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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1935
Page
13
Local residents including Billy Collins Miss Hicks Pete Evans and Joe Sam Wright visited friends in the area on Sunday. Several couples spent weekends with relatives from Fort Worth Leonard Bonham Sherman Denison Mineola Telephone Dallas and Lubbock with stays and visits noted in Whitewright and Sherman areas.
The Ladies' Auxiliary gathered for an all day meeting at the Legion hall with a covered dish luncheon for members their husbands and one guest. Mrs. BE Hughes presided and a program led by Mrs. B W Newman followed. The group adjourned to meet again next Wednesday for another all day session.
The Busy Bee Sewing Club held a Tuesday afternoon session at Mrs. Gene Hughes home with eight members. Refreshments were served. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs. Bonnie Nicholson next Tuesday.
Mrs J D Estes presented two speech arts students Norma Frances Donigan and Aileen Pennington in recital at the grammar school studio tea Thursday afternoon. Sarah Belle Gillett, pupil of Mrs. Estes, also performed at the event.
Local residents visit neighbors and relatives in Greenville Whitesboro Dallas and Denton. shrubbery work at the Baptist Church completed by a landscape architect. births visits and occupational notes plus a drive for community cleanliness and reporting rules at The Sun.
Funeral services for Jim Pink Montgomery were conducted at the Presbyterian Church with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Born November 14 1899 he died from a self inflicted gunshot wound. He leaves a wife Louise Freeman three children his mother three brothers six sisters and many relatives.
Mrs. Dodd born June 29 1891 in Hill County married H W Dodd Sept 17 1911 Vaughan near Hillsboro. Family moved to Whitewright six years ago. Survived by husband two sons Oliver and Herring four daughters Vera Lamonte Etta Pearl Louise her mother seven brothers Jack Smith C T Ralph Leonard W B Jr and Douglas Her ring all of Hillsboro.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at Enterprise Baptist Church near Whitewright for Mrs. W. E. Kidd 37 who died of influenza at her Slaton home. Interment followed in Oak Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers were cousins from McKinney and Whitewright. She was born August 26, 1897, to the Browns of Enterprise. Survived by husband son and several siblings.
Mrs. Eddie Herring Dodd died at her home seven miles northeast of Whitewright at 8 p.m. last Thursday after an illness since November due to apoplexy. Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Friday at her mother’s home.
Nichola Tartaglione 56 known as Big Neck in Providence Rhode Island died yesterday. The circus fat man weighed 619 pounds. An undertaker ordered the largest casket and arranged a moving company to lower the body from Nick’s Spruce Street home.
J M Simmons serves as superintendent for Sunday worship at 10:00 a m with Bible study at 10 45 a m Communion at 11 30 a m and a Young People's meeting at 1 45 p m The morning theme is False Teachers and False Doctrines announced by J R Waldrum minister.
Dr B Wrenn Webb ministers a full Sunday program including 10 am Sunday school 11 am business meeting brief Scripture on stewardship treasurer report canvass committee presents next year budget 615 pm young people's society 715 pm evening worship subject House by the Side of the Road 715 pm Wednesday prayer and Bible study 715 pm Thursday choir practice
Chicago detectives blame glandular malfunctions for crime in otherwise respectable families. Capt. Stege, with 25 years on the force and 35,000 cases, argues crime prevention needs medical insight as much as legal action. He likens harsh punishment to locking the barn after the horse is stolen.
In 1848 seagulls helped Mormon settlers end a grasshopper plague at Great Salt Lake, leading to a Utah law banning killing sea birds and a commemorative monument. Now farmers call gulls a nuisance as they plant and seed, prompting a bill to permit killing gulls, herons, pelicans and other birds harming crops.
Lansing Mich Representative Frank N Steele of Muskegon introduced an anti gold digging bill to curb alimony. The measure allows alimony only for wives with minor children or those physically unable to work, while marital assets would be split 50 50 on divorce. Steele criticized certain women in the divorce system and cited a case of a 35 year old woman collecting from four ex husbands.
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