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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1921
Page
6
The Whitewright Sun lists subscription price at $1.50 per year payable in advance and notes notices of entertainments dinners and other benefits with admission charges will be billed at regular advertising rates. Obituaries resolutions memorials and similar notices also incur regular advertising rates. Corrections will be printed upon notification to the publisher.
The Sun offers a warm Christmas and New Year wish to readers and encourages timely submission of copy and ads for Christmas week issues. It notes the annual calendar advance, asks advertisers to send copy early, and urges readers to help those in need during the holiday season.
A collage of quips and wry asides from various papers touches on currency shifts, domestic roles, football injuries, stunt flyers, and global politics. It parodies headlines and policy debates, from Grover Cleveland to Mussel Shoals, with dry humor about alliances, military planning, and wartime sentiment.
The Nashville Southern Lumberman notes a policy allowing carrying flintlock muskets while permitting pocket pistols. The article highlights tension between large caliber arms and concealed weapons within city limits.
Mrs Minnie McMillin wife of Benton McMillin died Thursday in Remlig. Funeral held Sunday at the Presbyterian Church with Rev H B DeLay and Rev J F Fender officiating. Remains arrived by special train and burial followed at home of J W McMurry. Survived by husband and siblings J W and Dick McMurry Mrs Percy Truett of Waco and Mrs J J Gallaher of Marlin. Numerous relatives and friends attended with large floral tributes.
In Sherman on Tuesday the grand jury handed up 121 bills to Judge F. F. Wilcox after a week of daily sessions. Of these, 92 allege offenses tied to money or property such as embezzlement burglary and forgery. Most indictments are felonies with burglary leading at 21 counts and embezzlement close behind. The panel reported no murders and delayed further work, with 17 theft counts and 21 liquor law violations among the charges. A single gaming table offense one perjury count and a few assault or pistol charges appear among four misdemeanors. Names were not released.
Sherman Dec 17 The annual reports for Grayson County fiscal year ending Nov 30 were filed with County Auditor A S Noble Showing Mae Legate district clerk receipts 5049 91 expenses 3034 30 leaving salary 2015 61 and 2810 61 in fees earned but not collected Hubert Bookout county attorney salary 3500 plus 1120 41 excess fees total 4620 41 Dayton B Steed ex officio 2818 04 fees 2181 96 total 5000 J H Davis tax assessor ex officio 2750 and 202 03 excess fees plus 1100 road districts and 400 school districts total about 4500 Sheriff Boyd Craig County Clerk C M Cole and J H Johnson tax collector have not yet filed their reports.
Sherman Texas December 17 Emmet Spears a 17 year old Denison high school boy will start life anew this week after a district court verdict found him guilty of burglary and fixed his punishment at three years in the state penitentiary but recommended a suspension of the sentence The boy admitted taking part with others in a Home entry and about ten dollars was stolen His mother testified she will see him through high school and perhaps college The judge and jury heard the family plea and the mother shook each juror’s hand in gratitude for the chance given her son.
One thousand dollars was raised at the First Presbyterian Church in Waco to partly pay notes held by a Southwest Texas churchman against Daniel Baker College. The benefactor had aided the college and, after recent reverses, the church proceeds to assist him. other Presbyterian churches in the state may join.
Sherman Texas officials note a lone $40.42 check arriving annually for thirty years from E A Capps a farmer near Henrietta. The 160 acre Texas school land purchase included a note for 404.20 with 10 percent interest whose net was misplaced. Every year a similar check has arrived near year’s start continuing the long oddity.
In 1890 A S Noble found a worn note in the commissioners office and learned it could not be collected due to age. He consulted Mr Capps in Henrietta who agreed to renew the note payable in 1930 with 10 percent interest. Since then the check has arrived as before, and over forty years Mr Capps has paid four times the note’s face value.
Miss Emma Dee Randle will read two Christmas tales at the Presbyterian Church in Whitewright. Saturday evening after the Christmas exercise she presents Christmas Day in the Morning by Grace S Richman, the homecoming story of six children. Sunday evening she follows with Christmas Day in the Evening, three years later, a touching continuation. Reverend J F Fender urges all to attend.
Hemphill County Texas reports a single public school with two pupils paying for high costs per pupil. A high school graduate teaches at $100 a month in a ranching area with few children, and the teacher expects top honors for the students at session end.
Sherman December 16 A jury in the State vs S A Baker in the Fifty-ninth district court found Baker not guilty on a manufacturing intoxicating liquor charge after county officers seized about twenty five gallons of whisky on Mr Barnes property He admitted the liquor belonged to him but said it was for his wife who has asthma He said he buried the liquor because officers were seeking whisky and would drink it when found The jury took only a short time to deliber ate.
Oliver fell into an oil well while inspecting near Boswell Oklahoma. The 180 foot depth trapped him with arms by his sides as the casing narrowed. A rescue effort offered $1000. a diver lowered head first brought him out unconscious but alive.
A man trapped in a well was pulled out after a rope was attached to his body and revived with a pulmotor. Food was lowered to him during the ordeal and he spoke to those above. Oliver is expected to recover. A rescuer who went down is in serious condition but also expected to recover.
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