Local notes include visits, births, and arrivals in Whitewright
Miss Alva Rice starts work in Cisco. Miss Mary Connelly visits Austin. Howard Hedgpeth returns from Vernon. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Follis of Gainesville visit Carl and wife. Noland Brown from Coalgate visits W. C. Brown Sr. in route three. Mrs. Etta Owens visits sister in Kansas City. Gladys Ray attends Federated Clubs convention in Austin. Denison visitors Mr. and Mrs. Charlie McKamy host in Whitewright. Benny Chesser announces birth of daughter on Nov 14. Dallas visitors Mrs. Hight and Mrs. Goodnight host relatives. Whitewright weekend visits to Houston and Wilson, Okla. Dallas residents visit relatives here. Mrs. Susie Snyder and daughter visit J. H. Hayes. Mrs. Bryant King to Pittsburgh trip. Mrs. W. H. King and daughter visit Whitewright. E. T. Doss weekend in Pilot Point. DeBerry family visit Grand Prairie. Mrs. Spearman and son in Edmond. Chitwood Tioga and Royce Rice visit parents. Joe Burchfield sells home. moves to Kilgore. Harris families weekend with Floyd Harris. Beulah Sanders takes cafe. eight years in local cafes. Visitors from Kansas City, Gardner, El Paso, and Houston. Philip Earnheart and Dallas visitors in Whitewright. Current Book Club meets Nov 28. book My Grannie Van reviewed by Robert L. Doss. Mrs. Guy Dillon returns to Durant after convalescence. Joe B. Dillon visits.
Fidelis Sunday School Class to Meet for Business Session
The Fidelis Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church will gather tonight at 7 for a church business meeting. Officers and members are urged to attend. Mrs. J P Darwin and Mrs. Ben Savage visited Mrs. R L Powell in Lockney and Mrs. Powell in Plainview. Powell recovering from a heart attack. Betty Ann Darwin elected to Delta Kappa Phi for education merit. she is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J P Darwin and attends North Texas State College. A list of relatives and friends from Vernon, Denison, Bells, Anna, Dallas visited the Darwins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fidelis
First Baptist Church
J. P. Darwin
Ben Savage
R. L. Powell
Lockney
J. G. Caylor
Plainview
Powell
Darwin
Savage
Betty Ann Darwin
Delta Kappa Phi
Betty Ann
North Texas State College
Denton
Morenci Officer Wallace Returning Home for Reassignment
First Lieutenant Jack E. Wallace son of Mr and Mrs Jesse Wallace Morenci Arizona formerly Whitewright returns to the United States for reassignment. He has served with the Aomori Civil Affairs Team North Corps at Aomori Japan and will be accompanied by his wife Mrs Dora A Wallace. Wallace graduated Whitewright High School entered the Army August 22 1940 trained at Fort Crockett and served in England Holland Belgium Germany and Austria with the 101st Airborne Division before sailing overseas to Japan February 6 1947.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack E. Wallace
Jesse Wallace
Morenci
Arizona
Whitewright
United States
Aomori
North Corps
Japan
Dora A. Wallace
Wallace
Army
Fort Crockett
101St Airborne Division
England
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Austria
Rotary Club program features Bells singer and Rayburn guest
Rotary Club lunch on Friday featured Agnes Oliver of Bells as musical director for Whitewright schools. Oliver performed two songs and a piano number assisted by pupils Linda Norris and Joan Harrison. Grant Hoover noted two recent 10 percent meetings boosting club rating while Clay Horton announced the Rotaryann banquet for December 1 with Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as guest speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Hasty
Rotary Club
Agnes Oliver
Bells
Whitewright
Sam Rayburn
Birthday Party for Mrs J C Woodson in Bells
Mrs J C Woodson of Bells formerly of Whitewright celebrated her 80th birthday on November 10. Friends and relatives visited to offer congratulations and gifts while she remains bedbound and blind for two years. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Jim Hicks Whitewright Mr and Mrs Jim Woodson Tom Bean William Hicks Randolph and Bells friends. Wyoming granted women suffrage in 1869.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Woodson
Bells
Whitewright
Woodson
Jim Hicks
Jim Woodson
Tom Bean
William Hicks
Randolph
Mr. Woodson
J. A. Melugin
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club Meeting Notes
Miss Zelma Moore spoke to Whitewright Home Demonstration Club on waste water disposal. The group, led by Mrs. Tom Brown, planned a bake sale for November 23 at the Community Public Service building. A December 1 meeting at Mrs. Carl May’s home will cover Christmas tree decorations and wrapping. Fifteen members and three guests attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zelma Moore
County Home
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club
Tom Brown
Moore
Brown
Community Public Service
Ralph Wallace
W. R. Milam
Carl May
Ralph Brown
Carl Neal
Miss Moore
Bethel H-D Club Holds All Day Meeting at Jarvis Home
Bethel H-D Club members met at Mrs. George Jarvis's home for an all day session led by president Mrs. Retha Collins. Zelma Moore spoke on sanitary disposal of waste water. A Thanksgiving supper is planned November 24 at 6 30 p.m. at Mrs. T. B. Autrey's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel
H-D
George Jarvis
Retha Collins
Zelma Moore
County Home
T. B. Autrey
Bob Cawthorn
Woman's Missionary Society Meets at First Baptist
The Baptist W M S of the First Baptist Church held its regular monthly session Monday at 3 pm. The program titled Looking at Moslem Lands featured devotions by Miss Carrie Hamilton and talks Blots Upon Islam and Speed the Gospel Now. Mrs. B W Newman presided. 25 members and one guest attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
J. P. Darwin
Carrie Hamilton
Alton McDowell
Roy Blanton
B. W. Newman
Shower Honoring Mr and Mrs Meek In Home of Mrs Moon
Mrs Calvin Moon hosted a miscellaneous shower Sunday afternoon assisted by Mrs Lennis Clark and Mrs David Beazley at her home. The event honored Mr and Mrs Meek with Mrs Meek the former Miss Gwendolyn Clark. Guests registered and gifts were from numerous relatives and friends, and fall flowers decorated the setting. Also noted is a statement that Texas has 973 miles of coastline on the Gulf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
Calvin Moon
Lennis Clark
David Beazley
Lennie Clark
Odell Clark
J. C. Mhoon
Yeary Reagan
W. T. Beazley
Weldon Meek
Lynn Cooper
C. E. O’neal
W. H. Russell
Bun Alexander
S. D. Blackerby
O. L. Winkle Sr
Chat Beazley
H. V. Bagwell
Joe Rich
Carlton Johnson
George Hicks
Gladys Cook
Ada Blackerby
W. C. Brown Jr
Verner Melugin
R. E. Blackerby
Elbert Bennett
Edgar Taylor
Shirley Sells
Will Mitchell
Alban Massey
Misses Jean
Betty Blackerby
Bells P.T.A. Plans Outdoor Facilities and Minstrel Show
The Bells Parent-Teacher Association met with president Mrs. W. H. Hanning presiding. Nurse Mrs. John Biggerstaff spoke on communicable diseases. They plan outdoor drinking facilities for students and a Negro minstrel show on Monday night November 21 in the high school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bells Parent-Teacher Association
W. H. Hanning
John Biggerstaff
E. C. Whiting
P.T. A
The
Bells P.T. A
Bells
P.oe Ae
Bake sale by Whitewright club for Thanksgiving desserts
The Whitewright Home Demonstration Club will hold a bake sale at the light office on Wednesday November 23. To order home baked cakes or pies call Mrs. W. R. Milam at 216 or Mrs. Ralph Wallace at 136 by Monday November 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Home Demonstration Club
W. R. Milam
Ralph Wallace
Jimmy Allred Returns to Bench as Federal Judge
Laredo report says Judge Jimmy Allred, former Texas governor, is welcomed back to the federal bench. He had resigned to run unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against W. Lee O'Daniel and was renominated to his judgeship by President Truman.
Advertised Home Furniture and Appliances Sale
Ad lists breakfast suites priced at 18.50 22.50 and 39.50 along with living room and bedroom suites at 49.50 69.50 and 89.50. Also features Singer sewing machines General Electric washers refrigerators cedar chests and wool rugs offered by Lem Tittsworth Bonham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singer
General Electric
Lem Tittsworth
Bonham
Death Notices: Mrs Martha Elizabeth Williams 70
Funeral services for Mrs Martha Elizabeth Williams 70 were held at New Zion Baptist Church near Ector with Rev Miller and Rev Claud Johnston officiating. Burial followed at Carson Cemetery. She died at her daughter’s Sherman home after two months illness. Survived by son C L Williams five daughters two sisters and several nephews and nieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Elizabeth Williams
New Zion Baptist Church
Ector
Miller
Claud Johnston
Sherman
Carson Cemetery
Glen Earnheart
Williams
Fannin County
Grady King
Trenton
John W
Nancy Billner
Charlie Lee Williams
Home Demonstration Club
The
Baptist Church
C. L. Williams
Elsie Williams
Olin Walker
Arthur Redman
W. T. Nicholson
Whitewright
Texans bragging praised by national official in San Antonio
E Wimmer of New York, vice president of the National Federation of Small Businesses, praised Texas boasting in a San Antonio speech. He said if every American boosted America as Texans boost Texas, there would be no room for communists in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
E. Wimmer
New York
National Federation of Small Businesses
America
United States
Cotton Picker Family Earns 140 In One Day
A Latin American couple and their four children earned 140 dollars in a single day on the Vernon Pfluger farm near El Dorado West Texas. Pickers are paid two dollars per hundred pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Dorado
West Texas
Vernon Pfluger
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Alva Rice
Route Four
Cisco
Mary Connelly
Austin
Howard Hedgpeth
Vernon
J. T. Follis
Gainesville
Noland Brown
Coalgate, Okla
W. C. Brown Sr
Route Three
Etta Owens
Kansas City
E. D. Pressing
Gladys Ray
Federated Clubs
Charlie McKamy
Denison
Mrs. Oran Sears
Benny Chesser
Tom Hight
Dallas
Longview
W. B. Womack
Houston
David Ray Womack
J. E. Henson
Arnold Henson
Wilson, Okla
Susie Snyder
Little Daughter
J. H. Hayes
Bryant King
Pittsburgh
Earl Jansson
W. H. King
Eugene McElvaney
E. T. Doss
Pilot Point
Elbert Thompson
R. H. DeBerry
H. D. McFarland
W. W. McFarland
Grand Prairie
W. Z. Spearman
Crawford
Edmond, Okla
W. H. Phillips
Chitwood
Tioga
Cpl
Royce Rice
Fort Sill
Okla
C. E. Rice
Joe Burchfield
East Grand Avenue
Charley Layman
Frank Harris
Oklahoma City
Ouida Harris
Floyd Harris
Route One
Joe Mangrum
Buster Graves
Sulphur Springs
J. E. Helms
Brad Butler
Gardner, Kansas
Webb Smith
Luella
P. M. Helms
J. B. McKenna
A. M. Pillsbury
el Paso
T. N. Souter
C. C. McKenna
Philip Earnheart
George Hight
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Earl Blanton
L. O. Lackey
Ruby Childress
Bay City
Claud Willis
Mr. Willis
Jimmie Spinks
Orvis Thad McCollum
Ina McKay
Herbert Thompson
Fort Worth
Fred Garner
E. W. White
Lawrence Owen
Wichita Falls
Gamer White
N. B. Nicholson
Gary Tolbert Nicholson
Farmersville
Craig's Cafe
Grannie van
George Sessions Perry
Robert L. Doss
Guy Dillon
Durant
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Vera Hickman
Dillon
Joe B. Dillon
Kirkpatrick
Hormel
Minnesota
Kraft American
OLEO
Fairmont Pride
Farley & Hill Grocery and Market
George Ford
Marvin Lowery
Lewis Jackson
Troy Burkhalter
Lester Ford
Doris Mays
Anna
John Turney
H. J. Ford
Wyoming
Bethel H-D Club
Gulf
Bells P.T. Association
Jimmy Allred
Martha Williams
TEXAN
Garza
Cole & Davis Co
Borden
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