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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
2
The Whitewright Sun mailed as second class matter at Whitewright Post Office. Subscriptions cost $1.00 per period. Subscriptions expire on the first of the month and readers should notify if issues are missing.
Special notice policy states resolutions of respect obituaries and cards of thanks are charged 5 cents per line. Church and lodge notices and entertainments for revenue are 5 cents per line. Religious fraternal or public meetings for public benefit are published free of charge.
Announcements name W. N. Holley for County Superintendent and D. R. Vaughan for Tax Collector. The state and county tax rate is 1.15 per hundred, higher than before, city rate 65 cents, school rate 40 cents, totaling 2.20 per hundred for city properties. The column also includes satirical local anecdotes about editors and shopping.
Gov. Hodges ex governor of Kansas will address a public meeting in the schoolhouse auditorium on Thursday night January 17. He is a leading prohibition movement worker and is expected to draw a large audience. The Anti-Saloon League of Texas sent the notice urging wide newspaper announcements and strong town attendance.
W M Cox arrived back Wednesday after a three week trip to Tennessee to visit relatives and meet family members.
Tom Randolph long time banker and chairman of the National Bank of Commerce of St. Louis died at his home from apoplexy in St. Louis Mo. He served as director for Equitable Life and on the American Bankers Association executive committee. Born in Rome Tennessee he began in Sherman Texas and rose through Merchants and Planters Bank to president of Commonwealth Trust and later National Bank of Commerce where he became president and finally chairman of the board. Funeral services were held in Sherman with burial at West Hill cemetery beside a list of pallbearers.
Mrs Mary Dyer died at her home in Kentuckytown last Friday at age 68. The funeral and interment were held Sunday. A pioneer resident and respected Christian lady, she was beloved by neighbors for her good deeds. She was aunt to J L Dyer Mell Roberts and Mrs Will Barbee but survived by no near relatives.
Sherman and Denison exemption boards process registration questionnaires as they are returned. By midweek most registrants will know their status with Class 1 expected to be called after medical checks. Names listed include E. K. Dillon J W Murphy Charley Rhodes Paul Wilson Jack McMillin and John Boston involved in appeals.
The local banks held their annual stockholders meetings with no changes in directors or officers. Both institutions declared a ten percent dividend on stock and surplus, continuing their financial and governance stability.
Prices at Hayter's store include five cent items like Electric Spark and Swifts White Soap and five cent table salt. shipments and property moves frame community life as Bob Sears seeks aviation service in San Antonio and Thurston Montgomery buys the Ryan place. Local updates cover post office changes, a laxative ad, and weather notes as wheat awaits rain.
An old advertisement touts LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine as a quick cure for colds. It claims to stop cough and headache and relieve the cold with a money back guarantee by druggists. Each box bears E W GROVE'S signature and costs 30c.
First Lieutenant Coleman Carter and his wife visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Kimbell. J D Badgett serves on federal grand jury in Judge Gordon Russell's Sherman court. J R Fleming spends days in Dallas and Fort Worth with daughter Mrs. Wilson. Dero Austin elected director of American Bank & Trust Sherman, replacing Lee Simmons joining new bank plans.
Announcement that the Grayson County Live Stock Association will meet at the Sherman Chamber of Commerce rooms in Sherman on Saturday January 12 at 2 p m. This brief notice appears alongside a druggist refund guarantee for PAZO OINTMENT promising relief from itch and hemorrhoids within 6 to 14 days. The first application is said to bring ease and rest.
The largest stock of cigars and cigarettes in town is held by P. J. Pierce & Son, offering a broad selection for shoppers.
An advertisement extols Tyler Commercial College of Tyler Texas as the South’s premier business university. It claims enrollment from 39 states and seven foreign countries, promoting courses in shorthand bookkeeping telegraphy cotton classing and finance with tuition estimates and stories of borrowers rising to good positions.
Hereafter I positively and emphatically will not be responsible for any debts incurred in my name unless I incur them or act by my written order. Signed by Don L. Dyer.
Found a small pocket book containing money. Owner may recover by paying for this advertisement and giving a description of the book and the amount of money it contains. Contact D. A. Ray.
A Grove's tonic advertisement touts quinine and iron as a tasteless chill tonic. It claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system priced at 60 cents.
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