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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1927
Page
5
Pratt Bros. lead in low prices and cash for eggs draws shoppers. Miss Bertha Lee and Mrs J S Rasco visit relatives in Trenton Royse City. Local residents travel to Dallas Sherman and Terrell for visits and entertainment. Johnson's sale of cups and plain glasses ends at less than cost. Radiola and clock repair offered at local stores.
Badgett's Millinery features metal and satin hats with chic nose veils. Dallas visitors Mr. and Mrs. Ben Levey and son I. Frankfort and Louis Daniels came Sunday. Slaton families Silas Wilson and children visiting relatives here. Mabel Fay White stayed in Fort Worth. Mrs. H. Benedict returned from Crockett. Sherman visitors Mrs. Robert Sears, little son, and Miss Blanche Montgomery. Simon Daniels of Corsicana attended to business. Pratt's Best flour freshly unloaded, promoted as Kansas wheat rich.
Mrs. W. M. Cox and daughter Ruth and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bailey with son visited Paris. Mrs. J. W. Wilson and daughter Florence visited Trenton. Watch clock and jewelry repair guaranteed by Sam Wilhoit at Dyer Jones drug store. Dr. J. C. Higginbotham opens chiropractic office at Mrs. Mattie May’s home. Mrs. W. T. Ross and daughter Mary Lou returned from Denison. Grover Spencer of Denison visited Horace and Mrs. Thompson. Jack Bogle returns from Dallas and enrolls in Whitewright high. Glasses offered with guaranteed satisfaction. Badgett’s Millinery features metal and satin hats. Mrs. Holmes Connelly and daughter visited from Trenton. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Skaggs visited Fort Worth. Johnnie Broward and performers to appear at Palace Theatre Friday. J. E. Graves of McGill visited his sister J. W. Wilson after twenty years. D. A. Ray buys Elgie Fields house on East Grand Avenue damaged by fire. plans remodel.
Mr and Mrs Charley McKenna held a party at their home north of town last Friday night to celebrate moving into a new house. Also noted is the death of Hardy Thomas former Grayson County sheriff after a three month illness in Austin and his burial at Pottsboro. Lizzie Cantrell former Mahurin student and Burleson College attendee represented Burleson College at the Dallas BSA Convention held October 21 to 23.
Lloyd Moore and family moved into the Brodhead home on West Grand Avenue after the Brodheads vacated it. R B Anderson and family moved to Moore's vacated residence. The Joe Hamilton home, previously occupied by Anderson, will again host Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hamilton who returned from Greenville and Dallas after a year away.
Mrs Emmet Penn and Miss Babe Nell visited Commerce with their daughter and sister Miss Mary Rena Penn a Northeast Texas Teachers College teacher. J M Sharp lost control of a Ford truck on the Whitewright Bells road veering into a ten foot ditch. Sharp had only scratches while the truck owned by W C Huffines was damaged.
Dr A J Ray, a loyal reader of The Sun, renewed his subscription for another year and joined the Dallas Morning News club offer. He recalls first subscribing on January 15, 1906 and notes he has not missed an issue in over twenty one years. He always renews before his subscription expires.
Better Produce Company offers the highest cash prices for chickens eggs butter and turkeys next to Smith Hotel telephone 83. Sun office sells typewriter carbon paper and ribbons.
Mrs Ada Rambly of Wichita Falls president of the Rebekah Assembly of Texas and Mrs L Self of Whitesboro district deputy visited the local Rebekah lodge in a special Tuesday afternoon session.
Capt. FE M Shelley of Morristown Tennessee spent Tuesday night with his boyhood friend Postmaster W O Brents. Shelley recently attended the American Bankers Association in Houston and is a prominent Morristown banker, though both he and Brents hail from Kentucky.
The T E L and Convention classes met on October 20 in a regular business and social gathering at Mrs. Ernest Lilley s home. Mrs Gladys Magar presided in the president s absence and officers for the coming year were elected.
Hamilton led a ten minute rules drill for the class with profit and intrigue. Mrs. S. T. Montgomery organized lively social hour with contests and refreshments. Hostesses Mrs. Ernest Lilley Mrs. Clyde Witt Mrs. Montgomery and Mrs. J. B. Dixon served chicken salad sandwiches and coffee to thirteen members six associates and four visitors.
Readers are invited to The Sun office to purchase carbon paper typewriter ribbons and typewriter paper. The notice emphasizes convenience for writers and clerks seeking essential typing supplies.
An old Southern planter speaks with a colored servant about the afterlife. The planter asks to be told what heaven is like if he dies first, and the servant replies that if he dies first he wants the planter to return in daylight to share the experience.
President Mirabeau B. Lamar urged the Texas Congress in 1838 to set aside land for public schools. He called for direct action to establish a statewide education system and center the land grant plan in policy.
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