Local Notables and Births in Sherman Area
Mr and Mrs Paul Cook visited Mrs B B Hall at Denton Sunday. A son was born Oct 12 1937 to Mr and Mrs E O Head route three. A son born Oct 6 1937 to Mr and Mrs Tom Hall route three. Lucian Andrews serves on the Sherman jury this week. John Reeves visited Dallas Wednesday on business. Miss Melba Lewis of Pilot Grove visiting sister Mrs Virgil Ford. Miss Aubrey Owens visiting relatives in Bonham this week. Miss Tommie Chenoweth visited in Bonham over the weekend. W C Musser visited McKinney Saturday. Men’s Felt Hats 1.00 Gill’s Spot Cash Store. Clarence Dixon and wife teach school at Lone Star near Whitesboro. J L McSpedden and Mrs Grady Gillett Sherman visitors Wednesday. Jesse Melver and children of Honey Grove visited here Sunday. C A Giles of Denton visiting Mrs T J Giles. Mrs Carl Allen and Mrs Alton McDowell visiting Trenton Thursday. Mrs A Burnham of near Celtic visiting son George Burnham. Lennie Norris and Bernice Henslee Sherman visitors. Ruth Melugin visited her sister at Sherman Monday and Tuesday. Jack Barbee of Mt Pleasant spent Sunday with his parents W J Barbee. Estelle Pierce and daughter of Fort Worth visited Mrs P J Pierce Sunday. Rev L A Johnson of Dallas was here late last week for Baptist Standard. E O Young and wife visited sister J H Chumbley at Howe Sunday.
Whitewright area social notes list many visitors
Mrs. Lloyd Moore of Denison and Miss Norman Henslee of Sherman visit Whitewright. Several Sherman Dal las and Dallas residents travel to see family, attend expositions, or watch football. A Pan American Exposition in Dallas draws local attendees. Dr. Hoyle opens a chiropractic office in Dallas with local moves.
Tyler News and Weekend Travels Warm Weather Notes
Leon Spindle returns to Tyler after two weeks with his parents Dr and Mrs J F Spindle. Families and friends visited Dallas over the weekend including Dr R C Hoige and Mrs Adams. Winter is here and New Perfection Oil Heater advertised by Lem Tittsworth Bonham. Fire damages a three room cottage on Lester Haile farm south of Whitewright with no furniture saved. Haile insured for 150 dollars while Ingram had none. E O Ingram and family escaped in nightclothes. Bill White and Martha Bryant attended the A and M Mississippi State game in Tyler and visited Mrs Russell Pietzsch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Spindle
Tyler
Mrs
J. F. Spindle
Lem Tittsworth
Bonham
Bill White
Martha Bryant
Mr. White
Russell Pietzsch
Lester Haile
Whitewright
E. O. Ingram
Mr. Haile
Mr. Ingram
Funeral services for Mrs Josie Smith 78 in Whitewright
Mrs Josie Smith widow of T J Smith dies at home from pneumonia after hip fracture. Services at 2 30 pm at East Main residence conducted by Rev Joe M Connally, burial Oak Hill Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Born 1859 in Milam Texas she married in 1876 and lived in Whitewright since 1897. Survived by daughter Bascom Sears Centerville and two granddaughters Jack Ryan McKinney and Bill Welch Gainesville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josie Smith
T. J. Smith
East Main Street
Joe M. Connally
Methodist Church
Oak Hill Cemetery
R. R. Waldo
J. W. Henry
Bob Sears
J. E. Mangrum
C. B. Bryant Jr
John Reeves
T. J. Lilley
Notable local resident dies in Guthrie with family survived
A local obituary notes a man who came to Oklahoma in 1903. He was a Mason and Shriner and a member of the Guthrie Consistory and the First Baptist Church. Survived by wife Sarah Grace Wilson son Lee Wilson and daughter Mrs. Fred Bogle at the family home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Shrine
Guthrie
First Baptist Church
Sarah Grace Wilson
Lee Wilson
Fred Bogle
Mrs W A Wright 73 Dallas News employee dies at home
Mrs W A Wright 73 long time Dallas News composing room employee died after several years illness at her home 4315 San Jacinto Born Aug 19 1864 in Collin County daughter of William and Kennedy Shook one of Dallas early newspaper women associated with Western Newspaper Union married to W A Wright 1887 Survivors include daughter Georgia Wright Bray two sisters three brothers and a son Harry Wright Funeral 4 pm Tuesday Sparkman Holtz Brand Chapel City Temple pastor Floyd Poe burial Greenwood Cemetery Pallbearers named
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas News
W. A. Wright
Dallas
The
San Jacinto
Collin County
McKinney
William Kennedy Shook
Bedford County
Tennessee
Jefferson
Wright
Dake
Weller
Gillham
May Shook
Western Newspaper Union
City Temple Presbyterian Church
Trinity River
Typograpical Union Auxiliary
Galveston News
Journal Proofroom
Georgia Wright Bray
F. E. Wittitoe
Allie Shook
Whitewright
L. J. Shook
Tulsa
Okla
Baird Shook
Whitesboro
George Shook
Hollywood
Harry Wright
the News
Philippines
Sparkman- Holtz-Brand
Floyd Poe
City Temple
Greenwood Cemetery
Joe M. Taylor
John E. King
Alfred Benners
C. V. Buckley
Louis Hicks
Howard Aronson
Churches Schedule Sunday Services October Seventeenth
Church services list two congregations with times for Sunday school at 10 a.m. preaching at 11 a.m. Epworth League gathering at 6:15 p.m. and a 7:15 p.m. sermon. The Man from Macedonia is the morning sermon topic. An Intermediate junior society meets in the basement with sponsors and assistants named for the event. The evening topic is Who Is My Neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Epworth League
Joe M. Connally
B. W. Wrenn
Macedonia
Intermediate Junior Society
Robert Sears
Floyd Bassett
Barbara Jean Gordon
Frances Mitchell
Oklahoma City Funeral for Noted Oklahoma Leader Robert H. Wilson
Robert H. Wilson, veteran Oklahoma political figure and former Grayson College student, dies at 401 NE 12th St. Funeral at First Baptist Church, 1201 N Robinson Ave., with state capitol lying in state from 10 a.m. to noon. Posthumous Hall of Fame selection announced. long career from 1903 as Grady County schools superintendent to 1936 as Oklahoma County tag agent and various state posts. Burial at Rose Hill Cemetery. Wilson born in Kentucky, moved to Texas at 18, life marked by political action and unusual seed research with Panhandle cave artifacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Robert H. Wilson
C. A. Wilson
Whitewright
Grayson College
First Baptist Church
N. Robinson Ave
12Th St
Capitol
Rose Hill
W. R. White
Oklahoma “Hall of Fame
Grady County
Oklahoma
J. C. Walton
E. W. Marland
State Conservation Commission
Cimmaron
Panhandle
Wilson
Oklahoma Historical Society
Mr. Wilson
Kentucky
Texas
Rally Day Services at Cross Roads Church Desert Oct 17
Rally day services at Cross Roads church Desert on the third Sunday October 17 feature morning and evening preaching by Rev Atwood A Hyde. The article notes the Porto Rican yam as the richest known food value variety in East Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cross Roads Church
Desert
Atwood A. Hyde
Texas
Whitewright Pair Weds in Sherman Church Ceremony
Society notes report Estelle Binion of Whitewright and Guy Yowell of Sherman wed in a late evening ceremony at Walnut Street Church of Christ in Sherman. The couple, attended by Grover Biggerstaff, includes Yowell a Whitewright graduate and regional news editor for the Sherman Democrat. They reside at 420 South Rusk Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estelle Binion
Whitewright
C. D
Neva Binion
Guy Yowell
Sherman
Roy Yowell
Walnut Street Church of Christ, Sherman
Burton Coffman
Grover Biggerstaff
Yowell
Whitewright High School
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
Sherman Democrat
California
South Rusk Street
Marriage of Miss Willie B Anderson and Bennie Ooten
Miss Willie B Anderson and Bennie Ooten wed at noon Monday at the home of Rev. Leslie O Evans, who officiated. Attendants were Royce Hutcheson, Aileen Hutcheson, Mary Lena Reeves, Elden Anderson, and Lucy Mae Anderson. The bride is daughter of Mrs M L Anderson. groom son of Mr and Mrs Fred Ooten. They will reside at Nobility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie B. Anderson
Bennie Ooten
Whitewright
Leslie O. Evans
Royce
Aileen Hutcheson
Mary Lena Reeves
Elden
Lucy Mae Anderson
M. L. Anderson
Fred Ooten
New Deal Injects Pep Into Popcorn
Government plant experts announced they are increasing pop in popcorn this Saturday. They define popability as the key quality for popcorn and report experiments have improved popping. If the popped volume is under twenty times the unpopped corn, the corn is deemed not first quality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Singing Convention At Enterprise Near Whitewright Oct 17
The third Sunday singing convention will be held at Enterprise four miles northeast of Whitewright on Sunday Oct 17 announced by W C Brown. The community quartet of Bonham will be present and a good attendance is expected. The public is invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enterprise
Whitewright
S Day
W. C. Brown
Bonham
Sorry Ladies Bullets Mistaken Identity Chase in St Paul
In St Paul two women, Mrs H F Rafter of St Paul and Mrs John P Clarkin of Mansfield Ohio, were chased by federal agents who fired bullets at their parked car during a cafe raid. The agents mistook the vehicle for gangsters and began firing before a traffic officer intervened to untangle the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Minn
H. F. Rafter
John P. Clarkin
Mansfield
Ohio
When Husband Ignores Dress Becomes Compliment
Lucian Lelong, French designer, told a School for Fashion Careers lecture on September 28 that a well dressed woman is noticed by nothing she wears. In New York, the U S Bureau of Standards has installed a machine using a chain driven rubber wheel to test paints for traffic lanes and safety zones on paved streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lucian Lelong
School For Fashion Careers
United States Bureau of Standards
Also Mentioned on This Page
Paul Cook
B. B. Hall
Denton
E. O. Head
Route Three
Tom Hall
Lucian Andrews
Melba Lewis
Pilot Grove
Virgil Ford
Aubrey Owens
Tommie Chenoweth
W. C. Musser
Gill’s Spot Cash Store
Clarence Dixon
Lone Star
J. L. McSpedden
Grady Gillett
Jesse Melver
Honey Grove
C. A. Giles of
T. J. Giles
Carl Allen
Alton McDowell
Trenton
Mrs. A. Burnham
Near Celtic
George Burnham
Lennie Norris
Bernice Henslee
Ruth Melugin
Jack Barbee
Mt. Pleasant
W. J. Barbee
Estelle Pierce
Fort Worth
P. J. Pierce
L. A. Johnson
Baptist Standard
E. O. Young
Mr. Young
J. H. Chumbley
Howe
Jack Benny
Ida Lupino
Artists & Models
Richard Arlen
Gail Patrick
Joe Louis
Tom Farr
Bill Boyd
Alice Faye
Don Ameche
Spencer Tracy
Freddie Bartholmew
Lionel Barrymore
Captains Courageous
THURS
Edward Arnold
Cary Grant
Frances Farmer
Lloyd Moore
Denison
Earl Hill
Norman Henslee
Fred Cook and Sons
Fred Jr
Joe Howard
Dorothy Sue Douglas
Helen Oliver
Miss Osby of
Roby Childress
Rev
C. C. Childress
Greenville
W. L. Mangrum of
Earl Phillips
Bill Riddle
CCC
Mrs. George Bennett
Velma Russey
Hugh Trotter
Clifton
Jack Ross
Leonard
John Ross
W. B. Crouch
O. L. Henslee
Jack Nossaman
Icey Reeves
Call Reeves
R. G. Pierce
Bettie Jo
Monroe Gill
Bokchito, Okla
O. L. Gill
Leonard Penny of
Lindale
W. M. Gates
Daisy B. Layman
Ila May
Robbie Lee McLarry
Carl May
Roy Whitt of
Floyd Badgett
A. M. Bryant
Gomer Graves
Winters
Emory Christian
C. P. Johnson
W. P. Vaughn
Abilene
West Texas
Dan Hollingsworth
J. W. Hollingsworth
Minnie Owens
Billie Joan
Beautyrest
Sealeys
L. O. Evans
Lone Oak
Mr. Evans
Maggie Patterson
Howard Harrison
J. M. Sturdivant
Okemah
Ben Sturdivant
Mrs. Carl Allen
Co. L. Gentry
J. T. Gillespie
Wolfe City
John B. Gillespie
Arp
J. C. Gillespie
Whitewright School
Royce Jones
Homer Sanderson
Lake Dallas
Valley View
R. C. Vestal
Houston
Emma Clair Vestal
E. Pat Emmett
Raymond B. Hoyle
Dr. Hoyle
A. G. Bradley
May Building
Tom J. Russell
Willard Young
J. C. Waldrop
R. C. Hoige
R. C. Adams
J. C. Rea
Helen Groves
Helmleigh
W. E. LaRoe
Ann
First Presbyterian Church
Cross Roads
North
Rexall Store
Dyer & Childress
Binion
Anderson-Ooten
NEW Deal
Singing
Gill’s
Spot Cash Dry Goods Store
Gillett
DR. Legear
Hawk
Cole & Davis Co
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