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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
4
Whitewright Sun entry at Whitewright Texas post office as 2nd class main matter. Notices of entertainments box suppers and other benefits with admission fees or monetary consideration will be charged at regular advertising rates. Memorials resolutions of respect will be charged. Association J. H. Waggoner publisher Glenn Doss managing editor.
Publication notes weekly delivery schedule with Thursday issue date and a subscription price of 1.50 per year payable in advance. The publisher commits to fully correcting any erroneous reflection on character or reputation upon notification.
The article traces electrical progress from Morse and Daily’s telegraph in Morristown New Jersey to the Smithsonian’s original key, notes early telephone experiments in major cities, and mentions Marconi’s wireless work and the rise of radio and television. It predicts future uses and even electrical supports preventing plant falls.
A historical note recalls that more than 70 percent of school construction since 1933 came from Public Works Administration funds and labor, now absorbed by the Federal Works Agency. The piece cites the transition as the PWA closes its chapter in American history and comments on lingering echoes in localities.
The report highlights extensive remaining work but, after the PWA became part of the Federal Works Agency, its propagandistic tone would have drawn criticism. In current form, it stands as a record of achievement.
Dallas News comments on Oklahoma Governor Leon C. Phillips asking Texas to trade areas in Wichita Wilbarger and Hardeman Counties for land flooded by the Denison Dam lake. The piece notes his court injunction bid to halt work, argues the lake would benefit Oklahoma, recalls the Denison Bridge episode, and quips about politics in Oklahoma.
A pastor sermon urges obligation to family and pioneers, government founders, teachers, and neighbors. It stresses honest debt payment, avoiding ingratitude, and living by divine instruction to owe only love, praising responsible conduct and fair settlements.
Greenville Tenn. A 22 year old mountain girl Gertie Lamb told Chief Deputy W J Roberts I’d rather run a still than steal for a living when officers found her operating a moonshine still on Green Mountain. She waived hearing on manufacturing illicit liquor charges and was released under $500 bond.
El Reno Oklahoma reports six year old Jack Keller asking teacher Miss Olivia Young to promote him from first to third grade claiming he can beat all the kids through the second grade.
Lincoln postal officials investigated the disappearance of two life insurance policies and a death claim mailed to Harrison Arkansas. A neighbor saw a cow open the mailbox and eat nearly all the policies and claim, leaving only small fragments.
UT accounting authority Fladger F Tannery says Texas faces a 20 million deficit due to weak laws. He argues the governor lacks power to plan and execute a full budget with an extensive budgetary accounting system to control state finances.
The Census Bureau in Washington says many inquiries about enumerator clerk and stenographer jobs are to be answered locally. Applications should not be sent to Washington. Local offices will be opened when supervisors are deployed to the field.
Local offices will announce census job openings and general information. Applicants apply locally for blanks, pay, duration, supervisors, district sizes, and other details. Full time work and Hatch Act rules apply. Veterans and widows get preference. Civil service not required. local supervisors to be named. Obituary and family notices closing paragraph mentions Nobility, Mrs. E. C. Robertson, Mrs. H. L. Kidd, Mrs. Burch Hunter and several relatives.
All male University of Texas Band members rejected girl drum majors after an executive council override. A second vote Monday night again opposed the proposal, with three council members threatening resignation.
Claude Callan notes Grace pursues ancestral traces but refuses to visit Aunt Molly and her eight children. She shuns living relatives, preferring dead ancestors, and would not speak to any kin if they were present. The piece satirizes Grace’s selective interest in family history.
Funeral services for Samuel A. Golden of Nobility were held at Indian Creek Baptist Church Sunday at 2 pm conducted by Rev. J A Henderson. Burial followed at Indian Creek Cemetery with Glen Earnheart in charge. Golden, born November 2 1850 in Princeton South Carolina, died at home Saturday morning, married Mary T. Russell in 1875, and was an Odd Fellows member for over four decades. He resided in Nobility for 66 years and is survived by five daughters Coy Golden and Mrs Jap Bailey of Texas plus others.
Funeral services for Mrs Henry Russell eighty three were held at the Pilot Grove Baptist Church with Rev J A Henderson and others officiating. Burial followed in Pilot Grove Cemetery. She died at the home of her daughter on South Bend Street. Survivors include three daughters seven sons a brother thirty three grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren. Born in 1856 in Mississippi the family moved to Texas in 1869 and settled near Honey Grove. She married Henry Russell in 1874 and the couple lived in Pilot Grove from 1897 until his death.
George H. Simmons, 43, world war veteran, died at the Muskogee government hospital. Funeral services were conducted at the First Presbyterian Church in Whitewright with Dr. B Wrenn Webb presiding. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery. Active pallbearers included John Reeves and others. Simmons born October 17, 1896 in Missouri. married Elsie Holly on May 25, 1920. was a Presbyterian member. He had lived in Whitewright about seven months after moving from Missouri.
Surviving are his wife five children including Sarah Lorene William Lloyd Leon and George Simmons Jr an adopted daughter Marjorie Bridgewater and three brothers David and Mitchell Simmons of Tennessee and Constable K B Simmons of Whitewright in a religious and community acknowledgment.
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