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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1942
Page
5
Local notices urge residents to bring old iron and junk to town Saturday for sale. A string of visits and travel among townsfolk includes Jim Pat Meador in Arkadelphia and J B Hamilton in Lubbock. Devonport's advertises 25c Four-piece Mixing Bowl Set and 59c rayon hose special. Revival services, church notices, and school staff updates accompany community life reports.
Mayfield residents host and visit relatives. A shower honors Mrs. Wallace Wilson, while Irving Fulton receives a cash premium and free ginning for the first 1942 bale. Open house at the high school makes way for summer projects and new merchandise. Sherman moves back a family with ties to Perrin Field and state highways. Rotary Club hears Rev. Adcock on the Practical Man with Christ as example.
A surprise birthday dinner and handkerchief shower were held Saturday at Mrs Pearl Cowan Miller's home south of town. Friends attending included Mrs Sims Wortham Mrs Jack Henderson Mrs Dave Henderson and sons Jackie and Joe Charles Mrs Grace Sloan and others from Whitewright Dallas and Sherman.
The Ladies Aid Society hosted a farewell for Dr and Mrs B Wrenn Webb at the Horton home as they prepare to move to Arizona. Attendees included Sherman and Denison guests, with multiple receiving lines, a formal dining display, and music by local performers.
The Chickasha Oklahoma Herald reports the engagement of Barbara Jean Gordon daughter of H L and Mrs Gordon to Fort Sill Corporal Fay Schlosser. The couple will wed October 2 at Holy Name Church with a party hosted by Barbara’s mother. Barbara Gordon a Chickasha High School graduate and Oklahoma College for Women alumnus is active in the L T O Club.
Durand Wisconsin native Lee Schlosser, a Durand High School graduate, will continue his studies at the University of Wisconsin.
Mortuary services conducted at the Methodist Church for Mrs. Elliott Hicks who died Sunday night at her home northeast of town. Burial followed at Oak Hill Cemetery with pallbearers named Homer Medearis Will Mitchell Virgil Mullins Claud Mullican O A Hefner and Mitchell Burks. She was born June 4 1866 in Kentucky daughter of Jabez and Eliza Edwards and lived in Whitewright for thirty years. Surviving are two daughters a son two brothers a sister eight grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Morning worship at 11 o clock led by the pastor with a sermon. Evening worship at 8 30 o clock. Training Union at 7 30 p m. Wednesday prayer hour at 8 30. A cordial welcome extended to all to worship with us.
The Man Who Preached from the Grave will be discussed by W. W. Adcock Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. C. N. Wylie, Sunday School Missionary of the National Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church U S A, will preach Sunday night at 8 30.
Texas health officials urge rat extermination after 134 typhus cases last month and 83 cases last week. State Health Officer Dr George W Cox says fleas from rats spread the disease and estimates 13 million rats in the state. Temporary poisoning and trapping aid control, but long term relief requires rat proofing buildings and complete extermination.
Farmers report rabbits cutting young cotton stalks at night without eating the crop. The bunnies work in groups, destroying an acre or two per night in Abernathy area, with P H Sammons among the first to report the incident. A shotgun was used to stop the damage.
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