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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1935
Page
8
The Glow Worm notes by the seventh grade English class recounts a program related incident with Group II members upset over early dismissal on Friday. The issue stems from a program decision affecting fifth and sixth graders and is reported by Imogene Head.
The Glow Worm staff laments the absence of bouquets and praise. Claire Doss and Mary Ruth Holmes urge readers to judge the paper as good or bad and to share feedback for the little newspaper.
The first grade gains a new library with picture animal and story books including Little Red Riding Hood Snow White and Rose Red and a good reader.
First grade pupils study the letter h and grow new words while learning about Thanksgiving. A Mayflower picture decorates the board in colored crayons. Roll call climbs to 38 with Jimmy MacSpadden back in Whitewright after a period in Pilot Grove.
Second grade pupils build a classroom museum with moccasins arrows bows and Indian hats. Boys make gunny sack suits while girls craft papooses and learn a song. They wear the costumes Friday visiting the first grade and Monday the teacher reads a story about Chief Horsehide.
Third grade pupils study the Pilgrims and Indians and read Pilgrim Stories. J. C. Samples joins the third grade tribe while Mary Joe Hansard moves to Ector. The class starts a cleanliness campaign with points for hygiene and has sight and hearing tests.
The week highlights two main studies arranging words alphabetically and locating words in the dictionary attracting fourth grade. Health captain Anna Ruth Johnson oversees, with guards Eudell Bush Pattie Everheart Azilee Smith Charles Skaggs and Montie Fae Coffman. Pupils have all been weighed and examined for eye and ear defects.
The Auditorium Group announced a name change on Monday to Juntos or the Junto Club. The group enjoys reading about Benjamin Franklin's Junto Club and will use the new designation going forward.
Fifth graders study Fire Prevention as part of health while their teacher reads Uncle Jim the Fire Chief twice weekly. Sixth graders explore eyes and teeth, and seventh graders face a two page theme due Monday. Vision and hearing screenings are underway with results sent to parents after completion.
Fractions mark fifth grade work while sixth graders learn dividing mixed numbers by whole numbers. Seventh graders race in arithmetic as the boys score 26 and the girls 32 in a school contest.
The manual training class notes rising interest with several new pupils, bringing total membership to 25. Students complete pieces including a handsome end table, magazine racks, a parrot display, and a typewriter table in progress.
Leroy Cowart notes seventh graders busy and boys with skinned knees while Dale limps and T G bears a black eye. The line hints at classroom and playground roughness as each department suffers a decline in activity.
The sixth grade explores pioneer days in Whitewright with Mary Dale King presenting history. Jarvis Maddux receives Dr. A J Ray's letter of stories and the class thanks him. They learn how Wilton Mac Farland’s grandmother acquired a Crockett gun and seek the true origin of Whitewright’s name.
Thursday morning program included two pieces by Miss Chen Oweth's Rhythm Band and a group song performed by the seventh grade girls.
Sealed proposals from qualified bidders are invited by Whitewright Texas for the construction of a vocational school and gymnasium including plumbing gas fitting and wiring. Estimated cost about 20000 with bonding wage scales and federal PWA requirements. Bids due 11 am December 7 1935 at Whitewright City Hall.
In a seventh grade scene, T. G. Thompson is labeled the fire boy who must quit when the fire goes out. Every pupil in the grade loses points in a Thursday department exercise as a series of hypothetical failures are posed involving Mary Alice Harrison tap dancing, Mary Dale King playing piano, and others including Alma Jo Sanderson and Dorotha Dadwin.
A hard fought game saw the Grammar School team fall 30 to 20 to the eighth grade last Wednesday afternoon. Scorers for Grammar were Jack Thornhill Thomas Thornhill and James Norris with touchdowns while Buck Hughes Rudolph Taylor and Hack Harrison added the eighth grade touchdowns.
Ruby Pierson notes that seventh grade girls and some sixth grade girls abandoned the baseball field and played recess games led by captains Glenda Mae Rutledge and Modene Vineyard. At noon the girls played the boys and won Thursday 7 to 0 after a volleyball surprise by Mr Manning.
A long list of labor rates and job titles appears for a Whitewright contract bid, detailing craft wages from cement finishers to journeyman pipe fitters. The notice outlines bid validity for sixty days, plan deposits, and rights to reject bids, with city approval and plans by Voelcker & Dixon in Wichita Falls. The piece ends with a joke about a motorist seeking help after an accident and a zoo misdial.
Chester C. Davis forecast a permanent AAA to promote sound farming practices. He urged education and public support, noting farm price declines and overproduction as driver for soil and equipment improvements. Gov. Myers predicted Land Banks would shift to private funds within months.
Government climate chief Joseph B. Kincer reported the United States has been warmer and drier for a quarter century. Through 1935 ten months show the trend with four inch yearly rainfall shortfalls and about four degrees above normal, while last year was exceptionally dry and warm.
Dialogue snippet shows Madge dismissing reform of men with wit and humor. Mabel jokes that none of the suitors suit her as they are, implying a comic theme of love and change in a domestic scene.
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