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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1924
Page
4
The Sun lists advertising rates for entertainment dinners and benefits with admission fees, and for obituaries resolutions and memorials. It promises correction of any erroneous reflections upon character or reputation when brought to the publisher’s attention.
Traders gathered for Whitewrights third Monday trades day though not heavily advertised. The event designation will stay intact and gain publicity as fall approaches to encourage buying selling and trading for mutual benefit.
Democrats of Texas hold a Saturday primary to select nominees for state, county and precinct offices. A run off is expected for governor and state offices and for the precinct commissioner seat serving Whitewright. Polls open at seven with a push to finish counting quickly for early results.
The Whitewright district fair plans a repeat registered Jersey cattle sale after a highly successful first event. The sale is likely for September 20 this year, with C B Bryant Jr coordinating entries and Col Riley Green of Wolfe City to conduct. The Chamber of Commerce will assist and pedigrees will be mailed to interested buyers.
The Sun urges voters to consider Will C Edwards of Denton for lieutenant governor. It notes he is a North Texas man, a newspaper man, and highly qualified for the position, while acknowledging no endorsement by the editorial page.
A local committee reassured residents that the 2.8 mile Whitewright to Collin County line road link on State Highway No. 78 remains slated for completion. County Judge R M Carter Finis Alverson and Engineer H M Scott said work will proceed once the State Highway Engineer approves plans and funds.
The old gray men bend to hard tasks patching pavement by the yard and digging in ditches with town spades. They toil under the sun with grievous stitches along their sides.
A Walt Mason poem laments wasted youth and thrift as the rich ride by in limousines while gray workers toil in rain. It contrasts the era of earned wages and cautious saving with later hardship and aging. The speaker imagines regretful workers wishing for earlier prudence with their hard earned beans.
Horace Thompson displayed large bunches of white variety grapes on black land Thursday morning to prove good grapes can be grown there. The fruit is of good size and excellent flavor and the grapes are tightly packed on the bunch.
Fred Anderson founder of the Anderson Department store in Cozad Nebraska shows how a town of 1300 can thrive by aggressive advertising in the local paper. Starting in 1916 with 3000 capital he now reports 300000 yearly sales and 3700 square feet of space, crediting the paper for growth and spending 2 to 6 percent of income on ads. Harvard Nebraska’s Rosenbaum store illustrates similar success within 50 miles of several larger towns. Advertising in local papers is key to drawing trade and countering big town drift.
The Key West cigar industry employs thousands who roll about 200 cigars daily each. Men handle selection and sorting while women finish and box cigars. Boxes are labeled, pressed, dried, and by products are sent to cigarette factories. Workers fund a reader who narrates from a platform daily.
A reflective piece on perseverance versus quitting. It contrasts students and workers who abandon effort with those who persist. Examples include a merchant who cut advertising and failed, and another who increased ads and thrived as drought worsened. The article notes Texas towns growing and school improvements, plus local visits and a UT summer session return.
Dave Tate of Cross Roads said in town Tuesday he plans to move to Whitewright late in the fall and will occupy the W. T. Truett home near the high school.
Mrs D M Pope spent part of the past week with relatives in and near the city while her husband Mr Pope was away on official Katy business in Sherman.
O C Hanna R S Morehead L O Lackey and Carl May traveled to Gainesville on Tuesday for the organization session of District I O O F Association. The district includes five counties with Grayson County as a member.
A revival begins next Sunday morning at Enterprise Baptist church four miles east of town. Rev. Draper of Greenville will conduct the meeting. An arbor is being erected near the church for the service. All are invited to attend.
Sheriff Floyd Everheart delivered election supplies Monday night for the upcoming primary on Saturday at the city fire station. Election managers urged voters to cast ballots early to speed tabulation and announce results.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Hall donated a mild cow to aid milk nourishment for the triplet boys born last week. The three newborns weighed a combined twenty pounds at birth.
Card of thanks expresses gratitude for kindness after the death of Mercedes. The piece notes three relatives, Joe Weldon Carr Jack Everhart and Garnett Nichols reaching Pike's Peak summit at 14 000 feet near Colorado Springs and sending a wire to Chesley Rutledge from the peak.
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