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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1933
Page
7
The W H S Reflector names Sara Janway editor in chief and Mary Jo Sears Norma Jo Mangrum and others as reporters. Senior sponsor is Monabelle Biggerstaff with Dorothy Tapscott as faculty adviser.
Mid term exams loom as students cram and wonder if they will pass. The editor urges that passing symbolizes life success and notes individuals, including D E McCoy the popular musician, Mae Myrick and honors in fire prevention themes. Visitors Edna Erle Bailey and Dorothy Lynn Hay are mentioned along with illness and a school inspection praised for fire safety awareness.
A Friday night Palace Theatre benefit will aid the W. H. S. team with half the proceeds funding equipment. The Wild Cat String Band performs with a film, ticket prices are ten and twenty five cents.
The writer laments that many old songs fade from youth memory though they vividly depicted the South. He notes Southern and Eastern writers composed tributes to plantation life and regional scenes, contrasting them with today’s lightweight music and urging a return to ancestral tunes. Signed B E M.
A discussion on causes of arson argues revenge and insurance as major incentives. It cites two men in a feud as a revenge example and notes insured losses tempt arson for profit. The piece also mentions a lesser tactic labeled the fires of employment where a jobless worker starts a blaze to seek work.
A speaker urges immediate action to reduce incendiary fires costing the nation. He questions current efforts and inspires collective help, urging the public to start doing something about the fires today.
An antique mortar with over two centuries of history tells of Missouri settlement times. It follows the Box family from Arkansas to the Indian Territory, the fort at Fort Arthur, and early conflicts while noting recipes beaten in its bowl.
A collection of light classroom jokes and exchanges. Students and teachers joke about spelling mistakes, food complaints, Swiss cheese puzzles, driving signs, and picnic observations showcasing schoolroom humor and daily teen chatter. Named speakers include J B N B Mr Smith Ruth Lawrence Owen Billy White Dorothy Nell Pirtle and J T M.
The Tigers traveled to Savoy on Thursday January 12 for a basketball game. Cold conditions and a rough court limited play but the locals fought hard. J M Dixon led with five points, with J W McKinney and Ross Wilson also scoring.
In a hurried week the dramatic club presented scenes from Macbeth. A small audience gathered to watch seniors perform narration and acting, with the standout scene featuring the three murderers in improvised costumes.
The local team triumphed 12 to 9 on Wednesday afternoon over Tom Bean. Franklin Dixon and Ross Wilson led with 4 points each, supported by Dixon 4, Jones 2, and Brown 2, as J M Dixon and J W McKinney were sidelined.
A dated 1933 letter from Whitewright Texas expresses gloom about rain and changing light, then shifts to a cattle dispute. John Jones complains to John Doe in Trenton Texas that a bought cow was misrepresented and demands $1.00 as difference or the cow returned at Doe's expense, threatening $2.00.
In a vivid snapshot of daily life students and teachers appear in classroom scenes. Helen Reece studies biology while J. B. Cates sings and Frances Montgomery weeps as J. Y. Russell writes a composition.
A string of fragmented society items mentions Leslie Holland hair, Pearl England distress on a Monday, a Dallas elevator business flourish on a Saturday, Miss Boone admired recently, Thelma Cox whispering to friends, C W Phillips lingering at Pierce's cafe, and Mary Jo attending a Saturday night show.
The report notes a basketball trip to Sherman on Friday night the 13th with limited remaining details about the game and outcome.
In their first indoor game of the season the Tigers led early and held on to win 24 to 16 at Austin College. J. M. Dixon led scorers with 12 points, Franklin Dixon and J. B. Harrison also scored, as the team eyed the upcoming tournament next Friday and Saturday.
The query notes Edgar Allan Poe’s parents were stage parents. Stage parents are theatrical show business guardians who push a child into performance careers and manage auditions, training, and public appearances.
The American Bankers Association Journal is cautiously optimistic about next year citing stronger securities markets, relief measures aiding industries, gold inflows, a secure gold standard, low finished goods inventories, rising factory employment, higher farm prices, fewer failures, excess bank reserves, and debt readjustment. It predicts legislative push to cut public expenditures and taxes, stabilizing private industry.
A common year has 365 days and a leap year 366 days. A calendar year is 365 days while the solar year measures 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds. A sidereal year is 365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 9 seconds and an anomalistic year 365 days 6 hours 13 minutes 53 seconds.
The will of Calvin Coolidge, all property to his widow Grace Coolidge, was filed in Hampshire County Probate Court. The 75 word document in Coolidge's hand on White House stationery lists the estate left to his wife. Drawn in Washington on December 20 1926 and witnessed by Everett Sanders Edward Clark and Erwin G C Geisser.
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