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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
3
A long list of residents and guests spent weekends and holidays in Sherman and nearby towns. Names include Igcal s Fleming, Frank Sims, Bryan Jared, Eugene Lewis, Ed LaRoe, S H Montgomery, D H Glenn, Ellis May, Katherine Phillips, Elizabeth Smith, Christine Stuckey, and many others visiting relatives or friends in Dallas Denison Bells Denison Bonham Leonard and Wolfe City with trips to Dallas, Sherman, and Durant Oklahoma.
Social notes list residents and relatives visiting or returning home for holidays. The row of short items mentions Mr. and Mrs. W A Cannon, Miss Clara Craig, Mrs S S Phillips, Rev J L Truett and Adah, Miss Monta Badgett, Miss Minnie Willis, Mr and Mrs W L Hatfield, Miss Frances Wilson, Juiett Vaughan, Miss Katherine Vaughn, Rev G M McNeilly, Elizabeth May, Jasan Burden and sisters, Mrs D S McMillin, Mr James Wright and Miss Hattie Lee Peddy marriage, and others. The retail district cleanup and a radio recital by Jack Spindle are noted.
The Whitewright Milling Company notes fewer local corn sales this year, with about 30,000 bushels marketed, down from roughly 40,000 last season. Much of the current crop was purchased from other communities due to high local prices, while many friends made during their sojourn here are listed alongside funeral attendees.
News arrived Tuesday of the death of Mrs. D R Montgomery at her Greenville home Monday afternoon. Funeral services were held in Greenville Tuesday at four o'clock. The Montgomerys lived in Whitewright for years where he worked as a miller.
Ralph Johnson reports that 56,591 bales of cotton were ginned in Grayson County before December 1, up from 33,320 bales by the same date in 1922. He presented the figures Saturday morning as the government reporter.
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