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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1929
Page
5
Locals list relatives visiting in Dallas Paris Lubbock Amarillo and Tom Bean. Mrs Emma Davis receives a family visit in Tom Bean. Carlton Liquidation Sale shipments arrive via M C Spivy & Co Bonham. Silas Wilson and Mrs Slaton visit Whitewright.
Mrs J W Pender of Greenville visits her mother Mrs G W Pope. Mrs Lee Hampton returns from relatives in Soper Oklahoma. Miss Ina Bell Chadwell near Bells visits Miss Vienna Lee Cates. Mrs M E Greenway of Dallas visits her parents Mr and Mrs M T Craig. Miss Hilda Davis of Tom Bean visits sister Mrs Earl Hill. Dick Barbee Millard and Loran Mangrum visit Dallas Tuesday. We are checking them in today the great bargain purchases made last week in St. Louis.
Mr and Mrs Jack McMillin and daughter of Dallas spent Sunday with his father D S McMillin. Mrs Frank Fulkerson and daughter Mrs Glenn Doss and children of Bonham were Whitewright visitors Tuesday. The annual Bells picnic dates are June 20 21 and 22 at Bells park.
Bonham shopper Mrs. Georgia Anderson of Trenton visited Bonham as part of a trip with sister Mrs. A. M. Roberts. M. C. Spivy & Co. announce Liquida tion pricing to be available throughout the Carlton Dry Goods Co. store starting today.
Misses Viola and Wanda Lou Harben of Celina are visiting their brother Paul Harben who works for the Texas Louisiana Power Company.
Miss Myrtle Pickett of Tuscon Arizona visits her grandfather Rev A E Major and leaves Saturday for Long Point Illinois where she will spend the summer with relatives.
Dr. Ross R. May attended a meeting of the North Texas Medical Association held in McKinney on Tuesday. Rev and Mrs C C Childress of Pecan Gap visited Tuesday and Wednesday with their son Roby Childress in the same area.
Miss Vera Holland travels to Denton to enroll in summer school at the North Texas State Teachers College where she will study this season.
Miss Laura Elizabeth Cantrell has returned from Denton where she attended the College of Industrial Arts the past term.
Bonham firm M C Spivy & Co promotes unusually good value in prices and overall service, inviting customers to expect greater than ordinary bargains and attentive handling of goods.
Ben Sturdivant, ministerial student at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, is visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Sturdivant.
James L German the Talihina Oklahoma school superintendent visits his mother Mrs J L German and other relatives here. Homer Craig, a former Texas A M College student last term, has returned home for summer vacation.
Mrs. J. R. Carter has returned from an extended visit in Jacksonville with her daughter Mrs. H. R. Duke and with relatives in Sulphur Springs.
Mr and Mrs Grover Meadow of Fort Worth Mrs Lewis Nelson of Dallas Mrs C K Spindle Mrs L Christian and Mrs John Howell of Denison and Mrs Glenn Ferguson of Shawnee Okla visited here Monday.
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Wright return to their El Dorado Arkansas home after spending days at the bedside of Mr Wrights father W F Wright who is recovering from an operation at a Sherman hospital
Miss Alamanda Vittitoe who attended school in Dallas the past term has returned to the city to take a summer art course after a visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Vittitoe.
Miss Gertrude Montgomery daughter of B S Montgomery returned from New York City where she attended Columbia University the past term She was awarded an M A degree at the close of the school term Montgomery has taught at the Southeastern Oklahoma Teachers College Ada Oklahoma for eight years and received a leave of absence to attend Columbia University She then returned to Ada to resume work in the summer school at the Normal College.
For ten days we expect to make prices to us an unusual volume of sales. M. C. Spivy & Co. of Bonham issued the note. Local residents and visitors are mentioned, including the Ray and Neff families and several Sherman visitors.
M C Suivy & Co Bonham urges shoppers to stay in touch during the next ten days for dry goods deals. Mr and Mrs N M Phy return to Stamford after visiting Mrs Phy’s parents Mr and Mrs J W Wilson and are joined by Miss Florence Wilson for the trip home.
H. T. Atterberry of the U. S. Department of Justice spent the weekend with his family here. He is leaving at the start of the week for New Orleans where he will stay several weeks.
Miss Mary Rena Penn returned from New York where she attended Columbia University the past term and was awarded the M A degree at term’s close. She is a graduate of the College of Industrial Arts at Denton.
M. C. Spivy & Co announces ten days of sales to move goods after a buying trip to St. Louis last week. Prices are set low to clear inventory and attract customers.
W. F. Wright of a town south location recently underwent an operation at a Sherman hospital last Saturday. He had been under treatment in the hospital for three weeks before the procedure and is reported to be recovering as well as could be expected.
Sam McMillin, who has worked in Lubbock recently, had his household goods shipped there the first of the week. Mrs. McMillin and son Thomas left for Lubbock Tuesday. Sam is employed as a salesman for a Ford agency in that city.
M. C. Spivy & Co. reports the closing out of a three million dollar stock of dry goods in a wholesale sacrifice. The firm bought largely, noting the prices obtained were the best in many years.
A London banker says he will enjoy writing a newspaper column for one day and ponders what could be done to a bank in an hour. A Kay Features note estimates a jazz saxophonist must move his fingers 500 times a minute, while neighbors’ movements remain unknown.
Holds music teaching certification from Northwestern University and conservatories in Kidd-Key Sherman London Dallas Bonham. Several years experience in Modern Methods. Phone 80. Whitewright Texas.
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