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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1935
Page
7
Preston Hannah urges fair play at Whitewright High School football games. He condemns free rides on the road and asks spectators to pay or work to earn admission, insisting everyone contribute to a sporting atmosphere.
A school piece notes the end of the first six weeks with tests and scrapbooks due. It lists mishaps that drive teachers wild including hazy themes, lazy students, ink tests, and misunderstood questions. Anther Hudgins Jr.
Whitewright High School sent one hundred books to Greenville for rebinding. They returned with mouse proof bindings and trimmed edges. Rebinding offered at half price. one large dictionary rebound free. Contents include eighty five fiction titles, five biographies, six home economics and four chemistry books.
The Dramatic Club held its regular meeting on Thursday to discuss week’s business and the initiation banquet for new members. A short program featured Byron Teague Sara Francis Grace Chumbley Leon Chumbley with Vivian Echols and Joann Everheart singing Show Me the Way To Go Home. The club adjourned to meet next Thursday at 8 30.
Whitewright High School Future Farmers of America held its regular meeting on October 24 with a business session and a debate on whether tractor farming is more economical and efficient than mule farming. Billy Smith and Leon Chumbley argued the affirmative, Leslie Holland and Joe Alexander the negative, and the judges ruled the affirmative winner.
The English IV class under Miss Tapscott explored Shakespeare sonnet themes from the Elizabethan era. A star football player becomes smitten with love, with themes such as love lasting briefly and love easing fear of death. The piece notes romance and asks who the lucky girl might be.
A playful compilation notes students in informal moments. Names like Anna Lee Anita Lucase C and Anita appear among classroom anecdotes and daily school life.
The first assembly discussed a trial of a student council with Joann Everheart recounting Hugo High School’s success. After short talks, the body voted unanimously to give student government a try under the new president.
Pauline Mitchell offers a quirky snapshot of a rural English class with portraits of students and staff. The excerpt highlights Paul Pierson as handsome and Sybil Davenport receiving a job offer at S. S. Service Station while naming several classmates by traits and roles.
Ocie and Onie Scott, seventh grade newcomers from Pilot Grove, join the senior class noted for good grades and pleasant dispositions. They write for the Reflector and dress alike, with the only observable difference being one is left handed and the other right, posing a playful challenge to tell them apart.
The Tigers and Sherman B battled to a 6-6 tie in a hard fought game. Sherman scored in the second quarter aided by two penalties and two passes while the Tigers answered with a fourth quarter drive including two long passes and a Bussy rushing TD from the eight yard line. Numerous penalties marred the action.
A Bright Senior quips that blushes creep across girls faces when dust would fly if they ran. She argues people have faults and may not reform, and notes it is fine for a girl to hold youth but not while driving. She jokes about secrets, fleas, and a freckled girl in polka dot dress and leopard coat.
The senior class held a meeting on Wednesday October 22 to choose invitations. The same committee that selected rings picked four suitable designs from a Whitewright Sun salesman. The class chose a white book style invitation with an inserted card. Each invitation costs seven cents.
Lucase Cooper reports the talent trio dubbed the "three B s" Bryant Burma and Bean have been nominated for president secretary of the navy and secretary of state in a tongue in cheek wheel of progress. The group meets most qualifications except age with public speaking class credits driving the bid.
A list of students and staff with varied interests including football math poetry piano writing letters and social activities. Notable items include Paul Pierson football and love sonnets Loraine Rutledge boys Bonnie Lou H dating and Joe Preston Lee drawing.
The typing lab shut Thursday with exceptions for special periods as Mrs. Kennemer warned of closure if papers cluttered the floor. The act is temporary and monitors will ensure cleanliness during open periods to teach journalism and typing students the importance of tidiness.
Whitewright High School classes and clubs plan to invite mothers for socials to ease sponsor and teacher burden. Margaret Lilley notes students welcome many mothers to join these events.
Miss Margaret Boone of Dallas, a former teacher here, visited with friends over the week-end to reminisce and catch up on local happenings.
Last Wednesday the freshman class elected officers. Charles Harrison was chosen president Floyd Everheart named vice president Marcell Gossnell serves as secretary and treasurer Anther Hudgins Jr. is listed in the article.
Grace Chumbley notes tryouts for the Glee Club will resume and only members active in singing will remain. Names of retained members will be posted soon. Freshmen opened football season with a 36 to 6 win over seventh graders and will play Whitesboro Friday after Mr. Burma and players compared Whitesboro/Collinsville reports.
Reader advice suggests spreading chicken house fertilizer on lawns in November or winter as a lawn tonic. Practical notes cover rug cleaning with dry salt to remove soot, hot water and turpentine for moths, and fur coat drying away from heat to avoid skin damage. A courtroom exchange humorously questions drunkenness without a cab driver present.
An SMU chemistry lab hires Perry Burns Oldhmn, a Texan graduate, as a lab assistant. The piece notes his dark skin and cites controversy among students and critics, arguing the university should embrace local heritage while recalling regional racial tensions.
The United States Government collects and classifies facts on nearly every subject from agriculture to weather. Pamphlets on request offer affordable access to this vast knowledge. The bureau, headed by the Superintendent of Documents, distributes these subject pamphlets to the public.
A new pamphlet titled In formation from Cardus and Black Draught is available free to readers who request a copy by writing to The Chattanooga Medicine Co. in Chattanooga Tennessee.
A playful look at punctuation from a boy who imagines a semi colon as a period atop a comma. He muses it could come from a quarrel in the Punctuation family or simply from choosing to use both marks.
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