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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1914
Page
5
Local notices list Pierce & Son’s Whitewright restaurant inviting readers to lunch and promote short order meals cigars and cold drinks. Barber Simmons Brothers advertises shaves shines and shampoos while Glidewell offers eye fittings. Residents and visitors frequent Dallas Gainesville Waxahachie Tom Bean Howe and Bells, with many locals visiting relatives and shopping in the city.
Mr and Mrs V Mason departed Monday to Shamrock Texas to stay with relatives for the summer months in a family travel note.
Guests at local homes include Mr. and Mrs. H A McDINELL and Mrs. Roberts of Bonham. Sherman visitors J M Pennington and Frank Sims drop by. Paris and Whitesboro residents travel to Bells and Whitesboro for family events. Dixon and Hayter offer repair services for sewing machines and more. Mrs. Jane Meador's funeral brings relatives from Whitesboro and Commerce. T H Sears showcases a trailer attachment for his automobile. Tempting spring groceries offered by T J Smith.
Charley Truett exchanged his Whitewright home for a 150 acre farm southwest of Whitewright with Frank Phillips. Miss Rosa James of Brown Cracker Co. spent three days at W B Hestand's grocery store demonstrating product merits to Whitewright ladies and the community.
Bright baled oats baled millet and sorghum offered at 12 to 15 dollars a ton. Contact Sam Stateville two miles north of Trenton by see or phone. Messrs Williams have improved Scenic Theatre with two large roof vents and front openings to improve air ventilation.
Dr King s New Life Pills promote regular digestion and cleansing of kidneys and liver. Customer C E Hatfield of Chicago reports strong relief from one box. Sold for 25 cents at local druggists. Rev T B Clark of Sherman is hospitalized after an appendectomy performed Saturday with satisfactory results.
Notice states Dr J F Spindle is reopening at his old stand over Wilson and Vaughn's hardware store with a brand new dental outfit and invites patients and friends to call for dental work.
One hundred dollars reward for any catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Endorsed by F. J. Cheney & Co. and the National Bank of Commerce in Toledo. Cure taken internally. affects blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Miss Lea Dumas of Malone New York reports recovery from a run-down state after two bottles of Vinci the cod liver and iron remedy. The ad claims Vinci builds strength and offers a money back guarantee and is sold by Dyer Jones Druggists.
Six-Sixty-Six J. P. Davis visited the Sun office revealing plans to develop an oil field in Shackelford county on a line between Electra and Moran fields. He will form a Howe Van Alstyne company to drill two test wells based on surface indicators.
The Sun office lists chattel mortgage blanks for sale. This notice invites buyers to purchase standard forms used in secured lending. Includes pricing and ordering details for interested parties.
Pleasant Hill North Carolina resident Mrs Walter Vincent details three summers of dreadful nervous headaches and prostration. After three bottles of Cardui she reports full relief, regained strength and appetite, and rosy cheeks. Cardui advertised as a vegetable tonic for women. Chattanooga Medicine Co offers advisory letters and a 64 page booklet.
Railroad time table lists North Bound and South Bound trains with numbers and times. Mentions East and West bound schedules and a “Limited” train along with a Cotton Belt line reference. An advertisement warns against calomel and promotes Grigsby’s Liver Ver lax as a safe vegetable remedy.
The Sun highlights visiting card styles and standard sizes for Mr and Mrs Miss Prof and others along with birth announcements wedding cabinets and other society printing offerings.
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