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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1916
Page
3
Our store has completed a weeks long renovation with a new concrete floor and re arranged fixtures. The improved service and inviting space welcome customers to visit Whitewright and preview the refreshed layout and quicker, friendlier assistance.
Multiple short notices list Parsons hay and coal sales, the Fulton Market meat delivery, garden seeds from W. O. Brents and Mangrum Bros, alfalfa hay from J. C. Parsons, and various town residents visiting or visiting from Sherman Dallas Trenton and Celina. Also announcements of candidates for sheriff Ian Rich and John Bowen, church events, and local shop specials.
Saturday and Sunday visits by Miss Gertrude Montgomery to her parents B. S. and Mrs. Montgomery are noted along with various local updates. Items mention Home Bakery promotions with coupons, Gordon Bros. sheriff candidate Frank Kidd’s cordial county reach, home improvements by R. S. Morehead, and Horace Thompson’s upcoming move after renovations. Also cited are Mrs. Lindsey’s death in Jacksboro at eighty, meat orders via City Market and Fulton Market, F. M. Echols buying the Thompson residence, a Friday social hosted by Miss Frances Wilson with friends and games, the Womans Missionary Society meeting at the parsonage, and Cox’s Grocery chocolate ad.
Miss Ramsdale will head a demonstration of Maxwell House Blend Coffee at J F Lilley’s store on Thursday Friday and Saturday inviting all to sample the celebrated blend.
For sale seed oats free from Johnson grass at 50 cents per bushel. Joe Wallace, Whitewright. Also a social note: Miss Sallie Joe Gowdy hosted a theater party with friends Frances Wilson Sara Lee Holland Ruby Ross Emma Davison Lena Mae Gowdy Edwin May Robert Gallaher Silas Wilson Claude Willis Elvy Hampton Jim Pink Montgomery. The Home Bakery and Confectionery.
For sale a good gentle family pony and a good gentle family horse. Seller: Clarence McMil lin. Also for sale six young fresh milch cows. Seller: W. L. Whedbee, Savoy, Texas.
Durham bull sale notice invites viewers to inspect registered bulls at Jess Graves barn. Sale and service details given with location and contact hint.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to Drs May and May for medical service rendered prior to 1916 are asked to call and settle. The doctors wish to close their books.
A local lender advertises personal loans with annual payments of 1 to 10 dollars for terms from five to ten years. Contact Tom Barbee for details on the low interest opportunity.
46 acre farm one mile from Trenton Texas with a four room house a smoke house and a barn available for rent. Rents vary. contact Sam Studeville in Trenton for details or to arrange viewing.
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