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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1919
Page
1
The State Superintendent orders all county examining boards to hold examinations on Friday and Saturday January 24 and 25 for state certificates. In Grayson county the tests occur at Central High School in Sherman for first and second grade certificates.
E W Kitt of Shorters Alabama reports relief from restless nights due to kidney trouble with Foley Kidney Pills. He suffered backache rheumatic pains and muscle aches and says the pills did him good. Sold everywhere.
Lester Haile advertises hundreds of bushels of Mebane and Rowden cotton planting seed at 2 to 2.50 dollars per bushel. He claims familiarity with leading Texas cotton seed growers and guarantees profit. He invites farmers to inspect seed and promises savings, citing a food administration license number.
The mayor submitted to the State Fire Insurance Commission a three year loss ratio showing Whitewright's top credit for 1919. A 15 percent rate reduction applies to all insurances within the city, based on a perfect fire record. Losses in future years could reduce or negate the credit. The town cites its 1911 fire and notes its unique position in Texas for three consecutive years of maximum good fire record credit. The savings depend on policy amount and rate. The city urges continued effort to keep fire losses down to maintain the credit.
Grayson County farm demonstration agent C C Morris and U S Bureau of Animal Industry official Edwin Houston inspected hogs on local farms including J R Oliver T H Lively Jim Ashlock Miles Bros Dee German and A L Groves. Houston notes Texas hog production fell 45 percent below normal and surveys will be followed by a county report with practical guidance urging pasture exercise alfalfa and exercise rather than sole corn feeding.
Dallas hosted county chairmen from the Eleventh Federal Reserve District to discuss the upcoming government loan with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lewis B. Franklin. The notice indicates a fifth Liberty Loan of roughly six billion dollars, to be short term five to ten years, possibly at four and a half percent. Sales efforts will start in late April or early May with enhanced features to attract buyers. J. W. Hoopes resigns as deputy governor of the Federal Reserve Bank to become VP of South Texas Commercial Bank in Houston. F. M. Smith of Dallas will lead future district loan campaigns.
Grayson County enters quarantine on all roads with restrictions for cattle movement. Cattle from free farms may be dipped once under inspection and hauled to free Texas territory. Out-of-state movements require health certificates from an authorized veterinarian.
To reach free territory cattle for immediate slaughter may ship without dipping if tick free but need a certificate before leaving. work horses pass on inspection if tick free but not loaded through stock pens. Some states require health certificates. consult a veterinarian. Inspectors: Oscar Boren northeast, Albert Hayter northwest, C A Jennings south county.
Brownwood Texas Jan 5 Ira Terrell a local inventor has obtained a patent on a rain producing machine to be marketed soon. Scientists say the apparatus is perfect in principle and should be effective in practice. The device will be called the cyclo rain because its main working basis acts like a cyclone. Four powerful
Report describes a 2000 horsepower device capable of blowing 2,000,000 cubic feet of air per minute upward at one mile per minute to mix warm and cool air. The resulting condensation is said to cause rain over a Texas county, with one machine in every arid county enough to produce rainfall.
We thank neighbors and friends for help during sickness and death of our husband and father. Essie B. Weempe and family. The pig donated to the Red Cross by Maggie Everheart and the turkey donated by Edgar Montgomery were sold Saturday afternoon with J. B. Burris making the highest bids of 8.59 dollars for the pig and 3.50 dollars for the turkey.
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