Glenn Doss Associate Editor
Whitewright post office lists Glenn Doss as associate editor with second class mail status at the local publication.
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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1915
Page
10
Whitewright post office lists Glenn Doss as associate editor with second class mail status at the local publication.
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There are no vacant residences in Whitewright and several business houses that could be filled to help the town and community. Every dollar spent away from home is lost for good, while spending at home builds wealth for the local area.
A historic measure relied on subscribers paying dues with frying chickens as in bygone days. The proposal suggests reviving barter for funding, reflecting old community practice amid modern arrears.
The constitutional amendments election Saturday drew under 2000 ballots in Grayson County, about one in five registered voters. The quiet polling day reflected a low turnout across the county.
A brief note describes farmer boys taking a yearly summer excursion by circling a stub ble field with a disc plow. They do not travel far, but cover some ground each day and eventually reach their goal.
The Texas electorate remains reluctant to alter the state constitution, signaling a likely long period before further amendments are considered despite the document’s long-standing stability.
A quantity of Blue Ridge grain was marketed this week in Whitewright. The town touts itself as the best grain market in the region and encourages farmers to haul grain to Whitewright for sale, highlighting better returns by trading here.
Prominent Texas mottos urge residents to support local production and education. Phrases include Let Texas Feed Her Self Buy It In Texas Trade at Home Send Your Children to School in Texas and Buy Made in Texas Goods. Advocates say widespread adoption will bring unprecedented prosperity to towns across the state.
The body of J. S. Melver, who vanished from the Gregory Sanitarium on July 16, was found ten days later in a densely wooded area near the sanitarium. Home city was Nevada, Collin County, from which he had moved three years earlier. He died by his own hand using a rope after health and mental faculties declined. Funeral services were held in Nevada with Rev. W. H. Wright delivering the eulogy.
Dull business moves spur Hogwallow tales as Dock Hocks chaffs Tobe Moseley about whiskers and pillars Columbus Allsop Atlas Peck brace the Hog Ford church foundation. Protracted Dog Hill meeting changes the community while fish shy from Sunday bites and Gander creek faces a Sabbath ban. Frivolous churchyard antics mix with local quarrels and odd bets as Ellick Hellwanger buys a pistol and Mrs Flinders keeps thirty years of companionship.
Red Oak News reports a dog killed by a speeding car on the pike after a local driver ran through at forty miles per hour. The piece condemns auto speeding and urges caution, noting a child could have been harmed.
A local educator at the Wild Onion school devised a clever flea control plan. He leveraged a community gathering to address the infestation, hosting a big basket supper that filled the building and ended with the audience leaving free of fleas and in good spirits.
Jim Hollingsworth of Ector visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Hollingsworth here Sunday.
Art Smith, famed Panama Pacific Exposition aviator, is brought to Dallas for ten thousand dollars. He will fly daily during the fair and six nights, performing loop the loop and other stunts with a brightly lit biplane. Nightly fireworks from his aircraft amplify the spectacle, praised as wonderfully beautiful and the fair’s most popular feature.
Austin Texas July 24 Ware house the cotton let the surplus be consumed then gradually market as the demand is created. This is the advice given Texas farmers by D M Cameron chief clerk of the State Warehouse Department. Let's not get excited as we did last season says Mr Cameron be conservative and instead of beginning in August and September to sell our cotton wait and let the market adjust itself. Mr Cameron says if Southern farmers will warehouse and hold their cotton several months they will be able later to demand and receive a reasonable price for the staple.
Mrs. W. Z. Spearman and her daughter Miss Hazel along with son Crawford and Miss Lucile Montgomery returned Friday from Greenville after a week visiting relatives and friends.
The speaker urges immediate painting, noting higher costs and wasted paint and labor the longer one waits. They warn that delaying leads to more expense for paint and wages, explaining paint serves essential purposes and promoting TM Devoe Dyer Jones as the seller.
Mrs Hellen May Parker returned home Monday after a two week visit with relatives and friends at Trenton.
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