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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
5
Local notes list visitors and travels including Mrs. E H Hughes in Sherman, Mrs F M Echols in Denton, the Earnhearts in Dallas, and Simmons Beauty Shop operating Fridays. Mentions of hospital stays, auctions, church events, and a Sun subscriber humorously requesting obituary delivery. Includes births, military updates, and community gatherings with multiple named residents and nearby towns.
Solicitors report good response to the Red Cross War Fund drive but the Whitewright quota remains short. The area includes Pilot Grove Blanks White Mound and Canaan with a plan to publish contributor names and amounts next week. Also notes Pfc Robert A Scott in Kansas sent to Seymour Johnson Field and his wife moves to San Antonio.
Mrs. C. P. Johnson led the Friday Literary Club with a program on Our Neighbor Mexico featuring Glimpses of Mexican People and Their Problems and Mexicans in the United States. Members voted not to spend on a district delegate and allocated 2.50 dollars to the USC organization in Sherman and 2.50 dollars to the Red Cross. Florence Lingenfelter of Des Moines, Iowa, attended as a visitor.
Mrs. Marie Norvell hosted a Thursday night farewell gathering for her brother Jack Thrasher who leaves Friday for Mineral Wells to enter the Army. Attendees included Annie Ola Watkins Johnny Virginia Jones L. A. Watkins Jim Pat Meador Betty Marie Allen Mary Jo Cobb Udell Bush G C Brown Norman Watkins Ida Pearl Thrasher Jim Watkins Mary Lou Thrasher C G Watson R C Thrasher Ray Taylor Bill Gladden Doyle Thompson Everett Watson Geneva Gladden Alice Cato Jimmie Lou McCorstin Bonnie Ray Hicks Mousie among others.
A group from Whitewright including Carl Ingram Ernest Sanders Billy Kaiser Jimmie Bartlett Lucille Dillinger Freddie Ray Garner Verna Lee Raley Curtis Alexander Pfc J B Thornhill Amarillo Charles Reed Houston Smith Archie Cain George Teague Henry Willingham Tom Bean Ida May Young J P Young Orangeville attended a grand time together. Reported.
Mrs Lilian Slusher, enlisting in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, was surprised at a bridge and forty two shower hosted Wednesday night at the Ray home by Mrs Inez Ray Mrs Gladys Ray and Mrs H T Atterberry A patriotic motif decorated tables and favors as about thirty guests played games and presented WAAC suitable gifts.
At a Monday meeting the Presbyterian Aid Society elected officers for the year with Mrs. Emmet Penn as president and a slate including Mrs. Lilley treasurer and Mrs. Henry secretary. The four division chairmen were named as Mrs. Barbee Patterson Sears and Short. The Presbyterian Missionary Society also elected officers led by Mrs. T E Sears as president and a roster including Mrs. R L Sears first vice president and Mrs. H H Sears second vice president.
The March P T A session at the Grammar School drew 65 members on Tuesday afternoon. A program by second grade students featured songs, a playlet, and a violin solo by Philla Anne Hinton. A community canning project and room mother honors were announced, with adjournment after the P T A creed.
Savoy College Ex-Students Association votes to continue annual reunions with the 1943 session set for June 20 in Savoy. The college, operating here since the 1880s, will be represented by Judge Harve L. Davis of McKinney as the principal speaker.
John Umphress of Van Alstyne was named a vice-president of the association board at the annual meeting. He succeeds the late Judge Lee Clark of Greenville. Other officers include E. A. McMahan of Dallas, president. G. P. Webb of Sherman. John M. Gist of Midland. and Mrs. J. B. May of Savoy as secretary-treasurer. Board members are Gus W. Thomasson of Dallas, Mrs. J. A. Stinnett of Van Alstyne, and L. J. Reynolds of Arlington.
A congregational meeting will be held at 7 30 p m Sunday to consider employing a pastor. All members are urged to attend.
Rev. E. P. Wootten pastors the Baptist church with Sunday school at 10 a.m. led by superintendent W. T. Simmons. Morning worship is at 11 o'clock and the evening service at 8 p.m.
Chester E Gleason pastor invites readers to Sunday School at 10 00 and Lord s Supper with preaching on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of each month The sermons are Honeyed Words and Anchors Until the Dawn The notice urges study prayer singing and meditation to ease wartime strain and offer comfort and hope.
Rev. W. W. Adcock pastor delivers morning sermon at 11 with Sunday school at 10. Youth sing at 6 and evening worship at 8, following a 10 and 11 schedule.
Doctors say the patient was not in desperate condition after seeking medical advice for stomach pains. A five inch baling wire pierced the stomach wall causing a small cyst and irritated an intestine. He is recovering well from the iron and tin fishing expedition. The Times-Herald ran a photo of the bolts and wire from the stomach in Sunday edition.
Scientists estimate about 100000 million stars exist in the sky. Roughly 1000 million are bright enough to be seen with the 100 inch Mount Wilson telescope and a similar number can be photographed with that instrument.
World Day of Prayer will be observed Friday March 12 at 3 p m at the First Baptist Church with cooperation from all churches in town. The event is sponsored by the United Council of Church Women and has a long Whitewright tradition.
Doctors at St Paul Hospital removed twenty six metal objects from a patient’s stomach after a mental blackout during wartime. The naturalized German patient could not recall swallowing the items which included a spoon handle a bed spring and two bolts.
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