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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1928
Page
5
A roundup of residents and visitors—Orville and Homer Booker of Lubbock, Dr. R C Hoyle and son Jack of Dallas, the Simmons family from Dallas, Wayne Coggins of Fort Worth, and many others—stop by or travel through Sherman area towns. Mentions include weekend trips to Denison, Alvarado, Celeste, and Sherman, plus local business slogans and ads.
Mr and Mrs J M McFerrin and their two children relocate from Pecan Grove to Whitewright. Mr McFerrin serves as bookkeeper at Planters Gin Company, a position held for several years with the same employer.
Local residents hosted relatives and out of town guests from Fort Worth Eastland Wolfe City Bowie Denison Mt Pleasant and California. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Frank Benton Mr and Mrs J H Jones Dr and Mrs M L Patton and others visiting family and attending regional gatherings.
Orbin Blanton came back from Chicago after attending summer school at the University of Chicago. He traveled home with Arratia Alejander, Spanish instructor at Rice Institute in Houston. The Whitewright Lumber Company holds the contract to lay a concrete floor in the Fleming livery stable on lower Main Street, with Robbins & Compton performing the work. The building is owned by a Sherman party and further improvements are expected.
Mr Arnold a harnessmaker once with Manning Clark and Meador and longtime resident of Whitewright died recently in the Odd Fellows Home for aged members. He had worked for Manning Clark and Meador years ago and lived in Whitewright for several months.
Mrs G F Bryant entertained at her West Main Street home Tuesday afternoon in honor of her daughter Nora for her eleventh birthday. Games were played, dolls were given to the girls and whistles to the boys, a birthday cake with eleven candles was cut, and punch and ice cream were served.
Mrs W C Anderson and her sons Melvin and Elmer returned from a trip to Oklahoma visiting McAlester Tulsa Sand Springs Crystal City and Sulphur. They toured the McAlester state penitentiary attended a large Indian stomp dance with five tribes and called on Mr and Mrs Wm Smith in Sulphur where Mr Smith is 93 and Mrs Smith 83.
Miss Aden McQuillen of Galveston will head the new kindergarten department at the Whitewright grade school. A Texas Woman's College graduate at Fort Worth, she completed kindergarten work there and is a classmate of Mrs. Roby Childress, another TWC graduate in Whitewright.
Ray Manning chaired the Rotary Club luncheon with a program by Mrs. Horace Gordon of Abilene and Miss Mary Johnson. Gordon sang Beloved and The Gypsy Love Song with Johnson at the piano, and Johnson played other selections. Sherman Rotarians George Murphy and Sam Stokes visited, with Murphy serving as Sherman club secretary.
Jack Everheart of Silver City New Mexico visits his parents Mr and Mrs J E Everheart north of town during a holiday excursion.
Mr and Mrs Joe Hamilton returned Friday from a month long visit that covered California Arizona and New Mexico with remarks on the trip’s experiences and places seen.
Mrs. Willie Ferguson and her son William, J. W. Mann and Charles West Moreland of Dallas were guests of Miss Ethel Gordon Monday.
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