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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1918
Page
4
The report details sewer plant income and principal payments, notes fines collected, and discusses justice administration. It compares tax rates, school funding, and city improvements such as a sewer system, street work, water metering, fire department motorization, and bond retirement. It closes with signed remarks by F M Echols.
Local auto service advertises new car care at reasonable prices with round the clock availability. It lists residence and office phone numbers for contact, emphasizing ready assistance day or night.
J. H. Baxter, Grayson county treasurer, sues the county in district court for 1400 dollars alleged as due for the year ending November 1917. The suit stems from a dispute over salary, Baxter having briefly set aside the amount as his salary but later returned it to the county. The commissioners previously fixed the treasurer’s pay at 50 dollars per month, versus about 2000 dollars annually prior to his election.
The church announces a program featuring "He is Risen" by the Double Quartette and "Glory and Honor" by Gounod. The discourse topic will be "The Risen Lord" delivered by Pastor A. E. Major.
Advertisement promotes Laxa tive Brom quinine as superior to ordinary quinine. It promises tonic and laxative effects without nervousness or head ringing. Calls reader to remember full product name and seek E. W. Grove’s signature. Priced 30 cents.
Six year old Orris Stallcup son of Mr and Mrs J H Stallcup of Sherman died Thursday afternoon from injuries after a heavy motor truck ran over him at the Travis and King streets corner. He lived only two hours after the accident. He had just alighted from a north bound street car with his mother when the truck struck and dragged him about one hundred feet. Chief Bart Shipp arrested Ernest Carlson the truck driver and filed a complaint charging negligent homicide.
An advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a remedy for nervous debility insomnia and female weakness. It claims benefits for irregularities exhaustion and uterine issues and offers tablets or liquid with no charge medical advice from Buffalo. A testimonial from Mrs Jos Escuavon endorses the medicine.
The 1918 B Y P U program covers stewardship with speakers Miss Cordelia Yeager Mrs Emma Epting Roy Epting and Miss Lillie McFatridge plus Leader Mr Ginnings. Separately Lee McAfee of Grayson County is named Muskogee Oklahoma chief of police succeeding Clark W Compton and Charley Savage becomes Sherman city secretary on April 1.
Tom Rowland who served this precinct for four years as county commissioner died Wednesday of last week at Denison Hospital. He was fifty and survived by his wife and several brothers and sisters. For refreshing drinks, go to P. J. Pierce and Son.
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