Whitewright News Highlights Local Changes and Events
Down Memory Lane notes sales and moves in Whitewright and nearby towns including Montgomery selling to Ferriss, Haliburton bringing the first cotton bale at 32 cents per pound, and Truett dividing property among seven children valued at 10 000 each. Also reports marriages, school opening plans, parties, and community notices from Ely Sherman and Leonard areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Haliburton
Orangeville
Vaughn & White
W. B. Hestand
Kentucky
M. E. Powell
Newport News
J. N. Powell
W. T. Truett
Whitewright
Local Notices and Community Updates
J L Cantrell named receiving agent for Texas Cotton Cooperative Association in Whitewright. Cotton ginned totals reach 744 bales by Thursday morning. Local lint price at 10.95 and seed cotton at 3.85. Presbyterian Church to open for first service Sunday. Trenton school building burned Monday night. A F Houston of Bokchito Oklahoma rents former Pratt grocery building to open a new store. Birth announced for daughter born August 21 to Mr and Mrs Ernest Anderson in Pilot Grove News. A family reunion held by Mr and Mrs C S Smith east of town. Dick Barbee leaves for Amarillo for work. Joe Thomas May fractures left arm after fall in bathroom at parental home. Mrs W H Ackley hosts lawn party for 14th birthdays of Nellie and Frances Pope. Miss Margaret McMurry elected to Kerrville Junior High faculty. Miss Laura Cantrell to Tucson Daily Citizen advertising staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Cantrell
Whitewright
Texas Cotton Cooperative Association
New Presbyterian Church
Trenton
A. F. Houston
Bokchito
Okla
Pratt Grocery
W. H. Ackley
Nellie
Frances Pope
Margaret McMurry
Kerrville
Laura Cantrell
Tucson
Ariz
Daily Citizen
Proverbial maxims on kindness and restraint
A collection of brief sayings about courtesy, kindness, and self control. Themes include avoiding anger, the value of good words, and the dangers of ingratitude, with a note on a sturdy latch guarding peace and restraint in domestic life.
Veterans GI benefits and VA hospital eligibility guidance
A veteran asks if West Point time counts toward GI Bill entitlement and is told service academy time is excluded. Another asks about VA hospital eligibility for a travel injury while awaiting induction, with approval if disability is not due to misconduct. Additional questions cover insured VA business loan interest limits, and automatic renewal of Korean GI term insurance if premiums stay paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
West Point
Church remark triggers umbrella gag in Texas suit notice
A Texas court citation commands Fate Potts and heirs to appear in Grayson County District Court by October 10 1955 in a partition suit involving multiple Potts heirs and a complex land tract description on Iron Ore Creek Honey Creek and University Lands. The case No. 63174 lists R A Neathery as plaintiff against numerous Potts heirs and others with 104.23 acres plus 2.33 and 10.2 acre tracts, with Honey Creek and several survey references. The notice was issued August 23 1955 and published in The Whitewright Sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
Fate Potts
Orrie Lee Potts
Leroy Brown
A. D
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
R. A. Neathery
Edward Potts
Randall Potts
Oglether Spears
Berrie Potts Jackson
Jessie Potts Davis
Willie Davis
Louise
Potts Brooks
Munroe Brooks
Robert Potts
Pearl Huff
Wade H. Huff, Jr
Luvida Dorsey Huff
Louis Huff
Randolph F. Simon
William Carter
Grayson
Iron Ore
G. W. Hobson
University League
Thomas J. Shannon
Shannon
Hobson
B. Rickettes
Pipe
S. C. Inman
Honey Creek
Fourth
Inman
Zeffie Potts Stone
H. C. Stone
Consolidated
University Lands
Metes
Shannon Survey
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Ss. T. Montgomery
Wilson-Montgomery Hardware Store
Gus
the Sun
Joe Johnson
Mabel Moore
Bells
Gomer May
Kimbell
Moss Bishop
G. F. Bryant
Tom Brice
Ely
Forney Henry
Slaton
Ely News
Dorothy Hamilton
Emmagene Sears
Louise Sloan
Florence Wilson
Louise Echols
Clyde Johnson
Lucy Craig
Una Mae Mangrum
Frances Gillespie
Babe Nell Penn
Elizabeth Waggoner
Maxine Roberts
Frances Bryant
Johnnie V. Dossey
Mary Gee Wood
Ouija Craig
Martha Joe Sears
Mary Sears
Noweta Whiting
Madill
Oklo
H. W. Key
J. T. Bryant
Dorothy Tapscott
Jan Dawson
J. H. Burma
Jewel Kennemer
John Bean
Lurlyne Travis
Newton W. Manning
Nadine Blanton
Carter Fletcher
Sallye Hamilton
Mary Pumphrey
Kathryn Roddy
Sel
S. Travis
My. Meigbors
Ss. V. Earnest
Rayson County
Shirley Davis
Whitewright Sun
KFYN
K. C
Feed
Pascal Farley
Ing
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