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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1926
Page
5
A roundup of community visits shows Louise Rowley and many others in Dallas and Sulphur Springs, Bells, Bonham, Sherman, Jacksboro and Tioga. Several neighbors attend fairs, visits, and family gatherings while Gordon Bros. advertises prices and lamp supplies.
Mrs Jennie Childress spent the past weekend in Sherman as a guest of relatives. She entered her Jap Silkies at the Red River Valley Fair and won first prize. She also secured first prize at the Bells fair.
Dr and Mrs O M Durham and daughter of Cotulla visit Mrs Durham's parents Mr and Mrs J H Graves. Mrs James McCloud returns to St Louis after visiting her aunt Mrs G W Adams. Dry Goods bargain note from M C Spivy Co Bonham Texas. Mr and Mrs Grady Spindle depart for California after visiting his parents Dr and Mrs J F Spindle. Methodist Church ladies sell cakes and produce at Kerry Furniture Saturday Oct 23. Mr and Mrs B B Adams return from bridal tour to South Texas and stay on Spruce Street.
Mr and Mrs E G Gilley and children of Ector were guests of Dr and Mrs J F Spindle on Monday. The brief social note records the cordial hospitality and names both households and town, reflecting a local community pattern of visiting relatives and friends.
Alma Ruth Burden spent Sunday and Sunday night with her grandparents J. W. Burden and wife northeast of town. Joe Tate and Tink Reivere of the Dallas baseball club visited Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Tate the past weekend.
M. C. Spivy & Co. of Bonham Texas asserts that the advantages they offer will justify customers making long trips to visit their store.
Mrs. Hester Martin attended the funeral of her nephew Charles Ryan Blanks age seventeen months at Kiowa Oklahoma Friday. The child died Thursday from diphtheria in Kiowa.
Mrs. B. H. Thomson and son Haskell depart for California to make their future home. Norvell Thomson has been in California since last summer and now works at a grocery store. M. C. Spivy & Co. invites readers to use their services.
The Presbyterian Church women announce a bake sale and chicken supper for November 24 to support church activities. Edna Rathbun promotes Thanksgiving dinners, while R L Johnson advertises eye testing and fitting services. W J Barbee relocates his insurance office to the Woosley building with new partitions and a hatchery area.
Advertisement notes quality and prices for jewelry and drug articles and invites patronage from customers. Signed by R. L. Johnson.
M. C. Spivy & Co. of Bonham Texas urges buyers to secure winter dry goods now, highlighting thirteen-cent cotton as a driving factor and promising favorable supply terms for wholesalers and retailers.
J R Andrews visited from Whitewright with Dr and Mrs R May on a Wednesday. He is the sole surviving child of Varney and wife Andrews, who moved to Texas from Celina Tennessee in 1858, now about Whitewright. At 85 he remains hale and hearty and recalls Tennessee friends long gone. He looked up Uncle Billy Burris, known in Tennessee.
M C Spivy and Co of Bonham Texas advertises a broad stock selection with unsurpassed prices on a range of items. The notice emphasizes value and variety in their offerings to attract customers.
A historical romance tone fills a boy’s arithmetic page with farmers selling potatoes for 56 cents a bushel and grocers offering eggs at 24 cents a dozen. The text notes a grocer with 10 barrels of sugar, hinting at practical calculations and everyday commerce.
The excerpt mocks 6 cent sugar and 24 cent butter from an old arithmetic book. It praises simple problems showing happy families living on 39 dollars a month and a market basket for a dollar, while noting calls to revise arithmetic to current prices.
An antiquated retail ad fragment touts a “great stock of under priced merchandise” from M. C. Spivy and Co. The snippet suggests a closing sale or clearance without concrete dates or locations.
A negro preacher tells Brudder Jones that Status Quo is Latin for the mess they are in, framing a community-wide call to action. The exchange highlights a humorous regional dialect moment about social predicament.
A Dallas News promotional notice offers a one year Sun and Dallas News subscription for only $1.50 from M. C. Spivy & Co based in Bonham Texas. The ad urges readers to keep in touch for value and value deals.
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