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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1924
Page
3
Local residents and visitors are noted throughout the week with several Sunday gatherings in town. An upcoming Fat Women versus Lean Women ball game is announced for Tuesday July 8 at 5 30 PM at the local ball park. The Odd Fellows plan an officers installation on July 8 with refreshments.
Tuesday afternoon at the local park will host a charity ball game pitting larger-bodied women against lean women with proceeds benefiting the PTA. Pierce's fountain will offer cooling drinks during the hot spell. Mrs. J. D. Harp, at the American Conservatory in Chicago, won a tuition reduction in a world wide voice contest and received high praise from Mme. Delia Valeri of New York who advised future study. Mrs. Harp will study under Carlton Hackett and Herriot Levy, with lessons from other artists including Mme Bloomfield Yeisler.
The Central Christian Church invites members to an illustrated sermon next Lordsday at 8 15 on Some of the Outstanding Miracles of the Bible. Bible school lessons for the next year will focus on the Life of Christ. Morning discourse titled Our Larger Life Through the Truth. A E Major pastor invites all to attend services.
An old classified style ad from Dyer & Jones offers Blue Star Remedy for itchy skin diseases including eczema and ringworm. It guarantees results and claims the product will not stain clothing.
At Whitewright ball park next Tuesday afternoon at 5 30 insect teams gather for the great annual bug tournament. The Frogs and Grasshoppers are at war after a PTA meeting where lean women challenged fat women to a baseball game. Admission demands a little filthier attire.
Superintendent and Mrs. W. F. Barnett of the Texas Methodist Orphans Home at Waco toured North Texas, arriving in Whitewright with twenty five young lady musicians and entertainers who presented a program at the Methodist Church Saturday night. The large audience greeted each number with hearty applause and requested encores, praising the institution’s work with dependent children.
A group of girls and chaperones travel by large Reo bus and touring car for service tours. Superintendent Barnett explains the aim is to raise 20 000 dollars for a new home building, with average collections near 100 dollars per stop. Whitewright congregation contributes its full share.
Asa Walker uncle of Mrs. R. B. Gordon and longtime Desert community resident died circa midnight last Saturday at his desert farm. He was 87 and had lived on the farm for about 58 years. The family plans funeral arrangements.
The deceased moved from Arkansas to Texas in 1866 and is survived by children Will Walker on a farm between Whitewright and Desert, Dr. Robert Walker of Celina, Mrs. Ruth Golden, and Jim and Asa Walker Jr. of Desert. Brothers J. H. and J. D. Walker live in Valley View. He joined the Presbyterian Church at twenty and was a Desert church member. Funeral services were led by Rev. J. F. Fender and Rev. Crawford at three o'clock Sunday, with a large gathering.
News from Whitewright reports the marriage of Clyde B. Thompson and Miss Pearl Ward of Siloam Springs Arkansas. The ceremony occurred Sunday at 10 o'clock in Muskogee Oklahoma. Thompson is the son of Mr and Mrs Horace Thompson of Whitewright and recently worked for a Siloam Springs newspaper.
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