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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1934
Page
3
A roundup of residents visiting relatives for Christmas includes Mrs. D. S. Carr near Leonard, the Carters of Oklahoma City, Mrs. J. Q. Adams of Rouse City, Max Montgomery and family in Dallas, and many others visiting kin in Abilene Lone Oak Plano Dallas and San Antonio. Citizens also report travels to Houston and Denison.
Local residents report holiday travels and family gatherings with relatives in Bonham, Hillsboro, Greenville, Denison, Celina, Sherman, Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton, Temple, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Several names listed include Doss, Fulkerson, Cook, Layman, Mangrum, Pope, Sears, Hollingsworth, Smith, Webster, Lilley, Johnson, Priddy, Wright, Allison, Haden, Pember, Pendleton, Barbee, Burdette, and Waggoner.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hoard spent Sunday in Dallas visiting their son in law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Payne Jr. They were joined by granddaughter Miss J Jayne for a short visit before returning home.
A list of local and nearby visitors spans Dallas Sherman Gainesville Houston and Denton as residents return home for the holidays. Names include J L Boone Mayfair Macaulay H J Arledge Cora Simmons J B Hamilton and Anthur Hudgins Jr. with travels from Oklahoma Arkansas and Tennessee noted.
Mr and Mrs Frank Roberts and son of Dallas and Mrs J B Hembree of McLean are visiting their mother Mrs J T Roberts and other relatives here.
Mrs. Nadine Kight and her daughter visit Aspermont over Christmas to spend time with her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Holcomb. Kight teaches at the Aspermont school.
Dr J A Ray of Washington University St Louis visiting for Christmas with his father Dr A J Ray goes to Austin to attend the annual meeting of teachers of Spanish.
J Coggins teaching near DeKalb and Wayne and J E Coggins with family from Dallas visited relatives south of town over Christmas. Gomer Graves and son from Corsicana spent Christmas with J E Mangrum family and Mangrum accompanied them home. Ray Manning and children of Leonard visited relatives and attended the Central Christian Church white gifts program. J C Parsons returned home from St Vincent's Sanitarium Sherman after hip fracture treatment. Sidney Young of the CCC camp Huntsville visited wife and children at the Murphy home southwest of town.
G. F. Bryant, of the U S Internal Revenue Department based in Wichita Falls, is spending the Christmas holidays with his family in the area.
Lee Wilburn, a teacher in Austin schools, is spending the Christmas holidays visiting at the home of his mother in law Mrs. L LaRoe. Mrs Wilburn has been here for several days.
C D Baxter and Miss Vida Burk of Canaan were married Sunday at the Presbyterian manse in a ceremony led by Dr B Wrenn Webb. The couple will live with the groom’s parents near town. Family members from Little Rock Gainesville and Trinidad share Christmas with the McMurry household while Fender May of a drug company visits for holidays and sales meetings in Chicago.
A 71 year old Rome Kentucky resident Mr W J Vanover notes forty years use of Thedford s Black-Draught as a purgative for biliousness dizziness and head swimming He says the vegetable laxative relieves these symptoms and helps in many ways Keep a package at home for prompt relief at first signs of constipation
Two performances of the annual white gift Christmas pageant drew large crowds. Directed by Miss Gladys Ray, principal roles were played by Misses Dorothy LaRoe Norma Joe Mangrum Anita Vestal Emmagene Sears Dorothy Nicholson Mrs Clyde Craig Robert Cantrell and Harry Hodge, with about fifty in the cast. Other city churches held Sunday services earlier to allow more residents to attend.
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