Second Boy Scout Troop Organized in Whitewright
Ben Burger of Denison assisted in forming a second Boy Scout troop in Whitewright on Monday night for boys aged fourteen and older. Rev. Joe M. Russell will serve as scoutmaster for Troop No. 1, while Troop No. 2 for younger boys already has Mack Pierson as scoutmaster and J. T. Bryant as assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Burger
Denison
Boy Scout Organization
Whitewright
Joe M. Russell
Presbyterian Church
Mack Pierson
J. T. Bryant
Court Dissolves Ferguson's Road Body Injunction
The Third Court of Civil Appeals dissolved Ferguson's temporary injunction against Highway Department expenditures. It ruled that prior fund appropriations were not rescinded by a special session act and that Ferguson's petition stated only information and belief. Arguments over federal aid and an auditor were raised in district court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Third Court of Civil Appeals
James E. Ferguson
State Highway Commission
Ninety-Eighth District
Ferguson
Allred
Third Court of Appeals
State Highway Department
The
Highway Commission
District Court
Ooie Speer
Ferguson and Associates
Speer
Court of Appeals
Ferguson Appeals to Supreme Court Over Texas Highway Contracts
James E. Ferguson and other plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court seeking to block the Texas Highway Commission from awarding further construction contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferguson Appeals
Austin
James E. Ferguson
Texas Highway Commssion
Supreme Court
Weary Marchers Leave Capital After Demonstration
Washington marchers dispersing after a three day unemployment relief protest loaded trucks to head home. Police guarded the roped off camp and Capitol grounds as committees delivered relief demands to Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner. Five marchers remained ill with pneumonia in a hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Capitol Grounds
Curtis
Garner
House Beer and Wine Measure Introduced in Congress
Democratic leaders push a bill to legalize beer and light wines in the House with a 2.75 percent beer limit and a $5 per barrel tax, while Senate moves to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment and modify the Volstead law. Hearings on the measure begin with 42 witnesses expected to testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Glass
Virginia
Collier
Ways and Means
House
Garner
Mrs. Cull Reeves Hosts Fidelis Class Party
Mrs. Cull Reeves and a group of hostesses entertained the Fidelis Class of the Baptist Sunday school at Reeves home Tuesday evening. A Christmas tree, decorations, and games framed the event. Mrs. J. A. Yeager gave each guest a gift and refreshments were served to twenty three members and three guests including Mrs. Clay Horton Mrs. Clarence Pace and Mrs. A. T. Short.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cull Reeves
Nadine Kight
C. J. Meador
Luther Gordon
Carl Holland
Sidney Watson
Hughes
Lucile Giles
Lena Mae Gowdy
Cecil Doss
Fidelis
The
Baptist Sunday School
J. A. Yeager
Clay Horton
Clarence Pace
A. T. Short
Siamese Twin Girls Die After Separation Talks
Malden Mass. Priscilla Ann and Barbara Joyce Reed, triplets born three days ago to Mr. and Mrs Frank H Reed, died as doctors weighed separating them. Their normal brother survived as physicians believed the girls might have reached womanhood either joined or separate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malden
Mass
Priscilla
Ann
Barbara Joyce
Frank H. Reed
Roberts Bros Store Becomes Roberts Cash Grocery Sole Ownership
Harry Roberts has bought Charley Roberts’s share in the Roberts Bros grocery store and becomes sole owner. The business will operate as Roberts Cash Grocery with a full line of groceries and work clothes and potential new offerings. Charley returns to Bonham to focus on other business interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Roberts
Charley Roberts
Roberts Bros
Mr. Roberts
Roberts Cash Grocery
Bonham
Roberts
Whitewright
Bonham Wholesale Grocery Company
Postmaster Explains Christmas Card Rates and Rules
Local postmaster F A King clarifies postal rates for Christmas greetings. Unsealed cards without messages may use one and a half cents, or one cent on unsealed envelopes. sealed envelopes or written messages raise the rate to three cents. Whitewright area drop letters can mail sealed cards for one cent, and cards without envelopes for one cent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. King
Postoffice Department
Whitewright
King
Mr. King
Bishop P. B. Kern to Speak at Sherman
Bishop P. B. Kern, longtime Shanghai missionary, tops a round table conference on Christian education at Travis Street Methodist Church in Sherman starting Friday at 10 a.m. Other prominent Methodists will join the program attended by local Methodists. The Scottish self government party has been formally inaugurated in Glasgow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis Street Methodist Church
Sherman
P. B. Kern
Shanghai
China
Scottish Self-Government
Scottish Party
Glasgow
PTA to Meet Next Tuesday Christmas Program Planned
The Parent-Teacher Association will hold a regular meeting at the grammar school auditorium on Tuesday December 13 at seven oclock. A Christmas program includes an invocation by Rev L G Hagard a vocal duet by Miss Martha Joe Sears and Mrs T E Barbee a talk by Rev Hagard a solo and chorus It Is Jesus by Lloyd Moore and Whitewright chorus a vocal duet No Room in the Inn by Mrs C S Witt and Mrs J C Gillespie the two scene play Christmas Secret with a juvenile cast and a concluding O Little Town of Bethlehem by the Choral Club. Public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teacher Association
Grammar School
L. G. Hagard
Martha Joe Sears
T. E. Barbee
Jesus
Lloyd Moore
Whitewright
C. S. Witt
J. C. Gillespie
Thomas B. Weaver
Marjorie Nell Blanton
Sarah Belle Gillett
Aileen Pennington
Fred Starr
Boyd Newman
Norma Frances Donigan
Sara Kathryn Atterberry
Luther Guy Hagard
Doris Nicholson
Joe Willa Stuteville
James Stateville
David Ray Manning
Wallace Reeves
Co. B. Bryant
Robert Emerson Sears
Billie Lanius Kincaid
Lucian LaRoe Vestal
Harold Pace
Morris Fogle Gillett
Jean Martin Hooper
Veteran rider of Chisholm Trail dies at 84 in Bailey
John W. Owings 84, retiring farmer and pioneer of Fannin County, died at home in Bailey Sunday night. A well known figure in Fannin County and Whitewright he rode the Chisholm cattle trail from Texas to Kansas. He was brother in law of Dr A J Ray of Whitewright and survived by three children D R Owings of Dallas M J Owings of Oklahoma City and Miss Fannie Owings of Bailey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Owings
Fannin County
Bailey
Whitewright
Oklahoma City
Miss Fannie Owings
Ma zgrt Midgets Music Club Formed At Grammar School
Pupils of Miss Tommie Chenoweth organized a junior music club named the Ma zgrt Midgets Music Club at the grammar school. The group will study biographies of famous musicians, present programs, and play musical games. The meeting included roll call, quotes, songs, rhythm band, and performances by students. A note mentions a sixteenth century custom of toasting with wine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommie Chenoweth
Mazgrt Midgets
Bach
Ethel Harper
Spaulding
Martha Joe Darwin
America
Presser
Mary Phillips
Miss Chenoweth
Lawton
Dorotha Darwin
Maxim
Jack Smith
Jack Frost
Smith
Olga Fae Foster
Little Brown Bunny
Hopkins
F. W. Smith
Santa's Assistant Explains Letters to Santa Claus
Santa Claus Ind postmaster Jim Martin writes as Santa's first assistant and explains handling worldwide mail and packages. He notes growing workload, reindeer care, and airplanes needing repairs, promising to do his best and to make up for missed deliveries next Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Ind
Jim Martin
Martin
Indiana
Santa
United Press
Cotton Holiday In 1933 Is Asked
ST MATTHEWS S C J Skott of the American Cotton Association announced Wednesday an appeal to governors of cotton growing states to issue proclamations. He cited 1932 as the smallest world cotton crop since 1923, a 5 000 000 bale shortfall, and urged landowners farmers bankers merchants and loyal citizens to refrain from planting and to store cotton for 1933 to save costs and avoid weather and pest risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Matthews
S. C
J. Skottowe Wannamaker
American Cotton Association
County Officials Announce Deputies for Sherman Area
Sherman officials name deputies for county clerk J. L. Doggett including J. H. Barrett as carryover and new assistants Weldon Williams Blanche Nicholson Alma Weininger. District clerk S. V. Earnest selects Billy Whiteacre. Sheriff candidate J. Benton Davis plans list. Tax collector R. B. Caraway keeps W. D. Harmon Charlie Smith G A Lackey Mrs J L Bell Mrs Jo Loraine Dayton S L Rick etts T B Ireland lead highway offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
J. Benton Davis
Grayson County
West Pecan Street
R. B. Caraway
W. D. Harmon
Charlie Smith
G. A. Lackey
J. L. Bell
Jo Loraine Dayton
S. L. Ricketts
T. B. Ireland
Sherman and
Denison
Freshman Faces Multiple Tragedies While Attending Murray College
Murray Ky. Jack Dunaway a Murray College freshman resumed his class work after a week of personal calamities. His uncle Boris Denham hanged himself in Detroit, his sweetheart Blanche Sherman wed Harlin Kep in Akron, Ohio, and a Shawnee bank failed. Dunaway’s temporarily burned home housed all his books and clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray
Jack Dunaway
Murray College
College News
Lee Clark
Kentucky General Assembly
Boris Denham
Detroit
Sinking Springs
Blanche Sherman
Akron
Ohio
Harlin K. Kep
Shawnee
Graham Denham
Young Dunaway
Dunaway
Central High School
Fort Worth
G. W. Dunaway
Texas
Meta Dunaway
Roswell
N. M
San Angelo
Fire destroys Jim Connelly gin at Trenton
A Monday night blaze destroyed the Jim Connelly gin main building at Trenton with losses near 12500 dollars. A seed house and storage nearby escaped damage and the fire’s origin remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Connelly
Trenton
Fidos Perquisites: Barber Clips Ear in Joke on Customer
In a humorous exchange a barber jokes that a dog loves watching haircuts while the customer recalls a claim the barber once nicked a bit of the ear. The dialogue plays on risky barbering mishaps and witty banter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fido
Pentecostal Revival Opens in Whitewright With Killion Ministers
Rev. O. T. Killion and two assistants Mrs. Pearl Smith and Miss Verena Killion will lead nightly revival services in Whitewright at the former Cole & Davis store. Killion recently conducted a four month revival in Trenton with over a hundred conversions and organized a sixty five member Pentecostal Church there. Forty two baptisms were performed at the Whitewright Baptist Church on Sunday, using their baptistry. Local singers from Trenton are expected to join Saturday night for the opening service, with forty-two converts from Trenton finding baptism at Whitewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. T. Killion
Pearl Smith
Verena Killion
Whitewright
Cole & Davis Company
Killion
Trenton
Mr. Killion
The
Baptist Church
Judge and Wife Lose Gun Battle Against Eviction
Elkhorn Wisconsin a county judge Max Cichon and his wife resisted eviction from Sugar Creek farm using a shotgun and rifle as deputies with machine guns tear gas and riot gear surrounded the house. After twenty minutes of gunfire the judge surrendered and he and his wife were taken to the county hospital with their children under a table during the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkhorn
Wis
Max Cichon
Sugar Creek
Cichons
Justice of the Peace
Cichon
Walworth County
Max
Virginia
James Mason
Operation Restores Organs From Chest To Abdominal Cavity
A 6 year old girl from Rushville Ohio had spleen appendix and part of a kidney and intestines moved from an upper left chest to the abdomen in a pioneering surgery performed by Dr Louis Mark of Columbus. Twenty physicians watched as two ribs were removed to relocate the misplaced organs. The Ardrey child had long suffered breathing pain since birth and now shows relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Louis Mark
Rose Ardrey
Rushville
S. R. Ardrey
Bibles Placed in English Railway Waiting Rooms
In England a program places Bibles in railway waiting rooms across multiple towns to offer spiritual reading for travelers. The initiative aims to provide comfort and access to religious texts during journeys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Currency Distribution Surfaces in 1929 30 Issue
In the 1929 1930 year period the total currency issued reached 1 140 tons and over half of the new money consisted of one dollar bills.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mrs. Cull Reeves
SELIS
Bishop P. B. Kern
PT Association
Chisholm Trail
Freshman
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