Illness and Travel Notes in Whitewright Community
Local notices report several residents ill with influenza and pneumonia, hospital visits, and family cares. Notables include J. T. Wright undergoing surgery, Mrs. B. F. Blanton ill at home, and Kermit Hollingsworth seriously recovering after surgery in Houston. Community events include Missionary Institute in Sherman and Baptist Associational Training Union meeting.
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Baptist Associational Training Union
Forest Avenue
Sherman
Grayson County Association
Mack Pierson
Whitewright
Denison
van Alstyne
Denton
Central Christian Church Services and Programs Listing
Central Christian Church with Leroy Anderson as pastor offers Sunday school at 10 a.m. precaching at 11 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. Bible study at 10 a.m. preaching at 7 p.m. Young People's Training Class at 6 30 p.m. Wednesday prayer meeting and Bible training at 7 p.m. Leonard Mullens is named as minister.
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Leroy Anderson
Leonard Mullens
Parish Services Schedule with Sermons and Youth Session
Pastor Ben Bell leads Sunday school at 10 a m with N L Manning as superintendent. Morning worship follows at 11 with a sermon on Sanctified Service. Youth meeting at 6 is under Mrs Sarah Kilgree. Evening service at 7 features The Name of Jesus.
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Ben Bell
L. Manning
Sarah Kilgree
of Jesus
First Presbyterian Church Service and Sunday School
Dr B Wrenn Webb presides at First Presbyterian with Sunday school at 10 and 10 50 morning worship on Our God Is a Seeking God. Young People service under Mrs Sears and Mrs Gordon with pianist Margaret Hanna. Evening at 7 features the final sermon in a series The Word that Is the Greatest Teacher.
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B. Wrenn Webb
Dick Montgomery
Robert Sears
Horace Gordon
Margaret Hanna
Funeral services for Mrs. Marga ret E Williams
Mrs. Marga ret E Williams died Friday at 3 45 p m at her daughter Rae Ryans home north of Bells. Services were held Saturday at 3 p m at Virginia Point Methodist Church with Rev. E J Holifield and Rev. Ben Bell, burial in Virginia Point cemetery. Williams had lived in Whitewright and leaves four sons, three daughters, one stepson, siblings, 14 grandchildren and five great grands. A tribute by Miss Sue Stephens recalls her charity, faith, and devotion to neighborly love.
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Margaret E. Williams
Rae Ryan
Bells
Virginia Point Methodist Church
E. J. Holifield
Ben Bell
Whitewright
Virginia Point
McLean
R. A
J. R. Williams
Ryan
Pearl Williams
John Norris
C. M. Williams
Wichita Falls
Virgie Chesser
Bill Hawkins
Sulphur
Okla
Charlie Hankins
Pauls Valley
Fires Across Texas Leave Massive Unsolved Losses
Property valued at 5.36 million dollars was burned in 1938 with fire sources undetermined. State Fire Insurance Commissioner Marvin Hall announced the totals on Wednesday. Insured losses for the year reached 8.81 million dollars.
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Austin
Texas
Marvin Hall
Security Board Seeks Longer Unemployment Benefits
The Social Security Board favors extending benefits to unemployed workers. An amendment pushed by Representative McCormack and backed by the American Federation of Labor would award 20 weeks of benefits with a weekly range of six to twenty four dollars based on prior earnings. The waiting period would be one week. Currently benefits begin after two weeks, with Texas as an exception. Average duration runs about ten weeks, amounts from five to twenty dollars.
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Washington
Social Security Board
Representative McCormack
Dmass
American Federation of Labor
Texas
Lindbergh Opposed Listing Ransom Bills
Congress heard Col. Charles A. Lindbergh object to compiling a public list of ransom payments in the Lindbergh kidnapping. Elmer Irey testified that the objection aimed to keep faith with the kidnapper, while Irey’s proposed bill numbers helped implicate Hauptmann. Capone allegedly offered help, but Lindbergh doubted its relevance.
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Washington
Congress
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Elmer Irey
International Revenue Bureau
House Appropriations
al Capone
Lindbergh
Capone
Diabetes toll tops six hundred thousand in United States
Dr Elliott Joslin told the Southwest Texas Postgraduate Medical Assembly in San Antonio that the United States has the highest number of diabetics, about 600000, but modern treatment offers improved life expectancy. He noted someone diagnosed in 1940 could live four times longer than a 1915 patient.
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San Antonio
United States
Elliott P. Joslin
Harvard Medical School
Boston
Southwest Texas International Postgraduate Medical Assembly
Governor posts reward for game warden killers
Governor O'Daniel offered a 500 prize for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who killed Game Warden D. R. Murchison in Jim Wells County on December 20, 1938. Murchison and a companion were shot while investigating headlight hunters. two men fired rifle and shotgun during the incident.
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Austin
O’daniel
D. R. Murchison
Jim Wells County
Murchison
Civil Service Examinations Open in Washington DC
The U S Civil Service Commission announced open competitive exams for junior and senior stenographers and typists for Washington D C only. Applicants must be 18 but under 53. Closing dates February 12 and 15. Information from Sherman or Denison post offices or the Civil Service Commission in Washington DC.
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U. S. Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
Sherman
Denison
Civil Service Commission
Governor considers special statute for fire protection pact
Wednesday a Bexar County delegation was told no special session would be called. Governor assured them that if a session is needed he would seek a special statute allowing San Antonio city contracts to provide fire protection to the county. County Judge C. W. Anderson relayed the update after a conference with the Chief Executive.
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Austin
O’daniel
Bexar County
C. W. Anderson
Anderson
San Antonio
Fur-Lined Mosquito Net Appears in Peculiar Winter
In Peshtigo Wisconsin the Chris Thompson family faced an unusual winter problem as mosquitoes bit them on frostbitten noses and ankles despite 18 below zero conditions. They recalled moving the front lawn fish tank into the basement for warmth, where basement heat hatched eggs laid in summer.
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Peshtigo
Wis
Chris Thompson
Thompsons
Front Lawn
Lufkin Newsprint Rolls Off First Pine Run
The Daily News in Lufkin announces the first commercially printed newspaper on Southern pine news print from the Southland Paper Mill at the new plant. The inaugural run marks a milestone for local production and regional industry.
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Lufkin
Daily News
Southland
Highway Officials Seek $476 Million for 1942 43 Aid
The American Association of State Highway Officials asked Congress to authorize $476 million in regular federal highway aid for 1942 and 1943, to be split evenly between the two years. President Henry F. Cabell of the Oregon highway commission outlined the plan, noting compared to $190 million this year and $160 million for 1941.
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Washington
American Association of State Highway Officials
Congress
Henry F. Cabell
Oregon
National Association
Smaller Grasshopper Menace Expected This Year
The Department of Agriculture predicted grasshoppers would be a lighter threat to crops this year but warned heavy damage in the Great Plains unless pests are checked by weather or control efforts. State agencies in the 1929 program estimated total crop damage at 48 million dollars while crops valued at 128 million dollars were saved.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Great Plains
Department
Indian use of garfish scales as arrowheads recalled
The Texas Game Department reports gar scales found in a three-pound catfish stomach resembled arrowheads. Biologist notes gar scales are chitin and historically used by Indians as arrow tips for small game.
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Game Department
Doves Do Not Leave Texas After First Norther Experts Say
Game managers of the Texas Game Department found that whitewing doves do not depart Texas after the first norther of the year. Decreases in whitewing numbers were observed after the fourth cold spell. An abundance of food remained when the birds left Texas in late October.
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Texas
Mexico
Texas Game Department
Turkeys Drift Long Distances Across Texas Hills
Texas Game Department records show a hunter killed a banded wild turkey in Center Point County that was marked over 30 miles away near the Medina River. Observers recall a large flock drifting from Kerr County into Sterling County about 150 miles, remaining away from home for almost two years before returning.
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Texas
Center Point
Medina River
State Game Department
Kerr County
Sterling County
East Texas Eagles Battle Over Duck Feud
A state game warden captain witnessed an adult bald eagle struggle with two young eagles near Collegeport as they fought for a duck. The older bird defeated the youngsters and carried the meal to a high tree where he finished it.
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Texas
Collegeport
Footwear and machinery statistics from 1938 report
The data show 147,754,871 women’s shoe pairs and 96,660,415 men’s shoe pairs produced in the United States in 1938. Farm machinery sales rose 350 percent from the Depression’s low point, while synthetic wool yarns from casein can be dyed like real wool. In the Capitol Building, two men regulate over 300 clocks.
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United States
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Winnie Hamilton
Jack Farley
Claude Dillon
East Whitewright
Bob Andrew
East Main Street
Ray Burris
Near Whitewright
B. S. Montgomery
Russell McGinnis
Rockwall
C. P. McGinnis
Mrs
C. J. Meador
Dallas
Texas Hardware Dealers Convention
O. L. Henry of
Hamlin
J. W. Henry
Frank Henry
U. J. Cates
Arkansas
H. L. Gordon
Ardmore
B. F. Blanton
South Bend Street
Eugene Reeves
John Reeves
Floyd Badgett
Myrtle
May Badgett
J. T. Wright
Sherman Hospital
J. B. Hamilton
Lubbock
Grover Stuteville
Fort Worth
Jo Willa Stuteville
TWC
That City
Walter Badgett
Garland
Singer
Lem Tittsworth
Bonham
Ralph Pierson
Los Angeles
Calif
Marion Felker
Pierson
Maud Mangrum
W. Z. Spearman
Edmond
R. C. Montgomery
P. A. Short
Lester Short
Midland
Royce
Buck) Jones
Walter Pritchett
Port Arthur
Lake Charles
Hugh Norris
Ada
Elbert Coursey
Lordsburg
New Mexico
Community Public Service Company
Coursey
Dick Little
Fender May
New York City
New York
St. Louis
Louisiana
Mississippi
Fritzsche Bros
Missionary Institute
Sherman District
Key Memorial Methodist Church
Whitewright Methodist
Joseph M. Connally
Decatur
C. A. Spraggins
F. O. Mangrum
Gae Hollingsworth
Houston
Kermit. Hollingsworth
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Miss Hollingsworth
J. W. Hollingsworth
Kermit
Tom Ball
Myrna Loy
Tyrone Power
George Brent
Jack Randall
Louise Stanley
Charles King
Trigger Smith
Richard Greene
Richard DIX
Brenda Joyce
Sylvia Sidney
Joel McCrea
THURS
Alice Faydon Ameche
Hollywood
Central Christian Church
Church OF Christ
First Presbyterian Church
Margaret Williams
Security Board
America
Civil Service Examinations
Bexar Group
U. S
Gar
Norther
East Texas Eagles
Capital Building
Cole €& Davis Co
Purinac Statens
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