Grammar School Students Map States and Capitals
Seventh grade class with teacher aides outlines a study plan to learn all U S states and their capitals. Mention of Lloyd Roddy and staff contributions noted in school column.
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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1936
Page
7
First Graders Shine in Cleanliness Holiday Bid
Martha Jo Darwin notes first graders excel in weekly math and cleanliness goals. A calendar month calendar depicts tulips and cats on the board while two sunflower girls brighten the colors. The class earns a 100 floor and desk grade, ahead of the seventh grade. housekeepers Billy Ray West and Donnie are recognized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Ray West
Donnie
Martha Jo Darwin
Windmills and Wooden Shoes students study Holland
The second grade reads about Holland the land of the Dutch. The title Windmills and Wooden Shoes is used. In art class students draw Dutch scenes with windmills. A Holland display shows tulips from tooth picks crepe paper Dutch children wood figures and a green paper windmill referenced by James Norris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
James Norris
Third Grade Time Lesson Welcomes New Pupil
Miss Sallye in the third grade uses a clock to teach time as students recite the hours and minutes aloud. A new pupil Monty Atkinson arrives from Hamilton while several classmates are absent. Bessie Joe Russell, ill since Christmas, is improving and hoped to be fully recovered soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Sallye
Monty Atkinson
Hamilton
Clarence Bonds
Mary Gene Simmons
Margaret Hanna
Howard Ross
James Stewart
Bessie Joe Russell
Imogene Head
Fourth Graders Welcome Miss Marys Return
Monday morning the fourth graders greeted Miss Mary returning after a two day absence. Substitute teachers Mrs. Childress and Miss Sue Stephens helped while she was ill. A spelling match pitted the Mustangs boys against the Tigers girls, using United States states and possessions as words. Robert Owens went perfect, winning the day for the Mustangs as geography moved to the Northeastern States and capitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Mary
Mustangs
Fifth graders study silk worms and spiders at school
Last week birds drew focus in the fifth grade English class now students examine silk worms and spiders. They bring in spiders including black widows secured in ink bottles to illustrate talks. A boy asks Mrs Roddy about feeding a spider and plans to catch a fly for its breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roddy
Modene Vineyard
Sixth Grade Spelling Greyhounds Lead Bulldogs
Mary Ruth Holmes notes the sixth graders led by captain Mary Dale King and faced Martha Lee Bradley's Bulldogs. A new pupil Betty Atkinson joined, English tests impressed, and several students excelled. The class shines in Texas history with end of chapter tests. Geography covers Europe capitals and arithmetic adds compound numbers as activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Dale King
Martha Lee Bradley
Bulldogs
Betty Atkinson
Manning
Texas
Europe
Mary Ruth Holmes
Seventh Grade Leads In Rec Games At Whitewright
Edward Browning moved to Bailey Teeman Sanders returns after a broken leg Mr Phillips crafted crutches Teeman may walk unaided soon Seventh grade wins relay races and baseball over fifth and sixth grades Recreation hour notes student grades Mary Frances Claborn wins junior declamation to represent Whitewright Grammar at Sherman Davis Parrish and John Biggerstaff win in spelling to join Sherman team for Interscholastic League Drunette Farley reports on events
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Browning
Bailey
Teeman Sanders
Phillips
Teeman
Mary Frances Claborn
Whitewright Grammar School
Sherman
Davis Parrish
John Biggerstaff
Girls Play Baseball At Grammar School
The Grammar School fourth grade and up gathered on the playground last Friday at two. Mr. Manning stopped classes above third grade to stage a baseball game. A line of students watched as four girls from each upper grade took part in the contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manning
Seventh grade wins relay and baseball games
Dorothy Booher, Drunette Farley, Frances Riddle, and Glenda Mae Rutledge led the seventh grade in relay victories. They then beat the sixth grade 11 to 8 in girls' baseball and defeated the fifth grade 14 to 0, as reported by Ruby Pierson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Booher
Drunette Farley
Frances Riddle
Glenda Mae Rutledge
Ruby Pierson
Guess Who at Whitewright Grammar School
This item notes a seventh grade girl and a small boy pupil at Whitewright schools. The girl is brunette with olive complexion and brown eyes. the boy, once active on the baseball team, suffered a serious accident weeks ago, light brown hair and eyes. It cites last week’s Guess Who answers Jack Wallace and Imogene Head and expresses sympathy for W. H. Phillips, father of Claude Phillips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Jack Wallace
Imogene Head
Claire Doss
Grammar School Boys Defeat Van Alstyne 6 to 4
The Grammar School boys beat Van Alstyne 6 to 4 in a game highlighted by a line-up including G. W. Ford as catcher Jack Thornhill pitching Paul Simmons at first Wilton Mc Farland second base Joe Thomas Thornhill third base J. W. Cantrell shortstop Lewis Vestal rover short stop Dale Watson left field Calvin Pennell center field and Robert Waldo right field. The girls did not contribute to the score in this matchup as noted by the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grammar School
van Alstyne
G. W. Ford
Jack Thornhill
Paul Simmons
Wilton McFarland
Joe Thomas Thornhill
J. W. Cantrell
Lewis Vestal
Rover
Dale Watson
Calvin Pennell
Robert Waldo
Seventh Grade Cleanliness Race Ends With Party Prize
In a school contest Modene Vineyard notes that seventh grade girls and boys alternate weeks keeping the classroom floor clean for six weeks. The side with fewer laps will host a party for the winners, as judged by the teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Modene Vineyard
Election week jitters hit fifth to seventh graders
Students fear securing secretary posts in two clubs as election day approaches on Thursday and Friday. Emma Joyce Hinton notes report cards loom, while classmates joke about social plans and mysteries among names like Bells and Ruby Pierson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Joyce Hinton
Second Grade Assembly Delivers Centennial Program
The second grade led this week’s assembly with a program of Centennial songs, the entire grade reciting a poem, and dramatized stories Cricket's Supper Johnny Cake Elizabeth Ann's Ride. All students participated. Visitors included Mrs. Clay Horton Mrs. B. W. Newman Mrs. Olivia Whedbee and Mrs. Ingram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peggy Dean Thornhill
Cricket
Johnny Cake
Elizabeth Ann
Clay Horton
B. W. Newman
Olivia Whedbee
Ingram
Dorothy Booher
Centennial turtle gift marks Texas centennial year
Boise Idaho. Governor Ross received a Texas turtle Tuesday from F G Leith a San Antonio druggist. The two inch shell bore Texas Centennial 1936 inviting the governor to attend the celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boise
Idaho
Ross
Texas
F. G. Leith
San Antonio
Want Ads and Local Notices Mix in Whitewright Scene
A collage of classified items includes FOR SALE listings for hay and a piano as well as real estate, hatchery notes, and tools. Also offers auto loans from AUTO FINANCE COMPANY with F. W. Creager at 117% S. Travis St. Sherman, plus a LOST item and an estate sale near Whitewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Baldwin Grand
G. H. Jackson
Elm St
Dallas
Texas
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Card of Thanks to Friends and Neighbors
To the friends and neighbors who were kind during illness and after our loved one's passing we express sincere thanks. R. C. Montgomery and Children. We also thank neighbors and friends for acts of kindness and words of sympathy after his going away. Mrs. W. H. Phillips and Children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Montgomery
W. H. Phillips
Notice to creditors in the estate of Simeon G. Ashinhurst
The administrator of the estate of Simeon George Ashinhurst, deceased of Grayson County Texas, by Judge Jake J. Loy, notifies all indebted persons to settle and those with claims to present them within required time, following February 10, 1936 notice in county court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Grayson
Simeon George Ashinhurst
Grayson County
Texas
Jake J. Loy
Said County
Estate Administrator Notice for Simeon G Ashinhurst
Joe H Ashinhurst administrator of the estate of Simeon G Ashinhurst deceased directs all heirs and creditors to present claims within ten days as prescribed by law at his residence Whitewright R F D No 3 Grayson County Texas where mail is received dated March 10 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright
Grayson County
Texas
A. D
Joe H. Ashinhurst
Simeon George Ashinhurst
January farm cash income highest in five years
January cash income of farmers reached 566 million dollars, the highest for January in five years, per the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Benefit payments were one million, with total 1935 income up 46 million from January 1935. annual totals show 1935 at 6.943 billion and 1932 at 4.328 billion in the depths of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Washington
Trawl Nets From Ulster Factories Find Global Markets
Ulster shipyards push trawl nets into international markets spanning Europe Asia and the Americas. Local firms report rising orders from fishing fleets and shipyards seeking durable gear. High demand signals growth across the region’s fishing equipment industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ulster
Girls Travel Ninety Miles Daily For School
In Leadore Idaho sisters Iona and Mary Nielson journey 90 miles daily to attend rural school, walking four miles to a bus line. Superintendent Joseph Dilley notes the 77 pupils average about 31 miles daily and only snowdrifts or extreme cold keep them from class. Nearest grade school is 110 miles away and Salmon high school lies 50 miles north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leadore
Idaho
Iona
Mary Nielson
Joseph Dilley
Nielson Sisters
Salmon
Here
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Glenda Mae
the Industrial Children
Sahara Desert
T. W. Ayres & Son Hitewright
Guess
W.H. Phillips
Claude Phillips
George
Bells
Glenda
Frances
Drunette
Modene
Prince Albert
Ira Fleming Grocery
Johnson
R. A. Gillett
Kirkpatrick Pharmacy
Tom Barbee
Nicholson Grocery
R. D. Ford
John Hollingsworth
Odis L. Woods
Whitewright, Texas
Frigidaire
Rollie R. Waldo
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