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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
5
A rundown of visits and travel reports from Whitewright and surrounding towns. People from Denton Sherman Denison Bonham Norman Dallas Oklahoma City and Celeste are listed as visiting relatives, attending events or staying with friends. Community updates include sidewalk work at Horace Thompson and a rummage sale by the Methodist Church with bargains to come.
Whitewright Lodge No. 167 A F and A M calls a special meeting Friday night October 18 to confer the master's degree. Members urged to attend and visiting Masons invited.
The gravel highway between Trenton and Orangeville finished at noon Tuesday with prior segments from Orangeville to Whitewright already in place. Financed by citizens, Fannin County, and the State Highway Department without bonds, the project includes an asphalt test section north of Trenton and rock and gravel upgrades to church access roads. W. A. Sirkel organized funds and oversaw the effort.
The sixty third session of the North Texas annual conference of the Methodist Church will meet in McKinney next Thursday Oct 24. About 500 delegates ministers and visitors are expected to attend. Bishop Sam R Hay will preside and Rev H M Cowling will attend aiming to report on his conference year.
Words cannot express our appreciation and gratitude to those loyal through illness and death. Your sympathy and deeds lightened our sorrow. Special thanks to the Sunday school and others for beautiful floral offerings. May God bless you all. - Mrs J C Wal drop and children plus extended Waldrop family connecting names.
A fragment from a period tale shows a heated exchange between a man and his fiancée. The suitor accuses her of nightly outings with other men while she retorts she has been at home, prompting a terse exchange about who those men are.
A reader note claims the average depth of the Mediterranean is 800 fat home units, a statement that appears inconsistent with standard oceanic depth measurements and standard units.
The couple wed Sept. 2 in Durant Oklahoma and kept the marriage secret until a bridge party at the bride’s parents home. Attending were Kathryne Montgomery Mary Lou Ross and others. the pair now reside in Sulphur Springs where Henderson is employed.
Mrs Neil Henderson acted as hostess for the Friday Night Bridge Club gathering. The event featured bridge play among members and informal social time afterward in her home.
Charles Byers of Tom Bean and Mabel Rector of Whitewright were married Wednesday afternoon in Durant Oklahoma with Rev. Atkins officiating. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. FE Rector, is a Whitewright alumna who worked as a bookkeeper for Adams Motor Company. The groom, Alabama native, recently moved to Tom Bean and is son of Dr. and Mrs. J T Byers of Lineville Alabama.
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