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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1924
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun lists subscription at $1.50 yearly payable in advance and warns notices of events with admission fees will be charged at regular rates. It also notes obituaries and memorials incur standard advertising charges and invites corrections for errors. A Texas campaign remark urges a large turnout on November 4 with a goal of one million votes.
The Sun highlights two Whitewright banks with total resources of 1,502,230 and deposits of 925,065. The editor notes personal ownership of about half the deposits, with the rest held by local farmers, asserting prosperity.
Fifty Protestants and fifty Catholics form a Hamilton- Jefferson club in New York. The group plans a nonsecret, nonsectarian, nonpartisan approach to reduce organized intolerance in America with support from the Masons and Knights of Columbus.
Extracts reflect diverse American views on toleration and national unity. Mention of Elihu Root and John W. Davis, the Toleration League are noted as potential forces amid centrifugal pressures. Also references to election promises on wages and prices, a Whitewright rodeo planned for Oct 20, a wedding party, a driver taken ill, and the death of Miss Yetine Maurine Jackson in Greenville.
Mrs Sallie Bell aged 89, a Bells area pioneer, died after a Westminster funeral held Thursday afternoon conducted by Elder W. N. Carter. Her daughter Mrs Mattie Lee and the Bells family will reside with Mr and Mrs J F Russell this winter.
D R Vaughan will travel to Whitewright on Saturday October 25 to collect 1924 taxes. Residents can pay both county and state taxes there to avoid a trip to Sherman. R L Johnson advertises watches silverware and clocks.
Essie Ingram, 19, seriously hurt when he fell from a running board of a car on Sherman streets during the Red River Valley Fair, is now recovering. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W M Ingram who live near Whitewright.
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