Whitewright News items 1921 school births and fire
Down Memory Lane itemizes a 1921 list: Rolla Vestal farm home burned east of town, Mrs. Oscar Pierce hosts a tacky party, Whitewright schools opened with 575 pupils, births to Gosnell and Cowart, American Legion Band concert on Main Street, J. W. Nicholson dies on South Bend, Roscoe Pace buys Bon Wright Drug Co. store, listed school faculty and seventh grade Good English Club officers, cotton gins 2,430 bales by Wednesday, Texas illiteracy 300000. 25 Years Ago: 1941 plans include free Palace show, a $4000 six-room dwelling, injuries to Miss Helen Clabhorn, local leaders in pharma, editor staff at WHS Reflector, and cooking and home tips on baking and painting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolla C. Vestal
Oscar Pierce
Whitewright
J. H. Gosnell
Roy Cowart
American Legion
Main Street
J. W. Nicholson
South Bend Street
Roscoe Pace
Bon Wright Drug Co
F. W. Smith
B. W. Crain
Dorothy Porter
Dorothy Chambless
Roberta Sloan
Mac Reed
Joel Bulliner
Susie Noe
Clara Craig
Frances Giles
Pina Murphy
Ruth Montgomery
Sallye Hamilton
Mae Hall
Kate Fulton
Gertrude Schooling
Velma Bennett
Beatrice Maynard
Eva Jane Skaggs
Margaret Pierce
Whitewright Merchants
Palace Theatre
George K. Stephens
West Maple Street
Helen Clabhorn
Highway 69
Lester Short
Midland
West Texas Pharmaceutical Association
Albert Reeves
Clay Horton
Lula Lee Vestal
Jerome Peschke
Houston
C. B. Bryant
Lucile Starr
Kathryn Roddy
Cora Mae Thornton
WHS Reflector
Preston Everheart Post Elects Legion Officers
Thirty five years ago on September 24 1931 the Preston Everheart Post American Legion announced officers including Joe Riddle as post commander George Burham as vice commander and B W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Everheart Post
American Legion
Joe Riddle
George Burnham
B. W
Junk Could Smother Us All In The Future
In Washington the danger is not fire or flood but junk. The glass can, a bottle in disguise, promises a national litter crisis as bottles and cans flood streets. The essay argues naming bottles as cans fuels disposal neglect and trash buildup across the countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Coun
Independent Executrix seeks settlement of Miller estate
Bertha Lee Miller, Independent Executrix of the Estate of Irving M. Miller, deceased, Grayson County, Texas, invites all debtors and claimants to present claims or make settlements within the legal period at Sherman, Texas. Notice published September 22, 1966 in The Whitewright Sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
Texas
Grayson
Irving M. Miller
Grayson County
Les Tribble
Sherman
Bertha Lee Miller
Sed
Decca
Whitewright Sun
Decline in Milk Production Seen
The Agriculture Department warns milk output may fall more than expected as dairy farmers and workers move to cities for better jobs. A recent dairy situation report suggests this year’s production could drop to 120.6 billion pounds from 125.1 billion last year.
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Agriculture Department
Beer Baby Food Use More Glass
New York report shows babies rank second to beer drinkers in glass containers. The Glass Container Manufacturers Institute says food jars total about 3 billion annually while the industry ships over 5 billion new bottles each year to meet beer demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Glass Container Manufacturers Institute
Institute
Junk menace and planned obsolescence link in car disposal
The piece notes a fatal link between planned obsolescence and junk accumulation. It cites 5.3 million cars becoming junk this year, up from 4.2 million six years earlier, and projects 60 million junk cars in the next decade. It laments disposal challenges and questions auto safety laws hindering drastic junk-slimming ideas.
Divorce Citation Issued in Grayson County Texas
The court issues a notice requiring Billie Linville to answer Nancy Linville in the divorce suit No 72194 filed September 6 1966. The respondent must file by October 2 1966 at 10 am with the 15th District Court in Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Billie Linville
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Nancy Linville
A. D
Weekend visits and social news from Grayson County
We summarize weekend visits across Texas and beyond. Judy Gosnell of TCU Fort Worth spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Sonny Gosnell. Numerous locals hosted or visited relatives including Dallas Amarillo Sherman Garland Paris and Sherman hospital. notable items include Dr. Fred Dinkler named associate medical director Bankers Life Co. of Des Moines and Robert Doss attending a Grievance Conference in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judy Gosnell
TCU
Fort Worth
Sonny Gosnell
Fred Dinkler
Whitewright
Bankers Life Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Dinkler
Great Southern Life
Houston
Robert Doss
State Bar Association
Austin
Grayson County
Neilson Rogers
Sherman
Festival of Perahera Honors Tooth Relic in Kandy
For ten midsummer days in Kandy Ceylon Buddhists celebrate Perahera around the Temple of the Tooth where a relic venerated for centuries as a Buddhist eyetooth is enshrined.
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Kandy
Ceylon
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A. L. Johnson
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Jack Hayes
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Noel Miller
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Grayson County Junior College
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Buck Chesser
Earl Lyons
Sherman Hospital
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Vern Norris
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Judy
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H. G. Vandagriff
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