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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
13
Dallas visitor W. R. Hooper visits while Bonham hosts Mrs. Sears and son and other relatives. Oak Lone Henry Phillips joins relatives. Edgar Childress calls on his mother in Slaton. Commerce Logan Wilson visits friends. various Mrs. Ware and Misses Davidson Murphy travel for family ties and teaching duties.
Eleven days remain before the Democrats launch their Houston convention. The note urges listening to the radio proceedings and offers to help if the radio has issues or needs new batteries. Signed by Joe Johnson.
Joe Johnson promotes attendance at the first Texas National Democratic Convention and mentions selling used radios at bargain prices for listening over the air.
James Lackey and R. V. Henry left Wednesday for Fort Logan near Denver Colorado to spend four weeks in the ROTC training camp.
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Larkins and Mrs. Milliken of Tohoka visited this week with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Sears and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pennington. They were en route home from a Florida trip.
Miss Margaret McMurry returned Friday from Waco where she attended Baylor University. She was a member of the graduating class and received the A B degree at the close of the school term. Mrs. J W McMurry spent last week in Waco and attended the Baylor graduation exercises.
Mrs Grady Geer of Van Alstyne and Miss Nett Arterberry of Gainesville visited Dallas relative H T Arterberry while her father D S McMillin was in town Wednesday. Mrs Clyde Thompson of Durant Okla recovering after appendectomy. Also guests of J R Fleming were Mr and Mrs Roscoe Cook and families from Greenville and Whitewright. Birth announced for a daughter to Joe W Allen and wife of Bartlesville Okla born June 2.
Rev and Mrs W A Kirkpatrick announce the approach of Velma Mae Kirkpatrick's marriage to Robert William Grent of Kansas City. The ceremony will take place at the bride's parents home on Sunday afternoon June 24 at four o'clock. The bride elect is a popular Whitewright young woman and the groom elect a prominent Kansas City businessman.
Mrs. Mary McGaughey aged 82 wife of the late J C McGaughey died at Quanah Wednesday evening. The telegram said the body would reach Whitewright by 5 40 this morning. Funeral services set for Friday at 10 oclock at the home of Mr and Mrs J W Davidson with interment at Oak Hill Cemetery. She was a Mississippi native who moved to Texas in 1884 and lived on a farm northeast of town before long moves to Whitewright and Hill County to live with her daughter.
A crowd of farmers protested Hoover’s nomination at the Republican convention in Kansas City. Police barred the entry as Edgar D. Bush led protesters to the doors. The demonstrators shouted anti Hoover slogans and were forced outside by officers, repeating their demand.
Fort Worth. Dr. John M. Barcus 67 longtime Methodist pastor in the Central Texas Conference died of spinal meningitis at a local hospital after last sermon May 27 at First Methodist Cleburne. He served 46 years, was a trustee of Southwestern University and a prominent author and church leader.
Tom W. Perkins former state senator and congressional candidate for this district will speak at the American Legion Picnic on Friday July 13 at 8 p.m. in McKinney.
A Dallas News Cotton Report Service survey of Texas specialists details regional conditions. Northwest cotton is ten days late with dry topsoil needing showers. Temple reports lice and cold nights, with 4–7 inch plants and strong taproots but moisture shortfall. Greenville notes three inches tall and weed-like delays. College Station shows two weeks late but steady growth and no insects. Angleton notes two to four weeks late with good taproots. Spur says 10 days to two weeks late but promising if June rains come. Pharr reports black-arm leaf spot and shedding squares, shrinking promising prospects.
The Sun prints GC C McKenna as a candidate for constable in precinct three. A Whitewright area native and former deputy, he is familiar with the duties and will seek votes from voters, though time may limit personal solicitations.
The American Automobile Association reports that placing a cross for every auto death in the past ten years would span about one cross per three miles of improved road, based on a toll of roughly 175000 deaths and 600000 miles of road. If limited to a single transcontinental route like the Lincoln Highway, the count would extend further along that corridor.
The national metering body notes 20 miles across the country would show over five crosses per mile for fatalities and, for non fatal injuries, two crosses per mile. On the Lincoln Highway there would be 158 injuries per mile. The figures come from an average of 29 injured per death and about three million miles of road.
A Mississippi court case cites a witness who claimed insanity based on the defendant's political allegiance. The remark suggests party loyalty as a marker of sanity, prompting commentary from the Marshall News about the link between voting behavior and mental state.
All kinds of printing and engraving obtainable at The Sun office at reasonable prices. Spend your money in Whitewright.
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