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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
3
Local notes report many residents traveling to Dallas Arkansas Sherman Sherman and Dallas for holidays. Odeon theater presents on January 4 with advance ticketing. Visitors include Cameron Meador Hollingsworth McMillin Hill Little Dyer Schooling Epings Gilley Spindle and others. R L Cayter sends new year wishes and thanks patrons.
Local youths and visiting friends from Van Alstyne and Bonham enjoyed a Monday night dance at the telephone building. The item notes several service members abroad and others returning to ships or stations for holiday visits.
The note thanks friends for a generous surprise on December 22 showing a filled art square rugs pantry and Roy's joy. The message praises the kind motive lifting life’s burdens and asks blessings for all, wishing happy Christmas days and a bright New Year from Mr and Mrs W J Epting.
W T Truett reports a pocket book lost Wednesday afternoon near John McMurry's store. It contained about $20 in two five dollar bills one ten dollar bill and some small change. A reward is offered for its return.
The advertisement promises PAZO OINTMENT will cure itching bleeding protruding or blind piles within 6 to 14 days or the druggist refunds the money. Initial relief is promised from the first application and the product is priced at 50 cents.
Whitewright and Grayson county led a Christmas Red Cross fundraising surge with 1293 memberships in Whitewright, far surpassing local targets. The campaign used dramatic wartime imagery and community efforts to boost totals from city to national levels.
City Marshal Ray auctioned two donated turkeys for the Sherman Red Cross Chapter auxiliary on Christmas Eve. One bird sold for 30 dollars to Mrs. C. B. Bryant while another went to a Honey Grove citizen for five dollars.
Van Johnson and families from Ferris and Roxton attended a reunion at Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Johnson’s West Spruce Street home. Dr. and Mrs. GC P. Johnson joined the gathering. It had been about fifteen years since the three brothers lived under the same roof, making the event a rare source of joy for their aging parents and all relatives.
A grocer Hayter urges customers to settle all old year accounts at the start of the New Year, promising to pursue overdue debts at the first opportunity and to pass on a square deal.
Dr C L Pickett a returned missionary from the Philippine Islands will occupy the pulpit at Central Christian Church next Sunday both morning and evening His morning sermon titled The Faith That Removes Mountains and his evening sermon The Uplift of the Philippines will be shown with stereopticon slides The invitation to attend comes from A E Mavor pastor Miss Margaret Montgomery a Drumright Oklahoma schoolteacher is visiting relatives here during the holidays
In Whitewright a busy weekend drew crowds for Christmas wares and staples. On Monday a free airplane flight by Clyde Cessna attracted many, as his monoplane circled the town and then rested at the Lester Lindsey Theatrical Company tent for close inspection.
Reed Badgett and family arrived Sunday night from Enid Oklahoma to spend the holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs J S Badgett and other relatives. Mrs Charley Biggerstaff and Mrs B C Pierce donated two turkeys to the Red Cross sold at auction Monday. Jim Sears was at home Saturday and Sunday on a brief furlough from Fort Clark Texas. George Lindsey is at home on a furlough from Camp Bowie.
Mr and Mrs B B Kimble return to their Whitewright residence after an extended stay at East Texas farms near Oak Wood and will spend the winter there. The Cotton Belt Route will discontinue trains Nos 5 and 6 the Lone Star between Fort Worth Dallas and Memphis after December 31 1917 as fuel conserving measure. John F Lehane G P and F A.
Fire department responded to a blaze at the home of Dick McMurry in the extreme northwest part of the city on Tuesday. The fire was controlled with slight damage to the property.
An official from the census notes a woman clerk faced a slip listing crime as Running a blind tiger and, after thinking it over, reclassified it under Cruelty to Animals, illustrating how records may be grouped under broad categories.
The dialogue suggests a playful disagreement about whether blondes have more admirers than brunettes. One speaker asks for broader experience, proposing Miss Turner as a reference who has observed both sides.
Old Standard general tonic Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic fights malaria enriches the blood and builds up the system for adults and children. A true tonic. 60c.
Contents include a purse found with money, a request to rent a farm on halves, a porker for sale at about 400 pounds, a lost pocket book with small bills and Sears credit, and a reward for its return. Also note Lester Lindsey show folded tent, plan to return to Eagle Pass, and reception in Whitewright with three nights’ stay.
Found notice reports a Jersey bull valued at $1.00 linked to J. W. Burden three miles north of Whitewright. Rev I. E. Teague located a bill near his home and offers return upon payment of denomination and notice fee. Timber sale offers blocks of timber with months to cut and haul from W. T. Henderson.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. May and their young daughter Maurine spent Wednesday with relatives in Sherman.
To all our customers and friends we extend best wishes for prosperity and happiness in the New Year. We have aimed to run a good honest serviceable grocery, and, if satisfied, ask you to consider us for your grocery needs in the year ahead.
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