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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1936
Page
5
A long list of locals visit kin and friends in Dallas Sherman Tyler and Texoma areas. Mrs. Walter Boyd and baby tour Paris while Weldon Binion travels to Oklahoma City and Oral Henry visits relatives in Paris. Several attend Dallas Centennial Exposition and Tyler Rose Festival.
Mrs. R B Owens returns to Sabinas after visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs E T Doss accompanied by her mother. B Wrenn Webb Jr of Phoenix arrives Friday for a visit with his parents and heads of the Commercial Credit Company for the Arizona district. Rev and Mrs C W Dennis visited Fort Worth relatives and officiated at a niece’s marriage Sept 30. Mr and Mrs N E Skaggs and others attended the Dallas Centennial. Ralph Ownby appointed acting postmaster at Durant Oklahoma. Local ads include $35 electric Victrola and reconditioned piano and Goff’s Diomed n tent show coming Saturday. Miss Vivian Echols of C I A Denton elected president of Lowry Hall freshmen group. Funeral of Frank C Short held at Sherman. he was a longtime county official.
Gerald C. Mann, famed Southern Methodist star of 1927 and now a Dallas attorney, endorses Texas Tech for Southwest Conference membership. He says the Lubbock school should be part of the conference, noting Tech has applied twice and was rejected both times. The Sun notes a typewriter carbon sale.
The Monday Afternoon Bridge Club met at Mrs. J. W. Miller's home. Miss Mary Lou Ross won high score, Mrs. Newton Maning took low score. A salad course was served. Mrs. Morrell Sears attended as a guest.
The T. E. L. Class of the Baptist Church met Wednesday at 3 oclock in the home of Mrs. B. G. Gowdy for a business and social gathering. Thirteen members and two visitors attended. After business, the hostess led the remainder of the meeting with games and a salad course served by the hostess and her daughters, featuring Halloween decorations.
The Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs. E. B. Martin's home last Thursday. Miss Eunice King and B. F. Gray selected produce for the club's Red River Valley Fair booth in Sherman this week. Plans for achievement day on Oct 22 were set and committees formed. Mrs. Earl Hill received a birthday shower. Nineteen members and two visitors, Miss King and Mr. Gray, were served refreshments.
Miss Anna Lou Blakey and Roger Q Holcomb were married at 9 o clock Tuesday night at the home of Rev J R Waldrum pastor of the Church of Christ. Witnesses were the minister s family and R R Waldo. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs Jess Blakey of Bells and a 1935 Bells High School graduate. She presides over the Bells 4 H Club which holds a shower this afternoon. Holcomb son of Mr and Mrs R L Holcomb of Whitewright and a 1931 Whitewright High School graduate is a licensed funeral director employed by R R Waldo. They will live at Miss Sue Stephens home.
The Friday Literary Club assembled to begin another year on Friday at Mrs. R. T. Pennington’s home. Luncheon was served at noon with hostesses noted as the losers in last year’s record contest. Miss Inez ...
Ray presided as toasts were offered by Mrs. J. H. Waggoner Mrs. H. T. Atterberry and Mrs. Pennington Vacation notes were given by Miss Dorothy Tapscott Mrs. Olivia Whedbee and Mrs. A. L. Jackson Mrs. Guy Hamilton sang with her own piano accompaniment. Mrs. R. J. Turrentine of Denton gave an inspirational address praising women as lamplighters and urging a purposeful design for living.
The Literary Digest poll released Sept 18 shows New York State backing Hoover in 1932 with 37 731 votes. It lists London 45 595, Roosevelt 16 521, and breaks down inclusion of voting groups such as Voting Republican in 1932 34 558 and Voting Democrats 7 541 with uncertainties about indeterminate voters.
The text contrasts Roosevelt and Hoover vote totals, noting a three to two edge for Hoover in a quoted result, and stating Roosevelt carried New York in 1932 by about 2.5 million to 1.9 million. It highlights state by state contrasts in the presidential election.
Florida apiaries seek bee venom as rheumatism preventive but warn it requires painful daily stings. Convention reports rheumatism rare among 5000 beekeepers as venom exposure allegedly builds immunity.
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