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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
5
The column lists numerous residents traveling to Dallas Fort Worth Lubbock Sherman Paris and other places for visits business or family. It notes multiple personal visits from Johnsons Hoopers Beards and Higdon families plus several stops in Sherman Dallas and Greenville with accompanying minor events and a few public health notices.
Bob Sears anticipates a carload of new Chevrolet sixes arriving today or tomorrow marking the first of the new models here aside from a single coach received on December 29 for display purposes.
Miss Alwilda Ryan sustained a cut on her upper lip after Tuesday afternoon collision with a barbed wire strand erected around the high school campus to deter vehicles. She required several stitches to close the wound.
Chester Adcock 21, son of the late Lee Adcock, visited this week greeting old family acquaintances. He spent five years at Buckner Orphans Home in Dallas, three years at Cisco, and the last two years on a farm with his uncle near Plano. He plans to likely return to live in Whitewright.
John Pierce has filed with the Railroad Commission of Texas for a certificate of convenience and necessity to operate a bus line between Bonham Whitewright and Farmersville. The commission will consider the application on January 25 as public notice states.
A Ford touring car driven by George Head overturned half a mile south of town near dusk Wednesday. Head suffered serious cuts from broken glass but returned home after treatment. Reed Robbins, owner and passenger, was only slightly hurt. The wreck was caused by a broken pin in the steering device.
Miss Margaret Higginbotham visits relatives in Clarksville. A C Allen, construction superintendent for the new light and power plant, is promoted to construction engineer at the Fort Worth headquarters of the Texas Louisiana Power Co. The company continues building district plants in Texas. Linemen work on connecting towns to the local station nearing completion.
Scoutmaster Crosby leads a Saturday session as Fitz Bryant Burgher Vestal and Dick Montgomery complete parts of their second class tests. The troop hopes to reach second class by month end with twelve requirements including signaling first aid fire building knife and hatchet cooking thrift compass safety and law living. A wood lot run funds a fireplace under construction with plans to award about fifteen second class badges at Friday night meeting with the court of honor in attendance.
C E Moser of Dallas, president and general manager of the American Cotton Growers Exchange, urged Texas members of Congress to retain a $9 000 item in the agricultural appropriation bill for an irrigation cotton fiber investigation. The probe would study brittle fibers in irrigated cotton and aims to determine causes, with actions by several bureaus within the department pending.
A speeding drunken car crashed into a small grocery on West Main, lifting the front of the building off its foundation into Banita Creek. Owner Eugene Watkins reported $1,000 in damages. three occupants escaped with minor injuries and were jailed for speeding and drunkenness.
New York reports strong indications that former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey will return to the ring this summer to compete in the elimination series to crown Gene Tunney's successor. William F. Carey, head of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, treated Dempsey's silence on retirement as significant, though no formal assurance exists.
Senator Thomas G. Pollard of Tyler drafted a bill to keep gangsters away by making possession of a bomb machine gun or infernal machine a felony with penalties from one to ten years in prison. The measure targets weapons used to destroy life or cause injury unless authorized.
Alfred E. Smith a former New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential candidate urged party members via radio to raise 1.5 million dollars to cover a deficit. He offered to donate his campaign speeches as gifts to donors, with a bound illustrated volume for contributions of two dollars or more. He called for broader national publicity between elections and urged widespread support beyond a small donor group.
Readable fragments indicate The Sun office offered typewriter paper in 25¢ packages. The note mentions available stock and a pricing unit, suggesting a small office supply sale or ad.
Texas A and M Extension Horticulturist J F Rosbrough urges now is a good time to prune orchard trees. Remove dead wood and crossing limbs and limit main branches to four or five. Pruning boosts bearing surface, new growth, and fruit buds, with demonstrations nationwide this winter.
W A Stein's trial with nine hens last year cut cucumber pest damage and yielded a net profit of 205.20 dollars. Revenue from 62 birds was 185.20 dollars with 26 birds currently valued at 50 dollars. Feed was 1.14 tons of kafir costing 30 dollars. He plans to fence the farm to protect turkeys and expand this insect control method.
Texas dominates the nations turkey feather output with about one million pounds yearly. About 60 percent are body feathers and 40 percent quills. Quills power dusters while vacuuming reduces demand. roughly one third of the crop is exported to Europe. Two years ago Gonzales shipped forty cars to France.
In Melilla Morocco Capt Adol fo Yoliff the newly named head of the native camel corps in the Sahara died in a strange accident. While attempting to capture the regiment mascot a monkey the captain's pet hid in a well and he lost his balance falling in and drowning just before leaving for his post.
Mrs Mary E Reid 70 near death from burns after an oil stove exploded in a moving covered wagon near Chattanooga Oklahoma en route to Sedan Texas. She was trapped in the wagon as flames spread to her legs and body while her sons tried to free her.
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