Local notices from Devonport and Dallas listings
Local social notes include visits to Dallas by Mr and Mrs E H Hughes and family and by Miss Sophia Nell Smith from Canaan community. Weddings occur as Lloyd Lacefield and Lena McFarland wed with Rev E P Wootten officiating. Sale ads promote End Tables at Devonport's for $1.19 with limited stock. A truck accident injures Roscoe Patterson near Trenton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Nell Smith
Canaan
Dallas
Lloyd Lacefield
Coleman, Ark
Lena McFarland
Bells
E. P. Wootten
Local notes and social items from Whitewright area
W J Barbee ill but improving in Commerce hospital with wife at bedside since Tuesday. Mrs H G Giles and daughter Betty of Anna and others visited D E Low and Mrs D M Roddy. Funeral attended in Madill for Mrs W J Bell, a cousin of Everheart. Candy shipment at Devonport's. Raymond Cates and D O Hughes families visiting. Guy Hamilton's Dallas trip. Carrie Hamilton returned to Dallas. Vernal equinox marked start of spring with days lengthening toward June 21. Mrs F M Echols travels Dallas and Longview to visit daughters. Local American Legion Post and Auxiliary held social with Tom Bean string band. New 1941 General Electric Refrigerators at Lem Titts worth’s. Claud Jones and Merle Whitt wed in Bonham. Jones now a Bonham drugstore owner. Rev A W Cunningham to preach at Nevada Baptist Church. Wootten to speak in McKinney. Roy Epting injured in Sherman auto crash. neck fracture, in plaster. Lloyd Moore heads Denison Chamber campaign. in undertaking business. Hilltop Furniture promotes second-hand and new refrigerators. Bonham guests at J E Smith home. PTA elects delegates to Leonard convention. Everheart invited as recorder. Nomination committee appointed for local offices. Adding machine paper noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent- Teacher Association
Parent-Teacher Association
Leonard
F. D. Layman
C. J. Meador
J. P. Darwin
E. F. Everheart
Everheart
Sarah Kilgree
O. L. Jones
Sallye Hamilton
Bonham Social Roundup and Community Notes
Bonham area residents host gatherings with Clark Ball and Ball families from Winnsboro and Bonham, while March rainfall totals keep ground wet. Rotary speaker Irby Caruth addresses rugged individualism. Rev J I Gregory attends. W W Flanagin from Dallas visits. Bridge and forty two event on March 25 at Community Public Service Co. offices, hosted by American Legion Auxiliary. John T Bean leaves Sherman High to teach in El Paso. long-time Masonic member and Fort Worth Masonic Home product joins local lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clay Horton
Rotary Club
Irby Caruth
Bonham Public Schools
Mr. Caruth
J. I. Gregory
First Baptist Church of
Bonham
Community Public Service Company
American Legion Auxiliary
John T. Bean
Sherman
el Paso
Fort Worth
Bean
Masonic Lodge
A. & M. College
Friday Literary Club Texas Program Delights Members
The Friday Literary Club met Friday afternoon at 3 with Mrs. H. T. Atterberry hosting. A vocal quartet sang Have You Ever Been to Texas in the Spring, followed by readings and a travelogue about San Antonio. Miss Inez Ray discussed Cynthia Parker, and Mrs. J. B. Hamilton was elected delegate with Mrs. Emory Christian as alternate to the T. F. M. C. convention in Hillsboro April 23 to 25. Refreshments were served to regular members and honorary member Mrs. H. P. Donigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Atterberry
Friday
Texas
Bryant King
A. L. Jackson
J. C. McMillin
Paul Ryan
Roby Childress
King
San Antonio
Emory Christian
Cynthia Parker
All Texas Opera
Inez Ray
J. B. Hamilton
Hillsboro
H. P. Donigan
Family Reunion Honors Mrs Lena Freeman on 72nd Birthday
A reunion at J P Ownby home east of Orangeville celebrated Lena Freeman turning 72. Fifty five attendees from Whitewright Dal las Van Alstyne and Leonard shared lunch outdoors and enjoyed the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Ownby
Orangeville
Lena Freeman
Dan Brock
Wolfe City
Wesley Reeves
Sherman
Lorena Ashinhurst
Warren Ross
Douglas Ferguson
Albert Reeves
J. L. Reeves
Douglas Gant
W. T. McKinney
van Alstyne
Lonnie Butler
Trenton
Pauline McCarroll
Royce Hutcheson
Leonard
H D Club Meets Whitewright Home Demonstration Session
The H D Club met at Mrs. Lester Haile s home with co hosts Mrs. George Burnham and Mrs. Bynum. Miss Eunice King county home agent spoke on living room chairs and upholstery, 34 members and one visitor present. The next meeting is March 27 at 2 pm at Mrs. Elmo Wallace s home with co hosts Mrs. Horace Ashlock and Mrs. Van Clabhorn. Pirates of the 15th and 16th century ships were often painted sea blue to blend with waves and mislead attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club
Lester Haile
George Burnham
Bynum
W. L. Hatfield
Eunice King
Tom Brown
Trenton
Elmo Wallace
Horace Ashlock
van Clabhorn
Death of T. J. Reagan in Sherman area funeral today
Funeral services for T. J. Reagan 25 were held at 2 30 p m Monday at Cannon Baptist Church near Sherman. He died Saturday in a Sherman hospital and burial followed at Cannon. Reagan born December 20 1915 in the Nobility area southeast of Whitewright married Verba Nichols September 28 1935. Surviving include his father T W Reagan wife a son and daughter Gary Leon and Mary Beth Reagan eight sisters and three brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cannon Baptist Church
T. J. Reagan
Sherman
Sherman Hospital
J. A. Henderson
Pilot Grove
Cannon
Mr. Reagan
Whitewright
Verba Nichols
T. W. Reagan
Near Sherman
Gary Leon
Mary Beth Reagan
E. E. Petty
F. D. Dockery
S. N. Burr
D. D. Brooks
Elzie Taylor
Desert
L. A. Withrow
Farmersville
Russell Bailey
Dodd City
Audie Myrick
Blue Ridge
Ed and
J. C. Reagan
Carl Reagan
Fort Sill
Okla
Funeral services for Charlie S Neathery 70
Funeral services for Charlie S. Neathery 70 were held at Pilot Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Dan Vestal officiating. Burial followed at Pilot Grove Cemetery. He died Sunday morning after a six month illness at his Pilot Grove home. He was born July 6, 1870 in Clinton County Kentucky. Survived by wife Rosie Lee Creswell. two sons Paschal and Otis. five daughters. a brother E D Neathery. 16 grandchildren and a great grandchild. He was brother of the late Dr. E J Neathery of Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie S. Neathery
Pilot Grove Baptist Church
Dan Vestal
Pilot Grove
Mr. Neathery
Clinton County
Kentucky
Kellis Neathery
Alice Sweatt
Rosie Lee Creswell
Paschal Neathery
van Alstyne
Otis Neathery
Whitewright
J. H. Hune
J. V. Grider
H. G. Vandergift
Clarence Murphy
Birthday honors for Mrs J L German at 94
Mrs J L German celebrated her 94th birthday at home with relatives including W P Z German of Tulsa and Dallas visitors. Dinner featured a cake from her son and daughter in law and guests from Bonham and Dallas. She invented a churn and a music staff and had paintings of them shown at the State Fair. her husband J L German was a noted North Texas educator and legislator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. German
W. P. Z. German
Tulsa
Okla
Laud Phippen
Tommie Chenoweth
Dallas
George German
North
Texas
White Population of U S Declining
Washington dispatch says the 1940 census sample figures suggest the white population of the United States will dwindle rather than grow if current trends continue. The Census Bureau issued a statement based on the sample data from the 1940 census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Central Christian Church Sunday Schedule and Notes
Central Christian Church lists Sunday activities including Sunday school at 10 a.m. with Roscoe Gillett as superintendent, 11 a.m. worship, and 6:30 p.m. Epworth League with Miss LaVerne Kilgree as president, plus an evening service at 7 p.m. The pastor Dr B Wrenn Webb invites friendship. Additional note on church school hours and a message about the Every Member Canvass. A separate statistic block cites U.S. teachers salaries at 64 percent of school expenses and roughly 13 995 journalism students in over 450 colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Harvey-Brooks
Roscoe Gillett
Epworth League
LaVerne Kilgree
B. Wrenn Webb
R. P. Montgomery
Population trends: nonwhite growth and white decline per generation
The panel notes present birth and death rates suggest a long term rise of about 7 percent per generation for nonwhite groups, while white populations including Mexicans may fall about 5 percent per generation, with a 4 percent overall decline per generation if current trends hold.
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Bureau
Milk payments tied to butterfat content and minimums
Farmers receive prices based on butter fat content in milk. Legal butter fat minimums typically range from 3 to 3.5 percent.
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. H. Hughes
J. L. Simmons
C. P. Johnson
Devonport
W. H. King
Eugene McElvaney
Joe Brooks
Denton
Mrs
F. M. Echols
Devonport’s
Roscoe Patterson
Patterson
Pure Concord
Palmolive
Sanka Coffee
Purina
Farley
Hill
the Econmoy Grocery
W. J. Barbee
Commerce
H. G. Giles
Betty
Anna
J. A. Low
D. M. Roddy
Denison
D. E. Low
Floyd Everheart
Dick Montgomery
Madill, Okla
W. J. Bell
Mr. Everheart
Raymond Cates
Paris
D. O. Hughes
Ray Cates
Guy Hamilton
Carrie Hamilton
Newton Manning
Longview
J. E. Montgomery
American Legion
Tom Bean
General Electric
Lem Tittsworth’s
Claud Jones
Merle Whitt
Mr. Jones
A. W. Cunningham
Nevada
Baptist Church
Wootten
North Baptist Church
McKinney
Roy Epting
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Lloyd Moore
Denison Chamber of Commerce
Moore
Henry Smith
Preston Hefner
Gayer
Jesse James and Sons
Dorothy Stubbs
J. E. Smith
the Sun
Bell
Montgomery-Ward
Lee Norris
George Ball
Town
Ben Clark
Winnsboro
Buster Ball
Harold Murphy
Ben Ball
Jack Ryan
Carlisle Ball
W. W. Flanagin
Mrs. W. B. Head
Good
H-D
Charlie
Neathery
U. S
Central Christian Church
First Presbyterian Church
The
Alyne Felker
Lester Haile Seed & Grain
Madeleine Carroll
Fred Macmurray
Virginia
Edith Fellows and
Wilbur Evans
Edith Fellows
Jackie Cooper
Bonita Granville
Gene Reynolds
Scattergood Baines
Sun Office
Sonny
All America
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Ren
Ladies
Oxfords
Cole & Davis Co
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