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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1933
Page
3
The Whitewright high school auditorium hosted a debate with Whitesboro. Judges favored the Whitewright team led by Sonny Hancock and Robert Doss. They will debate Van Alstyne Saturday at 10 30 am in Sherman.
The campus shows spring life with green grounds and budding trees around the red brick building. Students enjoy baseball tennis and rally ball outdoors as nine weeks remain to finish the term, urging renewed study and spirit.
The Grayson Fannin baseball league played three games with Tom Bean, Tren ton, and Bells. Grayson Fannin lost 4 to 5 at Tom Bean and 14 to 5 at Tren ton, while the Bells game results are to follow next week.
Reading fragments show Jim Pat Meador on time and J C Hannah with a girl. William Baxter with a new car and Edith Ryan described as a brunette. Lucille and Tody drive by Red Top filling station. Maurine disappointed Sunday night. G V and L E travel to Ely.
A list of curious assertions by B E M includes dramatic statements about the Detroit River carrying record tonnage, a flame that can be frozen, the woodpecker’s stomach uniqueness, the danger of molten metal for fingers, the ratio of kaotéen germs, a building’s shape, and broadcast speeches harming theatres by large sums.
Luna Mae Garner a tall senior reporter at the Reflector shows strong writing and a friendly smile. Pauline Magers a shy reliable senior student offers help within her power. Edith Ryan a well liked two year student who stays in town to graduate this year. Edna Earle Stuteville a glee club singer and poet prospect with a spirited temper stands out among classmates.
The Mocha Club met Thursday to share coffee and discuss themes and sketches from The Vicar of Wakefield. Members read passages and older stories were enjoyed, reflecting on the period narrative.
The Round Robin club, studying The Vicar of Wakefield, held a round robin with forfeits for nonparticipants. Miss Ray presented an 1869 edition of Robinson Crusoe for inspection before the meeting adjourned to next week.
Our representatives include Dick Montgomery Monabelle Bigger staff in extemporaneous speaking Mary Jo Sears in essay writing Joe Thomas May Frances Hedgpeth Dorothy LaRoe Lytle Biggerstaff Mary Lena Reeves in spelling Robert Doss Sonny Hancock in debating. Events set for Sherman at Austin College next Saturday with debate finals likely Saturday night.
The excerpt presents playful, paradoxical definitions and misstatements from a student collection. It cites tests and puzzles misdefining common terms with humorous twists, mentioning Benjamin Franklin and peculiar biographical claims among whimsical lines.
Whitewright high school boys competed in a two day track meet at Sherman March 24 and 25. Junior participants J Y Russell Thomas Sears and Jack Lay earned multiple places despite poor conditioning. Senior team members Billie Earle Montgomery Malcolm Williams and Leon Adams won several second and fourth places and will advance to the district meet in Paris. The school thanks the boys and plans to boost student involvement and training next year with Mr Manning’s continued support.
The Trenton nine beat Trenton by 16 to 12 in an overtime county game. Four local pitchers allowed 10 hits and 9 walks as 11 errors and other miscues helped the visitors build an early lead. The home team rallied with four runs in the first, then added five more in the seventh before giving up the final runs.
McCoy led the local hitters with three hits including a double and a triple. Dixon added a homer and a double while Jones hit a homer and a single. Cates made a key fielding play as Trenton defeated Whitewright 16 to 11 with scoring bursts starting in the fifth inning.
Adapted verse laments a student’s struggle with algebraic terms. The narrator acknowledges solving for V in terms of X and finding Y or U as the resulting expression. The poem uses geometry as a motif and humorously confesses a wooden or inexpert stance.
A Saturday night event at the Wild Onion school house featured a big public debate led by Isaac Helwanger. Local chatter includes stamps price jokes by Sile Kilden, Sidney Hocks's farming swap dream, Slim Pickens clearing a jammed crowd, and a cheerful doctor attending Columbus Allsop's home visit.
A humorous quip about envy over a woman’s laughter highlights a social moment. The remark underscores amusement and light gossip about enjoyment and presence in a social setting.
Final 1932 cotton ginnings from Grayson Fannin Denton Cooke Collin Counties show a drop of 101 177 bales from 1931 totals. Collin County ranking and per county figures for 1932 are listed with 69 717 bales in 1931 for comparison.
A humorous exchange features a mother hoping her child behaved while a nurse dryly remarks the child strayed from the gold standard around tea time. The quip captures a light domestic vignette with a playful contrast in tone.
The article explains state inheritance tax rules for these cases. Unrelated heirs face $500 exemption and 5 percent on the first 9 500, with rates rising as the estate grows. Spousal and direct family bequests are tax free up to 25 000, then rates ascend. Charitable bequests tax free. out of state bequests tax above 500.
In a humorous exchange at 1 a.m. a father awakens to learn his daughter has just been asked to marry the young man in dreams and she asks for time while he urges waking the would be groom to seal the moment. The playful dialogue captures a modern domestic scene with wedding plans in motion.
Rubberneck Pete asks who, Rockpile Harry responds with a quip about Mother Nature. The fragment captures a humorous street dialogue style with quick banter between two unnamed speakers.
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