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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1928
Page
7
A long list of residents and guests make weekend trips to Dallas Sherman Paris and Fort Worth with family visits and social engagements. Notables include Mrs Ellis May and son in Bells Paul Graves in Dallas and Miss Beatrice Beasley from Sherman.
The Sun received a Friday order for 27 500 page dodgers to be delivered Tuesday morning. The two page sales circular for Lilley Dry Goods Company will be delivered late Saturday afternoon. The Devonport chain stores with twelve outlets will receive 1 750 to 3 000 dodgers each for a pre holiday clearance sale. The Sun job department, equipped to handle all printing quickly, invites inquiries via phone number 76.
New York reports a growing faction of Oklahoma Republicans breaking with Hoover to back Governor Smith. Prominent defectors include Alva McDonald former national committeeman and US marshal under Harding and Coolidge Preston A Shinn longtime district judge H E P Stanford ex state senator and district judge Eugene Lorton Tulsa World publisher Thomas A Latta Fortnightly Review owner A C Oliver Ellis County Republican chairman and Owen Owen former district judge and cousin of Robert L Owen.
A two-vehicle collision on the Dallas pike twelve miles from Greenville killed Joe Bayless, 54, of Waxahachie instantly and injured three others. The injured were Mrs. Joe Bayless and her brother Jess Tyler of Waxahachie, and Mrs. V S Castle of Winnsboro, none critically hurt. Mrs Castle rode in the Bayless car.
Mr and Mrs Roby Childress spent the past week end in Grand field Oklahoma as guests of his parents Rev and Mrs C C Childress.
Mrs. Ulysses S Grant announced in New Orleans that she will vote for Alfred E Smith and her husband may follow. The Grants have not previously supported the Democratic ticket and Alfred E Smith seeks support from the former president’s family. Mr Grant, 77, served as secretary to his father during the later White House years.
Mrs Mattie Skaggs, Mrs Bud Lewis, and Mrs Dave Lewis of Van Astyne were guests in the home of Mr and Mrs C H Skaggs Friday.
C. J. Davenport and Mr and Mrs Burl Davenport hosted Orville Virginia Davenport and Katharine Lankford of Dallas for a weekend visit with Mr and Mrs J H Davenport.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil quips about joking with women over clothing costs but notes no one ever paid tens of thousands for a single toga.
The Duluth Herald notes there has been no markdown in fighting material since the Kellog-Briand pact. The remark reflects postwar trade restraint and diplomatic efforts to curb aggression.
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