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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1914
Page
4
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The paper outlines charging three cents per line for obituaries resolutions of respect cards of thanks and notices. It also states three cents per line for church lodge social and entertainment notices. Religious fraternal or public meeting notices for public benefit are published free of charge.
New county commissioner J. H. Biggerstaff inherits limited funds and aging equipment. He discovers a $92.09 road fund deficit in his precinct, while Precincts 1, 3, and 4 hold balances of $2217.82 $1605.14 and $4889.58 respectively. He also notes few mules, two worn graders, and a deteriorating county bridge near Denison needing five to six hundred dollars for repair.
A Calvert Sunday school note reports children choosing to deny Christmas trees and donate the saved money to European orphans. The effort has raised over $150 with minimal effort, framed as a charitable sacrifice by the class.
The Sun weighs in against erasing Christmas with or without Santa and trees while noting the Attorney General's ruling on liquor ads in dry territory. The piece questions the logic of distinguishing dry and wet areas for newspaper advertising.
Editor John Greene prints Friday the 13th issue on a faster Cotrell press replacing the Campbell press. Advertising patronage shows the war song is silenced in Leonard by bustling business and improved efficiency.
The West Bros Texas Ranger show played in a Trenton tent on Wednesday night to a very small audience. The Tribune says the management did not merit its usual courtesy, so no full write up was produced. A second Trenton performance on Thursday drew mostly comped audience and was refused by the performers.
The left wing of Gentry Bros. show with its Wednesday performances drew about one fourth of the town’s populace to its exhibitions in Whitewright and agents say the company lost heavily on its southern tour this year.
City Marshal Roberts shot a dog on the streets Wednesday afternoon. At about the same time W. M. Cox claimed to have killed the high cost of living, with further details appearing in another space in this paper.
Mike J. Sweeney, immigrant from Ireland living in Denison since 1879, died at his Denison home on Tuesday night. He spent many years in the saloon trade and built a sizable fortune. He was sixty years old.
Reports say American ships patrol near foreign waters prompting fears of entanglement in European conflict. A Tennessee cruiser delivering relief gold was fired on at Smyrna, forcing its return. Cotton markets opened Monday but failed to ease the crisis, worsening conditions.
The Sun notes Mrs. W H Wimpee is arranging affairs to relocate to Allen Oklahoma to live with her daughter Mrs Luther Parr. The item highlights a move involving family and residence changes.
A frost crossed the community Monday night aiding the top cotton crop opening with very cold weather. Rev R G Mood of Sherman preached at Memorial church Saturday and Sunday. Miss Etherly praised as a tip top teacher as school attendance remains good. Floyd Everheart and Dave Turner visited points in Oklahoma last week. J W Taylor and J D Garner did business in Sherman Monday. T P Wells visited the Cotton Palace in Waco Saturday and Sunday. Mr and Mrs H H Sears hosted Miss Mabel Everheart David Turner and George Garner Sunday. Mrs Fitz Bryant visited her mother Nora Little at Whitewright this week. Claud Dillon Lester Looney Ira Kirkpatrick Oran Sears and Butch Hunter of Whitewright attended prayer Sunday night. Miss Susie Wells visited relatives near Pecan Gap this week.
Mr. John O Allen of Naples Texas spoke to about seventy five farmers and business men on reducing cotton acreage and diversifying crops. A Farmers Institute was organized with J I Lilley president and A H Davis secretary. A pledge urging limited cotton planting and cooperative action was distributed to landlords tenants merchants and bankers. Other notes mention Thad Rhodes gifting a piano, Gus Wiser’s flour theft, and Alpha Sloan with Kate Benson attending church.
Miss Ora Manning and Beat Rice McDougal of Westminster spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Alma Sloan in Pilot Grove. Miss Minnie Murphy of the Little Rock community attends school here and is boarding.
An old drugstore ad promises PAZO OINTMENT can cure itching bleeding or protruding piles within six to fourteen days with a refund if it fails The first application provides relief and rest for sufferers in need of prompt attention and relief from discomfortful symptoms.
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