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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1917
Page
3
Whitewright and nearby towns see frequent visits from residents and visitors across Sherman Denison Bonham Greenville and Dallas. Local businesses run ads for bread seeds rice and spectacles while residents attend clubs markets and social events.
Miss Geneva Carr teaches at Tom Bean and visited family. R L Holcomb travels to Roswell NM after a ill mother. Miss Eddie Badgett returns from Crosbyton. A school auditorium hosts the Spinsters Convention show. Mrs J T Dillon returns from Washington DC with her son in the Navy. J N Parrish’s Ken-tuckytown store was burglarized Sunday night with cash and goods stolen. Mrs A R Nash attends the North Texas Conference of the Woman’s Missionary Society in Gainesville as a delegate from Whitewright. Funeral attendees include Mr G E Riley of Parsons KS and J T Falls of Maitland TX. Mrs Hamilton is Falls’ sister. Contractor Baugher repairs the Piano telephone building owned by Mrs C Saigling. rear dilapidation to be rebuilt. L L Nichols and J Harder visit from Plainview. Nichols moved from Whitewright, Harder formerly principal at Seven Points in Westminster and now in real estate at Plainview. Young Ladies Missionary Society elects Miss Hazel May as delegate to Gainesville. plans a seven course feast in March to raise funds. On March 10 the Society held a devotional with Miss Coralee Schols.
Ohio Congressman Simeon D. Fess wrote a learned article for editor Hamilton Holt of a New York magazine. Holt did not publish it, sending a formal rejection note stating merit not implied by the rejection. The piece arrived with a bakery ad remark about bread and cakes.
A poem-like vignette describes a lawyer who smiles while reading a husband’s will and remarks on a "fat legacy." The next morning the man lies injured with plastered head and wonders at his crude line and coming fee.
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