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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1927
Page
5
Denison residents note visitors and weekend trips including Mrs. Robert Sears in town, Dwight Gillespie from Sherman, Frank Curlee from Bells, and many others visiting Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston. Local business and service ads appear for Pierce's Cafe and a glasses fitting offer by R L Johnson.
J. P. Ownby serves on the Sherman jury handling the Bond case. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Ross of Denison are at W. T. Ross’s bedside as he lies seriously ill with pneumonia.
Mrs. T. H. Sears and Mrs. J. R. Pennington came back Saturday from Tohoka after visiting their mother. Miss Martha Bow spent the weekend in Sherman as guest of Miss Winnie Bell Carter, a student at Austin College. Miss Sue McConnell, a Kidd-Key College student in Sherman, visited her aunt Miss Sue Stephens. The R and R Theatre presented the best program of the season Friday night with a faculty program featuring teachers in action.
W T Ross, long ill with pneumonia, was reported better Thursday morning after days of critical danger. Earlier in the week it was believed he could not survive, but his condition has improved.
Firefighters responded to H. G. Webster's residence at about 9 this morning to manage an oil stove that had flared up. The stove was removed from the kitchen while it was burning, causing only minor damage.
James Andrews, among White Wright’s oldest residents, has been confined to his room for several weeks after a severe heart attack. Friends hope for a full and swift recovery.
Mrs. Lois Watkins of Leonard and relatives from Royse City and Greenville visited W. T. Ross at his bedside as he fights pneumonia. Elgie Fields returns from Muskogee hospital after surgery removing his third left finger, previously injured in World War I, hoping relief from years of pain.
Mrs Elizabeth Barry aged 81 died at her home north of town Tuesday night after a brief illness. Born in Overton County Tennessee on June 11 1843 she married D F Barry in February 1888 and moved to Gray Son County Texas. Funeral at the Methodist Church and interment at Van Alstyne Cemetery. Survived by step children J A Barry B Barry W J Barry sisters Martha Eaton Nannie Bowie Alice Patterson and brother C K Carlock.
Mrs Emma McDonald wife of the late G H McDonald died suddenly at her home Thursday night January 20 at 10 30 o clock She had been in poor health over a year Survived by four children Charlie McDonald Wichita Falls Albert McDonald Sherman Mrs W J Butler Sherman and Mrs Rocky McMillin Whitewright Funeral at the Methodist Church in Ector Saturday at 2 with Rev G L Keever conducting Interment Willow Wild Cemetery near Bonham
An antique sampling references the legend of Dick Turpin with a humorous aside about nearly being caught in a room, and a guest responding that Turpin left without his breakfast. The line captures playful Victorian wit and a nod to famous highwayman lore.
A humorous Washington Star quotation from Farmer Corn Tossel about potato blossoms as a mood lifter. The item promotes a buy opportunity in Whitewright.
A 1926 spring tale by W. H. P. Anderson in Paris Echo follows a farmer who spares crops for cotton alone. He neglects other basics, buys feed with cotton money, and ends with meager gains and worry about next year as King Cotton supposedly looms.
The Sun offers engraved cards invitations and announcements through its office. Best work obtainable for personal and formal needs.
A bank official recalled his boyhood ideal of the railway conductor as the finest example of a calling. The piece notes questions asked of men about youthful ambitions and who they admired most when young.
A sequence of humorous ambitions shows various workers naming the greatest man on earth in a local exchange. A hardware man, newspaper man, grocer, farmer, dry goods man, and a lawyer share eccentric visions of ideal figures from show business to clerical life, ending with a fiddler at a country dance.
In a classroom a student named Will, asked about Sir Walter Raleigh’s famed cloak gesture for the queen. He answers with a witty retort that the queen should simply “step on it.”
Mr and Mrs Earl Myrick return to Little Rock Arkansas Friday after visiting Rev and Mrs J L Truett and other relatives here.
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