Whitewright Social Roundup Sees Town Visits and Farewells
Local residents report numerous weekend visits among families and friends including Leta Ball in Tom Bean, Sidney Scott in Irving, and several Dallas and Celeste connections. Church group plans fall meeting with pictures from Hawaii and Golden Wedding celebrations mark lasting unions among area families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Alexander
Mendel Alexander
Gaston Alexander
Grand Prairie
Bemis Alexander
Dallas
Herman Compton
Bobby Compton
Jack Hudson
Celeste
Pete Renfro
Greenville
Nat Alexander
Narvin Alexander
Garland
Everett Watson
Whitewright
Wolfe City
Dixie Creek
Visits and family greetings across Dallas and towns
A series of social notes records visits among local families. Charles Sneed hosts Mrs. Otto Cunningham and others in Dallas and Van Alstyne while Aston Smith and Troy Childress spend time with Sneed and Gentry families. A cotton picker accident injures Carlton Johnson. Military family events at Fort Hood are noted along with trips to Plainview Largo and Aztec New Mexico.
Child Questions Wishing for What He Has Not
A mother rebukes Robert for always wishing for things he lacks and the boy replies that he sees no other goal. The exchange highlights a child’s perspective on desire and contentment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
Mother
The Spices of Life and a Surprising Bethlehem Answer
A kindergarten class sings The Angels Came to Bethlehem and a girl answers Who else came to Bethlehem with The stork coming up. War memories appear as a corporal recalls a chant about Tojo and a jeep crash. A Texas man’s riddle explains why he was his own grandfather, ending with a humorous family paradox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Mary and
Joseph
M. P
Tojo
Brooklyn corporal in occupation murders a Japanese man
A Brooklyn corporal in the American Army of Occupation, furious at soon being shipped home, cries he must kill a Japanese before returning home. He rushes from the bar racks with a bayonet, and a Japanese man is found dead in the street as the corporal lies seriously wounded nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
America
Flatbush
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leta Ball
Tom Bean
Mrs. Leon Ball
Sidney Scott of
Irving
R. I. Scott
L. H. Goforth
Anna
Mrs. A. L. Ingram of
Ruth Cox
Joe Miller
Mrs
R. C. Adams
R. C. Adams of
Willie Stapleton
Denison
C. Summers
California
Jess Blanks
A. R. McMurry
Joe H. Perkins Sr
Farmersville Cemetery
Bill Morris
J.C. Whipple
Oscar Boatwright
Bonham
Mrs. Emmet England
Lewisville
Lonnie England
J. C. Reagan
Mesquite
C. L. Garner
Melissa
G. R. Bailey
F. N. Burr
Trenton
D. D. Brooks
Jim Grider
Glen Edwards
Russell Marley
Rogers
Fort Worth
Glen Sparks
Plano
Wesleyan Service Guild
First Methodist
Mardell Pumphrey
Charlie Ayres
W. M. Pierson
Morris Hughes
Wallace Caraway
Kenneth Frisby
J. B. King
E. R. Jansson
Mrs. Clyde Sadler
Mrs. Marvin Smith
Percy Darwin of
Abilene
Lonnie Darwin
N. B. Nicholson
W. T. Nicholson
Gracie Gates
Mrs. W. M. Gates
Ray Hansard
Harold Doss
C. K. Smith
Cynthia
Sherman
F. H. Albright
M. E. Allen
Birby
Oklahoma
A. B. Jones
Hugh Hunter
Jerry M. Pierce
Killeen
Hubert Bond
R. E. Pierce
J. D. McMillin
O. E. Head
Orval Head
Kenneth Faulkner
Dick Gibson
Dorchester
Horace McMillin
Robert Poe
Norton, Kans
Corsicana
Hill McMillin
Phillips
South Bend Street
Carol Orenduff
The
Presbyterian Missionary Society
R. E. Hickman
H. H. Sears
T. E. Sears
J. T. Holloway
H. H. Taylor
B. Wrenn Webb
Tucson
Arizona
Lydia Henry
Wyatt
Susan Holloway
Bob Sears
Dodgers
Charles Sneed
Otto Cunningham
Jim Ables
van Alstyne
Bill and
Kevin Morton
Grover
Aston Smith
John McAlester
Homer Gentry
Troy Childress
Tucson, Ariz
Carlton Johnson
S. D. Phillips
Fort Hood
W. A. Phillips
C. R. Jones
Austin
R. W. Jones
Plainview
O. L. Jones
Jeanette
Fred Moore
Gus Burchfield
Largo
Florida
B. R. Burchfield
Burchfield
Robert Latimer
Leonard and
Harold Holcomb
Louis Franklin
D. E. McCoy
Aztec
N. M
D. E. McCoy Jr
A. N. McCoy
Hubby
Texas
Fortune
H. Montgomery Agency
Shurfine
Rex
Decker
Biscuits
Royal Arms
Carton
Dal
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