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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1943
Page
5
Local residents and visitors span Texas towns with numerous trips to Sherman, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Ardmore. Families gather for weddings, birthdays, and visits while new business openings and birthdays are noted. several members travel to Lubbock and Austin, with multiple medical and educational connections reported.
Miss Anne Houle supervisor of the Grayson County Welfare Office in Sherman spoke at the Rotary luncheon detailing the state supported welfare program for children. The county funds and citizen contributions cover office expenses while the State Welfare Board directs operations. The Grayson County office opened recently after residents urged the commissioners to join the state effort.
Miss Mary Ruth Orr daughter of Mrs. H. C. Orr of Dallas wed Leonard Ross Tate of Waxahachie at 8 30 p m Friday in the Methodist parsonage with Rev. W W Adcock officiating. The bride wore a tobacco brown crepe suit with jeweled buttons and gardenia bouquet. A reception followed at the parsonage hosted by the Adcock family.
Mrs A L Biggerstaff and daughter Edith hosted a birthday party Monday for her son and brother J Don Biggerstaff on his eighth birthday. Guests included Franklin D Ford Beedy Sanders Bessie Sanders Ann Witt Garland Dean Smith Thomas Cobb Ralph Ray Hughes Penn Wootten Frank Layman Jr Billy Earle Brown Dorothy Ford Joyce Hansard June Mayo and Shirley Mayo. Mrs Harry Jankee of San Antonio assisted with entertaining.
A compact wordplay notes the letter E as the most unlucky yet central letter. It claims E is always in debt and danger yet in peace and food, the start of existence and ease, and the end of trouble. It cites E as central to honesty love and effort while denying war and failure.
Funeral services for Charlie M. Fulton were conducted at First Presbyterian Church with Dr. J. F. Fender presiding and Rev. W. W. Adcock assisting. Interment at Whittoe Cemetery followed under Glen Earnheart's direction. Surviving family includes Myrtle Harris Fulton and siblings S. D. Fulton, L. M. Fulton, Kate Fulton, and Annie Gates.
Thomas B. Garner aged 42 faces completing a four year Texas sentence begun in 1925 after multiple escapes and inter state custody. He was paroled from a Pennsylvania prison and returned to Huntsville to serve the remaining portion of his term.
The article notes German concerns about heavy guns on sandy Jutland foundations and details a defensive scheme using five rows of land mines placed five meters from the sea, seven meters apart, designed to detonate simultaneously across a wide area.
Lt Gen Thomas Holcomb ordered a Christmas gift survey for Marines overseas. Watches top the list followed by pen sets and toiletries as the Navy and Post Office set mailing windows from Sept 15 to Nov 1 with a five pound limit.
A couple married after fifty years of courtship, surprising their friends in Boston. A separate item notes Mrs C H fined five dollars for driving a neckless car through a red light. An Albany ad lists nine Guernsey cows and one Guernsey bull two years old all milking. A Flint fire Friday noon damaged the scene.
Interior shot shows the Fire Department answering the alarm with alacrity and causing extensive damage. Also a help wanted notice seeks plant guards up to 50 years old with height 10 feet 5 inches and weight 165 pounds, duties include standing watch, uniforms provided.
Advertisement asks to sell school desks with iron legs and maple seats and backs. It requests inclusion in the Bulletin Want Ad section for sale of classroom furniture.
A concise proverb notes manners arise from solid sense and genuine feeling, attributed to Samuel Johnson.
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