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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1935
Page
8
The sixth grade shows on the bulletin board a copy of George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation dated October 3, 1789. The Thanksgiving was held November 26 of that year.
The Glow Worm expresses pride from compliments received and from bouquets given by Mrs. Roddy for English notebooks. The seventh graders hear praise as the best from Mrs. Roddy. The item also notes Grammar School football boys defeating Tom Bean 46 to 0.
Dorothy Booher notes the Grammar School pupils smile at upcoming Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday holidays while a week after the holiday marks the end of the six weeks exams loom over the students.
The first graders performed songs such as Ride a Cock Horse and Little Jack Horner. They study fall and Thanksgiving with a decorated room featuring turkeys pumpkins and pilgrims. Murrel Lewis produced the best writing on Monday, displayed for all to see.
Miss Sallye Hamilton Mary Pumphrey and Carter Fletcher will leave Wednesday evening for Dallas to join a party of teachers en route to the State Teachers Association in San Antonio. They are expected back with new ideas to benefit our school.
Seventh grade English class turned in notebooks on planning a story on Friday morning. Students were arranged and notebooks showed careful artistry as noted by Emma Joyce Hinton.
The class explored Pilgrims and Indian villages with a new reader titled Little Indians. Fifteen students achieved perfect health inspection. Billy Christian earned eight perfect scores over six weeks. Ed ward Browning and George Hansard.
The Wednesday completion of Indian life study features classroom displays of bows arrows moccasins and canoes. Students Joe Howard Cook Robbie Montgomery James Stewart built canoes while Hugh Tim John Rufus and Margaret presented Indian homes foods and a story.
In the fourth grade a study is made of the Mediterranean lands including Spain France Italy Greece and the Holy Land. Maps have been drawn showing the products and places of interest.
The sixth grade held a Monday morning arithmetic race with captains Velma Holland Margaret Coffey and Robert Waldo. Teams competed head to head with the final scores 11 9 and 1, Velma’s group in the lead.
Thursday afternoon the Grammar School pupils gathered with buckets and rags. At 2 o'clock Mr. Manning assigned tasks and they cleaned the basement, washed windows and desks, dusted erasers, and left the building looking like new.
Grammar School boys traveled to Tom Bean for their first out of town game of the year. The 120-pound team won easily 46 to 0, led by star Lloyd Roddy.
Texas supplied nearly a quarter of 8,280,066 cattle bought by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration since mid 1934 for drought relief. Texans received over 24,075,000 dollars for about 1,975,000 cattle sold. Meat from purchased animals was shipped to the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation for distribution totaling 766,591,060 pounds valued at about 126,500,223 dollars. Hides and skins on hand total 1,904,068 with an estimated value near 7,000,000 dollars.
ABILENE Robert Horton of Fort Worth and a former North Texas Agricultural College student at Arlington died after a long illness tied to a football injury from more than six years earlier. He died a few hours after a wheelchair was rushed to him by friends. a prior newspaper appeal had led to the chair’s donation.
Gus T. Jones, in charge of government agents in Texas and key figure in the Machine Gun Kelly capture, will direct a training phase for 26 patrolmen starting December 9 in Austin. The men were selected after competitive tests for patrol posts.
Superior Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Los Angeles, founder of the Denver juvenile court, was reinstated to the Colorado bar by the Supreme Court on its own motion. He had been disbarred in 1929 for gross official misconduct, and the action coincided with his sixty sixth birthday.
A reversible compressed air machine is invented to tighten or loosen automobile bolts operate reamers and drive drills and other tools.
Classified items include rubber stamps stamp pads cotton bags radio sets and repair service plows axes mule sale and farm tools. Local merchants Lester Haile Joe Johnson J. H. Hollingsworth Manning Clark Meador list items with prices for sale or repair.
If you need money or want to refinance car payments to be smaller, will loan any reasonable amount or term with no delay. Bring your license receipt and car for inspection. Will save you money. Auto Finance Company managed by F. W. Creager at 117% S. Travis St. Sherman.
The State of Texas issues a summons for Loise Tabors to appear in Grayson County District Court on January 5, 1936. Ernest Tabors sues for divorce on abandonment, filed August 21, 1935 in case number 44226. Publication to run four weeks in a Grayson County newspaper.
Labor Department reports continued gains in both employment and payrolls in October. Manufacturing industries added 2.2 percent more workers and 4.2 percent payroll growth, with durable goods employment up 5.2 percent and 19.1 percent higher than a year earlier. Retail, wholesale, and mining sectors also added workers.
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