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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1939
Page
5
Whitewright and nearby towns report social visits and business trips from Sherman Bonham Vernon Dallas and Oklahoma. Residents recover from flu and undergo medical procedures. Community events include church meetings, bridge club, and a funeral home opening. The Ely school burned, gasoline samples taken, a displaced group weathered cold, and a house porch relocation intrigue stirs locals.
The Sherman office of the agricultural adjustment administration will move on February 1 to 205 West Houston, per supervisor W. W. Gunn. The commissioners court agreed to pay utility bills at the new site, relocating from the county agent's office in the county building.
The Needlecraft Club met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Albert Reeves at 1 oclock for a luncheon. Eight charter members and one new member, Mrs. Clifton Jones, attended and the afternoon was spent sewing. The group will meet next week with Mrs. Howard Welch.
Miss Frances Williams hosted the Whitewright Music Club on Friday afternoon at her home. The program featured Miss Tommie Chenoweth and Mrs. Bryant Penn. Officers elected for two years included president Chaunce McMillin and vice president Paul Ryan, plus secretaries Atterberry and Atkinson, treasurer Atkinson, critic Pennington, parliamentarian Jackson, and Chenoweth as record keeper. Glenn Doss named publicity committee chair.
The Mozart Music Club gathered Saturday at Anna Ruth Johnson's home with members Martha Vestal Foucheaux Vestal Arvin Vestal Zoe Vestal Betty Jo Pierce Laverne Kilgree Billie Hatfield Miss Tommie Chenoweth and the hostess. Activities included roll call business meeting a parliamentary drill by Billie Hatfield a Beethoven biography by Miss Chenoweth a Moonlight Sonata piece by Laverne Kilgree a piano parts game and an impromptu piano selections program due to many absences. Refreshments were served.
The White Wright Home Demonstration Club held its first 1939 meeting on January 12 with Mrs. W L Hatfield and co hostess Mrs Roy Norris. Miss Myrtle Badgett announced new officers and committees for programs exhibitions expansion and more. Refreshments were served to 2% members and a second meeting was set for January 26 with Eunice King county home demonstration agent present.
The Senate confirmed Tuesday the nomination of Felix Frankfurter to be an associate justice of the supreme court. The liberal Harvard law professor was nominated by President Roosevelt to fill the vacancy created by the death of Cardoza. The action occurred without debate or a recorded vote, with Republicans not opposing the nomination.
Church notices list Bible study at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Bible study at 7 p.m. Attendants invited. Also services Sunday January 22 with 10 a.m. Sunday school 11 a.m. preaching 6 p.m. Epworth League 7 p.m. Visitors welcome.
Dr B Wrenn Webb conducts 10 a m Sunday school 11 a m Trades and Other Tricks 11 a m Junior Church worship and practice singing Mrs Robert Sears and Mrs Horace Gordon sponsors Lost several Bible School members missing during the last two years in good condition when last seen Finder urged to return them to church next Sunday Jan 22 and every Sunday thereafter
Funeral services were held for Mrs. T P S McCown 52 of Whitney, daughter of Mrs Kate Kincaid of Whitewright. She died in a Temple hospital after an operation. Born near Dodd City, she moved to Bonham as a child and later taught in Sweetwater. Surviving: her husband, mother, three daughters Olivia Marjorie Helen, a sister Olivia Whedbee of Whitewright, and brother Lannius Kincaid of Whitewright.
College Station. The Texas A. and M. College extension service estimates that more than five million acres in Texas were changed physically by conservation measures in the past year. Director H. H. Williamson said the annual report would show about one million acres terraced on cultivated lands, two million cultivated with the contour method, and the rest under pasture and range terracing contour listing furrowing dam construction and soil improvement crops.
Mayor L. W. Oliver announced a crackdown on gambling will cover bridge parties with prizes. He warned there will be no exceptions and compared bridge players to poker players in their drive to win. The statement urged buying in Whitewright.
Washington reports the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation held 3,377,496 bushels of wheat on January 7. Most grain stored in federally licensed warehouses near premium collection zones. Policies insure against loss from drought, flood, freezes, hail, insects and other natural causes. Premiums paid in wheat. losses settled similarly.
A man recalls strangers asking for a drink near Main and Bond, joking that his coat and hat make him look like a bootlegger. He plans to change clothes if mistaken, noting he and John Hoard are nearing life’s homestretch and feel the cold.
Sherman report details a $300000 courthouse plagued by mice and rats despite six spring traps in the courtroom and jail. Cracking plaster and a fallen section near the county school superintendent’s office add to maintenance concerns, with rehab work by Royce Q. Loving replacing ceiling boards in the Fifteenth District courtroom.
Texas agricultural workers faced 1 766 908 dollars in losses from grasshoppers last year while a control campaign saved 10 238 988 dollars. Entomologist Reppert notes a 6 to 1 saving to loss ratio, with 13 000 tons of poison bran mash used and federal spending of 200 000 dollars. The migratory Dissosteira Longipennis caused most damage as county agents led local efforts.
In Austin the universal 30-for-all pension proposal would raise Texas Negro pensions to 64,960 beneficiaries totaling 23,385,600 dollars annually, far exceeding current statewide payments. Mexicans and whites would be affected as universal coverage shifts federal matching funds and taxes to cover old age aid.
Bonham officials and local businessmen plan a meeting this week to decide whether to hold a county fair. Friday night’s officers meeting produced no definite action. The article notes that influenza caused over 1,100 U.S. deaths in a single week.
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