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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1927
Page
3
A series of short notices lists visits, hometown trips, and social calls. Annie Carter of Gun ter visits Margaret Barbee while Opal Horton of Bonham visits here. Others travel to Dallas Denison Fort Worth Madill and San Antonio to see relatives and friends. Jewelry ads and local shops appear among the exchanges.
Mr and Mrs H P Donigan and their daughter have returned from a trip to visit relatives in South Texas.
Mrs J H Moss of Eastland visits sister Mrs J J Silman for the weekend. Miss Louise Belcher of Sherman visits Miss Kate Fulton. Mrs Guy Dillon and children of Hillsboro visit Rev and Mrs W A Kirkpatrick. R A Gillett and children travel to Slaton and Albuquerque. Rev G M Hall of Copeland visits son B B Hall. Max Pope and son from Sherman visit G W Pope family. Lovell Wrenn of Wesley College Greenville spends weekend here. H M Curry of Wichita Falls visits with family. Mrs Jesse Melver daughter Mrs Cull Reeves and Mrs Claud Stephens visit Sherman Friday. H L Durham and children from Greenville spend week with C W Pope family. E C Pilcher and children return to Childress after visiting J C Gillespie. Clara Joe Walker returns to Greenville after visiting grandmother Mrs J L German. Martha Bow of Austin College summer student visits here with her parents Dr and Mrs J L Bow.
Mr and Mrs Cecil Hill of Dallas visited Mrs Hill's parents Mr and Mrs J A May for the weekend, staying Saturday and Sunday.
Sherman residents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hannah and daughter visited their relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Haile. Talihina Okla couple Mr. and Mrs. Jim Griffin and daughter stayed with relatives of Mrs. Giles Cobb. Leonard area visitor Mrs. J. H. Graves hosted her daughter and family. Celina pair Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Jones spent Sunday and Monday with his mother Mrs. SS. E. Jones and kin.
Mr and Mrs C P McGinnis and their son Russell return to Whitewright after a two year sojourn in Slaton to make their home again. Friends of the family express happiness at their return to the best town in Texas.
Mrs. T. E. Kight and her son from Hope Ark are visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Holcomb. Roger Holcomb, who had been visiting in Hope, accompanies them home.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Harp and daughter of San Antonio, visiting Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Kirkpatrick, left Saturday for Alaska. They were accompanied to Denver by Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Miss Velma Kirkpatrick, who will be away for several weeks.
Mrs. Thurmond Bishop and her son return to their Floydada home after an extended visit with her mother Mrs. J. S. Badgett. Mrs. Badgett and Miss Pernie Badgett accompanied them to Floydada for a visit.
J C Dick of the Community Natural Gas Company will be local manager for the firm in Trenton with headquarters in Whitewright. He was in Trenton Friday testing houses piped for gas and found them all right.
Roy Nicholson, long time operator of the Katy pumping plant, left Saturday to enroll in the railroad shop school at Parsons Kansas. He will study ulike repair and maintenance techniques aimed at improving his work at the local pumping station.
Mr and Mrs J H Waggoner and daughter Elizabeth left Monday for El Paso to attend the annual meeting of the Texas Press Association in that city Thursday morning.
At a board of education meeting Miss Mollie Wright was chosen to fill a vacancy in the grammar school created by the resignation of Miss Bryant of Pottsboro who had joined the Pottsboro faculty. Wright, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Wright, brings six years teaching experience from Wolfe City and Mt. Pleasant.
A brief dramatic exchange shows a country kid urging retreat from an approaching bull while a city kid stands firm and claims they have done nothing wrong. The scene captures rural versus urban attitudes in a tense moment.
Not for publication, an advertisement writer asks What would you say if I kissed you. A stenographer replies I make no statement for publication. The terse exchange reads like a minute of a private office moment captured in print.
The record notes that across the original public domain including Alaska and lands within national forests and other reservations there are about 525 165 000 acres not yet surveyed.
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