Third Grade Notes On Rocks Projects And Club
A lively classroom report details third grade pupils bringing rocks and shells to share their origins, plus a “Future Citizens' Club” meeting with a varied program. Fifth graders study graphs on production, scrapbooks, bird reports, and spelling contests amid classroom decor of Packards and Lincoln Zephyrs.
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Lydia MaeArney
Mary Lee Wilson
Texas
Pattie Everheart
James Stuteville
Virginia Jones
Winnell Stapleton
Martha Louise
Foucheaux Vestal
Packards
Lincoln Zephyrs
Mary Helen Maddux
Glen Stapleton
Mary Dale King
Betty Atkinson
Boy Scouts of America Founded In 1910 Innovations In Scouting Reach Global Brotherhoo
Doretha Darwin notes the Boy Scouts of America as a worldwide movement born from English roots in 1908 with Baden Powell, introduced to the U S by W D Boyce, and incorporated on February 8, 1910, stressing citizenship and global brotherhood through Scouting.
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Boy Scout Organization
Boy Scouts of America
International
Boy Scout Movement
Scout Movement
Sir Robert Baden Powell
England
United States
W. D. Boyce
Chicago
First Grade Room Displays Dutch Scenes and Math Progress
First graders showcase bright Holland themed pictures with windmills and Dutch houses. They work on subtraction in arithmetic and anticipate advancing beyond seventh grade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland
Robert Waldo
Jackie Lee Thompson
Second Grade Windmills and Dutch Costumes Display
Second grade pupils built windmills and wheelbarrows with boys Guy Bailey Norris, Harry Watson, Claude Pritchett, and David Lee Johnson among those making wheelbarrows. Bulletin board photos show sailboats at night, moon and stars, spring mood, with flowers on two windows and Miss Fletcher’s desk bouquet. Names J. C. Hasting and J. W. Chaney appear among the classroom notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Bailey Norris
Harry Watson
Claude Pritchett
David Lee Johnson
Miss Fletcher
Third Grade Dutch Day Classroom Clock Project
The class creates Dutch themed craft with paper plate clocks, Dutch windmills, clocks, churns and wooden shoes. Miss Sallye introduces a large stork, a colorable Dutch boy print, and a Dutch word list for learning to tell time using handmade clocks and calendars.
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Holland
Sallye
Wallace Reeves
Seventh grade spelling demons report results and next date
On March 15 the seventh grade had two hundred spelling demons. Four made a hundred. They are Dorotha Darwin, Mary Dale King, Mary Alice Harrison, and Velma Holland. Our median grade was 89. Every one that missed words had to write each word missed 25 times. We will have the spelling demons again on April 15. We hope to do better next time. -Doretha Darwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorotha Darwin
Mary Dale King
Mary Alice Harrison
Velma Holland
Doretha Darwin
Sixth grade Texas studies and Whitewright project
In social science the sixth grade continues Texas studies with six page daily booklets on settlers and discoveries. They covered La Salle DeSoto St Denis and other pioneers this week. English reviews adverbs and a Friday test. Pupils will hand in Texas Hero booklets and a Whitewright person lives booklet. Relays in multiplication occur this week.
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Texas
la Salle
DeSoto
St. Denis
Whitewright
James Birt Phillips
Wandell Riddle
Grammar School Picture Show Raises Funds for Hygiene Class
On Thursday morning at the Grammar School a movie shown at the High School venue featured scenes in old Mexico and a Mickey Mouse comedy. Velma Holland and Mary Dale King announced the event, several High School pupils attended, and proceeds benefited the Grammar School home hygiene class.
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Mexico
Mickey Mouse
Velma Holland
Mary Dale King
Grammar School
Jarvis Maddux
Wilton McFarland
Grammar School boys form Boy Scout troop in town
Last week the Grammar School boys organized a Boy Scout troop sponsored by PTA president Mrs H T Atterberry. Dr White will be Scout Master. Forty nine boys plan to join. The Scout house south of town will be used as meeting place. First meeting was Tuesday night.
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Grammar School
P.T. A
H. T. Atterberry
Dr. White
Wilton McFarland
Jarvis D. Maddux
Birthday luncheon for Wallace Reeves celebrated at home
Sounds of a luncheon near Wallace Reeves' residence on March 9 hinted at a birthday party. The piece notes Reeves is well behaved, contrasting any misbehavior. Guests gathered for a celebratory luncheon marking his birthday.
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Wallace Reeves
Wallace
Finger Injuries Highlight Quick Baseball Practice
The piece lists involved staff including Ben Robert Jones and James Stateville and notes daily wishes for Wallace. It recalls frequent cries of Oh my finger during periods and names the injured: Margaret Coffey, Otto Russell, Mary Lee Wilson, Mary Dale King, Marie Badgett, J. C. Hasting, G. W. Ford, Morris Fogle Gillett, Mary Alice Harrison. It mentions Lewis Vestal suffering a heart attack while running the fifty yard dash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Robert Jones
James Stateville
Billy Jack Harper
John Biggerstaff
Wallace
Betty Atkinson
Mary Dale King
Margaret Coffey
Otto Russell
Mary Lee Wilson
Marie Badgett
J. C. Hasting
G. W. Ford
Morris Fogle Gillett
Mary Alice Harrison
Lewis Vestal
Whitewright Boys Defeat Trenton 20 to 2 in Monday Jazz
Whitewright High won 20 to 2 over Trenton with G W Ford at catcher and Jack Thornhill pitching. Trenton’s lineup included Vincent and Williams. Grammar School girls beat Trenton 18 to 4 led by Mary Alice Harrison’s two home runs. list of players named.
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Whitewright
Trenton
G. W. Ford
Jack Thornhill
Paul Simmons
Lewis Vestal
Otto Russell
Calvin Pennell
Robert Waldo
J. C. Hasting
Tommy Thornhill
Bob Sears
Vincent
Williams
Oaten
F. B
Jackson
S. B
Stogishill
T. B
Butler
S.s
Earnheart
Latmer
C. F
Dooley
R. F
Wilson
Whitewright Grammar School
Sherman
Grammar School
Mary Alice Harrison
Alma Jo Sanderson
Malachia Wright
Charlie Sue Childress
Dorothy Sue Douglas
Lydia Mae Arney
Lucille Starr
Rover
Margaret Coffey
Myrtle Taylor
Marie Badgett
Velma Holland
Mary Dale King
Orangeville News Social Roundup at Local Homes
Alma Wilder and Louise Brown stayed with Mr and Mrs O D Mayse in Whitewright over the weekend. Jim Mayse and family of Celeste visited relatives here. Mrs Lucian Jones was taken to a Sherman hospital Friday. Eva Gene Howell visited with Mrs O W Wilder. John Burleson and son John Henry of Dog Creek called on John Savage and family. Mrs Lloyd Barry and Mrs Matt Harris of Trenton visited Mrs Dan Harris. Annie Mae and Iline Segers returned to Marshall after visiting Marie and Lois Wilder. O W Wilder spent Monday night with relatives in Celeste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma Wilder
Louise Brown
O. D. Mayse
Whitewright
Jim Mayse
Celeste
Lucian Jones
Sherman Hospital
Fred Howell
Eva Gene
O. W. Wilder
John Burleson
John Henry
Dog Creek
John Savage
Lloyd Barry
Matt Harris
Trenton
Dan Harris
Annie Mae
Iline Segers
Marshall
Marie
Lois Wilder
Bonham Visitors and Local Visits Reported
In Sedalia and Bonham area communities on Tuesday and Friday residents including Oland Bush James Burris Vivian Grammer and Paul Coleman Paul Pritchett and families along with Miss Macrine Withrow Weldon Jones Henrietta Jones Leon Bush and others were recorded as visiting relatives friends or staying with local households. Several households hosted musical gatherings and extended visits with relatives from Tom Ball Whitewright and Canaan amid the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oland Bush
James Burris
D. L. Bush
Sedalia
Vivian Grammer
Paul Coleman
Bonham
Paul Pritchett
Tom Ball
Jack Withrow
Macrine Withrow
Leon Bush
Ross Bartley
Dewey Ford
Denis
Henrietta
Weldon Jones
Whitewright
Olson Bartley
Leon
Garland Branch
Canaan
T. C. Hall
P. H. Hall
Bonham Cotton Mill is Largest in Southwest
Bonham Cotton Mills, with 16 500 spindles, is the largest mill of its kind west of the Mississippi River, manager Herbert Burow told the Rotary Club. The mill has 469 looms, employs 300, and last year produced 967 400 yards of cloth and 5 300 bales of cotton, mostly bought locally. It makes 50 types of sheetings and drills used by clothiers, mattress makers, auto factories, and others. One bale of cotton yields 8 750 000 yards of thread or 3 000 yards of 36 inch cloth. You can buy adding machine paper at the Sun office.
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Bonham
Bonham Cotton Mills
Mississippi River
Herbert Burow
Rotary Club
Murow
Buron
Committees Named In Testing of Cows
In Denison Grayson Dairy Herd Improvement Association president John Kemper names three district committees to contact farmers for the cow testing service. Denison members include Kemper Casey and Finke. Sadler Whitesboro members Scheid Riley Dossey. Sherman members Gray Thompson Perry. John Bean, Whitewright vocational agriculture teacher, will explain the service to county farmers.
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Denison
John Kemper
Grayson Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Kemper
A. C. Casey
Carl Finke
Sadler
Whitesboro
A. F. Scheid
George Riley
Grover C. Dossey
Sherman
Crows Attack Oklahoma Plantings Sparking Widespread Pleas
Oklahoma City reports herds of crows described as the largest in the nation mobbing freshly planted fields. Farmers plead for dynamite bombs to stop the raids as game wardens confess dwindling supplies and vast crow casualties. Warden L. D. Richey says Oklahoma has more crows than any state and notes 200,000 killed in winter. He appeals to the Legislature for aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
L. D. Richey
Union
Richey
Want Ads and Whitewright election notice 1937
Classified ads offer remington portable typewriters at ten cents a day and washing bundles with local addresses in Whitewright. An April 6 1937 election to choose two city commissioners is announced with appointed election officers and official signatures by Mayor F M Echols and City Secretary Jesse Wallace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Texas
Grayson
Whitewright
Texas
City of
W. H. Horton
B. S. Montgomery
J. W. Henry
J. M. Wright
F. M. Echols
Jesse Wallace
Senate approves utility rate control bill for cities
The Senate passed Tennyson's bill allowing incorporated cities and towns to regulate utility rates for water, gas, telephone, light, power and sewerage. The measure caps income at 8 percent over five years, not to exceed 10 percent in any year, with amendments by the State Affairs Committee. Final passage was 25 to 1. The bill now goes to the Governor for signature and broadens city authority to regulate utilities regardless of population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Senate
Tennyson
House
Senate State Affairs Committee
T. J. Holbrook
Champion Speller Gets Real Mouthful
New York report notes R. T. Strohm of Pennsylvania hailed as the Nation's champion speller by the National Puzzlers League. Strohm, known as Arty Ess, won the spelling match with a 29 letter word meaning the action or habit of estimating as worthless.
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New York
R. T. Strohm
Pennsylvania
National Puzzlers League
Strohm
Arty
Red Nose Not Always Badge of a Toper
Vienna doctors warn a red nose may signal unbalanced hormones or other causes such as poor circulation temperature changes nervousness or congestion from over indulgence rather than drinking.
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Vienna
Fannin Youth Bonds On Two Charges In Home Fire
Sydney Huff of Bonham posted bonds of 1000 dollars each on murder and arson charges connected to his mother Mrs Rafe Huff death when their Windom area home burned Friday night. He was released from Fannin County jail to await the next grand jury.
Soviet to Manufacture Rust Cotton Picker
MEMPHIS Tenn. John Rust said Monday the soviet government will undertake mass production of the mechanical cotton picker which he and his brother Mack invented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
John Rust
Mack
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Bobby Montgomery
Kenneth Norris
John Rufus Taylor
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Future Citizens’ Club
Margaret Hanna
Hugh Tim Atterberry
Mary Gene Simmons
Mary F. Call
Kenneth Harris
Dorothy Nell Hall
Pinocchio
Sinclair Gas
Sinclair Oil
North
Sinclair
Stateville
Boy Scouts
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Mahurin News
Bonham Cotton Mill
Southwest
Sun Office
Remington
Floyd Bassett
R. D. Ford
J. A. Merritt
Mooneyham House
East Main Street
Allis-Chalmers
John Hollingsworth
H. A. James
Flirf
G. H. Jackson
Elm St
Dallas
Manning, Clark & Meador
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis Sr
C. W. Bryant
Fannin Youth
Ize
Purina
Pascal Farley
T.W. Ayres & Son
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