Spring News From Town and Nearby
The piece notes Spring arrives amid changing weather with rain sleet and snow. It mentions the upcoming forty first State Sunday School Convention in Austin from March 30 to April 1 and urges attendance for benefit. Greenville residents seek consolidation of two telephone systems to cut costs. John Vestal visits Whitewright on a trip from Cedar community, noting road conditions. E B Nall, banker from Waurika Oklahoma, dies of paralysis in Sherman, linking to Ophthalmology brothers R B and Arthur Nall and Carl Nall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
John Vestal
E. BE. Nall
Waurika
Oklahoma
Sherman Sunday
Drs. R.B
Arthur Nall
Carl Nall
Woodmen of the World convention heads to Waco in 1917
D R Lewis attended as White Wright Camp delegate while H W Wiseman of Cleburne is elected head consul of Jurisdiction C. Delegates vote to hold the next Head Camp session in Waco in April 1917. The Texas New Mexico Arizona Woodmen order has 200000 members with protection totaling 800000000. The St Worth convention cost about 100000. Peanut farming gains notice as a low labor, high return crop with 1200 pounds of pork per acre valued at 102 dollars at 8.5 cents per pound. Mrs Lucy A Thompson dies in Sherman and is buried at Savoy. Mrs Alf Woods dies after funeral duties. A Bonham firm wins contract to build a new Carlton Carr Burdette College admin building in Sherman for fall use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. R. Lewis
The
Woodmen of the World
Whitewright
H. W. Wiseman
Cleburne
Waco
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
St. Worth
Texas Industrial Congress
A Bonham Firm
Carlton-Carr-Burdette College
Sherman
Foster visits Texas Sunday school work at Baptist church
Mr W E Foster spoke on the graded system during morning and evening services at the Baptist church as part of Texas Sunday school work. Claude Truett leads the town's large, well organized Sunday school and facilitates the effort to adopt the graded system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Foster
State of
Texas
Baptist Church
Claude Truett
Baptist Sunday School
Foster
Hay For Sale Bright Johnson Grass By R A Gillett
Good bright Johnson grass hay for sale. See R A Gillett at First National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
R.A. Gillett
First National Bank
Superintendent Denton Attends State Reading Circle Meeting
Superintendent Denton of the city school district attended a Dallas meeting of the State Teachers Association committee arranging the program and selecting books for the State Reading Circle. Denton serves on the State Board of Education for the Fifth District and will lead the Grayson County Summer Normal at Austin College in Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Dallas
State Teachers’ Association
Whitewright
State Board of Education
Grayson County
Austin College
Sherman
Death of Arch Childs in mill district
Arch Childs, a well known Black resident of the mill district, died suddenly from heart trouble Monday morning after attending church the prior night. He slept well, but upon waking the fatal stroke occurred. The body was sent to Van Alstyne for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arch Childs
Mill District
van Alstyne
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Dixon & Hayter
Greenville
Lively’s
T. H. Lively Dry Goods
C. P. Johnson
United States
Bill Stockton
Lucy A. Thompson
Savoy
Alf Woods
Woods
Leonard Graphic
Sun
Brents
Jackson Square
W. O. Brents
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