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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1933
Page
5
Clay Horton was a business visitor in Dallas Tuesday. Many locals hosted or visited relatives in Sherman Paris Durant Weatherford Dallas Shawnee and Durant over the weekend. Notables include Miss Tennie Collins Denison Mrs B G Gowdy Paris and Mrs Bruce Pember.
Bill Jones notes Roberts Co. sells fresh eating apples at 10c a dozen and cooking apples at low prices. They stock Hog Killing Supplies Morton Sugar Curing Salt Old Hickory Curing Salt sage pepper and barrel salt. Also second hand gas stoves gas heaters oil stoves and new leather jackets lace boots.
A flurry of visitors and guests appears across Whitewright and nearby towns. Mrs. Charley Ayres hosted in Greenville with Mrs. Hilton Horton, while J W Wilson of Dallas visited friends here Friday. The week includes many travels to Tyler, Denison, Durant, and Leonard with relatives hosting in Wolfe City, Bonham, Lubbock, and McKinney.
Dr. J P Johnson and Dr Ross R May attended the Grayson County Medical Association meeting in Sherman. Mrs W T Ross plans to go to Lubbock to be with her daughter Mrs Sam McMillin undergoing an operation. The Barbee and Sloan families and others head various weekend visits and returns, with shifts in lodging and affiliations noted in Whitewright, Dallas and surrounding areas.
Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Truett returned Saturday from a visit with relatives in Dallas and Fort Worth. In Fort Worth they attended the State Baptist convention annual meeting where Rev. Mr. Truett serves as secretary.
Classified notes list items for sale including a piano priced at 39.50 and newest wool rugs 22.50, cabinets 7.50, and window shades 0.45. Community news recounts visitors from Tulsa and Fort Worth, church activities in Sherman and Whitewright, and members attending state conventions in Austin.
The Palace theatre invites all residents over 65 to attend Friday night free as guests of the management. Lionel Barrymore stars in Stranger's Return with a two reel comedy. The Sun notes W B Penn renews his subscription at 84, a Whitewright elder. Rev A E Maness and daughters visited. he is moving from Dallas to ChilDress for a Methodist pastor post. Roland Fincher of Waxahachie, in road work, and Gertrude Blackburn of Waxahachie become Mr. and Mrs. Fincher of Atlanta.
Whitewright note reports B F Blanton’s 90th birthday with a dinner attended by J S Blanton Emma Teel Florence Stroud and Emma Ruth Stroud of Vernon J A Blanton C S Blanton and Roy Blanton and families plus other relatives. A surprise dinner honors A P Sanford and wife moving to a farm southeast of town with many neighbors present. C B Bryant Jr recovers from appendicitis at Sweetwater. Whitewright merchants offer better values.
Mrs Mary Emma Biggerstaff died at home after years of illness in Grayson County. Born October 7 1862 in Glasgow Kentucky she moved to Texas with her mother and resided here fifty years. Funeral services were held at the Church of Christ and Oak Hill Cemetery with Rev C C Merritt officiating. Survived by husband J H Biggerstaff six children and a brother Henry Amiss. Out of town relatives attended.
The list names Ruth and Eugene Bigger staff, Mr and Mrs Edward Dye, Mr and Mrs Wm Nell, Bonham, Mr and Mrs Fred Staggers, Mrs Ed Westbrook, Mrs John Hopper, Mr and Mrs D Carter, Sherman, Mr and Mrs L L Savage, Denison, Mrs Betty McMurry, Gober.
Mr and Mrs S R McKinney and children from Roanoke spent the weekend in town as guests of Mrs Maggie Montgomery and Mr and Mrs Brow der Webster.
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