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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1923
Page
5
The Sun praises industrious citizens and small business, notes Whitewright race to publish and a Christmas Eve surge of Grayson County marriage licenses, references a missed issue, and shares a Theodore Roosevelt quote about hard work and success.
A compilation of editorial lines and witticisms from multiple outlets. The jokes touch on topics from politics and economy to celebrity, with satirical notes on Europe debt, youth diets, and illiteracy, reflecting early 20th century press tone and perspective.
Martha B. Thomas describes the arrival of a symbolic Little New Year born in an instant to a reader’s life. The piece warns parents to guide this annual child with steady meals of discipline and honest routines to prevent a year of procrastination and habit decay.
The article describes traditional Japanese New Year greetings with temple and theater performances. The Kagura Sacred Dance With Music features prayers for national happiness as young girls dance while priests play. The Shu-Sai Dance of the Ancestral Sanctuary is performed at the imperial palace on January 3 to celebrate the imperial house’s founding.
The Sun prints a letter from Crawford Spearman a former Whitewright lad now superintendent of the Piedmont Oklahoma schools. He sent a year's subscription check and the writer notes how fast he has grown up, recalling his boyhood days here.
Sheriff Floyd Everheart offered chief deputyship to Frank Alverson who declined. Mr. Boren, a Denison police officer, is appointed to the position, with Alverson noted as likely a good deputy and many friends glad over the announcement.
The Lilley and May families mourn loss of Ruth Lilley four years old who died after a brief illness in Oklahoma City. C. B. Bryant Jr. and family grieve the passing of their two day old daughter born last Saturday who died Monday. Funeral services for Ruth Lilley were held at the Lilley home with Rev. K. R. Isbell officiating and interment in Oak Hill Cemetery.
C W Hampton visited during the holidays and purchased several head of mules to bolster his road building force. He shipped a carload of equipment to Santa Anna where he has substantial road construction work ahead.
Mrs Novila Garrett age 36 wife of Henry Garrett died at her home northeast of town last Saturday evening. Funeral held Monday with interment in Warden cemetery near Tom Bean. Survived by husband a son and two stepdaughters. Funeral service conducted by Rev C Chumbley.
A cheerful verse from Arthur Gutterman wishing a new year free of blame and full of better aims, brighter joys, and dearer days. It encourages nobler effort, stronger labors, and hopes that grow with each passing year.
W. M. Cox returned from Pulaski Tennessee after settling his late father’s estate with his brothers. Ardmore Oklahoma visitors included Mrs. J. D. Webb Mr. and Mrs. Dew Webb and Ran Webb. Elsworth Kansas resident B. E. Webb joined. Knox City will receive D. W. Davis stock as he moves his furnishing business. Galveston and Dallas guests joined Moran and others for the holidays with Mrs. Mel Roberts.
Mr and Mrs W W Dossey hosted a 6 o clock dinner honoring telephone operators from Whitewright Bells and Savoy exchanges with place cards showing names from Whitewright Bells Savoy and McKinney and Bell telephone staff. Harding appointee N Mulkey nominated as Sherman postmaster after forty years in the city.
The Sun and the Semi-Weekly Farm News advertise a combined subscription deal for one year at a special price. Readers are invited to sign up by sending payment to Rub-My-Tism for rheumatic relief.
The piece traces New Year’s start from ancient Saxon custom to January 1, noting Romans and Teutons used March start dates. It recounts Julius Caesar and Sosigenes reforms, Pope Gregory changes, and the 1792 French calendar with ten-day weeks and new month names before returning to the Gregorian system.
On Christmas night Miss Roberta Sloan entertained sixteen guests at the Black Cat with a five course dinner in honor of Miss Reeland Leffler of Dallas as a holiday guest. Afterward music filled the evening. Miss Louise Freeman visited her grandparents Dr and Mrs W D Lipscomb at Grapevine last week.
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