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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1962
Page
2
Local notices list many relatives and friends visiting or staying with kin in Sherman and area. Names include May, Kent, Livingston, Barkley, Ma gers and others visiting from Dallas Paris Sherman Denison Garland Irving Howe and Port Arthur with durations noted for weekends and weeks.
State-owned islands along the coast and submerged inland lands are opened for industrial leases after a 1960 legislative authorization. Gov. Price Daniel names J Chrys Dogherty as attorney and Dr Armstrong Price as advisors to guide leasing procedures for the School Land Board.
A collage of odd notes from across the United States covers moose attacks on a Newfoundland train, skin weight for average people, top college marks by Jean Harris, pocket key totals, a Cripple Creek sign on Rader, a blue ribbon incident in Arkansas City, and patent, Congress, and currency curios.
Kiowa and Comanche chiefs Satana Stank and Big Tree led an assault on May 18 1871 resulting in seven teamsters killed while hauling forage between Jacksboro and Fort Griffin. The teamsters' graves lie 20 miles east of Newcastle in Young County North Texas.
Packsaddle Mountain near Llano honors a 1873 battle where Captains Moss and others led a force to rout a larger Indian band. Horsehead Crossing south of Crane is noted for the Butterfield Route crossing used by emigrants and a semi weekly mail service from 1858 to 1861.
The oldest living Baptist Church in Texas began about four miles north of Nacogdoches in 1838. Built 1838, the present Old North Church dates to 1852. Isaak Reed, who came from Tennessee in 1834, organized the church and led the first prayer meeting in 1835 beneath a tree now marked by a monument. Reed was killed by Indians in 1848.
Ten cents per pound served as the ice price in Texas when the state saw its first ice plant established in 1875. The site chosen for this pioneering facility was on the Marion County Courthouse grounds.
Residents of Jefferson Texas recall an ice plant relocation to Harrisburg and wonder if Texas might be larger than Alaska. A village poster showing See Britain in comfort by British Railways puzzles locals as the nearest branch line is slated to close soon.
A devotional request for body and mind health and a light heart. The piece contrasts a 1915 infant mortality rate of one in ten with today's rate of three in one hundred, highlighting progress and ongoing concern.
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