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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1926
Page
5
Local residents and visitors are listed with brief travels and calls on friends. Items include trips to Sherman Dallas Paris Wichita Falls and Kiowa Oklahoma plus store promotions from Gordon Bros. Kerr Furniture and wallpaper stock from Kerr Furniture Co. Renowned guests include Miss Amazone May Miss Hoyt Ryan and Mrs. Lou Clemmer.
The Gordon residence damaged by fire is under repair with a new roof and new floors among the improvements. R L Johnson James Hoyt and Helen Clabhorn have returned to Durant Oklahoma after a two week visit with grandmother Mrs W A Martin. Intermittent gusts of snow fell Friday and Saturday with a brief white mantle covering the landscape. Mrs F Lovell of the Pilot Grove community underwent an operation at a Sherman hospital last week and is recovering at home.
S W Earnest of Denison met voters Friday as a candidate for tax collector of Gray son County. Reared in the Ida community he has many friends in this section.
Gordon Bros. grocers offer 20 cents per pound for hens delivered to their store this week. Lucian Andrews, official cabinet member of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association and supervisor of the group insurance department, has returned to Houston after holiday leave.
Response to the plan greatly exceeds expectations and the group insurance underwritten by Great Southern Life Insurance Co. is now on a sound financial footing and permanently established. One scheme provides life insurance of 2000 on 45,000 rural carriers and 36,000 substitutes with extra family coverage, totaling about 291,000 potential participants.
L. G. Seitz of Pilot Point faces murder charges in the Fifteenth District Court at Sherman over the December 27, 1924 pistol wound death of A. C. G. Cheatham in Tioga. Jury members include W. L. Stowers B. B. Hall and J. M. Bigger.
The Pilot Grove News notes large Sunday school and churchgoer numbers with Rev. J A Henderson preaching at both services. It highlights a proud rural public school and a thriving trade center with a 1925 cotton total of $63,445.69 and poultry butter and eggs at $25,609.29, totaling about $90,000. P A Kilgree of Valley View visited on business.
Charley Kaiser and Hugh Jones were business visitors in McKinney Saturday. D. M. Taylor was a business visitor in Sherman Saturday. Dug Henry, working on the good roads near Denison, spent Sunday here with his family. Miss Lillian Matthews, in Sherman, is visiting her parents. Birch Allison and White Mound family were guests here. R. W. McMillin, bedbound weeks, improving. F. M. Sloan and family and Annie Wilson and mother were guests of Gilmore Webster at Whitewright. Mrs. O. G. Bow and relatives are in Sherman with her ill brother Tom Russell. C. C. Morris of Sherman will direct terracing at Joe Burk's farm Wednesday. Lovell’s wife, moved from north of Kentuckytown, had a serious operation in Sherman but is improving. W. P. Ownby, four miles north, celebrated 84th birthday Sunday and is oldest Methodist here, honored with fruits and candy. Uncle Watt, beloved by all, praised Sunday school after sixty years. he reflects on love, jealousy, and divorce as destructive forces. Mrs. Finch notes jealousy as principal cause of divorce.
Mrs. Leona Finch index clerk at the Tarrant County district clerk's office says jealousy, the so called Green Monster, is the principal cause of divorce, a view echoed by others commenting on the case.
A boy complains on the morning after Christmas that mince pie and plum pudding make him sick while castor oil cures him, wondering why the opposite is true. He voices frustration with festive foods and remedies in a jocular, homey tone.
A witness recalls a confrontation noting that the assailant's fist struck forcefully. The inquiry centers on recognizing the attacker and any distinguishing features. The exchange emphasizes the impact of the blows and the witness's identification challenge.
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