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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
4
A local grocery shop thanks customers for loyal patronage and aims to become the most popular grocer in North Texas. It invites shoppers to start the new year by buying groceries there and notes steady growth in its customer base.
The community advertises toys from O Brents and W O Brents, visits from Miss Jessie Biggerstaff and Blaine, Red Cross Christmas Seals, holiday plans, school programs, and local notices. Residents travel to Sherman and Denison, while students abroad return for holidays. A band benefit, theater ties, and local farming success with Poland China hogs are noted alongside a government civil service hire in Washington for Percy Davis.
In the Fifty Ninth District Court Judge M H Garnett presiding Major Coleman a negro was given two years for pursuing the occupation of a liquor dealer in a prohibition county and one year for selling Roy Edwards a white man received two years in one case and one year each in five other cases totaling seven years Ka Beal a negro was given two years for burglary All defendants accepted sentence.
John B Lilley died at his home in Kenefick Oklahoma at 74 years of age His son Jack Lilley Jr was at his bedside for weeks The funeral and burial were held in Caddo Oklahoma He was a native Texan born near Dangerfield Morris County He later lived near Honey Grove and moved to Kenefick Oklahoma three years ago in ill health since the move.
Bargain listing offers a splendid driving mare a new rubber tired phaeton and a set of harness. Also wood for sale by W. RR. Ford with contact 215. Postings warn that Kentuckytown pasture is posted and trespassing prohibited by J. B. Dickson.
Claim states a single day cure for a cold using LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine with cough and headache relief. Druggists refund money if it fails. E. W. GROVES signature on each box, 25e.
Frank Alverson L P Sears Lucian Andrews and other Whitewright citizens transacted business at the county seat Friday of last week.
Felix J. Noch describes Newfoundland Christmas as a blend of old English customs and seafaring life. Fishermen dress as mummers, feasting with masters, a fiddler guides songs, and villagers contribute wood for the parish priest while evenings brim with dancing and outdoor singing contests in outport towns.
Fragmentary timetable note showing Cotton Belt East one eleven twenty a m and West Bound schedule rough, with partial railroad line abbreviations and times.
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