Whitewright Social Notes and Local News Roundup
Whitewright residents host and visit relatives across Dallas Fort Worth and surrounding towns with multiple trips to Dallas and Greenville. The item also notes bakery business prospects, a fire damages two buildings, and a humorous tale of a Dallas boy who abandoned school before returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. M. Williams
Sulphur Springs
Mr. Williams
Whitewright
W. M. Gates
Dallas
To Your Advantage To Your Advantage
You will find it to your advantage to trade with us on the lines we carry. Our prices reflect the lowest market price. Nice size Jonathan apples 20c a dozen. Delicious 40c a dozen. Deep red Ben Davis cooking apples 25c per peck. Grapefruit 5c each, 6 for 25c. Oranges nice size 30c per dozen. Coffee department offers best coffees in bulk and package from 35c to 12c per pound. Extra Fancy Peaberry and Special Blend ground on our mill 25c lb. Breakfast Bacon Northern Cornfed Sugar Cured 18c per piece, hand sliced 20c lb.
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Jonathan
Ben Davis
Rye flour and livestock feed and stoves ad
A limited amount of Rye Flour sold in 100 pound white cloth bags at 75 cents per hundred. Finest and richest Hog and Cattle feed advertised. Encourages immediate purchase. Also promotes Wood Heating Stoves and Oil Cooking Stoves to view.
Trades Day Prompted Barter Exchange
Monday is Trades Day. Bring trade-ready items to exchange for Chickens Eggs Pecans Lard and other country produce. Local event invites residents to swap first-class merchandise for farm goods and related items.
Floor Samples Save on Mohair Living Room Suits
Bonham dealer Lem Titts worth offers genuine mohair living room suites with savings of 15 and 25 dollars.
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Lem Tittsworth
Bonham
17 Years Ago In Whitewright Trade Day Prizes Awarded
A 4000 strong crowd attended Whitewright trades day as the Commercial Club dispensed 250 in gold prizes. Winners included J. W. Burden 100 Ben Means 75 Mrs. R. L. Sears 40 C. W. Farr 20 Mrs. J. J. Jenkins 10 and A. K. Haliburton 5. Also reported are a critical illness, a new birth, property changes, a fire, and farm demonstration efforts by Grayson County officials.
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the Sun
Commercial Club
J. W. Burden
Ben Means
R. L. Sears
C. W. Farr
J. J. Jenkins
A. K. Haliburton
Maude Biggerstaff
Guy Dillon
Jess Graves
Sears & Caston
Ed Buford
A. J. Dillon
Claud
Cooke County
T. H. Sears
H. D. Neff
Detroit
Neff
Montgomery Kimbell wed in city home
Miss Rachel Montgomery and Fountain Kimbell married at the bride's parents residence. W T Noe, Whitewright pioneer, died at home. George Nicely died in Wichita Falls after moving there post widowhood. Census puts U S population at 105700000. Grayson College auditorium chairs sold for 1050 and shipped to Cameron. Susan Fulton, 80, died at home six miles north. Joe Hamilton travels Llano Estacado this week.
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Rachel Montgomery
Fountain Kimbell
Groesbeck
B. S. Montgomery
W. T. Noe
Whitewright
George Nicely
Wichita Falls
United States
Grayson College
Cameron
Susan D. Fulton
Joe Hamilton
Llano Estacado
School attendance, cotton prices rise in early 1931 report
One year ago on October 15 1931 the Sun notes average school attendance for September was 319.6. Cotton prices advanced from 4.80 to 5.25 per unit and seed rose from 7 to 8. Six innings to date total 4 593 bales.
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J. P. Southerland
Abilene
Sun
Whitewright
the Sun
Unwelcome Mail Order Tactics Prompt Outrage
A Michigan paper reports a sleazy sales ploy where firms send $10 worth of cigars to a doctor with a demand for payment or return. The doctor replies that he encloses two prescriptions worth $10 instead, noting if not needed they can be sold to a friend.
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Michigan
Scientists claim we act like vegetables when we sleep
The Boston Herald notes a curious assertion that people behave like vegetables during sleep, contrasting edible vegetables with the idea of being audible while resting. The remark surfaces as a humorous take on sleep behavior.
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Boston Herald
Cincinnati Zoo stork goes cuckoo again in family saga
The Macon Telegraph notes a Cincinnati Zoo stork behaving oddly is not the first in its family to act eccentric, casting a light humorous look at avian antics within the zoo.
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Cincinnati Zoo
Macon
Desert Town Visits and Friendly Gatherings Quiet Sherman Socials
Desert residents hosted Whitewright good will tourists on Wednesday night leaving locals touched by music and friendship. The week NE notes show several Sherman and Durant visitors and family gatherings with neighbors from Howe Trenton and Hubbard sharing meals and brief travels.
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Lina Akridge
Sallie Matthews
Mamie Matthews
Laura Damron
Juanita Lewis
Sherman
Will Akridge
Tom Terry
Doyle
Richard Matthews
Durant
Okla
Homer Gentry
Alla Hubbard
Wallace Caraway
E. Petty
Great Garner Plot speech targets Roosevelt and Garner
Oscar De Priest claims a Great Garner Plot to prevent Roosevelt’s White House win. At the Western Reserve Republican Club in Cleveland he warns that a Garner presidency would follow quickly, aided by Elijah J. Scott and an unnamed conspiracy figure.
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Oscar de Priest
Great Garner
Western Reserve Republican Club
Cleveland
Roosevelt
White House
Little Jack Garner
Little Jack
United States
de Priest
Elijah J. Scott
Topeka
Kan
Elijah
Mason and Dixon Line
Roosevelt in Campaign Attack Draws Fire and Plot Rumor
Dallas News reports a supposed Great Gamer plot to steal medicine sustaining Roosevelt during his campaign. The piece notes Roosevelt’s infantile paralysis and the need for crutches, suggesting a counter-plot to weaken Hoover by feeding him the medicine.
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Roosevelt
Hoover
Dallas News
Arabian Proverbs on Patience Generosity and Wisdom
A collection of sayings on patience entry into glory restraint and self knowledge. Maxims advise entering with care improving intentions and fear less sleep in desert places. Proverbial observations cover generosity secrets and the limits of speech.
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Bobby Neal Witt
Mrs. O. G. Weatherby and Sons of
Ector
Mrs. Call Reeves
Wallace
Miss Evelyn Wilson
Randolph
J. J. Pritchett
Betor
W. J. Doss
L. LaRoe
Lucille
Greenville
J. S. Badgett
Miss Pernie
Floydada
Lee Wilburn
University of Texas
H. C. Holland
Fort Worth
J. D. Hoard
J. F. Yowell
Yowell
W. T. Hamilton
Neil Britton
Oklahoma City
Emmet Penn
Charles Dilbeck
Lloyd Moore
Fred W. Smith
N. L. Manning
North Texas Seed Company
J. W. Ewing
W. W. McMichael
Celeste
C. S. Witt
Cecil Langdon
Christobal
Colon
Panama
R. L. Holcomb
O. L. McGuire
Ina Mae
W. A. Badgett of
Denison
B. F. Blanton
R. May
Laud Bennett
W. C. Fain
Mary Rena Penn
University of Oklahoma At
Norman, Okla
C. Iv Witt
St. Vincent’s Sanitarium
Dorothy Tapscott
Margaret Boone
J. F. Fletcher
Carter Fletcher
Desert
Roscoe Pace
Paul Cook
Mary Rena
Nell
Hembree
Honey Grove
City
Parley Parkinson
M. J. Roberts
Salt Lake City
Edgar Wright
Paris
Mel Roberts
Frank Montgomery
Corona, N. M
R. C. Montgomery
R. F. Story
Hattie Story
Edward Kelton
Durant, Okla
Mrs
Crawford Montgomery
M. L. Patton
Memphis, Tenn
W. H. Ackley
Luciles Giles
Leora Short
Mary Gee Wood
Mildred Holcomb
Willie Ruth Ackley
Trueman Henson
the Baptist Church
Whitesboro
C. P. Johnson
W. P. Vaughn
Emory Christian
Johnson
Clyde
Texas Christian University
Mrs. Vaughn
Mrs. Christian
Earl Johnson
J. W. Hollingsworth
Jake Loy
Mr. Hollingsworth
Tom Bean
Old Grayson College
Grayson County
Floyd Badgett
Badgett
Roberts Bros
Desert News
Garner
Mrs. M. Langston
Reeves Tailor Shop
Madden
Denison, Texas
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