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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1928
Page
3
Womack of Sulphur Springs and Low of Hillsboro visited here. Sherman and Dallas visitors frequent the area as Misses Wilson and Miss Murphy spend time with friends. Bonham and Leonard guests include Piner Grider and Elizabeth Gordon. Aladdin Lamp supplies advertised at Gordon's Cash Grocery.
H L Aston of Valley View stayed with Mr and Mrs Lee Hampton over Friday and Saturday. Miss Monica Ownby of Broken Arrow is visiting Mr and Mrs Byron Sears and kin. W O Brents and daughter Mrs J A Barnes visited friends in Ardmore. Mrs J R Carter returned from relatives in Muskogee and Okmulgee. Mrs W E Wall returned home to Pottsboro after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J L Cantrell.
Sunday visits include Miss Frances Bryant returning from Houston to see grandmother Mrs Nova Little. Dallas visitors Ben Sturdivant and Mr and Mrs J B Compton with daughter. Oklahoma and Texas guests drop by with relatives in Madill Trenton Kaufman County and McKinney. Restaurant prompt from Pierce and Sons Cafe noted.
Mrs Emmet Penn and her daughters Miss Mary Rena and Miss Babe Nell visited relatives in Honey Grove, staying for a short visit to catch up with family and friends.
Miss Margaret Freeman of Oklahoma City visiting sister Mrs J P Montgomery visited friends in Sherman on Thursday.
Mr and Mrs Jack Ryon and their son of McKinney were weekend guests of Mrs Ryon's parents Mr and Mrs Bascom Sears, according to local society notes.
Mrs J S Badgett and her daughter Pernie and Misses May and Monta Badgett visited relatives in Denison Sunday.
Little Miss Ruth Jopling is in Greenville visiting her sister Miss Geraldine Jopling and other relatives.
Mrs. J W Pender of Greenville spent the first of the week here as a guest of her mother Mrs. G W Pope and other relatives.
The optometrist R L Johnson offers qualified eye fittings and guarantees satisfaction for glasses.
Robert and Miss Laura Cantrell enjoyed a weekend in Pottsboro with sister Mrs. W E Wall. Mrs J W Goree of Paris is visiting Mrs B G Gowdy.
T P Devenport of Pilot Point visited his daughter Mrs W R Hooper here the past week end James Lackey returned to Dallas where he will resume study at Southern Methodist University Mrs Sterling Evans returned to her home at Bryan after visiting her mother Mrs E O Thomas and other relatives Elder W N Carter and sons of Terrell visited his parents here the past week end Mrs B G Gowdy and daughter Lena Mae and Miss Emma Davidson visited friends and relatives in Paris Friday Fred W Smith superintendent of the Whitewright schools taking a summer course at SMU spent Saturday and Sunday here Mrs Ben Crush and children returned Friday from Spur accompanied home by Boyd and Miss Pauline Brown for a short visit
Grover Gillett spent Friday in Dallas. He was accompanied home by his children Dorothy Juan Dan and Will Holland who were visiting their grandmother Mrs W F Holland.
Mrs J B Hall and daughter Mae with Grover B Smith returned Friday after visiting relatives in Arkansas and Louisiana. They were accompanied home by Mrs Morgan Hall.
Mr and Mrs Clyde Craig visited relatives on Monday after living in Texas City for several months where Mr Craig worked for the Texas Louisiana Power Company.
Mrs Grover Spencer and daughter Evelyn along with Mrs W T Fulington, Miss Dorothy Spencer and Miss Bessie Blossom visited H F Thompson and family last weekend in Denison.
Dr. David Ray Womack of New Orleans and Miss Amoret Gates wed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W R Gates on Main Street in Franklin on June 14 with only family present. Rev. Albert S. Cooper officiated as the couple plans to sail for Tampa Florida then settle in New Orleans.
Henry Austin recalls an anecdote from Colonel W. P. Curtis once told at the St. Charles Hotel. In a gathering of boastful men, Curtis admits he cannot match their feats of strength but promises to tell a true story that ends with a life saved by a wink.
Mr. Ed Young told a Sun reporter in town Saturday that the newborn is a girl, correcting a prior misstatement that a son was born. The Youngs already have three sons and celebrate their youngest child as a girl.
A narrator recalls a fifty mile Texas stagecoach journey with a strikingly pretty girl and a wary armed man. A near-embarrassing wink leads to a tense exchange as the man learns of the narrator's nervous eyelid condition. The scene ends with continued wary observation aboard the coach.
A survivor recalls years of peril and constant winking to stay alert as he traveled forty miles with champagne beside him. He claims to be the only man alive who used such an ocular trick to save his life.
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