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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1946
Page
5
Local residents and visitors are listed from Whitewright and nearby towns including Dallas Commerce Farmersville and Huntsville. Notables include visits by Griffin Dollarhide Jr O L Sears J A Bixler and Mrs J F Starr and Army Navy and college notes plus a damaged plate glass window incident and a local soap making anecdote.
Local fishing enthusiasts report very poor luck at Lake Texoma with several recent trips yielding no catches. They recall last year’s abundant black bass and worry this season will not match that success, noting poor fishing below the dam as well.
Bass Pope, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pope Whitewright, wed William Clayton Bass son of Mrs. Eula Bass at the Connell home Dallas. Rev J W Ware officiated. Attendant Myrtle Livingston Sherman and best man Davis Bass. They will reside at 1513 North Peak Dallas after a Monterrey Mexico trip. Out of town guests included John Livingston Jr Sherman and Henry Logan Ware Bartlett. The bride, a Whitewright High School and business college graduate, worked for the Grayson County attorney in Sherman.
The Whitewright Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs. O A Huseman home with sixteen members and two guests Mrs. Lewis Cooper and Mrs. J A Yeager present. Mrs Lee Norris presided as president and Mrs Ronald Vestal led songs. Myrtle Badgett reported on the Sherman hat clinic while W L Hatfield chaired and discussed shrubs and composting. Recreation was led by Mrs Fred Cook Sr and Mrs Elmo Wallace. The next meeting will be at Miss Myrtle Badgett home on Thursday Feb 14 with a hat restyling theme and invitation to all interested.
Miss Ellen Margaret Ball and Lt. Gordon S. Taylor Jr. wed in a candlelight ceremony at Walnut Street Church of Christ in Sherman. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ball, and the groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Taylor Sr., will reside at 310 S. Charles after a brief honeymoon. The service was officiated by Rev. Homer P. Reeves with attendants Miss Jonnie Robbins and Mrs. J. H. Murphy. Lt. Taylor, a Perrin Field officer and ex prisoner of war, recently returned from Germany.
Attending the wedding were Mr and Mrs Ball of Whitewright, Mr and Mrs Taylor of Dallas, Mr and Mrs Ben Clark of Denison, Mr and Mrs Woodrow Ball, Madill Oklahoma, Mrs Ben Ball of Whitewright, and Mr and Mrs Herman Keller, Tom Necomb, Juanita Slaydon and Mr and Mrs Loy Jackson, all of Sherman.
Mortuary obituary for Mrs Mary Elizabeth Hudgins 75 of Durant Oklahoma, formerly of Denison Texas, died at her Durant home at 1 23 a m Saturday. She lived near Denison forty years before moving to Durant nine years ago. Funeral at Mt Pleasant Baptist Church Monday at 2 p m. Interment Layne Cemetery. Born 1870 in Kentucky she moved to Texas in 1893. Survived by husband eight children twenty three grandchildren five great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2 30 p m Saturday at the Pilot Grove Methodist Church for James T Mc Carley conducted by Rev E B Jackson of Trenton He died Friday morning at a Sherman hospital Interment was at Cannon Cemetery with Earnheart Funeral Home in charge Pallbearers were Doyle Lane Burr Hulett D M Taylor D L Hopkins Charlie Kaiser and Clint Hopper Mr McCarley was 79 years of age and had resided in the Pilot Grove community 48 years He was born February 6 1868 in Johnson County Arkansas the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas T McCarley In 1900 he was married to Miss Verne Hensley of Cannon who survives him Mr McCarley was a member of the Methodist Church Survivors with his wife are three sons R H McCarley of Fort Worth H L McCarley of Pampa and Morris McCarley of Dallas and a brother John McCarley of Leonard
Charles Burgher Reed, 48, prominent farmer and cattleman born in Trenton, died Saturday in Greenville after a week of illness. Funeral Monday at the Trenton Methodist Church with Rev. E B Jackson and Rev. Roy Patton officiating. Survived by wife Lucille, daughter Mrs. Kenneth Estes of Bonham, son Y D Reed, mother, brother Raymond Reed, sisters Mrs. Euline Shaw and Mrs. James M Butler, all of Trenton. He was a district deputy grand master in the Masonic Blue Lodge and a member of the Methodist Church. He married Lucille Morrow on August 19, 1916.
Funeral services for Wade Everheart 58 year old Bells farmer were conducted at the Methodist Church. He died Saturday at a Sherman hospital. Born August 18 1888 in Bells he married Rhoda Dawson in 1908. He served as church steward and secretary. survived by wife three daughters a brother and two grandchildren.
Local churches post Sunday schedules for Rev. E. P. Wootten and Rev. E. A. Doty including morning worship at 11, Sunday school at 10, Training Union at 6 10 p m and evening service 7 p m A Wednesday prayer hour and choir practice are listed Duke R Barron leads the Methodist Church with church school at 10 worship at 11 and evening service at 7 plus choir rehearsal Wednesday at 7 p m W S C S study course Monday at 3 30 provides additional activity details
The service will include the Lord's Supper at the stated time. The pastor will deliver an evening sermon titled Seeking a Supreme Christian Quality.
Army health authorities report five times as many rats as residents in Manila and blame the rise on the Japanese occupation. They describe how hunger led to cat meat in rabbit stew and urge citizens to donate unwanted kittens to the city rather than drown them.
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