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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1926
Page
3
Miss Ava Curry and others visited friends in Bells and Dallas. Eugene Melver and Roy Blanton traveled to and from Bailey and Howe. Miss Mac Reed and Miss Margaret Smith spent time in Dallas. several others stayed with relatives in Sherman, Waco, and Denison. A coal heater ad and optical service offer appear among the notes.
Miss Minnie Willis travels to Fort Worth to attend Texas Womans College. Mary Johnson returns from Dallas after visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Baugher. Kitchen Cabinet promotions offered by Lem Tittsworth Furniture Co. Sherman visitors Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Davis. Jones Pennington of Fabens visits with family. Loren Mangrum visits from Burleson College. Miss Sally Moore sells cut flowers and hand-painted cards at Park's. Pernie Badgett visits from Leonard schools. Tommie Bradley attends Austin College and visits home. Una Myers returns to Bonham after a visit with Mrs. Ray Manning. Aladdin lamp supplies available. G. F. Bryant, prohibition officer, visits family. Mrs. Ella Douglas of Phoenix, Arizona visits relatives in Bonham area. Dorothy Chambless, high school teacher, visits Dallas and Waxahachie. Electrical supplies and repairs offered by Joe Johnson.
Mrs R B Gordon returns from Sherman visiting her daughter Mrs John Livingston. Miss Verma Mangrum at TCU Fort Worth visits parents Mr and Mrs J E Mangrum. Atwater Kent Radios No 35 six tube $70 advertised by Lem Tittsworth Furniture Co Bonham.
Attendees included W. L. White and children, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Webster, Miss Bessie Joe Barbee, Roby Childress, Alton May, and Guy Victor. Also ad text from R. L. Johnson promotes jewelry and drug goods with emphasis on quality and prices.
The section expects the largest wheat acreage in years as many farmers have already planted wheat and more will follow. A shift away from cotton has been adopted, resulting in a large small grain acreage overall.
The Sun and The Semi-Weekly Farm News offer a forty percent discount for a limited time. A large number have already subscribed, with both papers available for one year at $1.50.
Austin Texas October 20 Attorney General Dan Moody sues the Hoffman Construction Company of San Antonio for cancellation of road contracts totaling about 421000. Trial is scheduled for November 22 in the Fifty third District Court of Travis County. The related suit against Sherman Youmans Construction Company of Houston is postponed until after Hoffman is resolved.
Austin, Oct 20 Murray Jackson once convicted in the Williamson County flogging case involving R W Burleson in 1923 received a full pardon from Gov Miriam A Ferguson. Jackson had faced a five year sentence with Attorney General Dan Moody as prosecutor in the flogging cases.
San Antonio officials plan to enforce a city ordinance passed August 7, 189%, to curb idle youths cluttering downtown streets. Judge John F. Onion said patrolmen will arrest youths who spend time acting as human posts in the downtown area.
Michael Terry contesting maps that depict Australia’s interior as a desert he reports, describing a black soil plateau 700 to 1600 feet high with vast expanses of well grassed downs spanning hundreds of square miles.
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