Local social notes and events from a Texas town
Residents visit relatives in Dallas Sherman Wolfe City and Harald with several hometown updates. Local church and school news include a Turkey Dinner at Texas Louisiana office and a box supper at Canaan schoolhouse. Also reported are a marriage announcement and a Masonic Grand Lodge gathering news along with a health update on Mrs. Jackson tied to a blood infection.
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James Tune
H. D. Tune
Whitewright
Frances Brumfield
Harald
Texas
Tune
B. W. Newman
O. L. Jones
Masonic Grand Lodge of Texas
Waco
Mr. Newman
Grand Lodge
Masonic Lodge
Mr. Jones
Friday Literary Club Elects New Art Chairman and Postpones Exhibit
The Friday Literary Club met with Mrs. F. E. Douglas as hostess replacing Mrs. Ross May due to illness. Mrs. Douglas became Art Committee chair, the group voted not to sponsor a January Whitewright exhibit, and members arranged sewing sessions for Red Cross clothing distribution.
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F. E. Douglas
Ross May
Red Cross
Federation
Texas
Grady Gillett
Guy Hamilton
Our Club
R. T. Pennington
Gladys Ray
R. P. Childress
L. LaRoe
J. H. Waggoner
J. D Lowe
H P. Donigan
Inez Ray
T. E. Barbee
Rotary Club hears Red Cross enrollment progress in Grayson County
Will H. Evans of Sherman spoke at the Rotary Club luncheon on the Red Cross enrollment campaign in Grayson County. He reported communities hitting quotas and forecast the county reaching 2500 members before the campaign ends, with Whitewright targeted for 150 memberships. W. E. LaRoe introduced the speaker.
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Will H. Evans
Sherman
Red Cross
Grayson County
Rotary Club
Evans
Whitewright
W. E. LaRoe
Whitewrights Christmas Lights Shine Over Main and Bond
Whitewright lit up its 500 Christmas lights on Wednesday night with a large star over the Main and Bond intersection replacing last year scene near the city hall. Funds were raised Wednesday morning by local men who canvassed the business district.
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Whitewright
Main
Bond Streets
Christmas Card Bargain Sale
Twenty five Christmas cards in a box for one dollar. Least twenty cards recommended to mail to friends and relatives. Cards in the assortment would retail at ten to twenty five cents each. Few boxes remain. call today for the biggest card bargain The Sun notes.
Permanent Waves by Mrs C C Stout at Kirkpatrick home
Mrs C C Stout will give permanent waves at the Kirkpatrick home for two weeks with prices from 1.75 to 4.00. She was there last spring and invites previous customers to call on her.
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C. C. Stout
J. L. Kirkpatrick
Free measuring cups offered to shoppers on Saturday
Devenport's store announces a free graduated measuring cup worth 15 cents for the first sixty women entering after 9 a.m. and the first sixty after 3 p.m. on Saturday. The offer is limited to the first sixty customers in each time slot.
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Devenport’s
State fails to pay interest on bonds dating to 1886
State Auditor Moore Lynn reports the state has not paid interest on bonds for two years, totaling 495273 this year and 796273 in arrears, with $301000 principal unpaid. Bonds date back to frontier defense era, some held by the permanent school fund and universities.
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University
A. & M. College
Lynn
Whitewright News Snippet From The Sun 1915
Rev A R Nash appointed pastor of Whitewright church by North Texas Methodist Conference. President Wilson to marry Mrs Norman Galt December 18 in Washington. Ben Savage returns to Whitewright to open a law office. D S McMillin elected Grand Master of Texas Masonic Grand Lodge. Mrs C J Pace buys J B Stallings residence in Southwest Whitewright.
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the Sun
A. R. Nash
North Texas Methodist Conference
Whitewright
Woodrow Wilson
Norman Galt
Ely
J. B. Stallings
Twelve Years Ago Auctioneer Sells Canaan Box Supper
From The Sun December 10 1920 Lloyd Moore acted as auctioneer at a Canaan school box supper earning 94.60. School enrollment has reached 697 with crowded desks and many rooms using chairs. T H Lively bought four full pages of Christmas advertising space. A list shows several former local advertisers no longer in business here.
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the Sun
Lloyd Moore
Canaan
T. H. Lively
Sun
S. O. Chambers
J. W. Davidson
Sears Auto Company
Pat Zarafonetis
Truett & Moore
Gallaher & Sons
W. O. Brents
Gordon Brothers
Illinois optional county sales tax approved for relief
The governor approved a three measure package to ease unemployment. The optional county sales tax allows county boards with two thirds vote to levy one cent on taxable goods, with producer sold gasoline and farm products as only exceptions.
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Springfield
Ill
L. L. Emmerson
State Fair posts $39,485 profit for 1932 year
The State Fair of Texas reports a net operating profit of 39,485.56 for the year ending November 15, 1932 after expenses including property maintenance. Attendance reached 753,746, up from 685,126 in 1931, with total income down about 37,000 despite expense savings of roughly 40,000.
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Texas
J. F. Gragg
The
Fair Association
Minnesota
Iowa
Indiana
Selecman to Lead Prohibition Forces in Texas
Dr C S Selecman SMU president was chosen to head the United Forces for Prohibition a state wide group pushing retention of the Eighteenth Amendment. Dr H K Taylor also of SMU was named vice chairman and Dr W R White of Fort Worth Broadway Baptist Church was named executive secretary.
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Dallas
C. S. Selecman
Southern Methodist University
United Forces For Prohibition
H. K. Taylor
W. R. White
Broadway Baptist Church
Fort Worth
Grayson County Bar Association Elects Officers
Ben F. Gafford was elected president of the Grayson County Bar Association at the annual business meeting. He succeeds H. H. Cummins of Denison. Other officers elected are Ross W. Stoddard of Denison vice president J. D. Buster of Sherman secretary and Sam Wolfe of Sherman treasurer. Plans set for the annual luncheon and installation on Jan. 2.
Government visits spotlight tax talk during rural tour
The President and Cabinet members, along with dozens of assistants, spent six to eight weeks traveling rural areas to explain their perceived indispensability, sparking commentary on their unity and purpose.
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Josh Taxpayer
Macon
Cut in State School Funding Proposed by Grayson Group
J B Moorman of Austin College urged halving the expense of Texas state colleges by combining departments to save about three million yearly. He cited repealing the Pollard law to raise tuition and reduce taxpayer liability, predicting private-school transfers would burden the state without reform. Local leaders backed stopping free tax financed education after high school and proposed a two year pause for seven teachers colleges in a January meeting.
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Moorman
J. W. Adamson
Denison
Edwin Kidd
Sam Johnston
State House
H. A. Ivy
Taxpayers League of
Grayson County
Cation
Texas
Hoover Nominees Won't Get Senate Approval
Senate Democrats announced they would block the confirmation of most Hoover nominees for the rest of his term except routine promotions. The move followed Hoover's submission of a broad batch of nominations including army promotions and a cabinet officer appointment.
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Washington
Senate
Democrats
Hoover
Last School Payment To Be Made This Week
Austin State Superintendent L W Rogers announced the final installment of 1.50 on the 1931 32 per capita school apportionment would be paid this week totaling 1 567 000. The 1931 32 apportionment was 17 50 per student with 14 paid by Aug 31 1932. Payments on the 1932 33 apportionment of 16 per pupil will begin as funds become available.
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Austin
L. W. Rogers
Rogers
Man who offered to tell gang crime facts dies leaving a wife and three children
The Minnesota item notes a man who offered to reveal what he knew about gang crimes passed away, survived by his wife and three children.
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Minneapolis Star
Charles Frazier 97 Dies at Desert Home
Charles Frazier aged 97 died at his Desert area home after a two week illness. He was born in 1835 in Tennessee and moved to Texas in 1852. He married Ma Jane Guinn in 1862 and had twelve children. Funeral held at Blue Ridge Methodist Church with large family attendance. Survived by 79 grandchildren, 136 great grandchildren, and 11 great great grandchildren.
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Charles Frazier
Desert
Blue Ridge Methodist Church
Mr. Hines
Garland
Blue Ridge
Tennessee
Kentuckytown
Ma Jane Guinn
Houston County
Lizzie Fagg
W. T. Frazier
Jacksboro
Jim Frazier
Lake Arthur
N. M
Henry Frazier
Fort Worth
Harriet McLarry
Martha McLarry
Sulphur Springs
Jess Frazier
Sarah Young
John Frazier
Farmersville
Liza Mangrum
Marlow
Okla
George Frazier
Greenville
Rube Frazier
Frazier
Carl May
Whitewright
London memory expert sells braif to medical college
A London memory expert sells his braif to a medical college for 10000 dollars in instalments. The Boston Herald notes the buyer must hope he does not lose his head after receiving the money.
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London
Boston Herald
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