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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1947
Page
4
Whitewright Texas weekly publication note states publication every Thursday with the post office entry as second class mail matter. Subscription rates listed: one year 1.50 six months 1.00, payable in advance. no subscriptions accepted for less than six months.
Texas per capita income in 1946 ranked 36th among 48 states and D.C. at $1,200, down 2 percent from 1945 while the nation rose 2 percent to about $1,200. Californians led with about $1,532, highlighting Texas’s economic gap amid broader musings on progress and peace.
The column blends Texas lore with Civil War memory and small town tales. Artemus Ward and Mark Twain are recalled in Virginia City, plus notes on the Confederacy battle cry, a one day old Chamber of Commerce member Vanessa Sharyl Bryan, and Carthage editor Neal Estes stopping at railroad crossings, all in a brisk, reflective local-heritage voice.
Grandma Davis grows tired of moral surprises as years of neighborhood life pass. She recalls past shocks from fashion and behavior and now sees the world as it is. The piece notes Uncle Henry’s frail health, parental judgments, and kin’s take on doctors money church and poverty.
Judge Joe M. Hill writes for Saint Jo Tribune praising the cow as an uncrowned queen. He notes the cow’s service to humanity across lands between the seas and its generous gifts without complaint or wage demands.
A rustic passage extols the cow as a faithful creature, titled a lady among four footed beings. She seeks shelter and rest, loves home, and returns by evening to share her daylight harvest with quiet dignity. The narrator uses warm imagery to praise bovine steadiness and domestic utility.
The Army said on Thursday that relatives may request opening of caskets of war dead returned for burial only if state laws permit. Caskets will not be opened while bodies remain in Army custody.
The Rev. Charles D. Bullock, Methodist minister from Sioux Falls, won the Huron Chamber of Commerce annual liar contest. His tale claimed his father homesteaded in Beadie County in 1885 and improvised water by running a farm well through a wringer to water a baby sister.
A compact verse by Margie B Boswell blends blunt reason with distant imagery. The lines compare perspective to a stretched balloon and note how small facts can grow into larger views while warning against false fronts and misperceptions in changing landscapes.
College Station report says a small effort and rotenone treatment can save Texas cattlemen up to five million dollars by spraying for cattle grubs. Statistics indicate forty two percent of Texas cattle are grubby and potential gains hinge on control measures.
Texas cattle and dairy losses reach about five billion dollars annually from grubs in milk meat and leather. Heel flies breed grubs and seldom travel beyond a half mile so fall and winter grub control reduces spring issues. Use rotenone sprays or dusts with specified dilutions and intervals to save feed next year.
A reader compares car manuals guiding wartime service to the Bible as the creator’s instruction book for life. He argues careful study of the Bible yields dividends and should guide how people operate their lives in all important matters.
A reflection on October 20–26 as National Bible Week stresses that the Bible shaped the founding of the United States Its influence on the Constitution and individual freedoms is linked to prosperity and civilization Across many nations the speaker argues greater adherence to biblical law corresponds with greater freedom and well being
Citation requires publication in a Grayson County newspaper for at least ten days before return day. Administrator J. E. Francis filed on October 28, 1947, final account for final settlement in County Court, docket number 8196, pending in Grayson County.
Notice declares W. T. and Mary Agnes Francis estate final settlement. Grayson County Court will hear the account on Monday November 10 1947 at 10 a m in Sherman Texas. Interested parties must appear to contest the action and be cited accordingly. J C Buchanan Clerk. Deputy Marguerite Berry.
In Los Angeles Bert Bacharach, men’s fashion adviser, predicts pastel lightweight hats will revive hatwear this spring. He says the appealing chapeaux will counteract hatlessness, which he blames for sinus trouble skin irritation and baldness.
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