Down Memory Lane and Town News Highlights
Local notes report Guy Hamilton selling 35 Red Durham heifers to S C Horton at $60 plus per head after six weeks from Fort Worth shipment to Kentuckytown pastures. Also birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs Pascal Harper and property sale by Luther Gordon at A P King place. Other items: McMillin returns from Austin session, Rev Alverson in town en route to Dallas. Lucian LaRoe buys Ector Lumber Yard. Rebecca Longley invited to 1917 nursing school graduation in Dallas. two Poland China hogs bring $275. high school graduation program at auditorium Friday night. Mrs J K Ray dies. Luther Gordon to build a five room bungalow. Dr O M Durham marries Miss Mae Graves. Miss Kate Thomas returns to Bay City after county home demonstration work.
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Guy Hamilton
S. C. Horton
Mr. Hamilton
Fort Worth
Kentuckytown
Pascal Harper
Luther Gordon
A. P. King
D. S. McMillin
Austin
W. W. Alverson
Tecumseh
Neb
Dave Alverson
Dallas
General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church
Lucian LaRoe
Ector
W. T. Truett
Rebecca Longley
Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium Training School For
Longley
G. M. McNeilly
C. Mary Johnson
Lillian Neathery
Miss Hampton
Jap Manton
Sherman
Glee Club
Foy Reeves
H. L. Durham
J. K. Ray
Matagorda County
Bay City
Whitewright Advances in Local Commerce and Education in 1927
J W Wilson joins Southern Plow Company as traveling salesman in the district while Whitewright gains new school term staff including principal B W Crain and several teachers. Community Gas prepares 50 workers to lay natural gas lines as Panhandle goods expand locally. Texas Woman's College awards degrees to forty including Minnie Willis of Whitewright. The Badgetts return from Floydada after attending a funeral.
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J. W. Wilson
Southern Plow Company
Wilson
Whitewright
Board of Education
B. W. Crain
Sue Stephens
Mac Reed
Dorothy Chambless
Joel Bulliner
Dorothy Porter
Susie Noe
Gertrude Schooling
Kate Fulton
Mae Hall
Roberta Sloan
Sallye Hamilton
Alice Bryant
Fred W. Smith
J. S. Lewis
Community Gas Company
Panhandle
Texas
J. W. Murphy
S. A. Park
Texas Woman's College
Fort Worth
Minnie Willis
Whitewight
Ray Badgett
Floydada
J. S
Loyal Democrats consider walkout over Rayburn pledge
Texas Loyal Democrats plan to form a bolters delegation at San Antonio on May 27 pledged to back Speaker Sam Rayburn for presidential nomination. A walkout could follow the state convention, with a pledge vote they deem not a true Democratic gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Sam Rayburn
San Antonio
Gov
Shivers
Fagan Dickson
Eskimos Have Something To Blubber About Now
Greenlandic Eskimos face ration controls by Danish administration. Inuit will receive monthly quotas of whisky aquavit wine and beer with taxes and strict distribution. In other notes, Badgett and Holland join an Oklahoma oil company baseball team and Dallas locals Gladys Ray and Edith Clark visit. Martha Washington was once married to Daniel Parke Curtis.
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Badgett
Dutch Holland
Lowell Blanton
Seminole
Okla
Gladys Ray
Edith Clark
Dallas
Miss Ray
North Dallas
Miss Clark
Southern Methodist University
Martha Washington
George Washington
Daniel Parke Curtis
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W. L. Miles
Blue Ridge
Whitewright Cleaners
Dem Bolters
Rayburn
State of Texas
Robert Miles
Samuel Miles
A. D
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Bankers Life and Loan Company
Louise Hewlett Brame
S. V. Earnest
Nancy Drake
Whitewright Sun
la Villita
Dickson
Chicago
Richard D. Russell
Georgia
Copenhagen
Greenland
Great Arctic Island
Bin
Denison
McCormick
C.J. Meador Truck & Tractor Co
Whitewright, Texas
Roddy Kilowatt
Reddy
Public Service Company
Your Friendly Electric Company