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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1927
Page
5
Local notices recount visits across towns including Oklahoma City Ladonia Dallas and Sherman. Ads promote Pierces Cafe famed for best cooking and service, Aladdin Lamps from Manning Clark Meador and Bow Wright Drug Co. calls to make the soda fountain a summer headquarters.
Residents from Fort Worth Dallas Chickasha and Sherman visit relatives in Grayson County. Notables attend meetings as Ice B Reeves circulates a Red River bridge bill petition. Rev Wallace Jones from Fort Worth will preach at Central Christian Church next Sunday with morning and evening services.
Miss Maurine May and Miss Lurline Gafford, University of Texas students, spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs R H May. Whitewright High School baseball drills at Athletic Park under Coach Crain. First game set with Trenton Cubs on March 4. J C Parsons offered a 25 prize for most cotton on ten acres Itasca Pedigreed cash cotton. prize to J F Blackerby of Ely for 8,090 pounds. Frank Phillips second.
A large audience attended the PTA patriotic program in the high school auditorium Monday night. The Whitewright high school orchestra provided music and the glee club performed vocal numbers. A quartet formed by Lloyd Moore Fred W Smith Tommie Chenoweth and Dorothy Chambless sang. An eighth grade minuet and a second grade dialogue were presented. Rev J H Hawkins pastor of the First Baptist Church delivered an address titled What is Ethical Character.
Tuesday marked Washington's birthday with a school holiday in Whitewright. Post office and banks closed while national colors flew before most business houses and from the main street flag pole.
A large gas well was completed four miles north of Muenster in Cooke County last week. Whitewright landowners nearby include the Aldridge and Sears farms. Oil has been found in adjacent wells, raising hope that the gas well may develop into an oil well. Mrs. W. F. Sanders holds an interest in the Aldridge farm, about one mile away, and Byron Sears owns land within a mile.
Miss Sallie Moore has gone to Winters, where she will make her home.
Not a problem play yet answer the most vital question of the Not a sex drama yet pulsating with violent emotion The Pelican story at The Palace features exciting situations and life like drama Monday and Tuesday.
The Parent-Teacher Association will hold a regular session on Tuesday March 1 at 3 45 p m in the grammar school auditorium. All members are urged to attend.
Sam McMillin was a Dallas visitor Friday. Mr and Mrs Ed LaRoe and daughters visited relatives at Greenville the past weekend. Miss Vera Holland a Westminster school teacher spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Holland south of town.
T. L. Dicken, formerly on route one out of Van Alstyne, has relocated to the Cowart place south of Whitewright. The change reflects a move within Grayson County and nearby communities.
Mr and Mrs Edward Clark and their children visited relatives in Bonham on Sunday. A Sun want ad indicates an item for sale.
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