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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
5
Dozens of local residents and relatives plan Christmas visits across Denison Durant Dallas Commerce De Kalb Sherman Plano and other towns. Highlights include Franklin Harris Idabel visiting parents Floyd and wife Margaret, and families from Galveston Bonham and McKinney traveling to see kin in this region.
The column lists local residents and visitors spending Christmas holidays with relatives in Whitewright and nearby towns, including Eva Williams, Dr F M Williams, Granvolee Hansard, and Rev W H Ackley. It notes school holidays, college students home, marriages announced, and community updates plus a porch fall injury to Mrs Jess Muirhead.
A list of local families hosting relatives and friends for Christmas includes Kelieher Barbees and Benishes from Aqua Dulce Houston and Mobile. J B Smith, son of Grover Smith, returns from Navy training in San Diego. Local students from Texas State College for Women and UT Austin visit family. Billie Smith of Chanute Field is expected home for a visit and requests scrambled eggs and biscuits for breakfast.
The Fidelis Class of the Baptist Sunday school held a Christmas gathering at Mrs. C. J. Meador's home with co hosts. A program included songs readings a piano duet and a talk on the Holy Land followed by refreshments for 40 attendees and gifts from a Christmas tree.
Daniel Russ of White Wright High School led the Rotary luncheon program Friday and presented Miss Margaret Ann Burnham in an accordion recital.
Noland Jackson of Sherman spoke on a proposed Whitewright branch of a cold storage locker plant. A survey led by President Clay Horton will gauge local patronage to ensure self sufficiency. Dr. Alan Harvey-Brooks and student Thomas Sears were also noted in the program.
Central Christian Church led by Leroy Anderson offers Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. Church of Christ with Leonard Mullens holds Bible School at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and a second sermon at 7 p.m. Bible study is Wednesday at 7 p.m.
Dr. Alan Harvey-Brooks announces Family Day at morning worship 11 a m on Sunday December 29 with all the family to sit together. An evening song service follows at 7 p m. A Watchnight Service starts December 31 at 8 30 o'clock and continues until the New Year everybody invited.
Dr. B Wrenn Webb presides as pastor at First Presbyterian Church. Sunday school at 10 a m led by R P Montgomery, with a 10 50 a m New Year s Meditation. Seniors and juniors form the choir. The 7 p m service features the eighth annual Candle Light program honoring a member for devotion and service to Christ and the church.
Mrs. Ellen Wells Byrd, 69, died last Saturday in Hopkins County and was buried Sunday afternoon in Forest Academy Cemetery, Hopkins County. The Rev. Henry Mood of Sulphur Springs officiated. Born near Athens Tennessee February 24 1871, she had lived in Hopkins County for 40 years.
The obituary notes the daughter of Robert H. and Sarah L. Wells who moved with her parents near Bells in 1878. She joined the Methodist Church at Canaan in 1887, attended Grayson College in Whitewright, married A. J. Byrd of Hopkins County in 1899, and is survived by two daughters, six grandchildren including J. T. McGarity, four brothers Thomas P. Wells Charles L. Wells David C. Wells and John K. Wells, and three sisters Margaret Baker Mary E. Wells and Susie Murley.
A comic caption asks about Uncle Eph in the hospital as a character recalls him walking down a ladder after it was removed. The exchange features Nick delivering a wry line about the mishap.
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