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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1932
Page
5
Local residents list relatives and friends visiting in Whitewright and surrounding towns including Iowa Park Sherman Dallas Dallas Fort Worth and Fort Worth. Many weekend visits span Bells Celeste Honey Grove Trenton Ladonia and Perry. J W McMurry Jr and others welcome family, while public notices mention tutoring and civic events.
Mr and Mrs Eugene McIver and daughter of Randolph visited relatives here Saturday night and Sunday. Mr and Mrs J H Waggoner spent the weekend in Fort Worth visiting their daughter Elizabeth a student at Texas Woman s College.
H. L. Huddleston of Howe has accepted employment at the Simmons barber shop. The longtime local barber previously worked in town shops before moving away. Also noted in society items Edwin Pratt and Miss Mary Goodloe of Red Oak visited Mrs. C. P. Johnson, with Mrs. J. P. Pratt escorting them home. Meanwhile, Sam and Ben Childress of Big Spring J. R. and E. R. Childress of Slaton and Mrs. Sally Copeland of Lincoln Ark are at the bedside of their mother Mrs. J. R. Childress who is seriously ill.
Miss Arlene Alverson who taught at Kirkland in Childress County has returned home for summer vacation to spend time with her parents Mr and Mrs F W Alverson.
Mrs. Robert Bow and children visited Whitewright on Monday joining husband and father who recently returned to take a job at Bow-Wright Pharmacy. Mrs. Bow stayed in Ozona until school closed.
Roland Fincher of the State highway department left Monday for Atlanta where he will oversee road construction. He previously supervised highway 160 from the Collin County line to Bells and made many friends during his stay.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Mynatt and Mrs. W. H. McSpedden of Denison spent Sunday with Mrs. Mynatt's mother and Mrs. McSpedden's sister, Mrs. H. D. Tune. Mrs. Tune, who has been seriously ill for several days, is reported to be improving.
W P Vaughn leases the Texaco filling station on Bond Street formerly run by Paul Roberts who died suddenly last week. Vaughn had previously operated the Sinclair station at Grand and Bond. Also notes a Fort Worth visit by Mrs J L Kirkpatrick and remarks on her son Gomer May's pharmacy studies due June 10.
Mrs. J. H. Perry of Purcell and her son John Jr. rushed home from Montgomery residence to attend a friend’s funeral after a mobile accident Saturday night. The deceased worked at McClain County National Bank where Mrs. Perry’s husband serves as an officer. A bank employee was fatally injured. his recovery was not expected. A letter from Mrs. Callie Frost cites her mother’s paralytic stroke as reason for campaign inactivity and promises to contact voters when feasible.
D A Ray provides Sun with account of two week old heist at First National Bank Lakeview. Bank cashier and Mrs Raymond Ray locked in vault by bandits during the robbery and freed after a passerby heard their cries for help.
Willard Mainord of Burley Idaho wins the News Junior Pan-Pacific Pentathlon senior championship with 4542 points and earns a free trip to Los Angeles for the finals and the 1932 Olympic opening. A. C. Mainord, 15, also shows top marks in dash 100 yards in 12 seconds high jump 4 feet 11 inches and broad jump 17 feet 5% inches.
Desert News reports visits by Mrs. D. B. Tate and Mrs. Maurice Hughes in Sherman, and Mrs. Charley Buchanan with her daughter in Commerce. Bennie Arwine vacations with his father Al Arnwine at Electra while Rev. L. R. Markham hosts twenty one youths in Leonard. Residents from Dallas and McKinney discuss a Mee-Kinney creamery project.
Mr and Mrs C C Gentry and daughter Evelyn visited relatives and attended memorial services at Indian Creek on Sunday after a fall left one injured knee.
Thursday events in Whitewright feature visits by Guy and Juana Ruth Andrew to Mr and Mrs Bill Henderson. Sherman residents visit families in Whitewright and nearby towns. The article notes multiple, brief social calls, demonstrations, and school closing events with local figures and clubs in Pilot Grove and surrounding areas.
The graduating class numbered eight: Helen and D. B. Taylor, Donvan Lee Conner, Royce Elmer St. John absent due to illness, Ernest McMillin, J. B. Dixon, Harlie D. Biggerstaff and Ina Garland. The high school staged the play Yimmie Yonson's Yob before about fifteen hundred spectators.
Istanbul authorities sue the city press for publishing details and photos of Ivar Kreuger's suicide in Paris on March 12. The Nationalist government had banned such publicity but enforcement faltered as newspapers defied the law, risking heavy fines.
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