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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1926
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun announces that notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission or monetary consideration will be billed at regular advertising rates. Memorials and resolutions are also charged. Corrections will be made if erroneous reflections are brought to publishers' attention.
Whitewright Sun editor Jim Waggoner had his tin lizzie stolen while attending church. Local editors joke about the theft as readers blast a thief who took from a newspaper man during worship. The incident follows plans for the Grayson County Press Association event at Tioga on March 12.
The Van Alstyne Leader shares a plea from Waggoner about a stolen 1924 Ford Touring Car taken Sunday night February 21 in Whitewright Texas. The card lists motor number 10116829 license 358794 broken windshield glass four good Badger tires extra tire on rack new top two red shock absorbed springs fender braces front and rear.
Mr Clarence Ousley director of the South wide program for cutting cotton acreage tells a county seat tale from North Texas in February. At a 200 farmer gathering a banker asks farmers who have corn in their own crib to rise. Then he asks who has meat in their own smokehouse and again the same 12 rise. He asks who has money in the bank not borrowed and again the same 12 rise. He calls this the best argument for safe farming and notes a farmer who grows food and feed has money in the bank at planting time.
Slogans from multiple Texas farming groups champion safe farming and diversification as cures for agricultural ills. The Fort Worth Star Telegram quotes the idea as old and enduring, tracing it to Henry W. Grady as a Southern remedy. Bonham's M C Spivy Co. advertises expectations of a record March sales volume and urges readers to monitor money-saving values.
A compact collection of quotes on living fully and standing by principles. It juxtaposes a St. Louis Globe-Democrat remark on time and life with a Washington Post call to defend rights, and an American Lumberman quip on telephone growth and female achievement.
A Louisville Times quips that despite predictions the Democratic party may be dead, another national convention could prove its vitality, likening it to a nest of wild cats.
A historical grocer ad from Gordon Bros promotes buying eggs at 18 cents cash or 20 cents in trade. The notice urges customers to call telephone 29 for details.
A Toledo Blade quote notes anthracite miners have lost 142 million dollars in wages and suggests consumer prices would reflect operators losses. Meanwhile M C Spivy and Co in Bonham advertise dress goods claiming a top North Texas stock.
The Sun and Dallas Semi Weekly News offer one year subscriptions for $1.95. The Bonham store advertises a full range of staples from cotton and linens to dress goods notions shoes and ladies garments with promises of saving on spring dry goods bills by M. C. Spivy & Co.
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