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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1938
Page
5
Local residents and visitors populate the Honey Grove to Dallas area diary. Names include Dorothy Hamilton Winnie Hamilton J. L. and J. W. Wilson Denton Daingerfield Sherman Paris Dallas and many others with travel to Houston Dallas Fort Worth and Gainesville. Community events note real estate ads furniture prices and family visits while prompting support for Geo H Sheppard for State Comptroller.
Mrs C H Skaggs and grandson Charles left Saturday for Franklin and Marion NC to visit Mr W R Skaggs and Mr Luther Skaggs. Misses Sarah Belle Gillett and Drunette Farley returned from Dallas after attending a Young People’s Union meeting at Southern Methodist University. Mrs B Wrenn Webb learned of sister Nora Horning’s death June 22 in Mayfield KY after brief illness. Mary Dale King Sara Kathryn Atterberry Marie Badgett and Evelyn Hill attend a future homemakers meeting at Texas State College for Women in Denton representing the local Future Homemakers of America. Mrs Nadine Kight and daughter Barbara Lee depart by train for a Canadian and Eastern tour visiting Chicago Detroit New York Philadelphia Mt Vernon Arlington Washington Cincinnati Toronto and Montreal. Mrs Kight taught vocational home economics at Aspermont for four years. Bettye Nell Yeager and family visited Mineral Wells over the weekend. Bettye Nell appeared at Mineral Wells Junior Chamber of Commerce health festival and on a Sunday show with Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce. Bettye Nell’s cousin Ellen Sue Yeager was crowned Goddess of Health in the event.
Blannie Reeves hosted a birthday dinner at Call Reeves home on Wednesday for Miss Fay Reeves of Dallas. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Stuteville, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reeves, Miss Jo Willa Stuteville, Miss Thelma Jo Reeves, and James Stuteville.
Gomer May led the Friday Rotary Club program with High School debate team members Boyd Newman and Merriwell Vineyard. Merriwell supported the unicameral proposal while Boyd defended Texas long standing bicameral system. Both delivered solid talks and provided Rotarians with informative insight.
Churches schedule Sunday services for June 26 with regular hours. At 10 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. preaching, 7 p.m. Epworth League, and 8 p.m. preaching led by Pastor J. M. Connally.
Bible study at 10 a.m. and 8:15 p.m. preaching on Jonah. Service at 11 a.m. and 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Everyone is cordially invited. Signed Joe Burton, minister.
Dr. B Wrenn Webb, pastor. 10 a m Sunday school with a young people class led by Mrs Jack Lackey. 11 a m Jesus Asks Searching Questions. 11 a m Junior Church with long practice for Children Day. 8 p m Second hand Religion.
Denison youth Arlyne Leverett, 22, died en route to a McKinney hospital after a broadside crash on Highway 75 south of Anna at 3:30 p m Tuesday. Mrs Don Richards of Memphis Tennessee was unconscious in hospital, her husband only lightly injured. Witnesses said Leverett’s car skidded from the concrete road, trying to correct it caused it to lose control and strike the Richards vehicle.
Elmer St John died suddenly Sunday at his home in San Antonio at age 45. Funeral services were to be held Monday in San Antonio. Born and raised in Pilot Grove he is survived by his widow Fay Binion formerly of Pilot Grove, a daughter Billie and brothers Moran Arthur and Beecher all of Pilot Grove who attended the funeral. He was a Shriner.
Funeral services were held for Oretta Vern McPherson 12 at the home of Roy Taylor with Rev. L O Evans officiating. Interment followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. Born April 27 1926 in Hughes Springs she died at 3 30 p m in a Sherman hospital. Survived by parents two sisters Mrs Clifford Tallant Greenville Mozelle McPherson Whitewright and brother J B McPherson Whitewright.
Paul Wayne Hess seven week old son of Mr and Mrs I D Hess of the Canaan community died in a Deni son hospital Wednesday night of last week. He was born April 19 1938 and had been ill about a month. Funeral services were held at the Baptist Church at 3 p m Thursday with Rev J A Henderson of Pilot Grove officiating. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. Surviving are the parents two sisters Earline and Warnell Hess and the grandparents Mr and Mrs W H Hood of Carpenters Bluff and Mr and Mrs W W Hess of Bells.
J B Dickson 82 died at Wilson N Jones hospital Sherman after over two months illness. Funeral at Baptist Church with Rev W J Epting officiating. interment Oak Hill Cemetery. Survived by two daughters Julian Montgomery Austin and James S Whitworth Houston and two grandchildren. Born 1856 in Pickens County South Carolina he moved to Grayson County in 1881 and was a long time deacon.
Funeral services for William L. Mangrum 64 were held at the Baptist Church at 3 p m Wednesday. Interment followed at Oak Hill Cemetery in Sherman under Waldo Funeral Home arrangements. Born August 23 1873 in Kennett Missouri he moved to Texas in 1878 settling at Pilot Grove. He died at 1:30 a m Tuesday at his Sherman home after a five month illness. He married Irene Marcy of Bonham May 28 1905 and earlier worked at Womack Milling Company before starting a partnership with his brother J E Mangrum in 1910.
J E Mangrum, once partner in the Mangrum Brothers grocery and later manager of the Sherman office for the Northeast Texas truck line, died while living in Sherman. He helped run the Odeo n theatre with Will Mangrum and served as Whitewright Board of Education president. Survived by wife, his mother, two sons and two daughters.
Funeral services for F M Sloan will be held at the family home at 5 p m Thursday with burial at Pilot Grove Cemetery. Sloan ran a general merchandise business in Pilot Grove for over thirty years before moving to Trenton. He led in civic affairs and politics and belonged to the Baptist Church and Masonic lodge. Survived by wife and three daughters. Webbster Huntsville Roberta Sloan Dallas and Mrs Harold Drake Lubbock. Willie B Bixler travels to Austin to work for C V Terrell in the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas ahead of the July 23 primary.
Orangeville News notes visitors and family gatherings including Mr and Mrs Bill Musser visiting Mrs Doni hoe’s parents and Mr and Mrs John Savage hosting relatives. Dorothy Morris hosts Dorotha Lindsey Nina Mae Busby and Joe Reneau companions. Dvorak mentioned as Bohemian composer, son of a butcher and innkeeper.
Noblesville Indiana farmer H F Oneal faces Agricultural Administration trespass warnings. A handwritten sign on his land declares government crop meddlers keep off this place stating the farm is owned and to stay out.
Two residents of the lower Rio Grande Valley who were born before the Republic of Texas died this week. Funeral services for Mrs. Lucia Lopez Cura, aged 116 years 11 months 17 days, were held in Brownsville with a son in law and a grandson among survivors. Justo Infante, 114, will be buried here tomorrow, survived by three daughters four sons and 15 grandchildren.
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