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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1918
Page
3
Dallas visitors stop by for greetings as residents travel to and from the city. Families from Leonard McKinney Sherman and Greenville attend social gatherings while local businesses advertise secondhand goods and millinery stock.
Mrs. F. R. McFatridge departed today for Camp Bowie in Ft. Worth to visit her son Vernon.
Mrs J McGaughey of Acquila visits her daughter-in-law Mrs A D McGaughey.
Mrs. Johnson of Sherman returns from a visit with relatives including Mrs. R. H. May. Mrs. Nova Little visits from Greenville to see Fritzhugh Bryant. Mrs. R. M. Womack and children from Sherman stay with Misses Inez and Gladys Ray. W. D. Ownby attend funeral of his niece Mrs. Tom Diggs in Denison. Edwin May from Wesley College visits parents. Abia Alderson of Kidd-Key College guests of Mae Graves. Will Looney advertises services for secondhand furniture. Mrs. W. Biggers of Dallas visits Sherman relatives. Lucian Andrews celebrates a nine pound boy. Mrs. Ray Cates visits sister in Caddo, Oklahoma. W. J. Flenniken of Powell Oil and Gas Company in Sherman. Knox Armstrong in St. Louis buying spring stock for Armstrong & Co.
Mrs. J. M. Long traveled to Dallas this week to buy her spring stock of millinery. She was accompanied by Mrs. W. M. Stockton.
Deputy City Marshal J N Powell received a $100 government reward for arresting two army deserters here several weeks ago. After expenses for delivering the soldiers to Ft Worth, about $78 remained. Grocers discuss four and substitutes, and Benton Roberts returns from St Louis with spring stock for Marlin store. Mrs Montgomery visits Camp Travis and niece Miss Mima Beaver visits from Memphis. Lon Binion buys Hortons stake in local meat market and hires a Denison cutter. Texas Food and Feed Production Campaign itinerary set with talks on war work and crops arriving in Whitewright March 4 at 10 am.
T H Truett announces an auction sale of furniture to commence Saturday of this week. The sale will be conducted by J M Potts, the well known auctioneer. Mr and Mrs Morrell Sears of Dallas arrived last week to spend a few days with his parents and other relatives and friends.
Mr and Mrs H L Carver and family visited Mr and Mrs Oran Sears on Sunday. C Williams foreman of the Sun was confined at home after a severe tonsillitis attack. Mrs C B Bryant Red Cross knitting chair sent sixty five knitted articles made in January. Horace Thompson of J F Lilley’s store fell ill in Dallas but returned home Wednesday night and remains under weather. J M Carter came home from Fort Riley where his son Dr Wilbur Carter trains and recovers from meningitis. Wilbur will be in hospital about a month more before returning home.
T B Moore has accepted a position with the T H Lively dry goods store to assist management. An experienced dry goodsman with wide acquaintance, his presence is expected to lend prestige and draw new trade for the firm.
Mr Knowles who served three years as Cotton Belt agent at Tom Bean is now appointed agent at this station succeeding the late B F Gafford. He will relocate his family as soon as a suitable house is secured.
The Baraca Class of the Baptist Sunday school renews life and zeal with spring. It calls on all current members to attend regularly and invites new members and workers to join.
W H King traveled to Fort Worth early in the week to see his daughter and son who attend school there and stopped in Dallas to attend a bankers convention.
Mrs. A. R. Nash and her daughter Miss Georgia join Mrs. H. C. Willis in Dallas for activities of the North Texas Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist church.
Mrs. Frank Vaden of Sherman visited to help organize a war council and trades day promising support for future events. She discussed canning, conservation and home problems. Other speakers urged war work cooperation. The Red Cross is active but others seem inactive.
Mr and Mrs J F Lilley and Tom Lilley were called to Kene tick Oklahoma last Friday due to the death of Tom Lilley’s mother Mrs Sallie Lilley. She died at her home near there on Thursday the 7th aged sixty six. The funeral and interment were held at Caddo Saturday.
Several trains derailed in the local yards on Wednesday night blocking the tracks for hours. An engine left the track near the tower and other minor damages required the use of heavy wrecking equipment to clear the lines.
Rev. J. F. Fender attended the Sherman meeting Monday where a county pastors organization for Grayson county was formed. The group acts as a War Council to support America in its current supreme task. Fender offers to arrange speakers for patriotic meetings near Whitewright. communities may request speakers through him.
An Advertisement urges readers to join the Thrift Legion and save quarters for thrift stamps to loan to Uncle Sam for the Samuels in France. It promotes patriotic savings and a “Thrift Educational Ivy” at the Sherman Business College in Texas as a path to higher earning power.
Promotes LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine as a cure for cold symptoms with promises of stopping cough and headache. Claims a money back guarantee by Druggist and features E. W. Grove’s signature on each box. Price 30 cents.
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