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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1941
Page
5
Local notes list visits by Lloyd Morgan Lucille Craig and others to Austin Sherman Dallas and Fort Clark. Mentions radios jewelry and Christmas gifts from Johnson Jewelry with promotions and hospital news mingled among service members and family visits.
Social visits note Womacks and Bay sisters hosting and guests in Wyoming Pa Sulphur Springs plus Aqua Dulce birth announced. School mumps confinement. Fidelis Class Christmas party set for Dec 22. Red Cross donors listed. Defense meeting recap with Dallas official speaker. Multiple guest lists from Denison to Pilot Grove and Celina. White Gifts program at Central Christian Church Dec 21 with play The White Pearl. Bettye Nell Yeager receives Honolulu phonograph recording from brother Jack Yeager describing Pacific scenes and a humorous chat before closing.
The B. F. Goodrich Co reports more than 75 tons of rubber are used in building a 35 000 ton battleship. For a 28 ton medium tank about 1 750 pounds of rubber are required.
Mrs Velma Phillips of Whitewright announces the marriage of her son Corporal James Birt Phillips of Lake Field Arizona to Margaret Lorraine Evenson daughter of Mr and Mrs Peder Evenson of Great Falls Montana. The ceremony was December 5 at Grace Lutheran Church Phoenix Arizona. The couple reside at 1320 North First Street Phoenix. Phillips, reared in Whitewright, was a High School student at enlistment in the Army Air Corps about a year ago and recently spent an extended furlough here.
Hickman Sunday School class at the Presbyterian Church held a Christmas party. The members voted to send fruit to Reynolds Orphanage. Miss Margaret Lilley led the devotional. Mrs. Marion Felker read a Christmas piece and Mrs. Wilson Kaiser read a story. Notes were sent to Mrs. John Madonne in Bern Switzerland. Refreshments served to 18 members and one guest, Mrs. Bob Grant.
The Friday Literary Club met at Mrs. R. P. Childress for a Christmas program led by Mrs. Hilmer H. Fleming of Sherman. Nell Nolan Jackson sang and Laura Lee Cook accompanied. donations to local Christmas fund and Red Cross were made. next meeting with Mrs. Geo. K. Stephens on January 2.
Dr Ross May Ed LaRoe and Gomer May led a hearty meal as the Ely Rotary Club hosted a luncheon. Peggy Ann and Jo Doris O Neal performed readings Irene Brown introduced the program and Dr Geo K Stephens led a safety oriented film When Bobby Goes To School. Glen Earnheart closed with thanks and praise for the Ely community.
Frank L. Clendening dies at 54 from a heart attack at his Aransas Pass home. Funeral services held there Tuesday. Survived by wife Grace Montgomery Clendening two sons Ritchey and Dan Clendening a daughter Mary Grace Marsh all of Aransas Pass. Attendants from Whitewright and Sherman listed.
Approximately 150 guests attended a Saturday afternoon tea at the Denison home of Mrs. A. M. Bryant for her daughter Mrs. Griffin Dollarhide Jr. The event featured white flowers, a receiving line, and piano music. The couple, Martha Bryant Dollarhide and Griffin Dollarhide Jr., recently married in Dallas and reside at 2112 West Morton.
Funeral services for Mrs Donna A Dyer of Sherman widow of Joe L Dyer were held at 3 30 p m Friday at Central Presbyterian Church Sherman Burial was in a local cemetery with perverse missing portion not specified.
The Whitewright Rotary Club gathered last Friday at the Ely school with women volunteers serving lunch. Twenty members attended with visitors from Bonham and Ely. total present reached 39 despite rain and mud. Proceeds supported the Ely lunch project and highlighted local cooks.
Mrs. Dyer of Sherman died at 8 45 p m last Thursday in a Sherman hospital after a week of illness. Born October 3 1863 in Savoy she was the daughter of Rev and Mrs R F Jones. She lived in Whitewright before moving to Sherman in 1924. Her husband Mr Dyer died February 11 1931. He once owned Higginbotham drug store later operated as Dyer & Jones. Surviving are a daughter Mrs George S Thompson a sister Mrs J W McMurry and a grandson Joe Sidney Thompson naval cadet at Corpus Christi naval base.
James Henry Warnell a longtime oil field worker aged 59 died at 9 a m Wednesday at the home of his son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Earl Wilson after a recent illness He had run a filling station west of town since moving to Whitewright Warnell born in Kentucky came to Fannin County at age three married Dodd City March 14 1908 funeral services were held at Moore Chapel Bonham with Rev Sansom and Glen Earnheart funeral director He is survived by five children two daughters in Whitewright three sons in Gilmer a brother and three grandchildren.
Frank Schofield serves as pastor. Sunday school and communion occur at 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings. Preaching services are at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. on the first and third Sundays.
Minister Allen Harper leads a Bible study at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. with the sermon subject Room for the King based on Luke 2 7.
At 6 p.m. a young people's meeting followed by a 7 p.m. preaching service with the sermon titled Conversion based on Acts 3 19.
The First Baptist Church invites attendance at 10 a.m. Sunday school led by W. T. Simmons, 11 a.m. Morning worship with song directed by Mrs. Guy Hamilton, and 7 p.m. Evening worship. Training Union at 6 p.m. and Wednesday prayer service with choir at 7 p.m. The verse I was glad when they said unto me Let us go into the House of the Lord is quoted.
W W Adcock will deliver The Hope of The World as the Sunday sermon at the Methodist Church. The program centers on Christmas with hymns and music led by Mrs Kilgree. A pageant directed by Kilgree Childress and Adcock will be staged at 6 pm with youth participants.
The First Presbyterian Church schedules a 10 a.m. Sunday school led by R P Montgomery and a 10:50 a.m. Christmas Meditation. Leroy Martin serves as junior superintendent and opening services director, with a 7 p.m. White Christmas program to be dismissed from the Central Christian venue.
The County Line Third Sunday Singing Convention will meet at Rose Hill at 2 p m next Sunday announced by W C Brown president The public is invited to attend. Lowly ground and poorly tilled will sometimes produce a fragrant rose.
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