Whitewright News Briefs Highlight Local Happenings
PTA offers cash prizes for trash collection to clean vacant lots. W A Hamilton seeks reelection as night watchman. Horton home destroyed by fire. Mrs Parsons and Miss Montgomery attend Dallas style show. Lackey family moves to new South Bend home. Elizabeth May turns nine with 22 friends. Davis Bros restaurant closes due to poor patronage. City approves 25 cents per 1000 gallons over 100k monthly. Reeves wins UT oratorical contest. Four townsmen eyed for aldermen. Jennie Lee Kirkpatrick seventh birthday. Infant son of Wade and Mrs Robbins dies. Walter Hestand part of Dallas style show models. Whitewright banks report $294,628.73 in combined deposits. B B Hall's son born. Sherman adopts commission form of government.
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Parent-Teacher Association
W. A. Hamilton
S. C. Horton
Gowdy
Walnut Streets
J. C. Parsons
Enna Montgomery
Dallas
Ott Lackey
South Bend Street
Elizabeth May
A. H. Davis
Davis Bros
James H. Reeves
Whitewright
University of Texas
B. S. Montgomery
W. C. Cook
Jennie Lee Kirkpatrick
Wade Robbins
Walter Hestand
B. B. Hall
Sherman
Commission
Knox City sale wraps up Cameron stock buyout
G. D. McCarty and D. W. Davis of Knox City purchased the W. P. Cameron bankrupt stock of men's furnishings at a public sale held last Friday. A petition listing about 150 city voters was presented to R. L. Holcomb and L. P. Sears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. McCarty
D. W. Davis
Knox City
W. P. Cameron
R. L. Holcomb
L. P. Sears
Whitewright Notes And Town Leaders Move In March
Rev W J Epting leaves after nine years as pastor to take another Baptist post in Madill Okla. T J Chenoweth dies at 80 on March 7. C J Meador buys J A Mauk home. R C Montgomery buys Myrick livery. Miss Sue King chosen SMU May Queen. Bank figures show Feb 28 deposits 97355510 loans 88955820 resources 156901441.
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W. J. Epting
Baptist Church
Madill
Oklo
H. T. Arterberry
Mamie Arterberry
Blue Bird Club
Grover Gillett
Herbert Hoover
Boise Penrose
Hoover
Wiley Cato
Pilot Grove
Sam McMillin
L. LaRoe & Co
Looney Robbins
Leonard
T.J. Chenoweth
C. J. Meador
J. A. Mauk
South Bend Street
Bond Street
Delia Moore
Pernie Badgett
Princeton
Sue King of
Whitewright
SMU
Dallas
Let This Be a Lesson Lectures on an Explorer Wife
A wry quip notes that a wife's pocket search yielded treasure only in lecture material. The punchline mirrors a joke about a missing item and the value of curiosity. The remark treats marital banter as a teachable moment.
VA Benefits And Tax Foreclosure Notice In Grayson County
Questions cover VA education benefits private tutoring and GI Bill limits along with a Texas tax suit in Grayson County. Includes guidance on property taxes delinquent in Denison and foreclosures, with citations issued February 1950 and notices to heirs and unknown claimants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans Administration
Administrator of Veterans Affairs
State of Texas
Grayson
N. H. L. Decker
Sunny Side
Denison
Grayson County
Texas
District Court
15Th Judicial District
Orville D. Baker
Hergin
Court House
Sherman
A. D
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
Bride Signs Fishing Marriage Pact in Chicago
Detective Joseph Gordon aged 45 wed Vera Ross 36 in municipal court. Before the ceremony she signed a notarized affidavit agreeing he may fish at any time without interference, with the pact lasting from marriage until death. The couple plans a Miami honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Joe Gordon
Municipal Court
Vera Ross
Miss Ross
Joseph Gordon
Miami
55 Cent Hamburger Urged by Atlanta Consultant
George Wensel, a restaurant consultant, urged Atlanta restaurant men to glorify the hamburger and offer a 55 cent burger. He proposed a 14 cent meat patty, two cent bun and four cents relish with a catchy name and prominent ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
George Wensel
Wensel
Weasell
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Walens
Burns
Thomas Nast
45Th Judicial District
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
Sinclair
Bassett Station
Sinclair Products
Frigidaire
Frigidaires
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