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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1945
Page
2
The issue lists staff roles for the High School Reflector including Jenrietta Jackson and Katie Kincaid with editors and sponsors. It includes a moral-education editorial stressing wartime duties and ongoing reconstruction, then brief classroom notes about Beazley and Gentry science topics and a report on the basketball team’s season and Plano loss.
March, the old first month of the calendar until 46 B C and England until 1752, derives its name from Mars the god of war. Romans called it Martius while Anglo-Saxons called it Hlyd monath meaning loud weather as spring begins.
A school column details homemaking and algebra class progress, and notes on English, agriculture, and science topics. It lists students serving in the armed forces, faculty praise, and social gossip about teachers and juniors, plus a St Patrick's Day choral program.
After a spelling unit the sophomores work on oral reports about vocations and earnings. During Mrs Roddy’s absence the class enjoys Mrs Caraway teaching English.
The narrative follows seniors through a school day from study hall to Spanish, shorthand, civics, and annual staff activities. It highlights Mrs Kent guiding Nancy and Polly, Betty Brooks’ excuses for skipped shorthand, and Mrs Beazley’s roll call in civics.
Youth gossip from a high school page recounts seniors finishing a day in Miss Neathery's class and lists many couples and crushes. The notes mention Valentine night makeups, relationships with Trenton and Bonham suitors, and various pupils like Patsy, Mary Jo Petty, Dorothy, and Paula Jean Garner.
The juniors conduct ten minute speed tests in typing and practice business letter writing. English classes study infinitives verbal nouns and participles with some difficulty distinguishing them. The Spanish class is studying.
The excerpt notes students practicing a play The Three Bears to present in assembly. It also mentions the American history class finishing the Civil War and moving to a new topic about how technology and business developed after the war.
A guide to predicting weather from sunset and halo colors, coronas, rainbows, sky tone, and fogs. It notes red suns, lowering clouds, morning rainbows, and frost patterns as indicators of rain or fair weather.
A brief mention notes a junior girl with shoulder length copper hair as part of a continuing feature. Further details appear on page 7.
Sheriff G P Gafford announces a March 6 1945 public auction of a Tioga lot in Grayson County Texas to satisfy a 1945 judgment for taxes interest and costs. The sale covers Buck Creek waterside parcel in Mershon addition block 3d with right of redemption within two years and subject to further tax and legal rights. Proceeds go to satisfy the court judgment with any surplus to other lawful claims.
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