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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1933
Page
5
Mrs A L Groves of Garland visits brother J R Pennington. Several regional visitors travel between Wichita Falls Dallas Commerce and Denison. Health updates note S H Montgomery ill. Mrs J H Blincoe seriously ill. Dr R May recovering. Portales NM death of Lucy Spear announced. families gather in Whitewright.
Bill Jones notes The Roberts Co headquarters for men's work shoes at 1.50 and a $2.00 line, offers plain toe half lined black and tan models with leather and rubber soles, plus ladies slippers at 1.49 and 2.00, oil cook stoves with blue flame, seed potatoes and general trading value.
Dallas relatives visit and births announced in the Ely and Frisco areas. Many guests from Denison Sherman and Purcell attendings. a high school rental book program debuts. the Merrymakers Club plans Tony the Convict in Bethel. Rev John Gentry, 88, dies. funeral held at Shady Grove with Masonic rites.
Mrs T H Sears, Mrs J R Pennington and Mr and Mrs Floyd Bassett left Wednesday for Tohoka to attend the funeral services for Mrs H M Larkin who died Tuesday evening at a Lubbock sanitarium of pneumonia. She was the sister of Mrs Sears and Mrs Pennington.
The Bow-Wright Pharmacy announces a new cash policy with lowered prices to eliminate bookkeeping and collection costs and bad accounts. The ad notes nationwide presidential inauguration as context for the price change and expects merchandise to be sold cheaper.
A California Jewish Voice note says a friend of the late Thomas A. Edi son reports a spirit encounter. The piece hints the friend may be an inventor as well.
H W Dodd of the northeast farm and trader on Monday used his model T as a store room to display seven varieties of beans and peas. He sold most of his surplus produce that day and urged readers to grow their own now that the area can produce a full table.
Sherman critic Mrs. D. M. Pope will review Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock Sunday at 3 p.m. at Central Christian Church. The event is part of a series of book reviews and the public is invited to attend.
The Rotary Club program honored Boy Scout Anniversary Week with guest speakers. Scoutmaster Max Pierson and Eagle Scout Guy Hamilton Jr. spoke on scouting, its benefits, and a decade radar of programs. Denison county field executive Ben Burger described the ten-year plan. W. L. Stowers also addressed the gathering.
Co. A. Belote of six miles northeast of town mingled with the Monday trades day crowd. At eighty he is one of the region’s youngest veterans, enlisted late in the war, and attending last year’s Confederate reunion as an active participant. He showed a ten dollar gold piece minted in 1834, kept as a keepsake, and recalled days past alongside other century-old books at his home.
The Friday Literary Club held a regular meeting at the First Methodist Church with 26 members present. The study topic was The Home Beautiful and the program featured Rose Legends, Evergreens for Southern Gardens, a violin solo, landscape effects of perennials and ferns, a Texas rock bed and cactus garden, and readings from Grace Nell Crowell.
The High School Wildcat String Band invites all to a negro minstrel at the grammar school auditorium Friday night March 3. Admission 10 and 20 cents. The notice notes the Sun sells typewriter carbon.
A Texas Press Report from Austin outlines state finances with total receipts for the year ending Sept. 1, 1932, totaling $96.89 million from taxes and fees. Major outlays include public schools, highways, and higher education. The first cost-cutting bill targets a 25 percent pay reduction for rang ers, and judiciary bills impose similar cuts for judges and district attorneys.
The Texas Senate approved two constitutional amendments, 31 to 0 and 30 to 1, sending them to the House for action. If the House backs them, voters in the next general election will decide on abolishing the fee system, salary replaces for district, county and precinct officers except specific roles. The second amendment would allow Legislature to change how notaries public are appointed.
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