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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1927
Page
5
Locals praise Pierce's Cafe for best cooking and service while a long list of visitors and travelers stops in. The page records numerous Dallas Sherman Bonham Paris Fort Worth and Greenville trips and kinfolk visits, with many names and activities across the week.
Mrs. B. F. Fulkerson returns to Bonham after a week with relatives. Spindle family visits Ector, while Miss Coffey of Caddo guests Miss Barbee. Gillett visits Dallas grandmother, and Mac Reed with Dolly Butler visit Whitewright. Various locals travel to Waco, Ada, Dallas, and Durant for exams and holidays.
Mrs. R. F. Story and Mrs. Bennett with Miss Evelyn Bennett of Durant Oklahoma visit Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Montgomery. R. R. Hicks builds a barn on his Ely farm replacing one destroyed by fire. Victor Biggerstaff of Dallas visits his parents J. H. and Mrs. Biggerstaff. McCoy and Collins attend the J. E. Carter funeral in Dallas.
Eugene McElvaney of Dallas spent Sunday as a guest in the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. King. He was accompanied home by Mrs. McElvaney and their son, who were visiting her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Hall of Dallas visited over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Norris, their south of town relatives.
Mrs. E. E. Carter of Tulsa visits her sisters Mrs. D. E. Mc Coy and Mrs. C. F. Collins east of town for a family gathering.
Mrs Byron Sears and her son Thomas Dan have returned from a visit with Dr and Mrs W D Ownby in Broken Arrow Oklahoma.
J. W. McMurry Jr., a student at Trinity University in Waxahachie, has returned home for the vacation period.
Mr and Mrs S T Wilhoit and son of Dallas were guests of Mr and Mrs W B Anderson over the weekend. Mrs Opal Bell and Mrs Etta Wilson of Dallas spent the weekend here with their mother Mrs W C Fain. Rev and Mrs J E Montgomery of Graham visited the Echols. Mrs F M Echols and daughters Vivian and Louise returned from a week with the Montgomerys at Graham. George Riley and daughter of Whitesboro visited the Simmonss. Miss Margreta Fender, Paris teacher, spent days with her parents Dr and Mrs J F Fender. W W Dossey and daughter Johnniev with Miss Ollie McMillin visited in Terrell. Misses Joan and Jane Sears returned to Lubbock after visiting grandparents the Sears. Clyde Thompson, Durant Democrat linotype operator, spent Sunday with his parents H F Thompson. Mrs Pink Womack Holsonbake and son Hal, Mrs Willie Ferguson and Mr Cook of Dallas visited the Gordons Sunday. Mrs E O Thomas hosted Mr and Mrs E O Thomas and children of Tom Bean and Mr and Mrs Frank Thomas and son of Whitesboro.
Mrs. H. C. Willis and her daughter Frances Bryant traveled to Fort Worth on Saturday for graduation exercises at Texas Woman’s College. Minnie Willis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Willis, is a member of the graduating class.
W A Bowles and son Austin of Comanche Oklahoma spent the start of the week visiting Bowles' mother Mrs A I Bowles and other relatives, sharing family ties during a short stay.
Joe Johnson endorses the Ironton gas store display noting the Ironton is among the best made. The message highlights product quality and invites viewing of the display.
Mrs. T. E. Montgomery and her son have returned to their home in Clovis New Mexico after visiting her mother Mrs. G. W. Pope and other relatives in town.
Orbin Blanton, who taught at the Texas Military Institute in San Antonio the past term, has returned home to spend the summer with his parents Mr and Mrs C S Blanton.
W. O. Brents came back Friday after attending the Texas Postmasters Convention annual meeting at Wichita Falls and visiting his son Walker Brents in Fort Worth.
Advertisement notes closing out stock of wallpaper with patterns for bedrooms kitchen and dining room offered at 15 cents a bolt or 71% cents a single roll by Dyer and Jones.
Otis Freeman plans a three-room bungalow with two porches near the local negro schoolhouse. The unfinished home follows a recent fire that destroyed his previous residence, and is described as the prettiest negro cottage in the city once completed.
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