Local Notables and Visitors List from Whitewright
Community residents and relatives from Dallas Sherman Huntsville and many Texas towns visited relatives over the week. Names include Geneva Carr Enochs Young Montgomery Bryant Barbee Cantrell Blanton Sanders Coggins Burnham Pope Doss Simmons and others with trips to Dallas Galveston Corpus Christi and Red River flood area trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. L. Jones
W. J. Barbee
S. T. Montgomery
G. L. Baugher
George Bennett
Red River
Denison
Bells High School graduate class noted at baccalaureate
Sunday services marked the Bells High School baccalaureate honoring the graduating class with Miss Lara Files among the members. Several local residents were listed in visits and travel updates including Ray Turrentine planning photography in Whitewright and Gordonville visits by Mrs. L. M. Alexander and family. The item also notes a Dallas marriage announcement and local business ad offers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. L. Baugher
Bells High School
That City
Grover B. Smith
Dallas
Billie Carral
Gray Carral
Seventh Street
Whitewright
Mrs. Smith
Silly Sallies Club Formed By Local Girls
A group of girls met at Miss Frances Bryant's home Tuesday evening and formed The Silly Sallies Club dedicated to outdoor activities. Officers elected include Norma Frances Donigan president Jo Willa Stateville vice president Aileen Pennington reporter and Sarah Belle Gillett secretary. Sponsor is Miss Bryant. Members listed are Drunette Farley Claire Doss Madene Vineyard Sara Kathryn Atterberry Patsy Jean Young and Marjorie Nell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Frances Bryant
Silly Sallies Club
Norma Frances Donigan
Jo Willa Stateville
Aileen Pennington
Sarah Belle Gillett
Miss Bryant
Drunette Farley
Claire Doss
Madene Vineyard
Sara Kathryn Atterberry
Patsy Jean Young
Marjorie Nell Blanton
Legion Auxiliary Prepares Quilt for Ex-Service Man Family
Four members of the American Legion Auxiliary met Wednesday and prepared a quilt to be quilted for an ex service man's family. The quilt will be quilted Thursday afternoon by members and guests of the Auxiliary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Meeting Postponed To Next Wednesday At Four
The business meeting scheduled for Wednesday was postponed until next Wednesday at 4 p.m. All members are urged to attend. reporte r.
Busy Bee Sewing Club Plans Next Meeting
The Busy Bee Sewing Club met with Mrs. Lindsey Coffey on Tuesday afternoon with ten members and one visitor present. Refreshments were served. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs. Claud Dillon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Busy Bee Sewing Club
Lindsey Coffey
Claud Dillon
Funeral services held for Charles B. Neely at Pilot Grove Baptist Church
Funeral services were conducted for 73 year old farmer Charles B. Neely of five miles south of Whitewright at the Pilot Grove Baptist Church. He died Sunday evening after a three month illness. Survivors include wife, son C B Neely Jr of Denison, daughter Mrs C B Willis of Lubbock, a sister and two brothers. Born in Mississippi in 1861 he moved to Texas and married Hannah Davis in 1902. He was a Methodist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Neely
Whitewright
Pilot Grove Baptist Church
C. B. Willis
Lubbock
J. P. Southerland
Abilene
William Neely
Rule
Tom Neely
Weatherford
Mississippi
Neely
Texas
Hannah Davis
Trenton
Methodist Church
Baccalaureate Service for High School Graduates
Dr B Wrenn Webb leads a church schedule with Sunday school at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m the congregation joins in the baccalaureate service for the High School class at 11 a m the young people's society meets at 7 p m evening worship at 8 p m with the sermon The Christian in Philistra I Samuel 21 30 followed by Wednesday prayer and Bible study at 8 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Wrenn Webb
Young People’s Society
Philistra
Sunday church services notice at Baptist Church
Pastor C. W. Dennis asks all church members to attend Sunday school at 10 a.m. worship at 11 a.m. and evening service at 8 p.m. Young people meet at 7 p.m. Bring a friend and be on time.
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C. W. Dennis
The
Baptist Church
Investments and appearances in a domestic vignette
Claude Callan recalls a wife discussing investments and money management with friends. She downplays his six dollars in building and loan stock and two dollars in savings, labeling them investments while asserting she handles the home. Sentiments from newspapers satire the political scene.
People Forum Signed communications for publication
Readers submit signed notes to be published under this heading. The forum accepts letters and brief statements from residents and local readers, intended for public display and community discussion.
Century bike? Alamo linked to ending liquor scourge
The Sun argues poisons attack the body and brain, urging a national edition celebrating Texas freedom from Mexico and Frances Willard's temperance campaign. It ties the Alamo to liberty, warning a new generation of drunkards looms unless the liquor traffic is halted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Sun
Paul
Mexico
Frances E. Willard
Alamo
Santa Anna
Texas
Despondent Texas man shoots wife then himself
Thomas Allen, 52, killed his wife and himself at their New Braunfels area farm six miles north of the city. Witnesses—his daughters Velma 11 and Gladys 14—said despondency over unemployment led to the tragedy. Justice of the Peace Ben Faust ruled murder and death by self-inflicted wound.
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New Brainfels
Thomas Allen
Allen
Velma
Gladys
Justice of the Peace
Ben Faust
New Braunfels
Dallas to film intoxicated drivers in trials
Dallas motorists who drive while intoxicated or figure in collisions may find themselves in the movies soon. The police traffic bureau will seek a motion picture camera for use by the traffic squad in aggravated cases. The film would be shown at trials while police call-downs of violators via loudspeaker will begin here next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Police Traffic Bureau
Quote snippets spark doubt on spending programs origins
A Missouri reader cites a biblical line about not worrying for tomorrow to question spending programs while a Toledo Blade reader laments public gratitude for free radio events. The exchange reflects varied newspaper voice on public spending and appreciation.
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Toledo Blade
Concentration of Farm Wealth in 1929 Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The Brookings Institute finds wealth concentration extends to farming with the richest 20 percent of farmers receiving about 50 percent of farm income and the poorest 20 percent just over 4 percent in 1929. The piece argues inequality stems from human nature and general economic factors, not just urban wealth, and calls for resistance to such disparities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookings Institution
Brookings
Fort Worth
War Lords and Speed Fiends
Essay arguing that war lords glorify killing while auto speeders cause untold fatalities. It contrasts battlefield deaths with civilian road crashes, praises military sacrifice over dying in a car wreck, and notes Mae West amid Hollywood satire in Topeka State Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae West
Hollywood
Milwaukee
Topeka State Journal
How Paper Was Discovered By Keller And The Paper Wasp
In 1840 German papermaker Keller and a fellow tester studied a wasp nest to learn its materials. They found wood pulp in the nest and observed the wasp grind wood into pulp with a sticky fluid. Through experiments they produced paper from wood fibre, the type used by newspapers, naming the wasp the paper wasp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keller
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Geneva Carr
D. S. Carr
W. M. Enochs of
Sherman
Mrs
Jesse Wallace
S. L. Young
Huntsville
Frances Montgomery
Morris Wright of
J. F. Wright
Paul Graves
J. H. Graves
Mrs. W. S. J. Brown of
Merkel
Mrs. J. F. Lilley
Odis Anderson
T. E. Barbee
G. F. Bryant
James Lackey
Bill Boone
J. L. Boone
Lem Tittsworth
Bonham, Texas
C. B. Bryant Jr
State Bankers Association
Galveston
John Cantrell
Durant, Okla
J. L. Cantrell
T. E. Montgomery
Clovis, New Mexico
G. W. Pope
Lowell Blanton
Betty Sanders
Muskogee, Okla
Jess Blanton
Joe Coggins
Clemer
M. A. Burnham
George Burnham
Kansas
Paul Vestal
Charlie White
Monterey
Corpus Christi
Houston
College Station
Eugene McIver
Randolph
Elbert Thompson
Pilot Point
E. T. Doss
Willis Simmons
Cora Simmons
Clarence McMillin
R. E. Gentry
Blue Ridge
F. S. Call
Sun
Fred S. Rogers of
Brady
J. R. Jackson
W. L. Stowers
Cincinnati
Presbyterian General Assembly
Ray Turrentine
Bob Edens
Clay Kirby
Chattanooga
Okla
W. R. Vineyard
Merriwell Vineyard
Will
Hugh Tim
H. T. Atterberry
R. L. Johnson
Optometrist
First Presbyterian Church
East
Edna Earle Stateville
East Texas Teachers College, Commerce
Legion Auxiliary
Busy Bee Club
Presbyterian Church
Claude Callan
Nebraska
Cincinnati Enquirer
Richmond News-Ledger
Ray
People’s Forum
Wife
Jackson
Miss
Daily News
Firestone
Kellog
Mangrum Grocery
Austin Callan
San Jacinto
General Motors
Featuring
John Pace
Sinclair
G. C. Stateville
RKO “Radio Picture
Tom Keene
Cheyenne
Call OF the Savage
Paramount Picture
Adolph Zubkor
Paramount
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Joe Morrison
Dixie Lee
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