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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
3
The Glow Worm scene features Dorotha Darwin and Mary Dale King as editors. Mrs. D. M. Roddy sponsors a Christmas tree display. Students display pictures of The Shepherds and Baby Jesus and The First Christmas Night, with a First Christmas Song.
The Glow Worm wishes readers a merry Christmas and a New Year message from Mary Dale King. The school will dismiss December 23, 1936 and resume January 4, 1937. Resolve to do better in the year ahead.
Alma Jo Sanderson, a seventh grader with red hair and a big smile, excels in basketball and English. James Birt Phillips, tall with light hair, favors football, and enjoys drawing and geography. Narrated by Charlie Sue Childress.
The list honors Ola Agnes Riddle Mary Frances Call Joe Howard Cook Margaret Hanna Melvin Fleming John Rufus Taylor Daisy Johnson Kirk May Monty Atkinson Billy Rhom Pennington Dorothy Nell Hall Weldon Ingram Sara Wilson Mary Lee Hughes Joanna Harrison Kenneth Norris Mary Frances Stephens Roy Howell and Bobby D Montgomery as students who scored a hundred in spelling this week. Norway is the geography study for the period.
A reader description notes entering room three and finding bright colored Santa Clauses hung around the walls. In a corner, the scene continues with festive decorations creating a vivid holiday display.
The second graders display a Christmas tree donated by Clyde Fagan, with Santa Clauses drawn on the board and a pasteboard stable scene. The class excels in spelling and memory work led by Billy Ward with five poems. several students are out with colds but expected to recover for Christmas. Robert Waldo.
Elizabeth Mullins built a small jinrikisha with a doll inside for class and amused peers. The Toothless Club lists members and missing teeth. Arvin Monroe Vestal, Foucheaux Vestal’s brother, delivered a poem during a Friday visit. Mrs Meredith’s pupils presented Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the chapel program, with Christmas songs by the third grade. Multiple visitors were named and thanked for attending.
Mrs Meridiths expression pupils held a Christmas tree party Friday afternoon in their studio. Gifts were exchanged and tiny Santa Clauses given as favors. Ice cream and cake were served as all reported a gala time.
In a Monday English test Cecil Owens Davis Parrish Bob Sears and Lucille Starr all earned 100 percent. Those scoring 90 percent or higher included Naomi Waldo J Frank Wilson and Fred.
Cook, C. B. Bryant, and Lucian Ves tal presented attractive Christmas poems and stories on Monday. J. W. Cantrell had a collection of thirty three poems.
The Merry Ramblers Club met in regular session Monday afternoon from 2:00 to 2:30 with the president presiding. A Christmas program was presented, credited to Margaret Coffey.
Lydia Mae Arney and Jarvis D Maddux decorated the seventh grade room with a tree. Students study rivers and lakes as commerce highways in geography and verbs in English. Arithmetic centers on square roots. School closes December 23 and reopens January 4.
Washington reports 500000 pounds of turkeys will feed Civilian Conservation Corps men for Christmas. Each man gets one pound nine ounces of dressed turkey with fixings. Camps will hold holiday programs as a Roosevelt message is read, praising the CCC as conserving natural resources and young manhood.
Sydney. Nine people offered to donate an eye to Frank Bridgewater of Moore Park who is nearly blind and seeks a corneal transplant in London. Only two volunteers asked for money. Bridgewater, who recently won 50 000 pounds from the Privy Council, plans travel to London for the operation.
Washington announces that names and amounts of federal farm benefit payments will be open to public inspection. Information is posted thirty days after checks are mailed, available at county AAA association offices. The policy follows criticism in Congress and a Senate request for high payment recipients under the old program.
Christmas items return to Moscow and Leningrad as Santa Claus, toys, and tree decorations reappear in full page mail order ads in two leading government newspapers. The depicted Santa wears a red cap and white beard with a large pack, echoing the old bourgeois idol.
Mrs Herbert W Hunt of Hallsville Texas shares her experience with Cardui claiming it relieved cramps and fatigue during monthly cycles. She says her health improved, energy returned and pain subsided after taking Cardui. She advises seeking medical help if Cardui fails.
A 17 year old compositor apprentice in Eisenstadt Austria set up in large lead type the name of the girl he loved and then swallowed its fifteen letters one by one. He was found in a critical condition by his employer and rushed to hospital where an operation was performed. Recovery uncertain.
Washington reports Chairman King announced a new drive for legislation to exempt private pension systems from the Federal pension program under the Social Security Act. A stray line mentions a culinary tip about rubbing a chicken with lemon to keep meat white and tender.
An American traveler in a London hotel meets an Aberdonian who asks his country. The American proclaims the greatest in the world, but the Scot riffs that he also claims greatness yet notes the American does not speak like a Scotsman.
An old timer recalls a harsh year, noting that in 1884 the corn crop was nearly wiped out. He describes cooking corn for dinner and claims his father ate fourteen acres of corn in one meal. The exchange captures a rural memory of severe crop failure.
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