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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1921
Page
2
Eighty Dallas business leaders travel in a 10-1 Pullman with a 25 piece band arriving in Whitewright at 9 18 am Wednesday May 18 for a brief stop on the Twentieth Annual Spring Trade Excursion visiting 73 towns. The visit aims to meet local merchants not solicit orders and includes a short parade and stores visits with souvenirs from the Dallas delegation.
Washington reports President Harding advocates raising the disarmament issue at a supreme council meeting with leading naval powers represented. He argues the council can review the matter from all angles, preferring it to a special conference. Hugh Wallace will sit with the council of Ambassadors until Myron Herrick arrives.
At the next Lords day morning service the Central Christian Church will present State convention reports detailing last year's work and plans for the coming year. An illustrated sermon on the Five Crises in the life of Christ will follow at 7 45 p.m. A cordial invitation is extended to the general public to attend.
The Carthage Missouri Press recounts a melodramatic tale set from 1900 to 1912. Solon Neff and Lillie Brighton eloped and had two children, Neff later left with tuberculosis, both spouses remarried, and after years apart a reunion reveals a complex web of marriages and a final resolution with no children from either union.
P. J. Pierce & Sons operate a confectionery and cafe emphasizing service as the key to strong patronage and customer satisfaction.
In New York on May 9 a man pays a bartender to use a telephone booth at John Dowling's Bowery saloon. A nickel-in-the-slot rig delivers whiskey through the transmitter. Patrolman Ben Waxberg questioned why patrons used the phone and took Dowling to the station as the grand jury weighs the case.
R S Morehead advertises first class shoe repair and vulcanizing. All work guaranteed to satisfy. Highest quality materials used.
One hundred dollars reward offered for the recovery of Hale Short whose drowned body is believed to be in the river after the night of the 17th. Short was known to have a speech impediment. Thornton Bros provides information and offers to relay wornout shears and weld broken castings at a reasonable cost.
Lincoln, May 9. Mrs Samuel McKelvie, Nebraskas governor's wife, explains managing a twenty one room home without servants while cooking for family and guests and handling social duties. She cites a grandmother who ran an eighteen room home, spun and wove textiles, canned fruit, made soap, and lived as a producer not a parasite.
A reflective line emphasizes humility before God and steady work as paths to happiness. It urges remaining grounded and devoted to faith, noting that diligent labor preserves balance and harmony throughout the year.
Buffalo Oil & Refining Co of Sherman enlarges by acquiring Texas Interstate Producing and renames to Buffalo Producing and Refining Co. It gains crude oil production in Wichita and Stephens counties, ensuring refinery operations. Offices move to Dallas with founders T. F. Wood Y. L. Jones and L. H. Ferguson. Dan S. Murphy remains Sherman head of local refining business. Capital stock set at 600000 dollars.
A concise sermon argues that faithful people may shelter in a storm cellar and should not rely on miracle rain protection. It urges practical self-help, noting God gave humans minds to protect themselves and advising to seek shelter, or lie flat in a ravine if no cellar is reachable.
Rev. R. C. Horn urges trusting the Lord for daily bread while emphasizing careful land preparation planting and cultivation. He warns that facing an imminent cyclone without seeking safety risks self harm and advises fleeing from danger when seen.
Two intoxicated men on a train exchange frantic remarks. One asks the time, the other studiously checks a match box and blurts out Thursday, prompting the stunned exclamation that he must get off at this stop.
In a brief exchange a First Private asks if anything could be worse than cooties, and a Second Private replies that if they had cooties they would chirp. The dialogue captures a light wartime moment of humor amid tension.
An advertisement promotes LAX-FOS WITH PEPSIN as a syruphonic laxative for habitual constipation. It claims prompt relief and requires regular use for 14 to 21 days to establish regular action. Product is described as pleasant to take and priced at 60 cents per bottle.
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