Community Notes Fill Weekend With Visits and Meetings
Local residents and visitors fill the weekend with family visits, employment changes, and social events. Notable items include Miss Cora Lee Head joining Downtown florists in Denison, Jack Clabhorn from Nashville visiting relatives, and John K. Hynds elected president of the First National Bank of Van Alstyne after a career as VP and cashier. The Friday Club art show was postponed due to ice, with a later date to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora Lee Head
Denison
C. J. Meador
Craig’s
Earl Blanton
John K. Hynds
van Alstyne
Margaret Melton
Whitewright
First National Bank of van Alstyne
John Umphress
Hynds
Community Notes From Dallas Visit And Local Events
Mrs. D. P. Williams and children from Dallas visited her mother Mrs. John Wilson. Mrs. Meador led the West Circle entertaining the East and North Circles at her South Bend street home. Rev. W. R. Drake spoke on The Extras in Life and Mrs. Hight performed piano numbers for twenty guests. Clay Horton joined by the postmaster on duty learned the moonlit hours caused a late start. Several local visits and illness updates followed. The Whitewright schools closed for ice storms. Fat Stock Show attendance in Fort Worth noted. influenza cases eased. residents visiting Dallas and Savoy areas reported.
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C. J. Meador
West Circle
The
Baptist Women’s Missionary Society
East
Rotary Club Luncheon Program Hiccup and Honeymoon Tales
Rotary Club Leon White chaired the luncheon but lacked a program after returning from his honeymoon. Claud Meador stepped in with a trip report to Houston, recommending the Shamrock Hotel at 18 per day. Visitors included Paul Simpson, Jack Todd, Boyd Newman, and Glenn Doss. Dr. F. M. Williams to chair next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon White
Rotary Club
Mr. White
Rotarians
New Orleans
Claud Meador
Houston
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club Meeting Notes
The Whitewright Home Demonstration Club met Thursday afternoon January 26 at Mrs. Guy McCafferty's home. President Mrs. W R Milam led a business session and the group planned sewing demonstrations and a dress revue with sessions from county agent Miss Zelma Moore in Sherman through April.
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Whitewright Home Demonstration Club
Guy McCafferty
W. R. Milam
Lee Norris
Ronald Vestal
Zelma Moore
Sherman
Jack Thrasher
Lloyd Alexander
40s Best Years for Marriages
Washington reports that the 1940s were the golden era for marriage. Census data show the share of single females declined across ages, especially 20 to 24, with about two thirds of civilians over 14 married in 1949 versus 60 percent in 1940.
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Washington
Census Bureauso
Man bites way out of trouble in holdup
Robert Dorfman, 42, wrestled with a gunman during a Chicago holdup and bit the bandit's thumb. The assailant cried out, dropped his revolver, and fled the scene.
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Chicago
Robert Dorfman
Dorfman
War letter arrives seven years late
William Schoy of Norfolk Va wrote the Knights of Pythias here for magazines to read when he was about to be shipped abroad. The letter arrived recently seven years late and Lodge Secretary Harry R Wilson pigeonholed it saying Schoy probably no longer needed the magazines.
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Wilmington
Del
William Schoy
Norfolk
Knights of Pythias
Lodge
Harry R. Wilson
Scoy
U S Smokers Puff to New World Mark in 1949
U S smokers set a world record by lighting 325 500 000 000 cigarettes in 1949 for the tenth straight year. Many shifted to king size and minor brands, reducing the big three Lucky Strike Camel and Chesterfield from 81.4 to 73.8 percent of total U S sales, per Business Week.
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New York
U. S
Business Week
Windscreen Bird Stickers Spark Traffic Hazard
Tennessee State Safety Commissioner Sam Neal warns vinyl Dickey Birds on windshields impair visibility. He plans a regulation against the gadgets if legal authority exists. New Year's Day is a legal holiday in all states except Kansas and Massachusetts. St Peters Cathedral in Rome is the largest in the world.
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Nashville
Dickey Birds
Tennessee
Sam K. Neal
Neal
States
Kansas
Massachusetts
St. Peters Cathedral
Rome
Spinet Piano Bargain Ad
Wanted responsible party who can make a down payment and assume several small monthly payments to buy a like new spinet piano with matching chair. For details write Finance Manager at 3606 Oak Lawn Dallas Texas to learn where piano may be seen.
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Oak Lawn
Dallas
Texas
Rose Hill Club Honors Newlywed Kite Couple
A Rose Hill Home Demonstration Club shower honored Mr. and Mrs. Perry Kite at the Bow home Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Kite recently married. Guests played games and enjoyed refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Hill Home Demonstration Club
Oscar Bow
Perry Kite
World cotton production rises in 1949 50 season
Washington report from the Agriculture Department estimates world cotton production at 30,850,000 bales for 1949-1950, up 6 percent from last season though still about 3 percent below the prewar average.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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Pat Murphy of
McKinney
Charles Chipley
H. C. Willis
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Lucille Scott
A. L. Scott
Jack Clabhorn
Nashville, Tenn
Hobart Thrasher
Sweetwater
Mrs
Mark Parkhurst
Byron Caraway
Alice Merritt of
Randolph
Rudolph Taylor
Jack Hansard of
Kugga Hansard
H. P. Donigan
Brookshire
Irene Atterberry
Lillian Slusher
Palestine
Nana Francis
Don Fuller of
Frank Smith
Robert Benish
Tom Barbee
Gomer Graves
Joe Mangrum
Charlie Ayres
Marshall, Ark
Doyle Smith
Floyd Kennedy
Lake Jackson
Jackie Nossaman
Jack Nossaman
T. W. Tumlinson
Fort Worth
J.C. Annip
Cathie
J. B. Cates
C. C. Cates
ETSTC
Commerce
Norma Smith
David Johnson
Dell Sanderson
Roby Wilson
Kirk May
Austin
Gomer May
Jacksonville
J. L. Kirkpatrick
Pete Nicely
Bert Sanderson
Cass McCuistion
Morris Akinson
Jack Ward
Borger
Co. L. MecCuistion
Forney
Windell Withrow
Andy Sanderson
Bonham
Craig’s Cafe
D. P. Williams
John Wilson
United States Postal Service
Clay Horton
John Biggerstaff
Clay
Horton’s
Raymond Walt
Bertha Ward
Gainesville
Owen Hull
J. H. Waggoner
F. M. Echols
Vernon Lansford
Otto Russell
H. F. Bomar
Savoy
J. D. Russell
Clyde Jenkins
Mrs. Russell
Lydia Layman
R. L. Welch
Mrs. Askew of
DeKalb
George Brown
Harry Farrow
Lester Haile
U.S
Spinet
Piano Bargain
F. W
Fred) Wright
Asa M.pearson
Robert L. Doss
Pearson and Doss
Attorneys AT Law
Denison, Texas
Palace Theatre
Charles Starrett
Smiley Burnette
Desert
California
Burt Lancaster
Paul Henreid
Claude Rains
Peter Lorre
Corinne Calvert
Dorothy Lamour
Brian Donlevy
Claire Trevor
Bob Hope
Rhonda Fleming
Lover- Boy
Land of the Lost
Jewell
Ice
Borden
Hi-Way
Cole & Davis Co
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