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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1919
Page
3
The Odeon screens Tarzan of the Apes in an eight reel special on Friday April 5. Local notices mention the film as a must see and push the Odeon as the place to view the popular adventure.
Eddie Badgett returns from Floydada and Mrs Nana Meador visits in Commerce. Reed baby carriage ads and Kodak film stock at Caperton's Studio. Work underway on interior repapering at the Methodist church. L LaRoe and Earl Johnson in Wichita Falls last week. Residents report frost but little garden damage. Other items include cattle shipments, extended visits, and social calls around Sherman, Durant and Dallas area.
The Fred Douglas school for negroes in Sherman was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Other notes show rapid furniture arrivals, local business ads, and residents visiting family.
J. H. Graves and son Gomer shipped a car load of East Texas cattle to their farm east of town to fatten with adequate water and pasture. They have accumulated more head as they expand their cattle holdings. H. C. Willis and W. P. Vaughn traveled to western Texas. Willis purchased an improved farm near Tahoka in Lynn County. Aubrey Taylor, a local farming boy near Choctaw gin, was dragged to death when his foot caught in a rope tied to a mule. Richard Wellington planned a few days in Durant and to apply for U S Navy enlistment. Willie Cornelius, recently discharged from the Pacific naval forces, visited local friend C. B. Bryant Jr.
Mr and Mrs S H Montgomery traveled to Purcell Oklahoma on Saturday to return Mrs Enna Perrys car and spent Sunday visiting Mr and Mrs Perry.
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