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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1932
Page
8
Sara Janway reflects on George Washington's enduring influence on American independence and nationhood. The article honors his leadership, finances, and moral example as the country programs a 200th birthday commemoration with addresses and papers honoring his legacy.
The passage describes a two hundredth anniversary event for George Washington to begin February 22, with clubs, societies, and governments nationwide coordinating months of observances led from Washington. Elizabeth Keeling offers a reflective editorial note on Washington’s principles versus prosperity and critiques America’s foreign policy and domestic spending.
Lloyd Stowers of the senior class gave an interesting and well presented talk on George Washington at the Grammar School Monday night. The event celebrated the 200th birthday with Whitewright civic organizations and schools represented.
During the school week starting February 22 Rev. L G Hagard will give talks to High School students. He has previously visited the school and is welcomed by faculty and students.
The junior journalism class directed by Miss Gladys Ray presented a Washington birthday program on February 19. Emma Claire Vestal chaired the meeting with readings and a story on the American Revolution. Sara Janway spoke on The Nation's Debt To Washington, Lucille Maynard on The Human Side of Washington, and Hawthorne's Howe's Masquerade was read by Evelyn Cummings.
Frances Pope notes the group will reconvene next Friday afternoon at the same time, confirming continued plans and schedule.
An assembly on Wednesday February 17 featured a playful program. The Student Body performed Round Scotlands Burning while the Faculty chorus sang When You and I Were Young Maggie. James Lindsey did a tap dance with Dorothy Tapscott on piano. Donald Hall and Fitz Bryant wrestled a possum and Ben Clark walked on his hands.
The Masqueraders Club announces The Gift by Marie Foley and A Bargain’s a Bargain with Mary Jo Sears and others as rehearsals begin. A March 11 performance at the High School will fund The Gift’s district meet in Paris on March 19.
Myra Nell Vestal visited Tulsa Saturday. Clyde Johnson in Bells Monday night. Emmagene Sears spent Tuesday afternoon in Sherman. Leora Short Saturday in Sherman. Kathleen Pierson Tulsa. Madge Sears Bells Monday night. Donald Hall and Princess Compton weekend in Lubbock. Maxine Roberts Saturday in Sherman. Emmagene Sears Sunday in Leonard. Vonda Lee and Edna Earl Stuteville weekend in Leonard. Gladene Gates Sherman Friday night. Guy Hamilton Jr in Sherman Tuesday night. Fitz Bryant Sherman Sunday afternoon. Homer Lee Sears in Sherman. Babe Neil Penn and Dorothy Hamilton former CISD students visiting Denton spent weekend in Whitewright.
Mrs Callie McAfee Frost announces for county clerk of Grayson County Texas subject to the Democratic Primary on July 23 1932. She born in Gor donville 1884 and has lived in the county continuously since, widow for over seventeen years, and raising two daughters while holding clerical work. She seeks to canvass the county personally and pledges courteous efficient service if elected.
A famed actress arrived at a Paris party wearing a pink gown and a necklace that guests believed were pink pearls. She revealed the necklace was made of haricot beans tinted pink with rice grain earrings, offering a vegetarian, edible jewelry twist. Also notice: typewriter supplies sold at Sun office.
Farm seeds including pedigreed cotton seed seed corn Sudan seed big German millet hegar i dwarf maize Spanish peanuts and more offered at lowest prices in years. Also buying corn oats cotton seed and other farm products with high cash prices paid by Lester Haile.
Desert town notes a plane attempts to light a dry lane during a big storm while residents, led by Sid Martin Jess Cooper and Levi Hamilton, travel to Leonard Wednesday. Local births and shopping trips fill a lively week as a poet laments city life and misses God in town.
The reader is asked whether their residence is in Whitewright or nearby and where they purchase necessities and luxuries. The prompt invites a personal location and shopping base distinction.
A clipped remark jokes that Thanksgiving began with parents whose sons survived the football season. The line blends humor with a nod to seasonal unity and family tradition in a small town context.
Theodore Roosevelt aboard the President Taft views battlefronts as Chinese and Japanese forces clash along a ten mile front near Shanghai. He surveys Woosung forts ruins and nearby Japanese destroyers in the Whangpoo River as shelling begins.
In a bizarre rheumatism cure, a man died and two others were seriously burned after spending 10 minutes in a baker's oven in Ancona Italy. The incident prompted officials to warn against dangerous self treatments and urged medical evaluation of such methods.
The recipe instructs coring apples and packing each cavity with marshmallows and a small amount of sugar before baking for a baked treat.
University of Texas students ranked Charles G. Dawes as the greatest living American with Hoover and Ford close behind and John D. Rockefeller third. They listed Lindbergh Holmes Stimson Mellon Adams and Roosevelt among others with Will Rogers named and Maude Adams the only woman among thirteen prominent figures.
The notice highlights that 133,643 banks have not closed and 120 million people cannot live in fear. It notes Gainesville Florida as another city out of debt with a bank balance of 8.75 dollars per capita.
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