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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1934
Page
8
The Preacher's Column notes a three o'clock corner stone ceremony at the church with a public program. Baptist week at San Antonio will host the State Baptist Convention where Baptists from across the state and beyond will meet to conduct business.
A Columbus State Hospital patient presented with stomach pains. An X ray and operation revealed the contents of her stomach: three spoon handles, bed springs ten pieces, twenty three nails, three large safety pins, four hair pins, a yard of string, plus many small iron pieces. Infection in the abdomen noted. doctors could not determine how the items were swallowed.
Sherman officials approved a multi item program to create work through road and building projects in Grayson County. The plan includes a new courthouse and jail building with a $90,000 federal grant, a highway between Sherman and Denison, and the Tioga to Trenton airline road upgrade. A Texas centennial funding request was trimmed to a $6 million cap for Dallas exposition and related sites.
The Sun announces a subscription drive begun three weeks ago that ends Friday November 30. New and renewing subscribers pay $1.00, except out of state at $1.50. The Semi-Weekly Farm News plus The Sun offer $1.50 for one year. A long honor roll of new subscribers is listed.
The Pilot Grove Home Demonstration Club met at 10 30 a m Friday in Mrs F M Sloan’s home with a covered dish lunch. Sixteen members and six visitors attended. A surprise birthday dinner was held for R F E L Binion on Sunday October 28 at his home with many relatives and friends present.
Allen T. Short expresses gratitude for liberal patronage at Whitewright's Simmons barber shop after four years of service, noting ill health forces him to relinquish his chair temporarily and hopes for a speedy return.
Col C T Curtis 81 longtime editor of the Tom Bean Times died at his Tom Bean home Monday night. Funeral services were held at White Mound Cemetery west of Tom Bean with burial beside his first wife. Survivors include his widow and several nephews and nieces. Born in New Jersey he spent much of life in Texas and earlier worked on major papers before publishing in Tom Bean.
A 71 year old man from Rome Ky, Mr W J Van over, praises Thedford s Black Draught as a dependable vegetable laxative. He says he uses it for bilious spells dizziness and head fog and keeps it at home for prompt relief at the first sign of constipation.
Construction begins on a colossal thermometer in Paris. At 984 feet high it will loom just one foot shorter than the Eiffel Tower and be regulated by a small master thermometer. Temperatures will flash during the day as work progresses.
A notice indicates that engraved and printed wedding invitations may be obtained from The Sun.
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