Local residents and visitors frequent Whitewright
Sherman to Whitewright social life noted with dozens of visits by locals and guests from Dallas Stamford Sadler Denison St Louis and Oklahoma. The community records deaths illnesses reunions baptisms and a move of Rev Joe Russell to Terrell. Plumbers report repairs after severe cold caused burst water pipes and livestock losses as gardens and flowers perish.
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Joe M. Russell
Terrell
Whitewright
Russell
First Presbyterian Church
Dollar Pants Specials Show Windows Noted
The notice lists time windows for price markdowns on pants with 75c, 89c, 1.00, 1.25 and 1.50 dollar prices. No quantities or brand names are provided. The brief focuses on discount periods and price points for pants.
Whitewright Music Club elects officers and presents American music program
The Whitewright Music Club met at Miss Tommie Chenoweth's studio with 20 members. Mrs Rham Pennington was elected president and Mrs J D Lowe vice president for two years. The program featured Music in America and pieces by Beethoven Borowsky Nevin Heller. Choral practice followed and refreshments were served.
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Whitewright Music Club
Tommie Chenoweth
Beethoven
Rhom Pennington
Mozart Midgets Music Club meets for Feb program
The Mozart Midgets Music Club gathered at 3 p m on February 15 in Miss Tommie Chenoweth's studio. The program featured roll call on musical terms, a Handel song, Haydn biography, instrument review, a reading on the violin, and various piano solos duos and rhythm-band numbers performed by Martha Vestal Dorotha Darwin Jack Smith Mary Phillips Martha Darwin Ethel Harper Glenda Rutledge James Phillips Willie Smith and Dale Watson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mozart Midgets Music Club
Tommie Chenoweth
Handel
Franz Joseph Haydn
Martha Louise Vestal
Dorotha Darwin
Jack Smith
Mary Phillips
Martha Joe Darwin
Ethel Harper
Glenda Mae Rutledge
James Birt Phillips
Willie B. Smith
Dale Watson
New device tests liquor type in minutes
A polargraph device described by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace analyzes a gin sample by electrical switch. In four or five minutes it draws curves on paper showing the exact alcohol type and percentage. It can also be used for chemical analysis of any liquid or solid substance.
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New York
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Whitewright News Briefs From The Sun 1916
The Whitewright Electric Company plans 24 hour service after adding equipment. Cecil Windle, 17, died at his grandmother's home south of town. Merchants shipped 1500 dollars worth of poultry, about 12 thousand pounds, to market. Concrete walk contracts awarded. Sam Cameron becomes post office clerk, Hubert Blanton moves to Sabinal. W T Simmons buys Blanton residence on Spruce street. Lively Lilley Armstrong family travel to St. Louis for merchandise. Margaret McMurry hosts a ninth birthday Valentine party. City council trades old fire horse Sam for a younger horse. Max Pope heads to Sherman to become Katy railroad cashier.
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the Sun
Whitewright Electric Company
Whitewright
Cecil Windle
J. A. Warden
Sam Cameron
Hubert Blanton
Sabinal
W. T. Simmons
Spruce Street
T. H. Lively
Tom Lilley
Sam Armstrong
J. F. Lilley
Monta Badgett
Lucile Montgomery
St. Louis
Lively, Lilley
Armstrong
Local Deaths and Economy Notes From 1921 Sun
Mrs. S. H. Badgett dies at home. Mrs. Alice Johnson and Mrs. George L. Baugher pass away in Sherman. Gasoline drops from 27¢ to 25¢. Legion hall rented for club use. Committees seek funds. Greenbugs devastate oat crop. Chesley Rutledge sells street popcorn and peanuts. Roberts Garage lists tires and tubes with prices.
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the Sun
S. H. Badgett
American Legion Post
May Building
Alice Johnson
T. J. Doss
Sherman
George L. Baugher
Chesley Rutledge
Roberts Garage
Goodwill town near Zama Mississippi aids jobless families
The Meridian Star reports on Goodwill near Zama run by Goodwill Industries and Plantation with 23 097 acres, a 200 pupil school, 50 vocations, and plans to house and train unemployed Southerners. It aims to operate as a charitable industrial town with homes, churches, recreation halls, a hotel, and an employment bureau. Breeman heads the project as president and expects 5000 residents within three years.
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Mississippi
Goodwill
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Goodwill Industries of
Louisville
Goodwill Industries and Plantation
Zama
Chauncey E. Breeman
Goodwill Industries
Goodwill School
Breeman
Meridian Star
Visiting Minister to Preach at Baptist Church Services
It is announced that preaching will be held at the Baptist Church Sunday morning and evening with a visiting minister in the pulpit at both services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Baptist Church
Immigration Hits 100 Year Low In 1932 Period
Washington reports the labor department's annual immigration census shows 35,576 newcomers admitted in the year ending June 30 1932 the lowest since 1831 when 22 633 aliens were admitted amid famine in Shensi China and related hardships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Commissioner General of Immigration
Insolvencies in Texas Fall Below January Levels
Texas insolvencies for five weeks ending February 1 totaled 78, down sharply from January a year ago and well below the December peak. The Bureau notes average liabilities dropped 21 percent to 17 769 from 22 389 year earlier. Dry goods stores led with 16 failures, followed by groceries and meat markets, drug stores, women's shops, general stores, jewelers, and shoe stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Spe
Spe Shops, 5 Were General Stores, 6 ¥ Jewelers
Farmer's heart attack follows missed cow shot in Brownsville
Gustave Schiller 54 a farmer in Brownsville Pa aimed at a cow to butcher. He dropped dead from a heart attack after the bullet missed the animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Gustave Schiller
Schiller
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