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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1935
Page
8
Seventh grade English class presents a rug from Mexico and hopes to finish their Indian study this week. George Hansard and Edward Browning contribute text.
Excitement spreads over grades with more B's and C's than last term. Few A's remain at the top of the tree, while D's and F's lie on the ground. Seventh graders Claire Doss and Mary Ruth Holmes note a resolve to study rather than make excuses.
Students across several grades are named in a compiled class roster. First through seventh grades list pupils including Billy Evans and Claire Doss with multiple others, reflecting a district or school roll. The lines resemble a yearbook or school directory entry for each grade level.
The first graders decorate with bells pictures and flowers colored by students. A Christmas calendar on the blackboard and a colorful room theme greet learners. Imogene and Jimmie are appointed housekeepers, and the class practices writing ovals push-pulls and basic letters while eagerly awaiting new books this week.
In a second grade classroom the pupils continue their study of Indians and have re arranged their sand table into an Indian village and hunting ground. Margaret Ann Burnham's aunt sent her an Indian artifact.
The third grade reports perfect attendance as Imogene and Leon Kuy kendall move to Kentuckytown. Discussions this week center on Christmas in Other Lands with stories about Mexico Germany Switzerland and France.
Monitors chosen Monday morning include Montie Fae to water the flowers Billy Joe Phillips and Betty Jane Harper to collect books with John Charles serving as inspector. Bulletin board features Santa Claus pictures as the fourth grade decorates their room for Christmas Azalee Smith and Mary Lee Hughes made a Christmas poster Dale Watson and James Norris noted.
Glenda Mae Rutledge notes pupils selecting names for a Christmas tradition at grammar school. Seventh grade girls study Home Hygiene under Miss Drulner while Martha Jo and Imogene show new outfits. Lucille Starr and Bob Sears each ride new bicycles as students rehearse a Christmas pageant amid a half holiday.
The fifth graders reduce fractions to lowest terms while sixth graders study percent and seventh graders compute circle circumference from diameter. The seventh grade boys race the girls in arithmetic with the score 41 to 55 in favor of the girls Grandis Bennett and Frances Riddle.
Pupils performed a short play titled Mr. Grumble Becomes a Good Citizen by Wallace Reeves and classmates Betty Jane Harper Jim Holmes John Bigger staff Charles Skaggs Leroy Martin Robert Owens Glen Stapleton Ann LaRoe Ben Robert Jones Dorothy Douglas and Jack Ward. Scripture reading by Pattie Everheart and three songs by Leroy and Lonnie D. Martin.
A seventh grade geography series assigned daily tests on different chapters with nightly take home geography work. The daily quizzes covered varied topics, reinforcing map skills and regional knowledge.
Washington report on the battle over the holding company act notes vast legal costs borne by security holders taxpayers and the government. It highlights the shift from legislative lobbying to courtroom warfare with preparations for numerous injunctions and a strong SEC legal staff led by Robert H. Jackson as Ben Cohen and Tom Corcoran defend the act. The SEC lawsuit against Electric Bond and Share aims to deter further challenges by forcing registration of the $3 344 000 000 holding company and five subsidiaries.
Students averaged grades showing high study effort with many scores between 80 and 99. Ruby Pierson recalls Mr Manning listing 13 dates on the board and asking what happened on each date and what was known about it.
Emma Joyce Hinton asks students to reuse last year’s Christmas cards to illustrate poems songs and stories for term projects due December 20. The aim is creating the year’s most beautiful notebooks with pictures from the card collection.
Mary Dale King and Dorotha Dar led sixth grade students in decorating their room with Santa Claus cutouts around a board. Helpers Wilton Mc Farland Martha Lee Bradley and Lewis Vestal supplied a red berry tree on Monday and a Christmas tree on Tuesday, noted as Glenda Mae Rutledge and Frances Riddle.
The Junto Club held its officer election Friday afternoon with Dru nette Farley as president and Lloyd Roddy as vice president. George Hansard won secretary. Mary Dale King and Glenda Mae Rutledge named critics. Claire Doss and Modene Vineyard as sergeants-at-arms. The program committee is Martha Lee Bradley, Marie Badgett and Mary Alice Harrison.
The auditorium group II students selected Silver Tongue Club as their name by a large majority. Otto Russell becomes president with Wilton McFarland as vice president Lucille Starr as secretary Clyde and Hoyle Riddle as critics and J. W. Chaney and Bob Sears as sergeants-at-arms.
Lloyd Roddy reports the manual training class will be suspended for the short winter days due to Mr. Phillips lacking time. Students express disappointment as the class could have produced many Christmas presents.
In grades six and seven Friday was oral spelling day. The Bumble bees led by Robert Waldo and Marie Badgett faced Dorotha's Hornets led by Dorotha Darwin and Billy Jack Harper. The match ended in a draw as the last word was announced. Marie Badgett received honorable mention as the last to fall. New spelling captains for the seventh grade were drawn with James Norris and Glenda Mae Rutledge chosen to lead the Lions and Tigers for six weeks. The Lions previously beat the Tigers in the last tournament.
Several classified notices appear with services and notices. A plumber advertises expert work at reasonable prices and provides Mr Butler’s phone and address. Other items include a stray cow offering potential owners to claim by paying feed, a subscription drive for The Sun with a December deadline, and a shoe repair and sewing machine service at Walker's Shoe Shop near Manning Clark and Meador.
If you need money or want to refinance car payments to be smaller, the Auto Finance Company offers any reasonable amount or term with no delay. Bring your license receipt and car for inspection. F. W. Creager, Manager, 117% S. Travis St., Sherman.
Citation issued in Grayson County Texas requires Loise Tabors to appear January 1936 in Sherman District Court 15th Judicial District to answer Ernest Tabors petition for divorce on abandonment grounds alleging she left with another man taking two children in October 1931. Court Clerk S V Earnest notes and deputy Frankie Slaughter signs.
Government officials voiced annoyance at reports of alleged AAA abuses and said they may mobilize county allotment committeemen to investigate. They cited claims of widows penalized for overproduction and payouts for curtailment, noting Maine has only seven corn hog contracts signed by men and no overproduction deductions.
Washington reports the 1935 cotton crop is estimated at 10,734,000 bales of 500 pounds, down from 11,141,000 bales forecast last month. Ginnings to Dec 1 total 9,362,343 running bales, with yields at 188 pounds lint per acre on 27,331,000 acres. State figures list Virginia 30,000, North Carolina 585,000, South Carolina 745,000 bales.
The document lists state population figures with numbers for Georgia Florida Missouri Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Texas Oklahoma Arkansas New Mexico Arizona California and other states. It notes Lower California 70000 not included in United States or California totals.
Local joke exchange recalls old Skinner, a moneylender, and a seaside incident. Chugwater narrates Skinner’s encounter with a huge shark as he bathed in the ocean, the shark blushing and swimming away after their brief eye contact.
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