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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
5
Mrs. J B Hamilton visited relatives in Dallas Tuesday. Several residents travelled to Collinsville and Fort Worth for visits and medical care. Quilt, church and civic events noted along with births, weddings, and school achievements. Local businesses advertise and family news dominates.
Paul Sonny Hancock of Paris and Miss Sarah Hensley of Denton wed New Year’s Day in Denton. The bride, a North Texas State Teachers College graduate, has worked in Denton since graduation. Hancock, a Whitewright native, is a 1934 alum of Whitewright High School and now with the Texas Highway Department in Paris.
The Kentuckytown Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs B M Deans home with Mrs H B Everheart presiding. The program Create Beauty and Loveliness in the Home featured talks on slip covers wall paint flowers and shrubs cleanliness and order. Refreshments were served to members including Mrs Everheart Mrs Stephens Mrs Hansard and others. The club will meet with Mrs Everheart Feb 27.
The Rotary Club hosts its annual farmer guests luncheon with about twenty farmers expected. Tom Cunningham led the program from Whitewright High School and O K Hoyle spoke on vocational education and F F A projects. Rev F A Tippen of Whitesboro gave a brief talk as the club marks 35 years since its Chicago founding.
Members of the Friday Literary Club gathered Friday afternoon at Mrs. Mel Roberts to hear an O Henry themed program. Speakers included Mrs. Rham T Pennington on The Caliph Cupid and the Clock and Lost on Dress Parade, Mrs. Floyd Everhart on The Green Door, Mrs. Paul Ryan on An Unfinished Story, and Miss Lena Mae Gowdy on The Furnished Room. The meeting ended with a business session led by President Mrs. Joe B Hamilton amid news of an upcoming book review sponsorship.
The club will meet Wednesday February 28 at 3 p m at Central Christian Church for a live review of Main Stream by Hilda Morris led by Mrs L J Wathen of Dallas. A St Patrick's tea is set for March 16 as part of a year of federation jubilees with a grand climax at the 1941 Triennial in Atlantic City. Guests were Mrs Mel Roberts and Mrs J B Hembree of McLean. Washington birthday themed refreshments were served.
Funeral services were held at the residence on West Main Street at 2 30 p m Saturday for Philip Jasper Russell 78 conducted by Rev J A Henderson Baptist minister of Pilot Grove Burial followed at Wittitoe Cemetery west of town with Earnheart directing Russell died at his home Friday He was born in Tennessee April 11 1861 married Eliza Minor in 1883 and they came to Texas 35 years ago living in the Kentuckytown community before moving to Whitewright He was a member of the Kentuckytown Baptist Church Survived by wife four daughters Mrs J W Blakey Whitewright Mrs J D Young Bells Mrs Fred Howell Dallas and Mrs Jack Lawrence Sherman 16 grandchildren and two great grandchildren
The Palace presents Four Wives a tale of four wives and their husbands starring the Lane Sisters. Also on the slate for the week are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Indianapolis Speedway an auto racing film.
Representative M. B. Morgan of Denison informs Whitewright friends he will run for state representative place 2, currently held by Joe A. Keith of Sherman. Morgan previously ran in the field several candidates, finishing third and narrowly missing a runoff by about 200 votes. a formal announcement will follow.
Harvard Illinois Ernest Zell announced his retirement as street sweeper at age 90 saying he is too deaf to hear automobile horns. He began the job at age 68 and has completed 22 years of service for the city.
Church listings announce Leroy Anderson as pastor with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. Service includes Bible study at 10 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. Evening preaching at 7 p.m. Young People’s Training at 6 30 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting and Bible training at 7 p.m. Leonard Mullens is noted as minister.
Ben Bell serves as pastor with Sunday school at 10 a m under N L Manning as superintendent. Morning worship at 11 and evening services at 7 30 feature sermons by the pastor. Young people’s services are at 6 30 with Mrs Sarah Kilgree in charge.
Dr. B Wrenn Webb pastor leads two worship services with sermons at 10 50 a m and 7 p m Sunday School at 10 a m led by Dick Montgomery Young People Church directed by Mrs Robert Sears and Mrs Horace Gordon with Margaret Hanna as pianist.
Six personal injury claims totaling 121,800 were filed in Fifteenth District Court. Plaintiffs seek damages for accidents on Highway 3 between Antlers and Atoka Oklahoma and other incidents including a fall outside premises and a Whitesboro depot assault. Names include W L Bozeman Carroll D Smitherman Brinlee Clyde Thomas Arlis Thomas E T Perryman Gerline Williams and defendants Jordan Bus line Taylor Grain Company Clarence Norman Katy Railroad Skillerns & Sons Inc. and others.
Debris and refuse lay on the sidewalk as building repairs continued on September 27, 1939, indicating ongoing construction activity and street clutter during the work.
The attorney general ruled that a city cannot adopt a valid ordinance fixing a penalty for driving while intoxicated within its limits due to conflict with state law and the Constitution. State statutes generally cap penalties at two years or a $500 fine, and limit corporate court fines to $100 for by law violations.
Washington Texas Representative Martin Dies suffers a neck fracture from a high school game twenty two years ago that now delays the hearings of the committee on un American activities by thirty days. He cites back pain and nerve impingement from the old injury and will not hold hearings or speak during the period, wearing a leather back support.
Washington: Interstate Commerce Commission approved the abandonment of a 40 mile St. Louis Southwestern Railway branch from Hillsboro to Corsicana all in Navarro and Hill counties. Nine stations along the route will be affected as highway traffic parallels the line and the branch has lost money in recent years.
Austin reports the Federal Social Security Board and the Texas Public Welfare Department reached an accord on merit system differences. Adam R. Johnson said Senator Connie? advised that Oscar Powell stated all substantial differences were cleared, ending the threat to withhold federal pension matching funds due to merit compliance.
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