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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1917
Page
6
The program lists a February fourth afternoon session at 3 p.m. focusing on missionary topics. Maud Mangrum reads scripture, Minnie Willis leads a recitation, Willie Ross presents a story, and Maxie Echols conducts mite box opening with reports and benediction. Members urged to attend for work reorganization.
Presiding elder Rev D K Porter will preach Saturday night at 7 and again at 1 Sunday. A workers council at 9 15 and Sunday school at 9 45. Choir practice 2, Junior League 3, and pastor preaching 7 in the evening. Cordial invitation to everybody.
The Pilot Grove community reports strong 1917 prospects with bumper cotton, corn, hogs, and turkeys. Local notes mention Rev Howard’s sermons, measles recovery, road improvements, and a push for a larger brick school building and business training at Tyler Commercial College.
A reflective passage urges action over doubt describing wage-earners as hopeful and hesitant. It critiques reliance on teaching salaries and persistence in facing business as a mystery, urging readers to act rather than wait.
In northern France terror lingers after battles as homes burn and farms vanish. Villages show grotesque damage, rabbits gone, and shelters melted into shapeless forms while Friends Society houses shelter survivors. A French countryside of altered values shocks the observer and triggers tears at a once-happy land.
Evan Leonore Selenka of Munich attends the AAAS convocation in New York and travels to Teneriffe to establish a station studying ape psychology. The project is funded as a memorial to her husband Prof Emil Selenka, a noted researcher in ape evolution. Fieldwork aims to build on Java expedition findings about pithecanthropus.
Amusements for all as Southwestern cattlemen gather in Fort Worth March 13 to 15 for the Cattle Raisers Association convention. The National Feeders and Breeders Show runs March 10 to 17 with a massive Round-Up wild west feature and special days for Automobile Woodmen Elks Press and North Texas groups. Reduced rail rates available via local agents.
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