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Whitewright Sun

Location

Whitewright, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 22, 1952

Page

2

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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