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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1947
Page
5
Weekend visits and affairs fill Whitewright area as residents travel to Dallas Sherman Paris and Bonham. Notables include Lila Beth Page, Maggie Horton, Anna Ruth Johnson, and many from Howe Bells and Trenton. A death notice for George W. Humphries and a donkey basketball game finish the week.
Rev A L Greenwalt, pastor of First Baptist Bells, performed the ceremony. Accompanied by Doyle Hastings and Miss Ermaline Bennett. Groom is World War II veteran and works at C J Meador tractor shop. Bride works at Whitewright telephone office. Couple resides on South Bond Street.
A bridal shower for the new bride Mrs. Billy Allen was hosted at Mrs. Eula Allens home. Guests included Mrs. Bill McKinney her daughter Mrs Susie Hartsfield Mrs J C Elliott Miss Lurline Ball Mrs Harrel McCurdy Mrs Doyle Fletcher Mrs Joe Hopper Mrs Walter Ball Mrs Lola Ball Miss Estella Baxter Mrs Grady Langford and daughter Mrs Pearl Murphy Mrs Sims Wortham Mrs Algie Elliott Mrs Dan Parnell Mrs Vera Crawford and Mrs Joe Hunter.
Hainey of Bonham and Eva Jane Ball of Whitewright wed Sunday at the Baptist parsonage with Rev. Weldon R. Drake officiating. They left for a Galveston honeymoon. The groom is a Van Alstyne worker and WWII veteran. The bride is daughter of the late Charlie Skaggs.
Orville Woodson son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Woodson Ely community wed Peggy Thornhill daughter of Mr and Mrs Caleb Thornhill Whitewright at 7 pm Saturday in Bells. The ceremony was followed by a reception and plans for their future together.
Mr and Mrs Hainey will make their home in Whitewright. The couple are owners of the Whitewright Variety Store.
Alexander and Miss Betty Jo Rich united in marriage at the bride’s parents home on Friday Nov 7 at 6 30 pm Rev R L Gilpin performing the ring ceremony. The living room was decorated with white chrysanthemums and red roses. Best man Paul Jarvis maid of honor Martha Dee Williams. The couple, graduates of Whitewright High School in 1947, plan to live on a farm south of town.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton C. Bowen of Orangeville announce the engagement of daughter Pollye Lucretia Bowen to Robert Edwin Jones son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence T. Jones of Trenton. The couple plans a mid January wedding. Pollye graduated Trenton High School in 1947. Robert served in the Navy two and a half years and attended East Texas.
A State Teachers College in Commerce graduate is now employed with the department of public safety in Fort Worth. The couple will establish their home in Fort Worth.
Rotary Club Newell Skaggs chaired the luncheon program and introduced Dr. J. J. Willingham of Sherman as guest speaker. Dr. Willingham urged citizens to protect liberties at the ballot box, lamenting low voter participation, and cited government as the greatest on earth. Visitors included Bill Bell and Hank McLean of Sherman, and J. O. Huseman, a high school student, was also a guest.
A terse exchange hints at hidden wealth or means behind apparent poverty. One speaker doubts visible possessions while the other suggests the neighbors may possess money, implying a possible contrast between appearance and reality.
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