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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun states that admissions to entertainments dinners and other benefits require regular advertising rates. Obituaries resolutions memorials and similar items are also charged at regular rates. It invites correction for any erroneous reflections upon persons firms or corporations once brought to the publisher.
A Denison Herald note recalls the coming sugar probe and urges discretion on the sugar proposition. The column also notes editor H. E. Ellis’s successful throat surgery in Cleveland and mentions ex Senator Bailey as counsel in the Texas Oklahoma boundary land dispute. It praises the Whitewright school and staff and announces Saturday trades day with price cuts, urging guests to visit. It laments youths claiming dignity while shirking labor, blaming overindulgence and parental support.
Railroad discounts apply to UT students attending commencement summer school and summer normal. Tickets go on sale June 5 to Austin for the first term, June 19 for the second term, with full fare paid to Austin and return fare reduced upon receipt. Also included is a poem about an orphan named Billy Green and a narrator who learns gratitude for his mother’s care.
A nostalgic pitch for Whitewright as a fishing paradise where a man, with gear and a daylong stretch in a flat boat, could fish from dawn to sunset, bring lunch and lemons, and finally land a string of fish at sundown, imagining Whitewright as the ultimate place to live.
In a sharp exchange, Tioga Herald jokes editor Waggoner of the Whitewright Sun now cusses via a new type-setting machine in his office. Van Alstyne Leader quips about poll taxes and vote eligibility, noting last winter’s refusal to reveal numbers but estimating five to six hundred Whitewright men paid poll tax at the May 1 convention.
Hudson Davis and Company held a banquet for clerks from seventeen stores in Dallas last week. Over two hundred attended from Whitewright Celina and Van Alstyne locations with a special interurban car chartered from Van Alstyne. The event in Sanger Bros seventh floor dining room was praised as a great success and a yearly morale booster. Mrs. Mattie Manning wife of Leonard merchant Y T Manning died at age fifty seven after years of illness. funeral held in Leonard with Whitewright attendees.
W S Thomas advance man and D L Moore arranged a truck train visit to Whitewright on Thursday June 10 with 20 to 25 trucks. A reception committee including Bob Sears R H May F M Echols R A Gillett T E Barber and Frank Roberts named. Trucks to park on Bond street near Roberts and Sears for demonstrations with a street concert that evening.
I feature several good refrigerators priced right. If you need a refrigerator it will pay you to see me before you buy.
The following young ladies from this city returned from Denton where they attended the College of Industrial Arts for the term just closed: Nadine Holcomb Louise LaRoe Estelle Montgomery Genevieve Davidson Nell Montgomery Gladys Sears Coralee Echols Francis Wilson Macie Montgomery Kathleen Badgett May Thrift Roberta Sloan Nadine Holcomb and Gladys Sears were members of the graduating class of 210. Holcomb earned a Bachelor of Science and Sears earned a diploma in household arts after a three year course.
A brief advertisement notes a complete stock of furniture with confident pricing and invites customers to shop locally before buying elsewhere. It emphasizes personal assurance from W J Looney and encourages in-person viewing.
The listing shows southbound trains at 4:15 a m 2:50 p m and 5:02 p m. Northbound departures include 10:25 a m and 10:48 p m. Cotton Belt westbound 4:36 p m and 8:46 a m eastbound 6:45 m and 10:50 a m are noted. The Sun and Dallas News.
Two thousand two hundred delegates are registered for the Texas Annual State Christian Endeavor Convention to be held in Dallas June 9 to 13, 1920. The Dallas committee promises full readiness and a grand program featuring the Fortieth Anniversary Crusade led by E. P. Gates. The Crusade runs September 1, 1920, to February 1, 1921, with aims to revive church pews and deepen service visions among attendees.
I have purchased the original service car line in Whitewright. When you need a car, telephone No. 177. Careful drivers and reasonable rates. W. T. Nicholson.
An advertisement touts 666 as a remedy for malaria chills fever bilious fever colds and la grippe. It claims to kill the fever parasite, act as a splendid laxative, and serve as a general tonic.
There will be church at the Methodist church Sunday morning with dinner served at the shed. Sunday afternoon services will be for the young people. Mrs. Joe Smith of Orangeville returned home Tuesday after visiting her mother Mrs. S F Garland and others. Clayton Garland, with typhoid fever, is improving nicely. Miss Viola St John has been on the sick list for several days. Mason St John is visiting his brother in San Antonio. Miss Roberta Sloan has returned.
Miss Mae Thrift returns from Denton after school. Mr and Mrs Scott McSpedden of Dallas visit Tom and Mrs McSpedden. Mr and Mrs J M Davis spend weekend with his mother in Van Alstyne. Meadows visit Orangeville Sunday. Miss Pearl Edwinson returns to Bells after stay with John Gladden family. Miss Willie Webb returns home near Westminster from job with F M Sloan. Brice Garland suffers nail wound. foot lanced. Mrs Cora Butts and children visit Whitewright. Mamie Butts visits friends in Whitewright. P J Pierce Sons advertises cigars and cigarettes, promising freshness.
A Syruphonic laxative named LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN is advertised to cure habitual constipation. It relieves promptly but must be taken regularly for 14 to 21 days to induce regular action. The product claims stimulation and regulation and is described as very pleasant to take. Price listed as 60c per bottle.
Sherman reports Fred Stewart pleaded guilty in federal court to a fifteen count indictment charging embezzlement of forty thousand dollars from the M. and P National Bank. Sentencing not yet delivered.
A nineteenth century tonic claims to purify and enrich the blood to restore vitality and energy. It promises a strengthening and invigorating effect and is priced at 60 cents.
County Superintendent George W. Acton reports Grayson County’s scholastic census shows 20,000 children of school age locally, with 9,063 outside independent districts and 11, - including Sher man Denison Dorchester Whitesboro and others - listed by town.
German and Roberts advertise real estate bargains for home or business use with an office in the May building inviting inquiries.
The Honey Grove Signal notes that silver now yields more bullion value than gold and that one American dollar buys 84 cents in Chinese money, reflecting a volatile global value system. It argues there is no immutably fixed value and that silver’s demand beyond coinage drives substitution of paper notes for silver dollars.
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