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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
5
A sequence of brief notes lists residents visiting relatives in Dallas Sherman and other towns. Travelers include Joe Smith Dyer, Miss Dorothy LaRoe, John Reeves, and Miss Frances Bryant with assorted family, teaching and business ties. A Ladies Auxiliary meeting is scheduled at the American Legion hall on June 12 at 4 pm.
Miss Loletta Coffey attends summer school at East Texas State Teachers College in Commerce. Numerous local residents visit family, attend summer programs, or travel to nearby cities for schooling, shopping, or leisure as follows: Allen T. Short promotes a new barber shop next to Cole and Davis. John Livingston Jr. visits Sherman grandparents. Mrs. Thurmond Bishop visits her mother. several students and families attend summer sessions at North Texas or Texas colleges. local exchanges include furnishings trades and weekend visits among Sherman residents.
In Texas Whitewright and Bells area news include Mrs. Eliza Fain’s serious illness, relief trips by Rev. and Mrs. Dennis, and relocations of Miss Maggie Noe and Mrs. Jennie Crittenden to East Whitewright. Contractors begin razing the old Bells public school for a new building, with local workers to be employed.
The H. D. Club met last Thursday with Mrs. Sidney Watson. The next meeting will be Thursday June 13 at the home of Mrs. Ed Martin. All members are urged to attend at 3 p m.
The Busy Bee Sewing Club met with Mrs. Earl Hampton Tuesday afternoon with eight members present. Refreshments were served. An all day meeting is planned at Mrs. Robert Howard's home next Tuesday with a covered dish lunch and a later business meeting. members urged to attend and bring sewing.
At the bride's mother's home Mrs D A Ray Hazel Ray MacKenzie and Cara Ferguson were married Wednesday morning June 5 at 10 o'clock Rev J R Waldrum officiated. They traveled to Mexico afterward and will reside in Leonard where the groom runs business interests. The bride wore a pansy chiffon outfit with pink accessories. Her going away suit was navy marquisette and linen.
Dr B Wrenn Webb pastor leads 10 a m Sunday school 11 a m morning worship subject Doing God s Will 7 p m young people meeting and 8 p m worship with the Baptists in the church program.
10 a m preaching 10 45 a m communion 11 a m Bible study 6 30 p m young peoples meeting 8 p m Wednesday Bible study Subject for discussion Sunday morning will be The Unrighteous Steward J R Waldrum minister
C. W. Dennis, pastor, will preach at 11 a.m. Sunday with no 8 p.m. service due to revival. Sunday school starts at 10 a.m. A young people's meeting at 7 p.m. Church night is Wednesday June 12 at 7:30 p.m. Refreshments and a good time for all. Entire church membership invited.
The Kentuckytown Home Demonstration Club will sponsor a cake walk Friday night June 7 at the school house. Arrangements were finalized at a Tuesday club meeting. Miss Mamie Hines county demonstration agent spoke on Getting Acquainted with the Farm Home Makers Market.
A local used car ad promotes trading in a cow piano or an old car for a Ford or Chevrolet vehicle. Terms available upon request.
Mr and Mrs R B Birt and their niece Mattie Louise Neathery returned from an extended vacation visiting Detroit and St. Louis then toured Canada New York City Niagara Falls and Washington DC. They visited Mrs Birt's brother Herbert Neathery in Detroit and later traveled to Albany Kentucky to see Uncle and Aunt Ellis McKinley.
The article invites all to attend the Baptist Church revival meeting next Sunday night. It notes good crowds but also many locals who avoid church, laments losses since a cooperative meeting, and praises the choir of fifty plus youth. It promises old fashioned singing and Bible preaching.
Funeral services for Mrs. R C Norris 66 were held at her Whitewright area residence with Rev J R Hilger and Rev G C Ivins officiating. Burial took place in Oak Hill Cemetery with pallbearers Bert Sanderson John Denton Taylor Autrey Howard Hedgpeth M W Williams and John Watson. She was born November 16 1869 in Clinton Kentucky daughter of John and Mrs Wilson. She married Norris June 2 1888 in Bairdstown Tennessee and moved to Texas in 1892. Surviving are her husband six sons John Lee Phillip Norris of Whitewright Jesse Norris of Broken Bow and Tom Roy Norris of Sherman Amorized.
Ethel Parker of Dallas and Mrs. Mat tie Hastings and Mrs. Retha Sander son of Whitewright, 12 grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. A. F. Yount of Dallas, Mrs. Betty Jones of Sherman, and Mrs. Lula Hodges of Bell California, and a brother, J. B. Wilson of Blue Ridge.
George Ferguson aged 45 long time Bells resident died Saturday in Wichita Falls after a two year illness. Funeral services were held in Bells Sunday conducted by Rev. E. L. Wright of Ector. He is survived by a brother and four sisters including Mrs. Andrew Pierce formerly of Whitewright.
John Oliver of the R. B. Gordon farm south of Whitewright harvests 17 acres of onions this week with an estimated yield of 150 bushels per acre. He plans to sell at about 1.50 dollars per bushel, aided by about 75 workmen.
The text defines tundra as cold treeless plains in Arctic Europe Asia and similar areas in North America. It notes Russian origin, meaning marshy plain, and explains how high latitudes and proximity to the northern ocean cause low temperatures and scant vegetation.
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