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lively, is seriously ill at St. Vincent's Sanitarium in Sherman. The ten day illness is meningitis and doctors fear no recovery.
Mr and Mrs Orville Painter and son and Paul Bishop of Ardmore Oklahoma were guests of Mrs R W Painter last week. D C Broyles of Evansville Tennessee visited his nephew R F Broyles northeast of town Sunday after 43 years apart. Free pencil box offered to all children with shoe work completed. D G Coley of Winfield becomes Cotton Belt agent here replacing J W Rees who moves to Nevada. Mr and Mrs Eugene McElvaney of Dallas stayed with Mr and Mrs W H King during the week.
Miss Gertrude Montgomery will return from Nashville Tennessee this week where she has studied at Peabody College since January. Walter Simmons, longtime resident here, died at Amarillo last Thursday. His body was shipped to Celina for funeral and burial on Saturday.
J. A. Dickey was chosen as the Fourth District delegate to the American Legion National Convention at the state meeting in Brownwood. The national gathering is set for St. Paul from September 15 to 19.
Misses Mina and Patty Deaver daughters of the late Judge H E Deaver of Memphis Texas were drowned last Friday night when the automobile carrying them their brother and another young woman plunged into a swollen stream. Their mother is a sister of the late Dr C P Montgomery of this city. Dr F M Bralley longtime Texas educator and former president of the State College of Industrial Arts at Denton died in a Dallas sanitarium last Saturday morning. The board of regents named I Vernon White acting head of the college pending a permanent president selection.
Joe Hamilton of a 320 acre Lubbock County farm received a letter from his tenant stating a hailstorm destroyed the crop one day last week.
A notable decline in cotton prices occurred after last Saturday’s government crop condition report which estimated the crop at 12,956,000 bales.
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