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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1952
Page
5
Local residents report visits and trips across Texas and nearby states. People from Tom Bean Dallas and Denton extend family ties, with patients and hospital news shared. A birthday party for Jerry Reed Moses involves 36 children, and Duncan or Fort Worth ties appear in several city trips and visits. Postponed Legion games highlight community schedule changes.
Grand Prairie resident Ronny Bridges visits grandparents Mr and Mrs O A Bennett. Mr and Mrs W J Martin return from Corpus Christi. Mrs Ben E Bailey recovers after a month illness. Whitewright Music Club chili supper raises funds for a new school piano. Lt and Mrs Gordon S Taylor Jr and children visit in Brownwood en route from Mobile to Tacoma. Cpl Billie Hatfield on 27 day furlough from Fort Sam Houston. Wardens dynamite crow roosts killing about 10 000 birds west of town. Bobbie J Hyepock at Lackland Air Force Base completes basic training en route to technical schooling.
Hickman Sunday School class met at the church for a Wednesday night session. Miss Mardell Pumphrey led a devotional and eleven members attended. Guests include Mrs Ed Bayless of Denison. April guest night will feature Bayless as speaker.
Rotary Club in Tuesday recap featured W Cummings as program chair last Friday presenting a group of second grade students and their teacher Mrs Sarah Kilgree. Children Amy Alexander Elizabeth Stephens Mary Spencer Selena Key Carol Rathjohn Linda Harris Patsy Mitchell Joe Kaiser Jerry Jones Charles Short Gary Morris Guy Ely Dickie participated in a classroom demo for the Rotarians.
Sheriff G W Blanton chairs the Grayson County blood bank group urging residents to donate. The bloodmobile will return April 28 and 29 with Whitewright urged to recruit 250 donors and Whitesboro contacted. R A Gillett, acting chair, appointed a committee led by W C Cummings.
The Bethel W M S met Monday March 10 at 1 30 p m with eleven members. Royal Service program on Cuba featured facts by Mrs Clifton Sanderson. Song and devotions followed with prayers by Mrs George Jarvis.
After school the Juduson Club met at the Presbyterian Church for refreshments and worship. Mrs Madge Braly taught new songs for the Spring Festival while Mr Smith led the Map Song. Members expressed wishes for Mrs Henry’s swift recovery.
The Women Missionary Society held a Monday Royal Service and business meeting at the First Baptist Church. Discussion focused on Cuba with eight members present including Mrs. J. P. Darwin Miss Carrie Hamilton Mrs. James Cooper and Mrs. Roy Blanton. Mrs. O. L. Jones presided over the business session. Reporter.
The Whitewright Music Club met at Mrs. Houston Darwin’s home for an Irish program directed by Mrs. Charles Skaggs. A quartet sang Would God I Were a Tender Apple Blossom and the club chorus performed When Irish Eyes Are Smiling as well as a piano duet St. Patrick's Day. Mrs. Skaggs spoke on Sir Thomas Moore and Mrs. Sears read on Irish music. Twelve members and two visitors shared a salad plate. The next meeting will be March 26 with Mrs. Guy Hamilton.
A fragmentary column portrays a mother resenting a silent, dreaming father and two daughters Edith and Bella. It contrasts youth memories with present behavior, notes a church crowd for a movie star and sparsely filled pews, and ends urging readers to submit news items.
A short poem reflecting on how a newborn baby reshapes a couple's life. It contrasts wealth and poverty, and describes the baby as bringing future dreams, pride, fears, and sleepless nights, with parents understanding both happiness and hardship ahead.
A compilation of maxim style lines highlighting common proverbs about beauty danger wit and wisdom. It includes conventional phrases such as beauty is only skin deep beggars must not be choosers and brevity is the soul of wit with additional notes on prudence and social insight.
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