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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1944
Page
5
Local social notes detail visits among residents of O'Brien Corsicana Gainesville Dallas Temple and Whitewright with relatives friends and ongoing moves. Listings include new homes purchases theater leases and a school opening while a Walla Walla marriage plans and a Dallas theater shift are noted.
Mrs. Russell Summers hosted the Friday Literary Club at her northeast town home. Papers on Persian Rugs and the Tehran conference were presented, selections from the Rubaiyat read, two new associates added, and 16 members enjoyed refreshments.
Rotary Club Glen Earnheart hosted Mor ris Fogle Gillett chief radio technician of the Navy as guest speaker. He described two years of Atlantic service aboard an old destroyer and convoy escorts detailing the battle with German submarines from campaign start to containment and methods to protect supplies and troops landing in Europe. Guests were R. A. Gillett and Lt. Philip Earnheart.
The October meeting of the W S C S at the Methodist Church met at Mrs. C B Bryant Jr. s home with 20 members present. A rummage sale was planned for Oct 28 in the Truett building and a Southeast Asia study starts Oct 30 at the church.
Bonham store offers studio couches bed suites wool rugs and Florence stoves for home furnishings and decor.
The Sun advertises typewriter paper and adding machine paper along with typewriter ribbons for sale. Local shop offers supplies for offices and students seeking reliable writing materials.
Funeral services were held at 2 p m at Talley chapel Sherman for Pvt Leonard Ray Phillips 23 interment Wittitee Cemetery He died Friday 6 a m at Camp Shank New York from injuries in a subway accident He had two years service training at Camp Howze and Camp Shelby He is survived by his wife and two year old son of Sherman his father Henry Phillips route two his mother Mrs John Hefley Sherman a brother Henry Phillips Jr Houston a sister Mrs Fred Mitchell Sherman grandparents Mr and Mrs Truman Holcomb Kentucky town and Mrs W H Phillips route two great grandmother Mrs W M Holcomb Fort Worth aged 102
A census style postcard poll on pigs and other livestock will be conducted next month by the Agriculture Department with rural mail carriers assisting. Twenty five routes per state will be sampled with 15 farmers on each route providing counts of pigs, cows, chickens, horses, sheep and mules. The survey aims to forecast pork production and potential plant expansion, with results released just before Christmas.
Morning services include Sunday school at 10 a m and worship at 11 a m. Evening service is scheduled for 7 30 o clock.
The church with a hearty welcome invites all to Rev. J. M. Wilson’s church. Services Tuesday and Thursday at 8 45 p m Sunday School at 9 45 a m and Sunday evening healing service at 8 45 p m.
The First Presbyterian Church lists services for Sunday October 29 1944 with Sunday school at 10 a m and morning worship at 11 a m the sermon titled Only Necessities Now and an evangelistic meeting to be announced for November. church urges public attendance and notes Washington's baby sister Jane died at age three and that everyone reads the Want Ads.
In Los Angeles a merchant seaman testifies in Superior Court about a Japanese submarine sinking. He says 100 American prisoners were left to drown on the deck with hands tied, and 77 died. The account describes the submarine sub merging and the grim scene witnessed.
In Philadelphia Pat Neighbors recalls Raphael Brodsky and Mollie Brodsky as a loving couple who had never been ill. At 10 50 last night he found Mollie dead after a thud in an adjoining room and at 11 15 he collapsed and died beside her.
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