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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1937
Page
6
A story from the Glow Worm yearbook describes students discussing trips to Colorado Arkansas and Texas. Narration from Lydia Mae Arney and Annie Ola Watkins offers travel vignettes with puns and spellings.
The grammar school bids farewell to 39 seventh graders who exceed in scholarship music and speech. Six students averaged 90 or higher, with Dorotha Darwin Mary Dale King Betty Atkinson Mary Alice Harrison Velma Holland and Morris Fogle Gillett highlighted. The class led in baseball and edited The Glow Worm while earning praise from teachers.
The first graders bring home books in the afternoon and Mrs Blanton offers prizes to the boy and girl who read the most over the next weeks. Louise Owens and Lonnie Myrick lead with three books each as the class draws trees with their artwork.
Second graders gain a new reader Tales and Travel about a real girl and boy on vacation including where they go how they travel and what they do. Classroom duties list names: Board Donnie Magers library Harold Ray Vineyard housekeeper Elba Riddle helper Terry Max Miller Door M. H. Mullins balls Max Ray Wilson Willie Journey Charlie Sue Childress.
Third grade pupils planned vacations starts Friday and split into two reading groups naming themselves Buick and Pontiac. Numerous pictures decorate the board as the classes discuss plans and activities for the term.
The fourth grade assembly last Friday featured the theme Mother. Billy Rhom Pennington played a piano solo and the class performed a play Mothers of the World with ten boy actors listed by name and the mothers representing Eskimo Russian Norwegian Irish Dutch Japanese Negro and American origins. Annie Ola Watkins Marjorie Mears are noted.
The fifth grade pupils are active this week with a spelling contest where the girls won over the boys after several defeats. New English groups have captains Margaret Benton of the Cardinals and Wallace Reeves of the Blue Birds. Arithmetic now covers division of fractions and a well behaved pencil sharpener is noted.
In English the sixth grade learns sentence diagramming with thirteen sentences Tuesday. Social studies has Texas map work showing railroad routes, with neat maps turned in by students. Myrtle Taylor finishes quickly as arithmetic pupils confirm they must complete eighty eight problems.
Martha Lee Bradley and Velma Holland report seventh graders racing through combinations with a fastest time of one minute ten seconds for the one hundred addition problems. The week also notes civics on the Cost of Our Government and English review on nouns, while recalling forgotten material from the first semester.
James Birt Phillips notes that American Haycutters defeated First Team for Next Year 4 to 3 on Friday morning, ending their championship run, and Friday afternoon the Tuckerville League won the title from them to clinch the championship.
Friday a spell ing match ended in the death of several snails brought to school by Billy Joe Riddle. On Tuesday morning Bettye Nell Yeager learned tadpoles had died overnight, leaving a vacancy not yet filled as replacements arrive.
Sixth graders study Texas history mapping counties with Emerson Sears appointed to guide those who cannot locate them. Headmarks credited to Hoyle Riddle and Calvin Pennell. Plymouths and Model T's ball games played, Model T's winning. Mary Alice Harrison, Malachia Wright report.
Patti Everheart leads a brief listing of peers in fifth grade including Billie Jo Phillips Dorothy Sue Douglas Margaret Benton Pattie Everheart Betty Harper Robert Owens Wallace Reeves Betty Thornhill Ann LaRoe Mary Helen and Jack Ward with remarks such as not being neat not playing ball not talking like a baby not dancing not being smart not making 100 not biting nails and Mary Helen being pitcher.
Eight tons of wild flower seed have been gathered and scattered along the highways of Texas. Division Engineer James E. Pirie announced a wild flower show to be held May 14 at the Gibraltar Hotel. The event, part of a program to preserve natural beauty along state highways, is sponsored by Division 1 of the highway department covering nine Northeast Texas counties.
Washington issued medals since 1782 with 1 543 721 on the War Department books. The World War victory medal lead with 1 303 234 issued and the purple heart totals 60 568. The Medal of Honor remains the nation’s highest award. Do your buying in Whitewright.
Berlin newspapers compare living costs and conclude German housewives are financially ahead of wives in other nations including the United States. The study highlights Germany's lower costs of living as a key factor in the favorable position for German homemakers.
A vintage testimonial style note promotes Cardus for poor appetite digestion and nervous fatigue among women. It claims long-time use by mothers and daughters with thousands of testimonies and advises consulting a physician if no benefit.
An annual deep sea rodeo off the Alabama coast attracts boats and spectators, showcasing fishermen and offshore rig crews competing in sportfishing events and related festivities for renewals of regional maritime culture.
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