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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1917
Page
11
T H Lively acquires 600 acres in east Texas in a local item. The notice also lists daily bread quality from Home Bakery and many community updates including visits from Dallas and Fort Worth residents, local baptist and missionary events, and updates on local business and social life.
A local Red Cross unit was organized at the Presbyterian church with 23 women joining. Sherman visitors Mrs. Reynolds Craycroft and Hollingsworth helped establish aims. Mrs Nash was elected president with Mrs Echols secretary and Mrs King treasurer. The group plans to expand membership and assist wounded soldiers in the war.
Dear friends our hearts are full of gratitude for the comfort you gave during our distress bereavement and loss of husband and father We thank you for every kind service May God bless you as you are led through green pastures and by still waters Respectfully Mrs A P Gilliam The remaining cases against Leon Wates are set for trial in the 15th District Court next Monday June 18.
A Gulf Coast lumberman argues against saloons by proposing a home liquor scheme where a husband buys whiskey from his wife as the sole source. He contends the plan would drain a man’s life savings into the wife’s new business, leaving the husband buried and the family better off without him.
Chief of Police Hughes received a War Department notice urging strict enforcement of a new law penalizing the sale of intoxicants to soldiers and admitting them to houses of prostitution. The secretary of war said the moral conduct of enlisted men is a government concern and called on peace officers to enforce the law.
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