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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1932
Page
5
Local brief items note residents visiting Dallas Whitewright and Sherman including John Reeves Bill Walker and Jack Hannah family news. A December 9 birth and local sales promotions are reported along with hospital and social visits. A Baptist minister Rev J D Harling dies in Sherman with funeral details. Diamonds promote price cuts and store consolidations noted.
Ralph Kaiser’s residence at Trenton burned early Monday, destroying the house and contents. The family awakened and escaped as the structure neared collapse. Insurance partly covers the loss. Glenn Doss, Sun force member, has flu confinement since Sunday, reducing staff by about half. W. L. Kincaid improves after four weeks in bed with an infected leg, staying with his sister Olivia Whedbee. he had traveled from Bonham for treatment.
The region reports widespread flu with several Texas towns closing schools as illness disrupts daily life. Rain and cold weather are hoped to slow the epidemic, possibly sparing Whitewright.
Limited number of can openers and knife sharpeners offered at 1.5 dollars each. They make excellent Christmas presents.
A holiday sales pitch promoting a year subscription to The Whitewright Sun as a lasting gift. The ad touts a bargain Trades Day rate for Grayson Fannin or Collin County at 75 cents and $1 elsewhere, promising a year of joy and usefulness.
Mrs C S Witt opens the session with a short business period. Mrs Roscoe Gillett presents Life of Verdi while Mrs Fred Smith reads in her absence. Mrs H T Atterberry narrates the Opera Aida in Acts and a piano duet by Verdi is performed. The choral rehearsal is led by Mrs Hamilton. Aileen Pennington hosts the refreshment. Next meeting set for Tuesday December 20 with Martha Jo Sears as hostess.
Lem Tittsworth offers deep discounts on furniture from Omohundro stock in Whitesboro. Beds and springs $5.95, rockers $3.95, bed sofas $9.85 to $18.75, mattresses $2.68, rugs $3.88, living and bed suits $12.85 to $23.85, dressers $25.00. See us quickly in Bonham.
Twenty fine Christmas cards in a box offered for one dollar. Assortment touted as the best ever with most cards valued at 10 to 25 cents each. Only a few boxes remain and customers are urged to buy today.
The Junior Music Club delayed Friday meetings to alternate Wednesdays at Miss Tommie Chenoweth’s grammar school studio. The program included roll call, musical quotations, piano solos, songs, a rhythm band piece, a duet, a musical poem, and a table tapping game with pupils from third to fifth grade.
The Methodist Church offers Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. and morning worship at 11:00 a.m. The sermon, The Fatherless, will be delivered. At 6:30 p.m. the Sacred Cantata The Nazarene will be performed jointly by the Methodist and Presbyterian choirs with a Young People’s service. Pastor L. G. Hagard.
An advertisement urges readers to address underlying health by using Cardus for nagging pains linked to run-down conditions. It warns against masking symptoms with temporary relief and encourages prompt treatment, touting wide usage and drugstore availability.
Daniel E. Garrett of Houston Texas member of the House and representative from the Eighth District died in Washington after a heart attack. He had been confined to home for weeks and was treated at the naval hospital following his renomination in the recent primary. Garrett was a Tennessee native and was returning to Washington after the election when his illness struck.
The note states a person would reach age 64 if he had lived to April 28 next year, indicating a commemorative or obituary context.
A wife on her deathbed asks her husband John to ride in the funeral carriage with her after the funeral. He agrees but warns it will spoil his day, noting the request will cast a shadow over the mourning.
Carrot seed proves valuable for medicinal use with growing interest from researchers and herbalists. The text notes the seed's potential health benefits and market demand, highlighting its role in traditional remedies and natural medicine practices.
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