Local Notes On Service, Visits, And Community News
Mrs. J G Sloan reports via letter from Ozra Sloan about three weeks in the trenches in France. Silas Wilson returns from Dallas business courses and Lloyd Wright from A M College. Ott Lackey heard Captain Vickers of the British army in Sherman. Pascal Coxes visit in Durant Okla. W T Truett builds a bungalow east of Andrew Pierce cottage. Mrs J W McMurry visited son J M McMurry in Marlin. John L Reeves returns to Camp Travis after visiting grandparents. F M Echols under treatment in Sherman. Sugar allotment for families indicated. canning stock advised within 20 days. Max Pope warned by American Express Co. not to deliver intoxicants. Night Officer McFatridge returns a deserter from Camp Bowie to army. Woosley will case appealed. estate around 40 000 dollars. Executors claim undue influence. Leon Booker’s son hurt from wagon fall. Red Cross quota in Canaan community exceeded with 525 subscribed. May draft entrants to depart soon. Local draft notices issued for various boards. Ollie McMillin, top Grammar School graduate, commutes two miles daily on horseback. Mary Rena Penn elected art editor of The Daedalian. junior at Denton College. Whitewright Electric Co moves wires. 1923 Grayson County tax levy set at 55 cents per 100 for general purposes. Legislature makes drunken driving a felony. Lloyd Moore buys furniture carload in Dallas. Miss Pernie and Miss Nell Badgett return from Floydada. R S Morehead advertises visible gas pump benefits. Laura Lynn Major to speak at Central Christian Church on China with Mr. and Mrs. Manning moving to town. Lightning strikes R L Holcomb home Saturday at 4 40 am.
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J. G. Sloan
Ozra Sloan
France
Silas Wilson
Dallas
Lloyd Wright
College Station
M. College
Ott Lackey
Sherman
Captain Vickers
Pascal Cox
Durant
Okla
W. M. Cox
W. T. Truett
Andrew Pierce
J. W. McMurry
J. M. McMurry
Marlin
John L. Reeves
Camp Travis
San Antonio
J. D. Patterson
F. M. Echols
Max Pope
American Express Co
McFatridge
Camp Bowie
Army
J. B
Elizabeth Woosley
W. R. Foster
Bess Butler
Walter Keeling
Howard Stokes
Trenton
Leon
T. D. Booker
Canaan
Red Cross
Ollie McMillin
Mary Rena Penn
Emmet Penn
Daedalian
Penn
Denton College
Whitewright Electric Co
Main Street
Grayson County
Lloyd Moore
Pernie
Nell Badgett
Floydada
R. S. Morehead
R. L. Holcomb
Early History of Grayson College
Denison Herald notes from Sun describe Grayson College's origin in Whitewright with founders H. L. Piner and E. T. Kemp. The brick building, dating to the 1890s, housed the once affiliated college, while graduates spread across the United States. J. R. Westbrook of Denison is linked to the school's early ownership and development.
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Denison Herald
The
Sun
Whitewright
Grayson College
United States
H. L. Piner
Denison
E. T. Kemp
North Texas
University of Texas
J. R. Westbrook
Texas
Grayson County
Texas Eleemosynary Institutions Cost More Than Six Millions Annually
Texas eleemosynary institutions cost the state over six million dollars yearly with about 20,000 inmates. Monthly per capita cost runs around $18.50. The table lists 1937 costs for State Orphans Home, Waco State Home, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute for Colored, State Colored Orphans Home, Confederate Home, Confederate Woman's Home, State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, and several state hospitals and schools, totaling $6,248,321.30 for the major facilities.
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Texas
State Orphans Home
Hseeleanketiaiatad
Waco State Home
Ssinllaen Satay
Toniertiagciliaen
CET
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute For ‘Colored Biaealiabe
State Colored Orphans Home
Scaridniss Vehi
Biscok
Texas Confederate Home
Intial Bia
Confederate Woman's Home
State Hospital
Kerrville State Sanatorium Cmt Shih Dbuiaenall Scapilonte
Abilene State Hospital
Ccc Ce
Austin State Hospital
Austin State School
Rusk State Hospital
San Antonio State Hospital
Terrell State Hospital
Big Spring State Hospital
Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital
Odie
Titanitataen Saisamndes
Wichita Falls State Hospital
Texas School For the Blind Snaigs
Selleesiecesine Nest Ene
Texas School For the Deaf
Nor
Grayson College Pioneers Linked to Whitewright History
Grayson College operated from 1896 to 1904 with pioneers like Mr Westbrook and F E Butler among its leaders. The 1900 fire destroyed the brick building, replaced with an almost exact replica, and at its peak about 400 students attended from Texas and neighboring states. The college educated many locals and later influenced Denison Sherman Van Alstyne and Whitewright communities, with graduates going on to lead schools and publish in the region. The campus now hosts a modern gymnasium as Whitewright High School continues the site’s educational legacy.
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Westbrook
Grayson College
F. E. Butler
J. F. Anderson
J. L. Truett
H. S. Parsons
Butler
Jacksonville
Texas
Carr- Burdette College
Sherman
Whitewright
George W. Truett
Dallas
Parsons
College
S. S. Strop
J. H. Watkins
A. L. Groves
Denison
Elizabeth Groves
Isabell Ingalls
E. L. Harp
Ida Root Gordon
Mary Olive Norris
O. R. Randle
R. M. Noe
John Scott
C. T. Freeman
Charles Batsell
Scott Fulton
van Alstyne
R. H
Bob) Wilson
Oklahoma
B. B. Cobb
Waco
State Teachers’ Association
Bob May
Port Arthur
Whitewright College
Health hints on domestic staff disease risk and screening
A Texas health advisory warns that home servants can spread communicable diseases if not periodically examined. A state law requires health certificates for public food handlers but exempts domestics, placing responsibility on employers. Risks include tuberculosis syphilis typhus and related infections.
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Texas
Health Dept Urges Testing of Household Servants
The Texas State Department of Health warns that phoid fever dysentery diphtheria and other acute contagious diseases can spread from household staff to families. A typhoid carrier or venereal disease carrier serving or assisting in homes may transmit illness through contact with food and care of children. Employers should have their family physician regularly examine house servants and begin treatment promptly if disease is found, as the cost is small compared with illness and loss of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas State Department of Health
Fool driver recipe cited by police bulletin
A Dallas Times Herald item mocks a recipe to disable a reckless driver by intoxication and a fast car ending in a wreck. The piece contrasts with a factual note that the first electric-lit residence was Edison’s Menlo Park boarding house in New Jersey.
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Traffic Division
Dallas Times-Herald
Menlo Park
N. J
Thomas Edison
Scientist Urges Love Meters for Wooing Couples
London report quotes Prof A M Low proposing personal love meters to rate suitability of mates. He says love should be studied scientifically, with tests to prevent choosing unsuitable partners and measure emanation characteristics like radio beams. The idea includes medical-style examinations and a pocket meter for lovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
A. M. Low
UT denies refusing girl 14 admission
Anna Ruth Miller, 14, graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School, San Antonio, was denied admission to the University of Texas a claim denied by assistant registrar Max Fichtenbaum. He explained the 16 year minimum age rule, but said exceptions could be made for highly qualified students. He noted UT might have a student under 13 in classes next fall.
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Jas. P. Bynum
Carleton M. Jones
Jas. P. Henry
Bonham Board
Jones R. Pierce
Walter P. Judd
Wm. C. Reeves
Clay Horton
Grover Stateville
Barbee & Bassett
Insurance Agency
First National Bank
Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Geo. W. Cox
Austin
Sun Office
U.T
Stephens & Bryant Insurance Agency
First Nat'l Bank
Otleg
Mino
Brewers Foundation
United Brewers Industrial Foundation
East 40Th Street
New York, N. Y
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