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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1929
Page
1
City promotes low summer water rates to support lawn care and urban greenery. Whitewright highlights its long standing favorable pricing for large water use, free school and church supply, and public benefits from pumped water. The article also notes a new jail in city hall, a converted old jail, and improved sanitary, fireproof facilities.
A Texas State Fire Insurance Department representative reworked fire hose couplings and plugs to national standard under a legislative enactment. Uniform threads aim to allow city departments to aid neighboring cities in conflagrations aided by motorized trucks and good roads.
Memphis Tennessee police and federal agents launched a large scale prohibition crackdown. By midday fifty agents led the operation with sixty arrests recorded and warrants issued for over two hundred suspects. Taxicabs were commandeered to move detainees to jail.
Mrs S O Blount and children and Mrs R F Sanders and daughters return to their El Paso homes after visiting Mr and Mrs A K Halliburton and other relatives.
Whitewright native Tom A. King wed Miss Clirwell Folk of Amarillo in Amarillo on Saturday. The couple honeymooned in Denver and reside at 3401 Harrison Street, Amarillo. King, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. King, grew up in Whitewright and after Whitewright High School attended Southern Methodist University. He worked for Kimbell Milling in Fort Worth and later led the Uhlman Grain Co. Amarillo office, now manager there. The bride is a notable Amarillo young woman.
Roger Holcomb sold a thirteen month steer to J H Biggerstaff for 102.65 after raising and feeding the animal to 850 pounds. Biggerstaff butchered the steer days ago and reports excellent steak quality from the sale.
A crew works on the Hall and Lindsey garage remodeling under J A Pumphrey. B B Hall sold a half interest to W C Huffines. Adams Motor Company will lease and move in around July 1. The west wall is being moved to the line for more storage, and the showroom is expanding. Huffines sells his business. Adams Motor merges stocks and equipment with Huffines once renovations finish.
Thornton bootlegger friends of Nat Hudson, Justice of the Peace, are warned in a Thornton Hustler ad to stay out of his way after July 1. The message says he will make it hard to produce or sell home brew or whisky in Precinct No. 8 and asserts he is serious about enforcement despite lighthearted boasts.
A district singing convention will be held at Cannon between Whitewright and Van Alstyne Saturday night and Sunday. The Sun reports a number of well known singers will be present and a good program is being arranged.
R G Johnson based on Texas Louisiana Power Company is transferred to Opp Alabama. Fred Bashaw becomes foreman and takes charge of the crew rebuilding the Whitewright distribution system. The team has worked here weeks and aims to finish in two weeks before moving to Leonard to rebuild its distribution system.
Mrs Gomer May and Mrs Lonnie Myrick spent Wednesday as guests of Mrs George Blair in Sherman.
Denison report states grading and drainage on Highway 91 from Denison to Preston have resumed with twenty men forty mules and equipment. Crews active at the west end near Geiger school on Taylor and Tobin properties. The Tibbet Bros Construction Co of Fort Worth will send power shovels graders tractors and other machinery to Denison to expand work after rain delays and subcontractor issues. Two miles graded on the east end with drainage and right of way clearing continuing along ten miles.
Dallas and Oak Cliff commercial interests abandon bid to host the Southern Presbyterian Church college system. Water Commissioner John Fouts says Dallas will not offer bonuses, effectively ending Dallas’s race though he notes the city could still secure the site if desired.
Mrs Oscar Cross of Cumby shot and killed Mrs W E Reid in front of the Cumby post office after mistaking her for another woman. Cross, 35, bonded on $10,000 after telling County Attorney Emmet Thornton she fired four bullets at a Dallas woman, killing Reid.
Mrs. D S Carr attended the funeral for Thomas Verne Scott a rural mail carrier and World War veteran who died at his Denison home Sunday morning The services were Tuesday at 4 PM at Waples Memorial Methodist Church with Rev F A Crutchfield officiating Scott was a nephew of Mrs Carr Mrs Cappie Beard also an aunt of the deceased attended the funeral and stayed in Denison for a few days.
B H Thomson, a Lilley Dry Goods Company member for two and a half years, sold his interest to E J Lilley. The pair bought the business in early 1926 and have since run it, with Lilley now sole manager. Lilley, who came to Whitewright in 1917, previously worked at J F Lilley dry goods until 1926.
The 1929 census aims to answer how many people and animals exist in the United States and how much goods circulate. It plans a $39.5 million task, six months of work, and novel questions on unemployment and distribution data. About 100000 enumerators will work under 565 districts with strict confidentiality and penalties for false statements.
In the Kable & Co bankruptcy hearing Bishop James Cannon Jr. may be called as a witness after details emerged that he allowed the firm to buy stocks for him up to 40000 dollars. Harry L. Goldhurst returns to testify and a ruling on Cannon’s summons will be issued.
Mrs Reeves and her children return to San Antonio following a visit at the home of her brother W H Stedham.
The State Highway Commission awarded the contract on Highway No. 6 from the Collin County line to Denison a distance of 23.45 miles. The S. and H. Construction Company of Milwaukee received the $533,709 award marking one of Texas’s largest paying contracts.
Machinery shipments for the Whitewright Ice and Gin Company arrive for the new gin plant. A 100 h. p. oil engine was set on the foundation and more equipment arrived early in the week. Local manager J. H. Green expects most machinery on site by Saturday night as buildings near completion. Mrs. M. L. Thornhill's residence at the site was moved to a nearby lot.
Senate and House negotiators agreed on penitentiary legislation during a Tuesday session. A new measure directs an 18 member committee to survey present lands for a concentration site, with a second survey if needed on non restricted territory. The panel must report by December 1, 1929. The $25,000 appropriation remains unchanged. Senator Holbrook supported the compromise despite objections to limiting the committee to current lands.
Washington promise states the Prohibition Bureau will not supply teachers or lecturers. It will provide pamphlets on the economic aspects of prohibition only upon request from school authorities. The Treasury asserts the federal government will not use schools as a propaganda medium.
The Texas House defeated the measure to cap cotton plantings, voting 71 to 41 to postpone indefinitely. The bill by Rep J E McDonald of Waxahachie and 39 others would set a farm commission to fix the percentage, with critics labeling it socialist and supporters arguing it would promote crop rotation to fight cotton root rot.
A special Chamber of Commerce board meeting heard the Industrial Committee report on securing two second floor locations for a potential garment factory in Whitewright. Unanimous endorsement followed with plans to make a formal proposal. bakery ad authorized. $10 dues to East Texas Chamber. Members listed.
Bricklayers began work Tuesday on the 20 ton ice service station built by the Southern Ice & Utilities Company. Most concrete and wood work is finished and the station should be ready for use in about two weeks.
Bowie County authorities prepared to seek the death penalty in the trial of Ocle Nix charged with poisoning his wife. Nix confessed and was moved from Lamar County jail to New Boston. Investigators planned to cite a $1400 life insurance policy as motive. A second Bowie County farmer in the same jail faced organ analysis of his deceased wife and had insured her life.
In Denison the Grayson Fannin boundary was relocated to remove doubt. J R Westbrook announces the action with A N Rhamy in charge of surveying and Joe Wilson assisting. The entire Red River to Col lin line now has one mile concrete markers in permanent bases.
Texas leads the Southern states in income tax payments with a notable share of taxpayers reporting higher returns. The finding highlights regional disparities in tax burden and raises questions about state policy impacts on residents and revenue.
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