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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1936
Page
8
The seventh grade met Friday afternoon to decide a name colors and motto. They chose Merry Ramblers with colors pink and green and the motto If I rest I rust. A Christmas program is planned for a later Friday meeting.
First grade winners NellA Raye Brown Imogene Coffman Betty Ann Dar Lonnie Myrick. second grade Betty Jo Hamilton Ernest Harrison Jr Betty Lee Jones Edith Neal Betty Margaret Sears. third grade Margaret Ann Burnham Katie Kincaid Janis Jayne recognized in school ceremony.
If you were to enter the first grade this week you would see Christmas pictures on the bulletin board with reindeer and sleighs drawn by the pupils. A girl peers into her stocking as Santa and his reindeer appear. The sand table shows the House That Jack Built. On Friday the class played store with Lonnie Myrick and Betty Ann Darwin as clerks. They earned play money with a cash register as pupils brought toys to sell. New words learned include Toy store doll truck car elephant chair wagon cash register bed table dresser. The housekeepers for the week are Bessie Sanders Truman Arney and Mildred Brown-Doretha Darwin.
Second grade pupils display their self made Christmas tree pictures with Merry Christmas written on each. Readers include Billy Ray West Betty Jo Hamilton Betty Lee Jones Winnie Sue Queener Maclean Roper Norma Smith Wandabell Sanderson Eveline Fagan and others with 15 to 25 books read. The class features Santa figures a cedar tree gifts and poems about Christ. Third grade prepares for Christmas with tree decorating and a booklet of read Christmas stories and a charted tale Winter by Miss Sallye aided by Martha Lee Bradley and Marie Badgett.
Fourth grade pupils are studying contagious diseases among school children. On Thursday each pupil took part in a round table discussion with germs as the subject. The piece notes the Christmas spirit is rife in this activity.
Fourth graders welcome Monty Atkinson back after illness and praise Monty and Betsy Harper for poetry. Pattie Everheart notes daily fractions race in class and students discuss Mr Ricketts spraining his ankle while playing basketball and using crutches brought by Mary Dale King and Barbara Jean Gordon.
Bertha Ford notes Fifth grade room festive with red and green garlands a central bell and stars. Mr Ricketts leads decorations with student helpers including Billy Jo Phillips Pattie Everheart James Arney and others. A new basketball court and play items arrive as boys shift from football to basketball and softball. girls have won three of four games.
The seventh grade girls basketball team triumphed 9 to 8 against High School for the third straight win in as many meetings. Lineup featured guards Alma Jo Sanderson Charlie Sue Childress and Mary Lee Wilson with forwards Mary Alice Harrison Mary Dale King Margaret Coffey Lydia Mae Arney. scorers were Harrison King Coffey Arney.
The article notes that Christmas commemorates the birth of Christ but did not become a separate holiday until about three centuries after.
Older column explains Christmas origins from pagan and English roots, noting holly mistletoe stockings and gift-giving traditions with a Geog and trade aside. The seventh grade, Mary Dale King, reports spelling demons scores, Massachusetts boot industry, goat hides imports, and lessons in geometry and transportation.
A quip about college bred explained by a father to his son. The dialogue frames college life as bread made from youth and aged dough, humorously equating education with baking. The line playfully contrasts youth and experience in a parental exchange.
New York appellate division of the State Supreme Court banned free legal advice broadcast to the public through newspapers or radio. The ruling, effective immediately, forbids attorneys from answering questions of law or giving opinions via any publicity medium, paid or unpaid. It followed a complaint about the Goodwill Court of Air and statements by the County Lawyers' Association that many opinions rested on insufficient facts.
PATERSON N J Joe Pipp has gone back to bed and set the alarm clock for March 19. He said a crystal gazer told him that if he remained in bed until that day his thirty seventh birthday he would gain prosperity and good luck.
Joe, a sports promoter, wasted three weeks in bed starting November 23 chasing prosperity after a fire in his restaurant. He stood on his feet for a full day, then returned to rest following a visit to the crystal gazer who urged another prosperity formula.
The Enterprise school four miles northeast of Whitewright lists the honor roll by grades. First grade includes Arneta Price Milton Fagan Junior Harvey and Kenneth Harvey. Second grade features Betty Lou Key and O. E. Price. Third grade lists A Lee Price and Hoyt Layman. Fourth grade has Jack Reeves and Billie Harvey. Fifth grade honors Zula May and Fay Harvey. Sixth grade names Edith Layman.
A father jokes with his young son about thumb biting, warning not to bite it off as he may need it later when he travels. The playful line lightens a moment with a quirky view on growing up and independence.
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