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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1947
Page
5
A roundup of neighborly visits and health updates from Whitewright and nearby towns. Mentions include Kirk May in Lubbock, Miss Myrtle Badgett in Denison, Roby Lee Wilson ill at home, and Mrs. Fred Starr in Sherman. Details cover numerous trips to Dallas, Fort Worth, Sherman, Denison, and Bonham, plus several family gatherings, visitors, and local events.
Local families hosted visitors from Dallas Bonham Paris and McKinney over the weekend. Owen Lancaster III recovers from an emergency appendectomy and Deco ration Day at Pilot Grove Cemetery will be observed May 4 with graves decorated by attendees. Lake Texoma hosts a fish rodeo with a $1 club membership required to win prizes. Dallas Morning News editor Lynn W. Landrum visited Whitewright and bought an Oak Hill Cemetery plot for his mother, with plans to move his father here.
There will be all day service at Cannon church on Sunday May 4 with Aubrey Lee Allen of Dallas preaching at 11 am and again Sunday night. Dinner and a decoration program are planned, with Rev. Mr. Simpson of Van Alstyne as guest speaker. Adjourn at 3 pm for graves decoration. Rain blocked cemetery work Wednesday, meeting moved to Friday. Mrs Laura Hill notes. Roscoe Vestal’s collie rescued a Denison woman’s cockers and fostered ten puppies after a radio appeal. Paul Vestal of Sherman delivered five pups to his father, the collie’s home. The collie had previously raised kittens after losing pups last year.
Whitewright 4-H girls gathered Friday April 25 at the Grammar School for achievements. Nell Vandergriff Gwen Kent and Sue Parnell won first second and third prizes. Games and refreshments followed. Home demonstration agent Billie D Freeland and sponsor Alva Blackerby attended. Riders were Miss Sallye Hamilton Miss Todd and Mrs Nana Francis. Meeting adjourned until May for the final session of the year.
Mrs. Ralph Kent and Mrs. Elbert Bennett hosted a 4th birthday party Saturday from 4 to 5 at Mrs. Bennett’s Dallas home for Shirley Ann Kent. Guests included Judy Gosnell Ruth Elaine Williams Sandra Montgomery Sammy Montgomery Tom Sears Clifton Emerson Bryant Dollarhide Mickey Gentry Robbie Scoggins Linda Harrelson and John Neal Campbell.
The Whitewright group met Thursday at Mrs. Wayne Martin’s home with Mrs. R A Vestal presiding. Mrs. Fred Cook Sr reported on the Sherman council meeting held on April 19. Miss Viva Phillips presented the new list of books.
Members urged to use the newly established library in the council room at Sherman. The club donated the most modern fiction history drama and religious books for the library. Games were led by Mrs. Ed Martin and Mrs. Joe Miller. Refreshments served to 18 members. The next meeting will be held in May at the home of Mrs. Ralph Wallace.
Rotary Club program chair O V Barker hosted speaker Doyle Williams a vocational and agriculture teacher from Denison schools on a Friday luncheon. Williams discussed Wisconsin dairying noting its leading status, cow barns feed production and profits when managed well, and compared Wisconsin methods with local practices. The club voted to attend the District conference at Greenville on Monday May 5 in lieu of the regular meeting. Orville Pete Howell named May junior Rotarian, Jack McSpedden for April.
Attendance Friday reached 100 percent as visitors M. D. Honaker and Leon White of Farmersville and Chancy Corse of Sherman attended, marking the first full turnout of April.
Benton Roberts a Whitewright native aged 60 died April 24 at his Lampasas home of a heart attack. Funeral services were held April 26 in Lampasas. Born September 7 1887 he was son of the late J T Roberts and grew up in Whitewright. He worked in dry goods for years and lived in Lampasas 20 years. Surviving Nora Roberts wife two sisters Emmet Penn Whitewright and Joe Hembree McLean and a brother Frank Roberts Dallas. Another brother Paul Roberts died in 1932. Mrs Emmet Penn attended the funeral.
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