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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1924
Page
6
Local and personal news lists numerous visits among Dallas Ballinger Fort Worth Cleburne Bonham Sherman and other towns. It notes interviews with Dr M M Morrison candidate for Congress and various relocations jobs sales and service ads from local businesses.
W. T. Hamilton appointed city marshal of Whitewright, succeeding W. A. Hamilton. Mrs. A. M. Roberts departed Saturday for Galveston for an open visit with her son Howard Roberts and family.
Ray Cates and his family and O C Hanna and his family motored to Caddo Oklahoma Sunday for a visit with relatives.
Trent Phillips Jr who works at a hardware store in Lott Texas is visiting family and friends at home.
Mr and Mrs Will Smith proceed with a remodeling program that enlarges and modernizes their residence. The project is currently underway and aims to update the structure.
R L Johnson promotes glasses with a perfect fit. Miss Marguerite Montgomery returns from Dallas where she taught and is re elected for next year. M C Spivy & Co Bonham reports a St Louis buying trip and new under priced merchandise being checked into the store.
Dr. R. C. Hoyle, Mark Montgomery and Brownie McSpedden attended a singing convention at Blue Ridge last Sunday with about a thousand absentees as the only attendees. W. T. Ross and family now reside at their North Bond street home after leaving Denison several months ago.
Miss Lois Anderson, from the 1924 graduating class of the local high school, traveled to Commerce on Wednesday to attend the Northeast Texas State Teachers College events and activities.
B H Garland who moved to Tom Bean recently sold his residence to Mr Richardson. Richardson will relocate to the city from Tom Bean in the near future.
At the regular monthly meeting Monday night White Wright Lodge No. 167 A F A M elected officers for the ensuing term W J Bryan W M H G Webster S W E J Lilley J W C W Bryant Treas B H Thomson Sec T J Giles Tiler.
A warm invitation urges attendance at church Sunday followed by dinner with P. J. Pierce & Sons. The note promises you will enjoy the meal more than cooking in a hot kitchen.
J. E. Rutledge treated The Sun editor to a generous batch of early peaches last Saturday. He runs a thriving orchard and notes peaches are in season from May through October. A visit over the weekend included Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Kight of Hope Arkansas and Miss Nira Vogle of Shawnee Oklahoma staying with Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Holcomb.
The wholesalers conclude their spring season while retailers begin. M C Spivy Co and several Kentuckytown residents joined a trip to Sherman Thursday night. James E Ferguson spoke as gubernatorial candidate. Clyde Thompson visits from Siloam Springs with John Sangster connected to a local paper.
The Odd Fellows plan to initiate several candidates at Thursday night’s regular lodge meeting. Officers for the upcoming term will be elected. Miss Helen Thomas will depart this month for Lubbock to work on art decorations and advertising for a major furniture firm.
Joe McKinsey Jr studying at Baylor Medical College in Dallas visited Sherman with his father for a few hours on Monday. The American Legion poppy sale yielded about 25 dollars for the national welfare department to aid war orphans. Guests including Mr and Mrs J D Sullivan Porter Mrs Baggett Bennington Okla Robert Baggett and family Durant Okla and Mrs Pearl Baggett Oklahoma City stayed with Walter Jenkins Sunday. Dr C S Carter bought the S E Marshall residence at Walnut and Chapman Street and plans improvements. W A Carrolton and Dayton Yates, Katy station workers, rode the Shriners special to Kansas City for the convention.
Mrs J F Fender travels to Waxahachie for Trinity University closing exercises. Miss Margreta Fender belongs to the graduating class and will receive her degree at the final service next Tuesday.
J E Rutledge and companions landed a 42 pound catfish from the Red River on Sunday. Lester Hileman at City Market prepared the fish into a Sabbath supper and a blue Monday breakfast for several families.
Local baseball fans organize two teams from city Sunday schools to play three times weekly at six o clock. Attendance rises with each game as interest grows and players come from multiple Sunday schools.
It is consistently expected that every home, tenant house or business house within 150 feet of the city sewer mains should be connected therewith. The district covered by the sewer system should be 100 per cent sanitary in this particular. Adding machine paper, typewriter paper, carbon paper, at Sun office.
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