The Glow Worm School Staff and Visitors Report
The Glow Worm notes staff roles including Beth Cunningham as editor in chief and Wallace Reeves as sport editor, with reporters James C Stateville and others. It mentions pupils listing Robinson Crusoe and Hans Christian Andersen tales, visiting mothers from Whitewright and Flint Michigan, and a baseball update where boys usually beat the girls as they prepare for the county meet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth Cunningham
John Biggerstaff
Wallace Reeves
Our Ideals and the People We Meet
The editors urge that true character rises with association. They argue frequent contact with educated, curious minds spurs self-improvement, while ties to trivial talkers reinforces low standards. They cite a verse about realizing the man God meant.
First Grade Pro gram Opens With Houses Tour
First graders presented a short Friday program with a second grade audience. The program included reports about newly finished houses and songs. Guests then viewed the three houses built by the first graders.
Local residents reveal childhood favorite books for Book Week
For Book Week November 13 to 19 a group of townspeople share their preferred childhood reads. Dr Webb declines a single favorite but enjoys adventure, history and romance. Mrs C P Johnson lists Pilgrim's Progress and Little Women. Miss Sue Stephens selects Black Beauty. Rev Joe M Connally names The Swiss Family Robinson. Mrs H T Atterberry recalls being a tom boy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webb
The
Presbyterian Church
C. P. Johnson
Friday Literary Club
Pilgrim's Progress
Sue Stephens
Joe M. Connally
Methodist Church
H. T. Atterberry
Tom Boy
Local School Inquiries Spark Gossip About Pupils
James Stateville notices Martha Louise and Dorothy Sue in daily routines while J. D. Hughes links with Dale Marie. Pattie walks home at noon, avoiding her usual route. Kirk visits seventh grade each day as Melvin lingers in sixth grade. Miss Sanders shifts Jones Ray and denies having a boyfriend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Stateville
Martha Louise
Cupid
J. D. Hughes
Dale Marie
Pattie
John Biggerstaff
Kirk
Melvin
Charles
Miss Sanders
Jones Ray
Dorothy Sue
Second grade chapel program features songs and readings
The second grade led the chapel program under Mrs Annabel Bedford with songs The Telephone On the Way to School readings by George Hansard Arvin Monroe Vestal piano solos by Zoe Vestal Janet English and a play The Indians The fourth grade sang Slumber and A Secret The fifth grade sang On Tiptoes under Miss Sullivan Tommie Chenoweth played Indian music from a seventh grade girl who is 12 years old five feet one inch tall about 100 pounds with blue eyes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annabel Bedford
Sullivan
Tommie Chenoweth
Handicraft Party Enjoyed by Club Girls
The Handicraft Club hosted a party on Tuesday afternoon. The event featured ice cream and cookies and was enjoyed by the club’s girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girls of the Handicraft Club
Gifts Without Season Poem by Joseph Auslander
Poem thanks God for daily gifts beyond sunshine and joy. It honors pain, toil, friendship, love, and dreams as treasured bounties. The speaker praises eyes to see miracles in ordinary earth and faith, reason, and tolerance amid a turbulent world.
Shelter Belt Tree Planting Successful in Texas
The Forest Service announced that Prairie States forestry shelter belt plantings, including 10,897,182 trees in Texas, are markedly successful. Texas plantings from 1934 to May 1 covered 16,961 acres on 13,810 farms and yielded 6,858 miles of shelter belt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Forest Service
Prairie States Forestry Project
Texas
Prairie States Project
Great Plains
Bureau of Plant Industry
Prairie-Plains
College life shocks farmer with Josh’s double life
Farmer Corntassel says his son Josh is both a football player and a female impersonator in the dramatic club. The family is unsure whether to treat him as a roughneck or a lady, reflecting the era’s attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josh
Farmer Corntassel
Dramatic Club
Fort Worth Tales Rufous Tales and Pension Plans
A Fort Worth column blends local humor about parking attendants and a bold old age pension plan advocate, Buck Taylor, proposing $30 monthly for those over 65 with retroactive payments. It recalls Ranger homecoming crowds, Eastland County historian Ed T. Cox Sr., and a wistful memory of Uncle Doug, a longtime federal officer, whose stories were never told before his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Taylor
South Texas
Chamber of Commerce
Taylor
Ranger
Ed T. Cox Sr
Eastland
Eastland County
Fort Worth
Doug
Removal of Rails In Red River Dam Region
Earl D. Yardo, Army engineer, arrives to supervise removal of 64.03 miles of railroads in the Red River dam area at Denison. Project cost $2,820,170. Lines affected include Missouri-Kansas-Texas between Pottsboro and Sadler, St. Louis & San Francisco routes near Hagerman, Madill, Durant, and Ravia, and the Rock Island through Tishomingo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durant
Madill
Ravia
Oklahoma
Rock Island
Tishomingo
Knots and Miles in Ocean Talk from Gezil and Popeye
Gezil asks why knots exist on the ocean instead of miles and Popeye replies the knots are to keep the tide in check. The exchange turns on nautical measurement and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gezil
Popeye
Also Mentioned on This Page
Raleigh Vestal
A. M. Bryant
F. O. Mangrum
Jack Nossaman
English
Green
Hatfield
Head
Williams
Hansard
Whitewright
Harry O. Leuschner
Flint, Mich
Patrick
Guess
United States
Stephens & Bryant Insurance Agency
First Nati Bank Bldg
Chet Law
Joseph Auslander
Whitewright Sun “Commercial Printers
Grayon County
Boyce House
Cowtown
Darkey
Amon Carter
Red River Dam
Sun
Club
Dallas
Farm News
Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!