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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1929
Page
8
The W H S Reflector notes the meaning of Thanksgiving through student voices and chapel programs. Reports on Sophomore and Freshman class tributes include named participants and readings such as The Origin of Thanksgiving and The President's Thanksgiving Proclamation along with songs like Jingle Bells.
Clara Mae Truett writes on Thanksgiving as a day to show heartfelt thanks rather than irreverence. She invites readers to renew reverent appreciation amid smells of roasting turkey and baking pies in a season of gratitude.
Friday morning the Junior class presented a chapel program with songs, readings, and a debate on whether boys under twenty should always be accompanied on dates. Four Junior boys argued the pro and the girls acted as judges, voting negative. Faculty members and representatives were listed, with hints of a possible chapel return next week.
The Masqueraders will hold a regular business meeting Monday after noon at 4 o'clock in the senior room. All members are urged to be present. Paul Vestal, 39.
Miss Marian Wetzel spent Sunday in Denton. Miss Fay Alverson visited Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Alverson. Dick Barbee and Paul Vestal were in Tom Bean Saturday night. Mary Cornelia Roberts spent the week end in Sherman and Denison. Mary Annie Garner was a Trenton visitor Saturday. Minnie Ola England returned from Mississippi and Tennessee. Mary Lou Blanks and Eva Jane Skaggs were in Tom Bean Saturday. Anna Joe Pennington visited Garland and Dallas Saturday. Margaret Pierce spent the week end in Bells. Charlie Clyde McLean was an actor visitor Sunday. Laura Jean Fleming was a Sherman visitor Saturday. Bernice and Anna Hopkins of Dallas spent Saturday night with Lorene and Bertha Martin. Alberta Haliburton visited Howe Saturday. Madge Sears spent Saturday in Sherman. Myra Nell Vestal and Velma Bennett spent Sunday in Leonore.
Benton Anderson James Lindsey and Shelby Yowell spent Sunday in Sherman Misses Marie Sears and Mildred Sue White were Sherman visitors Tuesday.
Georgia Jones narrates the first Thanksgiving as Pilgrims gather crops and share a week of rest and gratitude with the Indians. Women and children prepare food while deer and turkeys are hunted. The feast, games, and drills follow, cementing a yearly tradition set to the last Thursday in November.
A Wyoming Republican senator and Civil War veteran, Francis Emroy Warren, dies at 89 after bronchial pneumonia. He served 37 years in the Senate and was the eldest senator in years and service, once hailed as the greatest shepherd. Gen Pershing was at his bedside. a State funeral followed in the Senate chamber.
Phillipsburg police say four children died after a fire at the Verenna home. Clara 13 Charles 8 and Mary 6 suffocated or burned in a second floor room during a kerosene fire attempt by their mother. A 17 year old sister survived with minor injuries.
Virgil Montgomery of Sherman formerly of Whitewright, while returning from a district American Legion meeting, was held up on a bridge between Sherman and Whitewright Sunday night. He said a hijacker kicked him after he stopped to avoid striking a man lying on the bridge, and the crew fled in a new Ford coupe with $7 taken and a jump seat raised.
For rent close in dwelling with all modern conveniences by R L Johnson. Also posted farm notice by W R Benson Rt 1 stating the farm is posted against hunting and trespassing.
Police blotter notes Montgomery driving a late Nash coupe while hijacker identities remain unestablished on Monday. A cracker maker announces state shaped crackers to form a map of America, though most kids will assemble them inward. Spend your money in Whitewright.
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