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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
5
Local notes list various visits and family gatherings across Bonham Whitewright Sherman and surrounding towns. Mentions Lem Tittsworth selling two good milk cows and numerous residents from Dallas Graham Howe Denison Leonard Ardmore and Oklahoma City visiting relatives or staying with friends during the week end.
Dallas visitors and Sherman, Trenton, Fort Worth, Commerce and Dallas residents are listed with weekend and weekday visits. Names include Atterberry White Craig Myrick Doss House Hamilton Rutledge Barbee Manning LaRoe Sanders Lackey Hardcastle Sears Livingston Bixler England Howard Glass Lambuth May Stedham Reeves Shields Jones among others.
Sherman residents host relatives and friends during weekends and summer travels. numerous gatherings occur from Dallas to Oklahoma City with extended visits in Whitewright, Pampa, Celeste, and Tur ner Falls. visitors include Dotty siblings, nurses, and church members, with trips to San Diego and Los Angeles planned.
Manning and Meaddr deliver two McCormick Deering thresher outfits today. One goes to Hileman and Clark at Sedalia, the other to the Ida Thresher Company, a farmers group. Mrs J L Boone returned from Dallas after graduation exercises at Dallas High School. Her grandson Hugh Macaulay was in the graduating class. Mr and Mrs John Bean left for Sierra Blanca to visit relatives and plan summer work at A and M College before returning toWhitworth.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Armstrong of Plano, Dick Barbee and John Lut trell of Honey Grove, Jack Barbee of Mt. Pleasant, and Miss Hortense Allen of Commerce were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Barbee Sunday. Ben Roberts Jr. of Sweetwater spent last weekend with his grandmother Mrs. Mell Roberts and will be a YMCA camp counselor this summer.
Major and Mrs. D C Kelley and sons plan a brief stop with Mr and Mrs L O Lackey as they travel from the Canal Zone to a Maryland army base. A fire department response followed an electrical storm to Otis Freeman's home. R L Johnson returned from South and Southwest Texas visits. Several court actions involved two negro women fined for disturbing the peace after a pistol incident. Joe Tate visited his mother while pursuing baseball material and discussing umpiring in the West Texas New Mexico league. Ed Priest from the Social Security Division audited local employers for unpaid taxes. An examining trial released B Y Spindle on $300 bond in a shooting case near Johnson Pharmacy. A large gathering celebrated Dr Reynolds May’s 86th birthday with relatives from multiple cities.
Joe Thomas May returned from Dallas after graduating Sunset High School last week. His parents Mr and Mrs R H May attended Friday's commencement. B S Montgomery brought a facsimile of the New York Herald dated April 15 1865 to The Sun office this morning marking Lincoln's assassination with heavy mourning rules between columns.
T M Johnson closed his drug store here last Friday and shipped stock and fixtures to Quitman where he has opened a store. He had been in business here a little over two years after purchasing Bow Wright Pharmacy stock in 1935. Dr J W Miller, formerly at Johnson Pharmacy, moved upstairs in the May building and now teams with Dyer and Childress Pharmacy. Two Whitewright Music Club members, Miss Sara Kathryn Atterberry and Mrs Horace Gordon, were invited to perform at the Pan American Exposition in Dallas on June 16 with Atterberry playing At the Carnival and Gordon singing The Corn Gift, a notable honor for the club.
Society clubs Misses Inez and Gladys Ray were hostesses for a bridge luncheon Tuesday complimenting Mrs. W. B. Womack of Wyoming, Pa., their house guest.
Miss Inez Ray hosted the West End Bridge Club at her home Friday evening with attendees including Mrs. W. B. Womack of Wyoming Pennsylvania Mrs. J. H. Waggoner Miss Elizabeth Waggoner Mrs. Lucian Andrews and Mrs. A. L.
Jackson played substitute hands with Mrs. Lillian Slusher posting the high score for members and Mrs. Andrews for guests. Ice cream and cake were served after the bridge series.
Norma Jean Smith and Leon Henderson wed Saturday at 4 30 in the afternoon at the home of Mr and Mrs Harvey Reynolds with Rev J A Henderson officiating. Mrs Henderson is a Whitewright High School graduate of 1937. Henderson is the son of Mrs Cecil Henderson of Rose Hill and the couple will reside in Rose Hill.
Miss Vonda Lee Vineyard of Whitewright and Edgar Riley Jr. of Trenton were married April 25 in Durant Oklahoma by Rev. Lee of Durant Baptist Church. Mrs. Riley is the Vineyard daughter, and Mr. Riley the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Riley of Trenton. They reside in Trenton where Riley works with his father in the ice business.
A surprise birthday dinner was held Sunday for Finis Alverson celebrating his sixtieth birthday. Relatives arrived with food and gifts. attendees included Collins and McCoy families, Stephens and Alverson relatives, and several children, all from Whitesboro and nearby areas.
Stainless steel trailer buses drawn by 150 horsepower diesel tractors will ferry passengers along the 530 mile Syrian desert route between Damascus and Baghdad.
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