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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
3
Local residents visit relatives across Cooke and surrounding areas. Wheat price 2.50 a bushel. Classifieds advertise a 5 passenger Chalmers and a wagon for sale. Enlistment for army ambulance corps ongoing. several residents attend and travel for business and family reasons.
Misses Eva Stillwell Marjorie Moore and Sallie Hamilton attend the Grayson County Summer Normal at Sherman as final exams approach. Travel news notes Katy railway service changes and the Katy Limited. a Dallas death calls Rev. and Mrs. Nash and daughter Georgia. Whitewright updates include a Civil Service promotion for Glenn Doss and a stroke affecting Wm. Pennington. Local visits, trips to California, oil drilling near Ida, Clark & Son’s show with a small menagerie and acrobatic acts cap the week.
Do you burn coal oil Try Hayters and save money Phone us your bread orders if your grocery man does not handle home made bread The Home.
Miss Grace Boyd of Dallas visits relatives here. Will Fleming from Bonham was in the city last Friday. Mrs Murry Bryant and son James visited Leonard and attended a picnic. J H Waggoner of Whitewright came to Yazoo due to the illness and death of Thad Pepper, father of Mrs Waggoner, at Vaughn. J C Holcomb returned from Roswell with his parents in good health and reports a fine apple crop. The Odeon Theatre will present Civilization mid August. Ruth Williams of Detroit visits her brother C C Williams. Mrs T H Lively and baby spend part of the week in Van Alstyne. Lively away briefly. Will Longley in San Antonio army injured and treated at hospital. Dyer Jones drug store to donate one day's soda fountain profits to Whitewright Red Cross on Friday August 3. Joe McKinsey and Morrell Sears announce sale and retirement from furniture business with a special sale starting Saturday.
An advertisement declares The Home Commissary is a reliable square-deal grocery serving Whitewright and nearby communities. It pledges best provisions at the lowest possible prices and urges residents to shop there for mutual satisfaction.
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