Whitewright News Highlights 1916 Local Events and Fires
The 1916 Whitewright Sun item notes George Cooper’s residence lost to a late night fire insured for 400 plus 250 on goods. Poultry sales exceed 12 000 pounds with hens at 11 cents, farmers paid over 1500 dollars. Socials include Margaret McMurry’s ninth birthday valentine party. Sam Cameron joins the post office. Lilley party heads to St Louis for stock. County tax data sets voting strength at 10 967. Whitewright bands and civic league grow. new gravel pits near Ambrose. box supper at Canaan School. district fair planned ahead of Red River Valley Fair. The town envisions an active civic program and a bold agricultural push.
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Whitewright Sun
George Cooper
Whitewright
Margaret McMurry
Tom Lilley
J. F. Lilley
Monta Badgett
St. Louis
C. W. Bryant
O. P. Neilson
Floyd Everheart
J. N. Powell
Dayton Yates
Paul Roberts
Masons
Leonard
Jim Akers
Grayson County
Commissioners Court
Sherman
G. K. Russell
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Obituary for Lynn Cooper Veteran Farmer Dies in Sherman
Lynn Cooper 79 retired farmer died Tuesday afternoon in a Sherman hospital. Services held Thursday at 2:30 p m at Earnheart Funeral Chapel with Rev R L Cates Rev Douglas Rymer and Rev Bill Grisham officiating. Burial Oak Hill cemetery. Survived by wife Alyne Ruth Smith one daughter Mrs James W Smith of Whitewright one brother Lewis Cooper of Bells two sisters Mrs Cleve Anderson and Mrs W Dean Bowden of Bonham one grandchild and several nieces and nephews.
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Earnheart
Sherman
Mr. Cooper
Orangeville
Mark Cooper
Alyne Ruth Smith
Marvin Methodist Church
R. L. Cates
Douglas Rymer
Bill Grisham
Oak Hill Cemetery
James W. Smith
Whitewright
Lewis Cooper
Bells
Cleve Anderson
W. Dean Bowden
Bonham
Nursing Home News Briefs and Local Visits
Forty two attended Sunday church services at the nursing home. Special music by Carl Braswell and his daughter Carla, with Kay Geers on piano. New patients admitted this week include Mattie Harris Nettie Robinson Ora Bowman of Trenton and Inez Pierce of Whitewright. Numerous visits from relatives and friends of residents are noted. The Grayson County Singers performed, sympathy extended to Homer Tate’s family, bingo winners listed, and Merchants and Planters National Bank declared semi annual dividends totaling 75000 dollars to over 700 stockholders with checks mailed June 30.
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Carl Braswell
Carla
Whitewright
Kay Geers
Jerry Jones
Mattie Harris
Nettie Robinson
Ora Bowman
Trenton
Inez Pierce
M. A. Syptak
Bay City
Dess Whitson
James Freeman
Sherman
Oscar Worsham
Ray Braddy
Dallas
Marie Caraway
McKinney
Tilmon Tallent
Grayson County Singers
Homer Tate
Janie Fennet
Mattie Hasting
Mary Bryant
Charles McCollum
Carl May
Merchants and Planters National Bank
Fred Holland
Holland
Merchants
Planters National Bank
Miss Meta Duff Dies in Houston at 66
Word comes of the death of Miss Meta Duff age 66 who died suddenly in Houston after making her home there since 1926. A former Whitewright resident, she graduated from Austin College and taught in Sherman Schools. She died June 10 at 11 a.m. upon arrival at a Houston hospital.
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Meta Duff
Houston
Whitewright
Austin College
Sherman
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