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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1928
Page
3
Local residents from Leonard Lone Oak Sherman and Dallas visited relatives and hosted guests over the weekend. Louis J. Wardlaw, gubernatorial candidate, launched a speaking tour with events in McKinney and Denton. Pierce & Sons Cafe invites travelers between Dallas and McKinney. Joe Johnson advertises repair services for electrical appliances.
Mr and Mrs T H Sears return from Lubbock. Lula Mae Caylor visits Greenville. Alton May from Fort Worth visits kin. Frank Hanna family and Lester Haile share weekend time. Mrs Jones Adams and son from Rouse City visit W Ross family. Mrs Robert Martin and Miss Cora Craft visit from Commerce and Leon ard. W H King heads to Amarillo to see son Tom. Mrs Holmes Connelly and daughter from Trenton spend weekend with B G Gowdy. Johnson's advert promotes vacuum cleaner.
Local notes recount odd incidents and idle thoughts from Hogs Hollow. A washboard purchase sparks mischief talk while a dirt clod flies toward Columbus Allsop. Raz Barlow waits for opportunity, a stranger seeks Rye Straw, and Wild Onion school plans a front steps update. Luke Mathewson defines friendship in a quip-like aside.
Mrs John Kerr and daughter visited her parents Mr and Mrs O H Crowell in Denison. Edgar Bow visiting from Commerce with parents Mr and Mrs O G Bow. Miss Elizabeth Groves teaching in Hood school spent weekend with mother Mrs A L Groves. H T Atterberry and two Dallas children stayed with D S McMillin. Mrs D S Carr Mrs Mark Montgomery and Mrs Cappie Beard of Leonard visited Denison relatives. R L Johnson drugstore ad of cards and supplies. Foy Bow visiting with parents accompanied by Verba Smith of Commerce. R H May from Brownfield returned with family after grain work for Kimbell Milling.
Relatives and friends receive invitations to a Friday evening program in Waxahachie where Dorothy Lee Dillon, granddaughter of Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Kirkpatrick, will be presented by Hazel G. Barnes. Dillon will perform four program numbers with assistance from Doris Thompson. she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Dillon, formerly of this place.
James Wallis and Kathleen Phillips were married Friday night at the Presbyterian manse with Rev. J. W. Willbanks officiating. The groom works at the Pierce Cafe and the bride, a Whitewright telephone operator, is a native daughter of A. T. Phillips. Wallis was raised in Trenton but has lived in Whitewright for years.
A vintage promotional note credits Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription with restoring energy for women. Mrs. D. D. Williams endorses it as a reliable aid for health. Offers include liquid bottles $1.35 or tablets 65c, with trial tablet packets available by mail from Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel in Buffalo. Also marketed are Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets at 60 pellets for 30 cents.
The U.S. leads with its first four billion dollar corporation, American Telephone and Telegraph, followed by United States Steel. In the billion dollar class next are Southern Pacific Railroad Pennsylvania Lines New York Central Railroad Standard Oil of New Jersey Union Pacific Railroad Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad General Motors and Ford Motor Company.
We are qualified and prepared to correctly fit your eyes with glasses. Satisfaction guaranteed. RR. L. Johnson, the optometrist.
A passerby reports a man traveled through town Monday selling a patent meal sitter. While the Tin Peddler offers better goods, locals prefer other items from strangers.
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