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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
4
The Whitewright Sun confirms J. H. Waggoner as editor and publisher and notes second class mail status for Whitewright at the post office.
The paper sets rates for obituaries and cards of thanks at six to eleven cents per line. Church and lodge notices with revenue are five cents per line. Religious fraternal or public notices intended for public benefit are published free of charge.
Daily figures from Oklahoma and West Texas indicate sufficient labor to pick the fleecy crop at a reasonable cost.
The fair will display modern warfare implements and relics from recent battle scenes. State Press columnist Joe Taylor notes that a wealthy bond owner may rise in status over someone owning a dilapidated car in three years.
R. E. L. Binion, a cane syrup maker from Pilot Grove, bought a fifty ton silo and will store ensilage produced from pomace or cane stalks after extracting syrup properties.
The Sun expected to receive Bakers Frank King Ras Benedict and Stanley Fogle's cookery from the San Antonio commissary. Boosters for the Bells district fair distributed literature and invitations during a visit last Thursday. Last Sunday’s mild weather preceded devotional services in churches with twenty attendees. The piece notes how prosperity can lead people to forget God.
The United States stopped whiskey manufacture at midnight last Saturday to save grain for essential needs. The nation reportedly holds about 230 million gallons in stock, roughly 2.3 gallons per person, and with the proper dilution could endure the war’s length.
A Cincinnati authority touts freezone as a painless remedy for corns and calluses. A small bottle costs little and can remove hard or soft corns or calluses, with little risk to surrounding skin. The note urges druggists to stock it and warns readers to request it from wholesalers.
The report notes the upcoming call on or about the 19th inst will be forty percent and will include several individuals from White Wright.
Grayson county sent 22 men to Camp Travis in San Antonio last Saturday as the first increment of the drafted army. The county’s quota is 436 men with Denison district contributing eleven. Julian Boone of Whitewright volunteered to go first, having registered in Denison. The call represented five percent of the total quota.
More than thirty White Wright youths will depart for higher education this fall. Their projected costs total about 12,000 dollars, a sum enough to fund a first class junior college at the Grayson college property, had they stayed. The writer suggests the choice mirrors why residents shop away from home.
The Celina Record argues that cinema contributes to good or evil based on public choice. It urges supporting quality films and denying patronage to harmful ones, noting pictures are here to stay and can serve as a sermon from the screen.
The city Red Cross chapter with 3000 people prepared about 400 hospital supplies for soldiers and allies. Assuming similar efforts nationwide, total pieces rise to 13.5 million for 1.5 million service members, nine pieces per soldier, and 270 pieces for each possible 50 000 injuries.
Whitewright citizen Consul Jonh Ray was briefly detained in Russia but released after headquarters confirmed his identity. The incident followed a Washington dateline report and drew commentary contrasting Whitewright and Odessa amid postwar Russian turmoil and socialist influence.
The article notes that dove season has begun allowing legal taking of doves. It emphasizes the intent is not to invite killing but to urge restraint and kindness toward the birds described as pretty, harmless, and sad eyed.
An advertisement from Gainesville Georgia promotes Foley Kidney Pills as a remedy for insomnia and nocturnal trips. A consumer named H T Strange reports ten years of sleep trouble and says one bottle cured him, enabling uninterrupted sleep. The copy claims relief from back and side pain, headaches, stomach issues, heart action, joint stiffness, and rheumatic pain due to kidney and bladder ailments.
A vintage beauty tip describes making a lemon skin softener by mixing fresh lemon juice with three ounces orchard white to yield a quarter pint lotion for face neck arms and hands. The preparation is strained to remove pulp and said to brighten freckles sallowness tan and rough skin with daily massage.
The Honey Grove Signal notes the dove as a symbol of peace after the flood and laments dove slaughter. The writer recalls killing a dove in youth and vows never to kill again, feeling guilt with each call of a dove for its mate. Spare the dove.
J H Waggoner met Sherman press at the Red River Valley Fair planning sessions. Press day falls Friday October 5 with fair officials and Sherman newspaper men to finalize the program.
Percy Davis, residing in Fort Worth, has been selected for military service and expects to report to Camp Travis with the next induction wave. He anticipates being called on the 19th inst.
H A Ivy president offers a 12 month building fund scholarship covering commercial and stenographic training at 30 dollars below regular price. The program is transferable and good until used, with a supervisor dormitory for girls under the college president. Money back is not guaranteed. Write for details.
The ad for J L Kirkpatrick last week claimed his fountain served Crystal ice cream which was a mistake. Kirkpatrick markets the well known Alta Vista cream.
An old advertisement warns that calomel poisons the liver and promises Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable substitute. It claims calomel causes cramping and nausea while Dodson's product supposedly starts the liver, improves mood, and avoids salivation, suitable for children.
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