American Legion Picnic Set for July 11 13 in Whitewright
The sixth annual American Legion picnic and celebration takes place July 11 12 and 13 in Heard's park Whitewright. The Bill Hames Amusement Company will bring attractions and ex service men will join on Thursday. The Legion drum and bugle corps from Sherman and Prof George C Dugan and his musicians provide entertainment each day with baseball games and other amusements offered each afternoon. Elmo Wallace, longtime organizer, anticipates a record turnout.
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American Legion
Whitewright
Bill
Heard’s Park
Elmo Wallace
Indians Beat Fannin County All Stars for Fourth Straight
The White Wright Indians won 5 to 3 to extend their winning streak to four as Rowell led with two hits and two walks, scoring twice. Thompson pitched well until the fifth inning. Coffey and Ross made sensational defensive plays to save the game. The Indians had five hits to the All Stars six.
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Fannin County All Stars
Whitewright Indians
Rowell
Indians
Spicer
Thompson
All Stars
McCollum
Coffey
Ross
James Lindsey
480 Wheat Cars Bring 800000 At Fort Worth
Fort Worth grain men paid about 800000 through local banks for 480 carloads of wheat, the heaviest day of the new crop movement so far. Dealers expect next Monday could set a new high as harvest moves into heavy Panhandle production and shipping points report unprecedented early flood of grain.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Panhandle
Rotary Club Honors Retiring President F E Douglas
Ray Manning led a Rotary Club program honoring retiring president F E Douglas. F M Echols and Manning praised the past year's work. Horace Gordon and Clyde Lucas attended as visitors from Chickasha and Sherman. The club plans a picnic style meeting with Rotary Anns, gathering at 6:30 and carpooling to the site.
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Ray Manning
Rotary Club
F. E. Douglas
F. M. Echols
Douglas
Hod Carrier Fired On $4 Day Job As Oil Well Flows
Mpherson Kan O M Ritz lost his hod carrier job at $4 a day when a 5000 barrel oil well on his farm 12 miles southeast of town began gushing. Ritz refused to quit until checks started, and Ed Isaacson the plastering contractor told him he was fired. The Ritz well on the shell block gushed 1091 barrels in 24 hours and four new tanks were erected Tuesday.
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M’pherson
Kan
O. M. Ritz
Ed Isaacson
Ritz Farm
Here
Ritz
Isaacson
Whitewright Chamber Receives Dallas Chamber Congratulation
John Boswell of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce extends a congratulatory message to H. G. Webster of Whitewright upon the chamber's reorganization. He pledges cooperation, praising chambers of commerce for permanent community development and urging local citizens to rally to support the new organization.
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H. G. Webster
Whitewright Chamber of Commerce
John Boswell
Southwest Development
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Boswell
Chamber of Commerce
Whitewright
Mrs. Mary Purvis Dies. Central Christian Church Acknowledges Loss
Mrs Mary Stone Purvis wife of Rev J T Purvis pastor of Central Christian Church died Wednesday morning at 6 at her daughter s Fort Worth home. Funeral in Whitewright Thursday at 3 at Central Christian Church with Rev A E Major assisted by local pastors. She born January 4 1861 in Tennessee married September 9 1884. three children Chesleigh C Purvis C A Overton and Jack H Purvis. six grandchildren survive.
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Mary Stone Purvis
J. T. Purvis
Central Christian Church
C. A. Overton
Fort Worth
Whitewright
A. E. Major
H. M. Cowling
The
Methodist Church
J. W. Willbanks
Presbyterian Church
W. H. Ackley
First Baptist Church
Tennessee
Chesleigh C. Purvis
Los Angeles
Cal
Jack H. Purvis
Columbus
Ohio
Purvis
Christian Church
Arkansas
Mr. Purvis
Merchants Observing Independence Day Closures
The Fourth of July is celebrated with post offices banks and many businesses closed. The Sun newspaper notes the 153rd anniversary of the nation and reports workers taking a few hours off to join the holiday festivities.
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Sun Force
Sun
Malta farmer given 99 year term for wife’s murder
Ocie Nix, a Malta farmer, was found guilty of poisoning his 17 year old wife and sentenced to 99 years. Prosecutors alleged he killed her for a $1,400 life insurance payout. Neighbors testified to the attack on June 18 and a state chemist found poison in the victim’s viscera.
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Boston
Malta
Ocie Nix
Nix
Paris
Vinitia
Austin
Gee Families Guest at Smiths Over Weekend
Mr and Mrs L C Gee of Greenville and Mr and Mrs C S Gee with children of Abilene were guests of Mr and Mrs Fred W Smith the past weekend.
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L. C. Gee
Greenville
C. S. Gee
Abilene
Fred W. Smith
Daily Vacation Bible School Closes Friday
The six weeks Daily Vacation Bible School ended at the Baptist Church on Friday night with closing ceremonies. An average of 97 pupils attended daily, including children from several city churches. Rev. W. H. Ackley led the course with a trained corps of teachers assisting.
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Baptist Church
W. H. Ackley
The
Fort Worth Ball Club Appoints New Manager
Fort Worth announces Frank Snyder replaces Ja ntz as manager of the Fort Worth Cats effective Tuesday. President Ted Robinson says the change is mutual and no one was fired or quit. Snyder took charge as the Cats faced Dallas, while Jake Atz agrees the shift is for the team's best interests.
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Fort Worth
Tueday
Frank Snyder
Jantz
Ted. Robinson
An Snyder
Cats
Dallas
Panther
Atz
Jake
Robinson
Ted
Farm Teacher Takes Bonham Chamber Post in Fort Worth
John R. Spivey, longtime head of agricultural training at the Masonic School and Home in Fort Worth, becomes secretary of the Bonham Chamber of Commerce. He will teach agriculture in the Bonham High School and coordinate with county farm agents and home demonstration agents to expand agricultural education across Fannin County.
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Fort Worth
Chamber of Commerce
John R. Spivey
Masonic School
Bonham Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Spivey
A. & M. College
Farmers of Texas
Bonham
Fannin County
Gomer May Spends Sunday in Dallas
Gomer May spent Sunday in Dallas with Mrs May who was visiting relatives there.
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Gomer May
Dallas
Mrs. May
That City
Motor Truck Caravan Visits Whitewright Friday
A caravan of twelve International Trucks tours North and West Texas covering about two thousand miles in nineteen days visiting eighty four towns. The six speed feature shows a HS 54 model climbing a forty two percent grade. B N Roberts, a former Whitewright resident, will direct the caravan arriving July 12 at 6:30 p.m.
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Texas
Whitewright
B. N. Roberts
Rev J H Hankins Accepts Call to Childress Church
Former pastor of the First Baptist Church Whitewright Rev J H Hankins has accepted a call from the Baptist Church at Childress He previously pastored in Whitewright and Greenville and is expected to begin work in Childress within days The move marks his second advancement in the past year.
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J. H. Hankins
First Baptist Church
Whitewright
Baptist Church
Childress
Greenville
Hawkins
Childress Church
Woman Killed by Fast Train in Denison at Crossing
Mrs. Ida May Maugh, about 70, was killed when struck by the northbound Texas Special at a street crossing in Denison Sunday night. Witnesses say she hesitated near the track then stepped close as the train approached. the engineer, John Coopers, sounded the whistle but could not halt. She had long lived in Denison. survived by a daughter Daisy Hastings a son Philip and others in Dallas California and New York.
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Daisy Hastings
Philip
Denison
Gertrude May
Dallas
California
New York
Four charged after farm dispute ends in gunfire
Howard Graham 36 was wounded in a Monday affray at J. T. Gibbs home near Farmersville. Herman Gibbs Claude Gibbs and Tom Weston waived examining trials on assault to murder charges with bonds set at $1,000 each. The Temple Oklahoma farmer was hospitalized with gunshot wounds.
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M’kinney
Temple
Okla
Farmer
J. T. Gibbs
Farmersville
Howard Graham
Herman M. Gibbs
Claude R. Gibbs
Tom L. Weston
Graham
Tom Gibbs
Dallas Woman Elected to Whitewright High School Faculty
Miss Margaret Boone of Dallas wins a place on the Whitewright High School faculty to fill the vacancy left by Miss Margaret Lauderdale who resigned to join Pine Bluff Ark schools. Boone holds a B A in home economics from Southern Methodist University and will head the home economics department for the 1929 30 term.
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Margaret Boone
Dallas
Whitewright High School
Margaret Lauderdale
Pine Bluff
Ark
Miss Boone
Southern Methodist University At
Former Citizen Cameron Dies in Dallas at 66
William P. Cameron longtime Whitewright resident dies in Dallas after brief illness. He was active in church and local business and is survived by his wife Elizabeth, one son Q C Cameron, a daughter Mrs Tom Burney, a grandchild, two brothers, three sisters and nephews. Funeral held in Dallas then graveside service in Whitewright at Oak Hill Cemetery. Born July 7 1865 he would have turned 66 next Sunday.
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William P. Cameron
Whitewright
Dallas
R. L. Cameron Automobile Company
Geo. W Truett
Lloyd Moore
J. L. Truett
Oak Hill Cemetery
Cameron
Rose Hill
Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Sherman
J. M. and
W. T. Simmons
Sunday School Baseball League Organized
The Sunday School baseball league was reorganized with two teams the BC Baptists and Christians and the Methodists and Presbyterians. Three games per week are set for Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays after 6 pm. Each team has won one of three to date with a 1–1 tie on Monday. The next game is Friday at the local ball park as attendance grows.
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L. C. Ross
Miss Mollie Scott Passes in Dallas at 10 A.M.
Miss Mollie Scott daughter of A T Scott of Pilot Grove died Thursday morning at 10 in Dallas at her brother in law Dr H V Beardsley home. Funeral at Pilot Grove Methodist Church conducted by Rev D T Knight and Rev Fielder with interment in Pilot Grove Cemetery. Survived by father seven brothers and five sisters all present except one sister in Franklin Kentucky.
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Mollie Scott
A. T. Scott
Pilot Grove
H. V. Beardsley
Dallas
Lloyd Moore
Pilot Grove Methodist Church
D. T. Knight
Anna
Fielder
Farmersville
Miss Scott
Cumberland
Kentucky
Texas
A. T Scott
J. J. Smith
Laura B. Guthrie
Franklin, Ky
A. L. Scott
J. L. Scott
G. E. Scott
J. A. Scott
R. I. Scott
S. T Scott
W. H. Scott
Waxahachie
Eula Williams
Cannon
Birch Allison
White Mound
Sue Scott
Dallas Couple Guests at LaRoe Home Friday
Mr. and Mrs. D B Howard of Dallas were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lucian LaRoe on Friday.
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D. B. Howard
Dallas
Lucian LaRoe
Paving Work To Begin In August In City Mercantile District
Combs and Glade paving contractors met this week to finalize details for paving the mercantile district. An abstract of ownership and front foot cost on each street has been prepared and will be published in three issues of The Sun with mailed notices to interested parties. A public hearing is set for July 22, and construction is expected to start in August, taking about 60 working days to complete, with costs allocated to property owners and city credits for curb adjustments and highway contributions.
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Combs & Glade
Sun
The
Bond Street
Big Engine Ordered For Local Power Plant
The Texas Louisiana Power Company orders an 840 hp diesel engine from Fairbanks Morse to boost the local plant. The existing two 560 hp engines will rise to a total of 1960 hp after installation. Foundation work starts within two weeks under local manager Clyde Craig to meet increased district demand during the coming ginning season.
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Texas-Louisiana Power Company
Fairbanks, Morse & Co
Clyde Craig
Negro Congressman Attacks Southern Legislators in Cleveland
Oscar De Priest of Chicago denounced Southern state legislators as cowards and hypocrites at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People mass meeting in Cleveland. He defended his right to White House invitations and congressional status, accusing Southern Democrats of courting the solid South.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Oscar de Priest
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
de Priest
White House
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Illinois
Congress
Congressional
Governor Signs Repeal Bill Altering Search and Seizure
Gov Dan Moody approved and filed Senate bill 20 repealing penalties on officers for illegal searches under the search and seizure act. The bill becomes effective ninety days after final adjournment of the second called session and aims to remove an obstacle to law enforcement while upholding constitutional protections.
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Austin
Dan Moody
Moody
Ice Cream Supper at Kentuckytown School Grounds
The Kentuckytown Self Help Club hosts an ice cream supper on Saturday night July 6 at the Kentuckytown school grounds. The event features cake and cream and promises a good time for all attendees.
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Kentuckytown Self Help Club
Kentuckytown
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Ft. Worth
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