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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1920
Page
3
A year end greeting from The Sun offers warm Christmas and New Year wishes. It reflects on progress, wisdom, and goodwill while noting subscription and advertising policies and a pledge to correct any erroneous reflections brought to the publisher's attention.
The Sun announces its last 1920 issue will appear January 6 and explains a missing issue to allow New Year preparations. It invites job printing next week and notes messages of good cheer from Whitewright business men. The piece mentions New Jersey governor placing whisky in a cornerstone and cites Clarksville Times satire on advertising and medicine. The city will use a 3 percent fire insurance reduction for towns teaching fire prevention in public schools, with texts supplied by the city council.
The Sun reflects on delivering a compact Christmas edition amid a busy week. The team explains work began Monday and finished between Monday morning and Thursday noon, urging readers to read ads for local bargains and value every dollar.
A farmer who ignored The Times and bought seed oats from a distant seller paid 25 cents more per bushel. The higher price cost him enough to cover seven years of The Times subscriptions, teaching him to rely on the paper for future purchases.
A Denison Herald quip about a Bone head raises a joke in Whitewright noting Brodhead and Morehead residents living there. The reply counters with no Bonehead, but mentions many people with bones in their heads.
The San Angelo Standard editorial cites Dunn and Bradstreet showing a 25 percent rise in failures from the prior year and 84 percent of last week’s failures were non-advertisers. It argues the difference between storekeepers and merchants is practical business management and credits advertising as the essential element of modern business success.
Denison December 21 Finis McComas a railroad fireman was slugged near his home and robbed of 295 a watch and two Christmas packages. He had just returned from Muskogee where he cashed checks and bought gifts. He was found in front of the Methodist Church after daylight and remained unconscious until 11. The police suspect the robbery followed him from Muskogee or were recent district thugs. He suffered a head wound and a knife cut on his hand.
George M. Bailey of the Houston Post comments on a Philippine measure to force islanders to wear pants under penalty of years in prison. He quips about maintaining pants since 1914 and notes Detroit booze traffic and growing population, plus Secretary Houston urging economy and Harding era misgivings with Mrs. Harding buying new clothes in New York.
A fragmented editorial sketch notes New York merchants decry profit taxes and urge resistance to taxes. It references Texan cotton output valued at about 12 million dollars, plus related domestic goods totals. It mentions Henry Ford, Constantine’s Greek plebiscite, and jokes about women in politics, ending with a polemic on morality standards.
The passage argues that more post offices would not fix the corn crop outlook for Republicans in the Middle West next year. It critiques blue law advocates and warns that restricting Sunday activity while other weekdays remain unrestrained is futile, likening it to harnessing the devil only on Sunday.
Raz Barlow hints that one thing may fall and grow more plentiful while the Tickville Cafe keeps its tomato catsup secret. The brisk departure by the Tin Peddler underscores a hurried scene as locals discuss emerging changes and lingering mysteries.
Sidney Hocks found a pocketbook on the public road today and will advertise for the owner after a witness reported his handling of the item. The Ladies Aid invited the Excelsior Fiddling Band for Saturday night’s festival entertainment at the cake area, with lineup notes about balancing fiddles and bass. Sim Flinders’ team tumbled the wagon Tuesday but Sim escaped uninjured.
Dunk Botts reports Raz Barlow now sports a tall standing collar and can hold his head high in society. Clair Hancock’s children have their winter shoes ready. Frisby Hancock pledges to assist the new President. Cricket Hicks previews Christmas gifts and announces a necktie already in hand.
Tobe Moseley argues for three or more parties in politics but two in marriage. Frisby Hancock spoke at the Improvement Association meeting and Fletch Henstep loudly applauded with his feet. They are believed to belong to the same lodge. Slim Pickens visited Bounding Billows last Saturday asking for a nickel cocoanut, but the seller said the Lord had ceased making them.
Columbus Allsop and a deaf man were seen negotiating a mule trade in the middle of the road today, illustrating a local dispute with two men involved.
A local anecdote recallsDock Hocks the blacksmith who jokes that if he wore a standing collar to look nicer no male in the neighborhood would recognize him reflecting playful town chatter about appearance and identity.
At the Friday school event a flea bit Slim Pickens as he stood and moved twice without shaking it. Cricket Hicks visited Rye Straw storekeeper last Wednesday for a lengthy talk on national finances and could not even borrow fifty cents after weighing the pro and con of the situation.
Fletcher Henstep struggles to reconcile his many children who clash when they all want the same thing at once, making harmony difficult to achieve.
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