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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
5
S H Neal is a patient at Wilson N Jones Hospital in Sherman. Families visit kin in Bakersville Denison Whitesboro Dallas and Texarkana. Birth announced for a daughter of Haskel Holt. Several locals attend VFW events and dances in Dallas. Dr John Ray heads to Roanoke with wife for vacation.
Mr and Mrs Marion Smith and daughter Mae attended the 60th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs J C Woodson in Bells. J M Peschke of Houston, son in law of Mr and Mrs R C Vestal, became associate professor in the University of Houston business school. Rev D H Friend of Louisville visited here and preached at the Church of Christ. Mrs W O Wright and her two daughters from Albuquerque visited Mr and Mrs Jesse Bow, their first reunion in over 20 years.
Perry Kite, previously of Bells, started work Tuesday at Glen Earnheart Funeral Home after completing an embalming course in a Dallas school. He brings formal training to the staff and begins his duties in the local funeral service.
Mr and Mrs R H Thornhill and children of Abilene visit his parents Mr and Mrs M L Thornhill. Thornhill works for Interstate Theatre in Abilene. Boyd Newman UT law student and Don Newman Baylor student spent the weekend in Whitewright with their parents Mr and Mrs B W Newman.
Griffin Dollarhide received a shipment of 27 500 pounds of sulphur this week and will distribute it to farmers for dusting cotton. It marks the largest single sulphur shipment ever received in Whitewright.
University of Texas Law student Robert Doss arrived home Saturday night and is meeting voters in Grayson County as the single candidate for State Representative Place No. 1. Other items note Haynie family travels to North Carolina and Tennessee, a wounded corporal returning from Germany, a Whitewright soil conservation event raising funds, and local talks on soil building practices by Ben Cook and Spence.
Rev. R. L. Gilpin pastor of the First Methodist Church and Rev. C. C. Childress retired minister are in Dallas for the annual North Texas Methodist Conference gathering.
Dr. John A. Ray attended a Baylor University reunion in Waco over the weekend. He is a member of the class of 1898, and four classmates were present, including Senator Tom Connally. The 1898 graduating class numbered fewer than thirty.
T. L. Cowart left a Sherman hospital last week and is convalescing at home south of town. He was injured in an automobile crash about two months ago, with a fractured foot and other injuries. He can walk on crutches but will be crippled for several weeks. Jimmy Ossaman will serve as Page to Sen. Robert Taft at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia this month. He will travel with his father, Jack Nossaman, on a special train leaving Texas June 18. Mr. Nossaman is a convention delegate.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Owens of Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Williams of Denison, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Williams of Coalgate Oklahoma, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Williams of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Barnett of Coalgate, Mrs. Archie Isbell of Denison, Mrs. Willie Isbell of Van Alstyne, and Mr. and Mrs. Wylie Williams of Denison cited in a Denison social column.
Guests gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Simpson and W R Cato in the Pilot Grove community on Sunday to celebrate Edna Griffiths sixteenth birthday. Attendees included Lloyd Cato and daughter from Borger Margie Kuhn and daughter from Wichita Falls and several others from Denison Savoy Lebanon Utica and Kentuckytown.
Among the college students who have returned home for the summer are Miss Ruth Maddux daughter of Mr. and Mrs Dad Maddux Miss Norma Smith daughter of Mr. and Mrs Frank Smith Miss Dell Sanderson daughter of Mr. and Mrs Elmer Sanderson and Miss Betty Ann Darwin daughter of Mr. and Mrs Percy Darwin. Miss Smith Miss Sanderson and Miss Maddux attended East Texas State Teachers College Commerce and Miss Darwin attended North Texas State College Denton.
Sherman visitor Fred Wilson attended as Secretary Grant Hoover announced 100 percent attendance last week. Griffin Dollarhide Jr chaired the fish fry committee and said the event starts at 6 30 p m Friday June 4 in Sears pasture one mile southeast of Whitewright. The committee has ample fish ready and promises a good time for all with Rotaryanns as guests.
Miss Janis Jayne Horton presents piano pupils in recital at the First Baptist Church tonight at 9 o clock. Performers include Dixie Bassett John Bryant Verna Lee Buchanan Donna Faye Williams Edward McDowell Mary Pennell Alice Mae Ayres Gayla Wrenn Sears Jimmie Nossaman Foy Jean Bow Barbara Nell Hasty Beverly Bassett Jerry Lee Norris and Shirley Blanton.
Mr and Mrs Jim Mullins of Sherman announce the marriage of their daughter Mrs Bonnie Blanton to J O Kaiser of Whitewright on Friday May 28. Mr and Mrs Kaiser are both of Whitewright and will make their home there.
Mrs L A Watkins Sr and Mrs Ben Chesser hosted a miscellaneous shower Friday afternoon at the Watkins home for Mrs L A Watkins Jr. Guests included Mrs Bill Dillinger Mrs Bob England Mrs Clarence Bonds Miss Mary Lou Thrasher Mrs Claude Thompson Mrs Braswell Alexander and the hostesses with ice cream and cake served.
Georgia's Democratic executive committee chose 72 delegates for the national convention and ordered them to oppose President Truman's civil rights program to the last ditch. Chairman James Peters said the delegation must vote as a unit.
General Wainwright Monday was Texas' candidate for national commander of the Disabled American Veterans. He was nominated Sunday at the Galveston event.
Earl D. Whitley of Dallas was chosen as state department commander at the final session of the DAV convention held here. Stella Beard of Amarillo was reelected state commander of the DAV Auxiliary.
A defendant, described as a Negro, faces a serious charge for attempting to sever a victim's jugular vein with a razor in a so called Scratch ankle shave. The judge offers a lawyer. the defendant declines, saying past lawyers led to his confinement and pledges to rely on the court's ignorance.
A precinct worker asks Maggie Dugan for her name and her husband's. She replies Dugan, like hers, and when pressed for his full name She notes he thinks he is Jack Dempsey when full, but remains Dugan in hand.
Local church notes list Sunday Bible classes at 10 a m and communion at 11 a m for the Church of Christ. Enterprise Baptist Church led by Pastor Joe Denton offers Sunday School at 10 a m, sermons at 11 a m and 7 45 p m. Central Christian Church with J R Wright Jr as minister holds Sunday School at 10 a m and a sermon at 11 a m on first and third Sundays.
The notice lists service times and leadership for First Methodist, First Baptist, and First Presbyterian churches. It includes pastors R. L. Gilpin Weldon R. Drake James I. Logan Jr., and event times: morning worship at 11, evening services at 7:30 or 8, youth and young people activities, Sunday school at 10, and midweek prayer or session meetings.
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