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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1934
Page
5
A long list of locals travels to Denison Fort Worth Sherman Madill Madras and other towns for visits and work. Midland Sherman Denison Fort Worth Savoy Bonham Trenton Archer City Wolfe City Denton and Sulphur are noted with several individuals visiting relatives and friends. Some travel for job opportunities and examinations.
Mrs. M A Mangrum visits son J C Mangrum in Valley View. Bud Pierce returns from Robinson to visit daughter Mrs. Warren Wright. Doctors Cranfill Truett and George Truett visit Rev J L Truett. Dallas visitors Mrs E Smith and daughter Nell see Mr and Mrs T E Barbee. W N Wilson funeral in Trenton noted by W G Jermyn. Several locals travel for visits and holidays. Independence Day closures marked by area businesses with many relatives visiting and attending events. Rotary convention in Detroit features Mr and Mrs Pennington as Whitewright delegates. sixty countries represented.
Mrs D S Carr and grandson Bobbie Dee Montgomery visited relatives near Bailey. Dallas residents Mrs H E Wilson Miss Edith Biggerstaff and Fort Worth’s Mrs J L Denton spent Sunday with J H Biggerstaff. Marshall Padgitt works a McKinney theater while the regular operator is away. Madge and Martha Joe Sears visiting from C I A Denton joined their mother Mrs T E Sears over the Fourth. W S Cunningham will teach agriculture in Whitewright High School next year. Rouelle Harrell and daughters Doris Charlie and Mary Pumphrey of Sherman visited Mrs W T Hamilton. Whitewright merchants advertise a vanity bed suite and a range from Lem Tittsworth Bonham. Guy Stedham of Houston, son of Mrs W H Stedham, visited here. he works in Houston at an automobile company office. H H Taylor and Harkness family from Texarkana spent the Fourth with Mr and Mrs Guy Hamilton.
Rev. G. C. Ivins spent Monday and Tuesday in Longview and was accompanied home by Mrs. Ivins who had tended her ill sister for several days. Mrs. B. G. Gowdy returned from Wilson N. Jones Hospital in Sherman after six weeks of treatment for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Grady Sanders of Dallas visited the Reeves home Wednesday and Wallace Reeves joined them on the return trip.
Miss Billie Jeanne Cox daughter of Mr and Mrs Pascal Cox of Sherman is recovering from an emergency appendectomy at Wilson N Jones Hospital in Sherman. She is the granddaughter of Mrs W M Cox.
Miss Lucille McMillin of Dallas formerly Whitewright underwent an appendectomy on Tuesday and is reported to be recovering well. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack McMillin. In another note, a very large crowd attended Wednesday night at the Orangeville swimming pool with all parking spaces filled and cars lined along the road for about a quarter mile.
Dr Jack Spindle returned from Houston where he appeared before the State Board of Dental Examiners for a five day examination and expects to receive a license to practice within a few weeks.
Elder W. N. Carter of Terrell conducts a revival at the Church of Christ at Moreland near Blue Ridge. The meeting continues through Sunday.
The Ca naan gathering attracted both candidates and voters. Sponsored by local residents, it mirrors other county events with Kentuckytown and Pilot Grove meetings noted. At Kentuckytown the next monthly meeting was announced for July 13 with A. S. Noble of Sherman as principal speaker.
The Whitewright H D Club met last Thursday at 3 PM with Mrs. B B Hall. Mrs. Oran Sears presided as cups and chocolate bars with lemonade were demonstrated by Mrs. Sears and Mrs. Ed Martin. Seventeen members two new members and one visitor attended. Miss Jane Hightower county demonstration agent will visit at the next meeting on Wednesday July 11 to demonstrate angel food cake baking at Mrs. Oran Sears home. Roger Holcomb and Guy Yowell were among ten CCC Co 869 members re enlisted after a year with Farmersville. The rest of the original company were discharged to allow new men, the ten will be placed to help organize a new company and train new men under army officers. The cooperative revival meeting ending Sunday added members to the Presbyterian Baptist and Methodist churches amid well attended services. Rev G C Ivins Rev C W Dennis and Dr B Wrenn Webb led services to appreciative audiences.
George D. Hagans of Denison authorizes The Sun to place his name in the political announcement column as a candidate for district attorney. He is a well known attorney and is making an active campaign. His formal announcement will appear in a later issue.
A brief classified notice proclaims that a want ad service delivers quick answers. The item highlights contact options and encourages readers to place ads for sought services or opportunities.
Mrs. Lizzie Jane Beardsley died in Dallas at 5:15 am Friday. Funeral at Pilot Grove Methodist Church near Whitewright Saturday at 2 pm, conducted by Rev. Thomas Stark. Interment in Pilot Grove Cemetery. Survived by husband Dr. H V Beardsley, daughter Net tie, sisterhood and brothers, and two grandchildren. She long led the drapery department at Fakes Furniture Co. in Dallas.
W N Wilson 66 a prominent farmer from the Orangeville community southwest of Whitewright died Monday evening after a lingering illness He was the son of the late Mr and Mrs born in the area and leaves a family circle in the district Funeral arrangements will be announced locally
The late J. W. Wilson born and raised in Orangeville area, survived by wife, two sons John and Cecil of Olney, daughter Mrs. Padge Lyon of Orangeville, three stepdaughters, and two brothers with four sisters. Funeral Wednesday at Burns Cemetery east of Trenton. Rev. C. W. Dennis and Rev. E. A. Maness officiated. many relatives attended.
Regular preaching services Sunday with morning sermon The Lord's Day and evening sermon Repentance. The minister J R Waldrum invites the community to hear lessons on why the day is sacred and why repentance is lacking. Violations of the Lord's Day and divine judgments are discussed.
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