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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1924
Page
5
A flow of social notes lists visits and family events across Denison and nearby towns. Names include W. F. Brown, J. Loy, Miss Geraldine Johnson, Rev. E. L. Cochran, and many others with engagements in Dallas, Sherman, Fort Worth, Hughes Springs, and Commerce.
The Northeast Fannin County Singing Convention will meet at Enterprise east of town next Sunday noon. The program opens at 1 30 o clock with a singing schedule.
D S McMillin, a board trustee, toured the Masonic Orphans Home in Fort Worth and the Aged Masons Home in Arlington this week. Chronologists note the thirteenth anniversary of the June 12 1911 city fire that leveled the downtown.
A prominent young man from Whitewright was arrested in Denison this week for attempting to pass a counterfeit check. He was fined after the incident and released.
Mrs. George Hicks living east of town who underwent an appendicitis operation at Bonham about two weeks ago was able to be brought home Tuesday.
R. L. Johnson the jeweler advertises low cost electric fans as a solution to enduring long summer heat, urging readers to buy for affordable relief from the heat.
Je Sturdivant is extending his residence on South Bond Street with new porches and other substantial repairs to improve the home.
Misses Linnie Hollowell and Pauline Sinclair of Denton stayed with D. L. McMillin family and visited in Trenton with Clint and Mrs. McMillin. Will D. Garnett of Gainesville, a State Senate candidate, met voters. The district includes Grayson, Cooke and Fannin Counties. Mildred underwent tonsil removal in Sherman after a weekend visit.
R T Pennington and family visited relatives at Royse City last Saturday and Sunday with Mrs Pennington and their daughter extending the visit this week.
A historic ad copy notes that if better beverages existed than those served at their fountain, Pierce and Sons would offer them. The line reflects the business’s pride in current offerings and openness to improvement.
Judge W Lee Estes of Texarkana convened the May term of the federal Court at Sherman Monday. W F Holland of this city serves on the empaneled grand jury. Sunday dinner sale planned by Baptist ladies at Lloyd Moore's furniture store with dressed chickens fresh eggs and cakes. Workmen overhaul three gins in preparation for fall. Planters gin adds a gin stand this fall. Zacatecas Mexico extended summer visit with sister Mrs John Butler. Mrs EF C Pilcher and children and Mrs Wallace Jones and children of Childress visited Mrs J C Gillespie and Mrs Frances Pilcher.
Crawford Montgomery quits his job after a year or two at J. L. Kirkpatrick's drug store and is replaced by Clyde Craig. Misses Margaret and Theresa Everhart departed Tuesday for Fresnillo.
A pie supper will be held at the Mahurin schoolhouse northeast of town on Friday night June 13. Attendees are invited to be present. The note ends with a playful aside about fashion and a fatted calf.
A local advert declares a shoe repair shop that performs all kinds of repair work and promises customer satisfaction with value deals described as the best half sales for the money.
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