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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1927
Page
5
Sherman patrons frequent Gordon's Cash Grocery as prices promoted to draw patronage. Local residents and visitors from Dallas Vernon Ladonia Mt. Pleasant Fort Worth and Denison frequent the area with theater shows and family visits.
Mr and Mrs W H King attend the annual Texas Bankers Association session in El Paso where bankers gather for the statewide meeting and discussions.
Local ads mention Mrs Pauline Williams of Houston and Mrs Frances Williams of Corsicana visiting relatives south of town in addition to notices about a Palace Theatre screening Silent Flyer chapter 4. Visitors from Dallas Fort Worth and Greenville attended events and shopped at Williams Filling Station while R L Johnson promotes bargain show windows and a mail order catalog.
A store event is announced for Monday May 16 featuring a lady demonstrator for Lady Beth toilet articles at Bow Wright Drug Company. Customers are invited to visit the demonstration.
Mr and Mrs W A Fain return to Whitewright for the summer months. Mr Fain bought cotton at Lubbock during the cotton season.
Mrs. J. FE Mangrum and her daughters Durelle and Norma Joe spent Sunday in Fort Worth visiting Verma Mangrum a Texas Christian University student.
C B Bryant left early this week for Sweetwater to visit his daughter Mrs A H Fortner. He will then travel to El Paso to visit his son A M Bryant.
Ladies are invited to visit on Monday May 16 to learn about Lady Beth toilet articles with a demonstrator at Bow Wright Drug Company for one day only.
Miss Inez Ray and Miss Edna Womack attended the Curtice Briggs wedding held at Sherman last Thursday evening. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs James Briggs. The groom, a prominent Flint Michigan businessman, manages the A C Spark Plug Company in that city.
A promotional note invites customers to a facial massage at our store on Monday May 16 with a Lady Beth toiletry demonstrator offering service and guidance.
Fred W. Smith, superintendent of Whitewright schools, helped close Bells school exercises last Friday. He awarded the diplomas to the graduating class. Congressman Sam Rayburn of Bonham delivered the commemorative address.
Mr and Mrs H Benedict of Cald well Idaho formerly of this place are visiting friends in Whitewright. They may locate here again and many friends hope they will make Whitewright their home. They traveled by automobile noting roads were fine to Idaho a 2000 mile trip except the Whitewright to Colbert bridge over the Red River north of Denison.
Friends of J A Alexander and P C Coldwell of Garland who bought the Gordon Clothing Co. learned their homes were spared as the tornado struck early Monday. Coldwell’s house suffered window damage while both men lost friends and business associates. They aided the wounded and stayed through Wednesday for funeral services.
A sixteen day old robin has a diet of about sixty eight earthworms providing sustenance as it learns to fend for itself.
John Alex Palmer aged 87 a Bells pioneer died Tuesday at his home at 12 30 pm Funeral services were from the residence at 3 pm conducted by Rev Black of Bonham Burial followed in Rosehill Cemetery He is survived by two nieces Mollie Capps and Mrs 8 H Palmer and a great niece Miss Bess Euheart He was born in Lincoln Missouri March 1 1840 and moved to Bells about fifty years ago He had long been a member of the Christian Church
Miss Winnie Hamilton announces she is now employed in the ready to wear department at R. A. Risser & Company in Sherman and invites friends to call on her when they are in the city.
At a regular monthly meeting on Tuesday night the Masonic Chapter appropriated 25 dollars for Mississippi Valley flood sufferers 15 dollars for Nevada storm relief and 10 dollars for nearby Garland relief.
All kinds of printing and engraving obtainable at The Sun office at reasonable prices.
A promotion offers a four-quart Alaska ice cream freezer to the most accurate guess of how long a 100 pound block of ice will last in a Leonard refrigerator on display in the store window. Guessing ends at noon Tuesday and is open to all bidders.
While visiting East Texas, Governor Moody was given a large country ham by an admirer. The hog’s breed mix included Poland China and Razorback traits, and its growth was gradual and balanced. after slaughter the hams were trimmed, salted, and cured with pepper and saltpeter before aging noted.
A rustic anecdote from the Honey Grove Signal recalls labor by unnamed workers, smoke cured hickory chips, and a feast of country ham. The narrator notes the governor of Texas earns four thousand dollars a year and claims he has earned enough to remunerate an emperor for life.
A humorous exchange about a worker being mistaken for the foreman. The punchline: the foreman fired him out of jealousy because people thought he was in charge.
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