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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1931
Page
11
The W H S Reflector stresses that success requires full preparation gathered during high school. As students progress, the accumulation of equipment strengthens, eventually reaching a weight that proves readiness for business life. Everyone should strive to build this foundation and avoid the stigma of being unequipped.
The English III Chat terbox Club heard Edwin Fulton read a story by junior Edwin Fulton. Ernest Rests discussed the linotype briefly before a debate on whether newspapers are more educational than magazines. Georgia Jones and Myrtle Neal supported the affirmative. Gladine Gates and Nelly Hefner the negative. The affirmative won by one vote.
Several W. H. S. students took part in the Tuesday eve ning PTA program held February 10. Items included songs by the boys glee club the Masqueraders Club and the Dramatic Club chorus.
The junior class welcomes Lily May Lankford from Liberal Kansas arriving Monday to spend winter with grandmother Mrs P Walker. She brings an excellent Liberal High School record and selects home economics typing political economics and English at Whitewright High School.
Raymond Cates, a popular senior from Whitewright High School, is noted for athletics and social involvement. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Cates, he has been active in the Masqueraders and Boys Glee Club and excels in study hall according to teachers. Margaret Coggins, born Nov 5 1913 in Bethel, moved to Whitewright for schooling in seventh grade and stands out as a strong debater with sharp sarcasm and satire.
Johnnie V. Dossey, a popular blonde born January 17, 1914 in Denton Texas, has lived in Whitewright for years. She is active in Glee Club Home Economics Club Masqueraders Hiking Club and markets strong grades. She plans to attend North Texas State Teachers College Denton majoring in history with debating as a hobby.
A notice warns readers to keep Friday night February 20 open as a surprise awaits everyone. The advisory states not to make plans for that date and hints at an anticipated event or arrangement. No specific place or organization is named in the readable text.
A compilation of student humor with quick dialogue gags and puns. The jokes cover misunderstandings about geese standing on one leg, night poultry chatter, fashion jokes about an evening gown, a candy maker pun involving Jess Willard, postal stamp humor, and a mishap tale about a man who fell fifteen stories.
The piece mocks a man named Dumb Dick who believes he has the right of way in traffic. It notes his ugliness, a hired helper to look in a mirror, wearing glasses to bed to spot his dream girl, and using his car horn as a call to arms. It also recalls his time as a steward on an ocean liner where he gave rocking chairs to seasick passengers.
Cream fat and sugar. Add eggs and mix well. Fold in flour salt and baking powder. Add orange rind and juice to form smooth dough. Chill roll thin cut bake twelve to fifteen minutes. Yields about sixty cookies.
A baked fudge variation blends chocolate milk eggs sugar flour salt vanilla and English walnuts. Melt chocolate with milk, mix with beaten eggs and sugar, sifted flour and salt, then fold in butter. Bake in a greased 9 inch pan at moderate heat for 40 to 45 minutes, cut into sixteen squares.
A simple cake recipe combines butter sugar and eggs with strong coffee and flour. It uses baking powder salt cinnamon nutmeg and cloves. Eggs are beaten separately then folded with dry ingredients before baking in a shallow pan in moderate oven for thirty to forty minutes.
Grind the round steak with salt pepper and walnuts then form balls and bake in a dish. Pour one cup strained tomatoes over them and bake until browned. Cook remaining tomatoes with butter flour salt pepper and mace until thickened, then pour sauce over Kibee and serve.
Drain pineapple juice and add water to make one cup. Heat and whisk mustard salt sugar paprika flour and vinegar. Stir into hot fruit juice until it boils. Cool. Chop pineapple and dates and mix with dressing. Serve on crisp lettuce.
A poem-like tale of a worn pair of shoes and their lifelong service to a weary master. Once gleaming and paired, they withstand daily toil, endure heat and scuffs, and finally retire to the hearth. Time tests their seams and shine, yet the couple’s care preserves meaning, love, and the gift of memory in aging life.
Aberdeen, Wash. Patience and time drive H. M. Blodgett, a local bookman, who claims the first 10 000 games are the hardest. He logged 1,291 solitaire attempts in a year, winning 16 for a .012 batting average, yet vows another year against the invisible opponent. England and Wales are not so large as the delta of the Rivers Brahmaputra and Ganges in the Calcutta region.
In Grayson County a 20 percent penalty is collected on all autos registered after Feb 1 if run after Jan 1. An affidavit proves non operation after Jan. Driver S L Ricketts notes late registrations are few. County totals show 1931 registrations to Feb 1 at 95,872.06, up from 85,622.19 in 1930, with Sherman at 66,473.96 and Denison at 29,398.10. State remittance to Feb 1 totaled 20,374.39 with county retention 69,552.60.
An apparatus by Herr Martiny, a Berlin engineer, records heart beats and body sounds as oscillating waves visible in a mirror and photographable. Electro stethoscopy amplifies sounds and converts them to linear waves for camera capture, potentially surpassing stethoscopy. Experiments link wave types to health conditions and allow permanent case records. London policemen kept old helmets at night as they did not show in the dark.
Frank in. quotation warns that minor costs can ruin large ventures, illustrating prudent budgeting and financial caution in everyday decisions.
Mrs H P Donigan and Mrs W R Hooper hosted the Martha Sunday school class gathering at Mrs Hooper's home on Friday afternoon. The event featured progressive Valentine games and readings including Annie Laurie Mother Macree Ordinary Girl Valentine Cupid and Bride with a salad course in Valentine motif.
Mrs Glenn Doss was elected president of the class succeeding J. B. Hamilton who has moved away. The brief notice notes the change in leadership and the vacancy left by Hamilton.
Statistics show 35,796,651 pounds of pretzels baked in American bakeries last year. If laid end to end, the pretzels would stretch endlessly.
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