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Whitewright News Highlights From 1919 and 1929
Obituaries note Mrs. Joe Dan McMillin died Feb 6 north of town. Whitewright boys listed as World War I casualties include Everheart Dobson Thompson May and others with wounds or disease. Local incidents include a drag accident injury and a driver knocking down a child. Community reports cover marriages elections, school closures for scarlet fever, bank district meeting, church mission program, and high school basketball championship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Dan McMillin
Whitewright
Preston P. Everheart
Elmer Dobson
Clifford Thompson
Jones May
Elzie Baxter
Sam S. Cameron
Walter P. Judd
Cyrus Wellington
Jeff D. Woods
George B. Pierce
Elgie G. Fields
Ozro Sloan
Will Cox
A. L. Groves
Victor Biggerstaff
Camp Jackson
Miss
Little Blanche Montgomery
Frank Benton
Jefferson Lafayette Taylor
Pilot Grove
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Sherman
Otro Lee Sloan
Leonard
W. H. King
Guy Hamilton
F. E
Whitewright High School
van Alstyne
Cawthon Gymnasium
Grayson County
Princess Compton
W. W. Compton
Dorothy Tate
D. B. Tate
Desert
Durant
Okla
John H. Pierce
Ronald Pierce
W. M. Hickson
Little Theatre
Ross R. May
Gomer May
A. L. Jackson
Inez Ray
H. T. Atterberry
Lillian Slusher
Dunning Club
Sarah Belle Gillett
Sara Kathryn Atterberry
Jo Willa Stateville
Hamilton Vestal
Billy Rhom Pennington
Barbara Kight
Patricia Manning
Betsy Smith
Henrietta Jackson
Laura Jo Williams
Gladys
Ruth Gosnell