Glow Worm ends school year with farewells and prizes
The Glow Worm staff bids farewell as seventh grade exams start Thursday. Pupils Imogene Head and Jack Wallace recall party fun and contest prizes. Mary Dale King won first prize in the amateur music contest, with Dorotha Darwin second and Velma Holland honorable mention. Teachers plan summer travels to Washington, Commerce, Houston, and Denison, while Mr Manning may stay in Whitewright and Dallas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Dale King
Dorotha Darwin
Velma Holland
Bettye Nell Yeager
Mary Dale
Jack Wallace
Seventh grade graduates embark on high school journey
Emma Joyce Hinton reflects on the June 1 graduation of the present seventh grade, expressing mixed sentiment about those who did not contribute to the project. She imagines a hopeful flight to the future, noting the filled gas tank and tested machinery as symbols of safe progress, while acknowledging potential regrets for anyone left behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Joyce Hinton
Oswald the Turtle Named by First Graders
First graders settle on Oswald as the turtle name after Miss Fletcher’s suggestion. Second graders study pets and share about their companions, with one borrowing a chicken and another borrowing Mr. Manning’s goat. Third graders sketch the Scarlet Tanager and celebrate the teacher’s return. Grade 3 wins a ball game against Grade 2. Fourth graders lose a spelling contest to the girls. Sixth graders read outside and Mary Dale King reports on 19 books.
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Oswald
Miss Fletcher
Mr. Manning
Mary Dale King
Glenda Mae Rutledge
Second graders plan party for Miss Fletcher
Jimmy Montgomery wrote invitations to the second grade children telling them they would give their teacher Miss Fletcher a party and asking them to bring gifts. At noon Monday the class delivered their presents and hid them in different locations.
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Jimmy Montgomery
Miss Fletcher
Seventh Grade Chapel Program Features School Imitations
The seventh grade presented a chapel program Tuesday with a class song Columbia the Gem of the Ocean by the class, Evelyn Hill reading the class history, Modene Vineyard the class poem, Drunette Farley the class will, and Joyce Hinton the class prophecy. Students imitated teachers, led by Evelyn Hill as Miss Chenoweth and others, with humorous impersonations. Principal Manning, played by Dale Watson, administered a mock punishment to paper-wind shooters, and James Norris as Mr. Claud Phillips closed by announcing the desks would be varnished before the room was cleared.
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Chapel
Columbia
Evelyn Hill
Modene Vineyard
Drunette Farley
Joyce Hinton
Nadine Blanton
Imogene Head
Carter Fletcher
Ruby Pierson
Sallye Hamilton
Frances Riddle
Mary Pumphrey
Madene Vineyard
Dorothy Hamilton
Lenora Thrasher
Kathryne Roddy
Dale Watson
Manning
James Norris
Claud Phillips
Claire Doss
Summer Plans and Stretches of Travel in a School Room
The story catalogs students and relatives with planned summer destinations. Joyce will stay home to read. Ruby travels to the far west Portland Oregon area. Cecil may be found in San Antonio or Galveston. Lloyd in Denison James in Missouri and others across Dallas Galveston and Oklahoma. Frances Glenda Drunette ride about while Claire Imogene and Mary Ruth will stay busy.
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Joyce
Ruby
Portland
Oregon
Cecil
San Antonio
Galveston
Lloyd
Denison
James
Missouri
George
Martha Jo
Grandis
Dallas
Dale
T. G
Modene
Oklahoma
Frances
Glenda
Drunette
Claire
Imogene
Mary Ruth
Sidelights on the Faculty Highlights From the Campus
Notes reveal faculty and students engaging in leisure activities. Mary Ruth Holmes shares a playful portrait of teachers and staff. Blanton is noted as an artist. Fletcher is seen riding horseback. Sallye Hamilton enjoys attending plays. Mary Pumphrey identified as a poet. Dorothy Hamilton rides a bicycle. Mrs. Roddy spends spare time typing. Drunette Farley mentions Mr. Manning's favorite subject is his goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Blanton
Fletcher
Sallye Hamilton
Mary Pumphrey
Dorothy Hamilton
Roddy
Mr. Manning
Drunette Farley
Remembering Our Teachers and a Seasonal Showdown
In a seventh grade memory, students thank Miss Gertrude Schooling and Miss Kate Fulton for early schooling then recount the teachers who guided them through grades one to seven. The piece credits Miss Mary Pumphrey Miss Sallye Hamilton Mr Manning Miss Mae Hall Miss Susie Noe and others for shaping their progress. Sports notes say the sixth and seventh grades each won two of four games with a final grand game likely Friday afternoon to decide which team leads.
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Gertrude Schooling
Kate Fulton
Kate
Mary Pumphrey
Sallye Hamilton
Manning
Mae Hall
Susie Noe
J. T. Bryant
Clyde Montgomery
Roddy
Burma
Dorothy Hamilton
Evelyn Hill
Cecil Hodges
Sixth and Seventh Grade Poetry Notebooks Bound
Last Thursday and Friday sixth and seventh grade English classes collected poetry notebooks after five weeks of work. Most students exceeded the thirty poem minimum. several seventh graders were singled out for top effort. Special mention lists include Claire Doss and others. sixth graders cited include Lydia Arney and Mary Lee Wilson among those receiving A booklets.
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Sun Office
Claire Doss
Madene Vineyard
Martha Jo Darwin
Evelyn Hill
George Hansard
Imogene Head
Glenda Mae Rutledge
Lydia Mae Arney
Marie Badgett
Martha Lee Bradley
Robbie Mae Brown
Marjorie Burchfield
Margaret Coffey
Dorotha Darwin
Mary Alice Harrison
Mary Dale King
Annie Ola Watkins
Mary Lee Wilson
Betty Atkinson
Class of 1936 bequeaths room and memories
The bequest from the sixth grade class includes the room with ink spots and knife scars. Claire Doss bequeaths her intelligence to Mary Dale King Dorotha Darwin and Mary Alice Harrison. Glenda Mae Rutledge grants her
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Claire Doss
Mary Dale King
Dorotha Darwin
Mary Alice Harrison
Glenda Mae Rutledge
Mourning the Grammar School Varnish and Debts of Charms
The text lists many pupils bequeathing traits to peers in a school fancy, noting transfers of behavior and personality. It also reports Whitewright’s Grammar School nearing closure with desks scraped and varnish slated for remaining grades.
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Grammar School
Whitewright
Dorothy Booher
Community Visitors Report Local Stops and Guests
Sherman resident Mrs Inella Beckette visited the community on Wednesday. Bailey resident Ray Capehart stayed with Leon Bush Saturday night. Howard and Mrs Hodge and son Howard Jr visited Jim Hodge’s parents near Wolfe City last week. T C Hall called on Westminster Sunday. Loriie Baldwin from Ector visited Alma Hall last weekend. P H Hall and wife were Denise son visitors Thursday. Laura May Brown visited brother Charley Brown in Ambrose on Friday. Audrey Fay Hutchins and Kathryn Hutchins hosted a party Tuesday night. Paul Coleman of Desert spent Sunday evening in the area.
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Inella Beckette
Sherman
Ray Capehart
Bailey
Leon Bush
Howard Hodge
Howard Jr
Wolfe City
Jim Hodge
T. C. Hall
Westminster
Loriie Baldwin
Ector
Alma Hall
P. H. Hall
Denison
Laura May Brown
Charley Brown
Ambrose
Audrey Fay
Kathryn Hutchins
Paul Coleman
Desert
Leery of the Hereafter in a Planter Servant Exchange
A Southern planter and his enslaved servant trade playful bets about the afterlife. The planter asks Sam to report back if he dies first, while Sam replies that Ali wants the planter to return in daytime if the planter dies first. The dialogue reflects racial dynamics and humor in a historical context.
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Sam
Ali
24 Hour Payment Of Bonus Planned
Washington reports the government will begin distributing cash payments on June 15 for the vast majority of World War bonus bonds. About 3,500,000 applications are covered, with bonds dumped into twelve postoffices and deliveries aimed for June 16 in major cities. Identifications may affect delivery in some cases.
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Washington, D. C
Want Ads and Local Sales Include Lawn Mowers and Shoes
The page lists for sale items including new lawn mowers at seven to eight dollars and trade-ins, shoe shop specials on Friday and Saturday, three used mowers priced 20 to 30 dollars, plows, cultivators, and refrigerators from Manning Clark Meador. Also veterinary and veteran notices about piano sales, farm equity offers near Whitewright, and an Auto Finance Company advertisement offering automobile loans with easy terms.
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Manning, Clark & Meador
Veterans to Liquidate Bonds in June Across Cities
Veterans may turn bonds at post offices on June 16 to receive checks cashable everywhere on June 17. Bonds issued by the treasury are mailed to reserve banks for registration and returned to veterans in twelve Federal Reserve cities and Washington on June 15. Plans aim to cash all bonds by July 1 unless not offered for liquidation.
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Tion
Federal Reserve Bank
Washington
Treasury
Reserve
American Farmers Get 1.54 Billion Cash First Quarter
Washington report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics shows U.S. farmers earned 1.54 billion dollars in cash income from products in the first quarter, up 259 million from a year ago. Higher marketing of corn wheat and other grains and increased prices for potatoes and hogs drove the gain.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Candidates Named by Sun for Democratic Primaries 1936
The Sun lists candidates for July and August 1936 Democratic primaries including congressman Sam Rayburn judge Jesse F Holt for 15th District Court. J H Waggoner Place One J W Adamson Place 2. district attorney R C Slagle Jr George Hagans. county judge J J Loy. sheriff J B Davis. county clerk E A Clayton C H Shorty Barrett. constable C A Red Pace.
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The
Sun
15Th District Court
Jesse F. Holt
R. C
Bob) Slagle JR
George Hagans
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