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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1927
Page
3
Readers note frequent social calls as J R Fleming returns from Marlin and W J Pender visits from Greenville. Sherman hosts shoppers at Pierce’s Cafe and Johnson’s Gift Store with holiday stock, while S R Park, Reid Wilson, Clara Craig, and others spend weekends in Dallas, Odessa, and Trenton. Milk plant plans loom for Sherman with January start and Whitewright routes.
Grafton Montgomery of Odessa spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. 8S H Montgomery, sharing time at their home and catching up with family.
Miss Dorothy Porter a high school teacher spent the weekend in Commerce as a guest of Miss Mary Rena Penn teaching at the Fast Texas Teachers College.
Bas relief plaques are a new sealing wax craft requiring no special artistry. Designs are built from pictures cut from decorated crepe paper wallpaper or magazine covers. Flowers birds and other images are formed with heated thin palette knife. College and fraternity insignia plaques look handsome.
A mix of retail, personal notes, and school news. Mentioned are a milk delivery plan on gravel routes, optometrist assurances, the Hamiltons returning to Whitewright, Leslie Hardware promotions, and the resignation of Prof. Charles J. Denton as Sherman High School principal with praise for his service and wish for health in retirement.
Houston reports Texas hoot owls are replacing hoboes on the Star fast night train over the Missouri Pacific Lines. Conductor John Waddell notes the change as his train pulls into Houston station.
A porter shouted that a new kind of hobo rode the blinds but conductor Waddell found a large hoot owl sleeping on the blind baggage. The owl was taken in charge and may become Rice Institute Houston’s football mascot. Wheel toys for the little folks. Leslie Hardware Co. Sherman.
The Farmersville high school football team, district five champions, was scored on by only two teams this season. Whitewright scored eight of Farmersville’s 14 points. Farmersville defeated Celina 59 to 6, Cooper 65 to 0, Van Alstyne 47 to 0, Bonham 33 to 0, Honey Grove 27 to 0, Whitewright 51 to 8, Commerce 13 to 0, Highland Park 0 to 0, Highland Park 18 to 0, with Opponents 313 to Farmersville 14.
Prices on the new Ford lineup from Detroit show increases across most models. Tudor sedan 495 dollars, Fordor sedan 570, coupe 495, sport coupe 550, phaeton 395, roadster 385, roadster with pickup 395, chassis 325, with the two-door sedan unchanged. The Washington Post notes the shift could influence GOP prospects if Hoover is nominated.
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