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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1928
Page
10
A compilation of local residents visiting Dallas Sherman Denison Royse City and surrounding towns. Names include Mangrum Routh Bailey Graves Carroll Gordon Mangrum Durelle Truett Ross Adams Burnham Witt Ballard Ford and others with brief notes on trips visits and attending meetings or family events.
Mr. and Mrs. J W Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs Jess Dunn and Fred Dunn of Melissa were guests of Dr and Mrs J F Spindle the first of the week.
Mr and Mrs Ben Patterson of Denison visited relatives here Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Rhom Carr and daughter of Wolfe City visited relatives here Sunday. S S Doss left Tuesday for San Benito after a visit with relatives here. Grover Gillett and Byron Sears were visitors in Wichita Falls Wednesday and Thursday. George Pierce of Sherman is visiting his sister Mrs Grady Brown southwest of town.
A local note reports growing number of residents realizing groceries are cheaper at Nicholson's Cash Grocery. The brief also lists visits from several residents to and from Greenville, San Antonio, Sherman, Bonham, Wichita Falls, and relatives of the Sears family.
Mrs. J. L. Kirkpatrick Mrs. O. L. Jones and Mrs. Gomer May with a little son were Sherman visitors Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs J M McMurry and their young daughter from Jacksonville Fla visit his parents Mr and Mrs J W McMurry. D R Lewis, previously confined to his room with the flu, is able to be up and will soon be downtown.
Bow-Wright Drug Company offers a $1.00 box of face powder and a $1.00 bottle of perfume for 98 cents. Mrs. Ida Graves and daughter from Los Angeles visit her mother Mrs. M. A. Mangrum. D. R. Fain family and Mrs. Albert Melugin spent Sunday in Sherman to visit Mrs. Fain's ill sister.
Mr and Mrs W R Wilson of Slaton spent several days here the past week visiting his mother and other relatives.
Mr and Mrs Flewhardy and Miss Pearl Dooley of Dallas were guests in the Roscoe Dooley residence Sunday visiting with the family.
Call Saturday and view a spring hat display at Badgett's Millinery. Great time to choose your Easter headwear as the season opens with new styles and colors.
Spring collection of hats for children misses and women offered at economical prices by Badgett's Millinery.
Mr and Mrs R H Jay of Fort Worth spent Saturday and Sunday visiting Mrs G W Pope and other relatives, staying with Mrs Pope, the mother of Mrs Jay, in town.
D. S. McMillin and his daughter Mrs. H. T. Atterberry along with their children spent the weekend in Dallas as guests of local friends or relatives.
George M. Guffey, longtime employee at Simmons Barber Shop, traveled to McKinney on Thursday for new work opportunities with the local shop in that city.
Our Friday and Saturday special offers two dollar items for 98 cents. A one dollar box face powder and a one dollar bottle of perfume are both priced at 98 cents. Mrs. C. K. Spindle and her children of Denison were weekend guests of Misses Myrtle and May Badgett.
Mr and Mrs Looney Robbins and their children from Greenville visited Sunday as guests of Mr and Mrs H L Darwin, sharing a family afternoon in town.
Mrs. B. G. Gowdy and her daughter attended the Kincaid Leatherwood wedding held in Bonham on Wednesday evening.
Charlie Hall of Dallas J C Oaks of Pittsburgh and W H Ewing of Fort Worth toured here Monday and Tuesday with Community Gas Company. Miss Sybel Germany Greenville stayed with Mrs. Mack San Marcos while visiting her parents. Presbyterian Church women plan a spring bazaar and produce sale Saturday at Martin Keefe Bray store. An Aid Society food sale at Central Christian Church is set for Saturday April 7 offering cakes pies baked hens and dyed eggs for Easter.
Dr. David Ray Womack and Miss Mamie Pepper of New Orleans left Tuesday for a visit with relatives in Dallas after a week with relatives here. They plan to return to New Orleans late this week.
Lowell Blanton travels to Paris on Wednesday for a try-out with the Paris Lone Star League team as a pitcher. Friends expect him to win a berth with the Paris club.
Cannon Henderson, described as a negro, was arrested Wednesday by Constable George Bennett in Tom Bean and charged with carrying a pistol. He was released under bond to await trial.
Nelly Don Dresses are showcased Friday and Saturday at the Martin Keefe Bray Co store. New prints in English broadcloth linens and pongee offered in all sizes at attractive prices.
Harry Brown, once of Whitewright, seeks the city commissioner seat in Denison. He has lived in Denison for the past fourteen years.
J. R. Fleming returned Friday from a visit in Dallas and Paris. He traveled by automobile and said farming conditions are as good as they get for this time of year with farmers up to their work everywhere observed.
Co. W. Anderson of West has accepted employment at the Western Union Telegraph office here. He has rented an apartment in the J. C. Gillespie home and will move to the city as soon as the apartment is completed.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Melugin and Mrs. D R Fain visited relatives near Wolfe City Monday. Mrs. Fains mother Mrs S H Woodson accompanied them home for a short visit before going to Sherman to be with her daughter who is ill.
Sun reporter hears from 75 year old C S Means about his large family. He cites fourteen living children, ninety living grandchildren, fifteen dead grandchildren, thirty five great grandchildren and one dead, totaling one hundred fifty five descendants. Mrs Means is 72 years old. He notes few deaths in the family.
Jim Boone, a popular Honey Grove grocer and longtime Wednesday salesman for thirty years, has quit the road for a house position. The community will miss his cheerful jokes and his interest in patrons as well as current events.
Martin Keefe Bray Company announces a special showing of Nelly Don dresses Friday and Saturday with many sizes and colors available for selection.
The children express gratitude to friends for comforting words and deeds of love at the burial of their father W. T. Truett. May you have heavenly blessings.
Dr. H. H. Harrington, board of control member, says bids for state eleemosynary and educational institutions are modest and may allow a cut below the $37,748,058 requested for the current biennium. Fortieth Legislature’s generosity to schools and asyllums supports tighter expense limits.
Funeral services were held Sunday at 2 30 p m for Mrs. F R Ferguson who died Saturday at her daughter’s home southeast of Van Alstyne. Born February 1 1847 she was 81 years old. She married F R Ferguson in 1861 and eight children were born to the couple seven survive. Interment was in City Cemetery. Survivors include Mrs Norman of Canyon Mrs Giles of Van Alstyne and Mrs Norman of Gunter among others.
Mangrum, Harlinger, E. W. Ferguson Terrell, and Glen Ferguson are listed with survivor details. Mrs. Ferguson is also noted to have a brother J. E. Richards of Dallas and a sister Mrs. Deliah Groves of McKinney, along with forty one grandchildren and thirty four great grandchildren.
The Giles family expresses gratitude for sympathy support during illness and after the death of their husband and father. They thank those for comforting words and floral offerings.
Mrs Grady Gillet Mrs Lucian Andrews Mrs C J Meador and Mrs C P Johnson attended the Grayson County council Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent Teacher Associations organization meeting in Sherman on Saturday. About 300 people from forty local PTA groups gathered for the event.
Mr and Mrs J M Wright traveled to Sherman Friday to retrieve Gene Tate who had an operation about three weeks earlier at a Sherman hospital.
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