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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1937
Page
5
Winnfield resident J N Gates visits W M Gates while many locals host relatives from Dallas Bonham Trenton Aqua Dulce and Sherman. Dozens of crossings include students and teachers returning home for summer and attending commencements. Local ads promote a Electrolux refrigerator and two piece living room suite deals.
Mr and Mrs Jack Ryan and son Jack Sears and Mr and Mrs J Y Fates of McKinney visited Mrs Ryan s grandmother Mrs T J Smith Friday. C O Robbins of Littlefield Miss Alene Robbins of Denton Mrs E G Robbins of Leonard and Mrs Alice Robbins of Greenville were guests of Mrs T J Rector Saturday. Mr and Mrs J H Hollingsworth attended memorial services at Cherry Mound Sunday with Governor James V Allred as principal speaker.
Mrs E H Conibear and Miss Marie Jackson of Dallas attended high school commencement and visited Mrs A L Jackson. John Philip Barbee came from Marshall with wife and son and Mrs Fred Conn. Fuller funeral notes include Mrs Louis D Clymer in Leonard and Mrs Lem Tittsworth in Wolfe City. Commerce guests and area residents gathered Friday. A sugarcane square found by Euell Scott marked the year’s earliest. Hygiene class and teachers joined a Sherman county meeting. Granddaughter Betty Atkinson celebrated graduation in Hamilton. Dorothy Hamilton attended C I A graduation in Denton. Rural residents visited the S T Montgomery home. Earl Jenkins will work in Dallas at Pan-American Exposition grounds. Clyde Hansard now runs the Y filling station. Jim Jernigan named high school principal. Burma leaves for Sherman High School. high school vacancy to be filled. A $364 pledge supports Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls for the year starting April 1. list of donors noted.
Dr. Reynolds May celebrated his 86th birthday with an open house on Monday. He has been homebound for over a month due to a heart ailment. Nearby visitors called to offer respects as friends recall his long career.
J R Oliver suffers a crippled arm from a bull attack last week, rescued by his faithful Sam. W E Pedigo visited Whitewright on Wednesday to collect Salvation Army funds but warned no further calls would be made this year and that tambourine solicitors claiming Salvation Army ties would be posters.
Society guests gathered at the Hollingsworth home Saturday evening to bid farewell to Mr and Mrs Hugh Trotter. Sixty five attendees shared fellowship and refreshments and offered good wishes for happiness in their new Clifton home where Mr Trotter becomes manager of the Kimbell Milling Company plant. Herman Bedford succeeds him at the local Kimbell plant.
The Home Demonstration Club met May 27 at Mrs. George Baugher’s home with twenty members present. Mrs. Harris of Sherman led an engaging session on making sweet breads and cake. A tacky party for winners by losers was planned for June 8 at the Scout cabin, and June 9 will feature a refrigeration day in Whitewright with Miss King presenting at the club house followed by merchant demonstrations. The public and rural women are invited to attend. The next meeting is June 10 at the club house.
Mortuary rites conducted at 4 p m Tuesday for Judge M Wood age 70 who died Monday at his home after years of ill health. Born April 22 1867 in Jefferson County Alabama he married Belle Bowl in 1885. Survived by widow five sons John Sam William Dick Frank and three daughters Mrs Ross Ferris Mrs Ruby Booker Mrs Dulcenia Snow with several grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs Eliza Pope 74 were held at 3 p m Saturday at the First Baptist Church conducted by Rev G B Bradshaw. Interment followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Friday night at the home of her granddaughter Mrs Tom Head. Born August 10 1868 in Tennessee she had lived in Sherman before moving to Whitewright four years ago. She was a Baptist and survived by three brothers J M Standifer E J Standifer and G C Standifer, three sisters Mrs Pearl Cates Mrs Redda Dennis and Mrs Martha Howard, and 14 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Pastor B Wrenn Webb leads regular services with sermons at 11 a m and 8 p m The 11 a m topic is High Lights of the General Assembly and the evening message follows in the usual schedule.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. Epworth League at 7 p.m. preaching at 8 p.m. Joe M. Connally, pastor. The 1935 census lists Texas with 7,000,000 head of sheep, 14.5 percent of the U.S. total.
The piano pupils of Mrs. Guy Hamilton were presented in recital at the First Baptist Church auditorium Monday night. Appearing on the program were Anna Ruth Johnson Margaret Hanna Dorothy Nell Hall Lucille Starr Bradshaw Frances Layman Jye Nell Yeager Janis Jayne Horton Dorothy Sue Douglas Dorotha Darwin Mary Dale King Frances Pope Velma Holland Sara Kathryn Atterberry Naomi Waldo.
The Texas Power and Light Company failed again today in its effort to have the Supreme Court intervene in its suit to prevent sale of bonds by the City of Sulphur Springs. The court refused for the second time to review judgments denying the company’s temporary injunction against the city. The company claimed an election authorizing issuing the bonds was premature.
In Kennett Missouri Dorothy Lee Powell 15 was chopping cotton at Lone Oak near the Arkansas line when a lightning bolt struck the upraised hoe she held. She died instantly. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs E L Powell.
In Hall County at Clarendon Earl Duke recalls 1923 flood when heavy rain fed rivers and maize fields. He rowed through a waterlogged field as fish leaped to bite corn ears while head feed was gathered from boats nearby.
A brief exchange between caddies features a left handed man who keeps his change in his right pocket. The sultan's son is described as apt to be wild. The line Harus, scarum is noted as familiar and not alarming.
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