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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1936
Page
8
The seventh grade English class reports on activities at the grammar school. News notes include pupil reporters, a bowl of gold fish on the library table, and students like Margaret Coffey and Barbara Jean Gordon. Descriptions cover class duties, classroom corners, and student nicknames in the Pig Pen.
After a three month break the seventh grade resumes work on the school paper The Glow Worm with Doretha Darwin signing the hopeful note. The writers aim to match last year’s success and invite readers to enjoy reading and writing the paper.
Margaret Coffey welcomes two new seventh graders Malachia Wright from Wolfe City and Barbara Jean Gordon from Chickasha Oklahoma. Officials express happiness for their addition and hope they enjoy Grammar School.
Fourth grade pupils draw negroes and make negro dolls as part of classroom activities. A large negro doll stood at the front of the room. Some students were away for the weekend with trips to Royse City Sherman and the Centennial.
Third grade has circus chatter with clever clowns on the wall smiling and making faces. Reading groups are named after circus animals as the class studies the circus and pet care linking to a Pet Parade at Centennial.
A clever classroom moment inspires students to police the usage of ain't in their school. A pupil boasted of catching the word outside his room, prompting a humorous reply from the teacher and setting the tone for a week of language lessons.
The class studies New England geography and Eurasia while honoring National Dog Week with dog hero posters. The sixth grade enrollment is 39, up from 36 last year, and new pupil C J Watson joins Grace Harris, Mary Frances Clathorn, Robert Simmons, Helen Childress, and Sarah Weinstein who earned extra points for poetry memory.
Enrollment 35. 13 achieve 100 in spelling on day one. Perfect spellers listed for Sept. 17 and Sept. 22 include Robbie Mae Brown, Bertha Ford, Mary Alice Harrison, Velma Holland, Mary Dale King, Dorotha Darwin, Martha Lee Bradley, Marie Badgett, Lydia Mae Arney, Wandell Ridle, J. W. Chaney, Betty Atkinson, Charlie Sue Childress, Malachia Wright, Morris Fogle Gillett, Barbara Jean Gordon, Otto Russell Jr., Mary Lee Wilson. Baseball sees girls with three teams. seventh grade captain Mary Alice Harrison. sixth grade Myrtle Taylor. fifth Dorothy Sue Douglas. Football trials ongoing under Mr. Manning. Wilton McFarland named among top prospects.
The faculty celebrates a newly bought ditto machine that will let teachers give more individual worksheets faster. It saves pupils eyes by avoiding board questions and saves writing time and paper. The staff calls it a very useful and efficient addition.
Grammar School pupils delight in a bright library lunch room and are eager to keep it clean by scraping crumbs from desks and gathering papers after meals.
A new Grayson County wildcat is set to begin within a week or two, four and a half miles north of Sadler on a 2,500 acre block assembled earlier by Hubert Terry. O T Clark of Longview drills on the J C Mulder forty eight acre tract with surface casing in place and plans for a 1,500 foot test, possibly expanding to 3,000 feet with a rotary rig. Drilling to start by October 10, slush pit blasted from white rock. leases cover multiple surveys including J D McLeod and James Coryell holdings.
President Roosevelt announced two committees to craft a crop insurance plan and improve permanent protection against drought. He named Wallace as chairman of the committee on crop insurance and Morris L. Cooke to lead the Great Plains resource utilization group with a report due before January 1.
In Ottawa, archbishop Forbes read a pastoral letter forbidding the wedding march from Lohengrin and several other classical pieces in Catholic services. The policy favors Gregorian chant and music by listed composers, with items including Ave Maria, O Canada, God Save the King, and various sacred songs denoted as banned.
Arkansan BOB BURNS, who rose to fame on Bing Cros by's hour, is set to become a full film star under a Paramount contract. He will appear in three pictures a year at $60,000 per film, after rising from radio hillbilly roles to headline a starring movie Mountain Music and portray a mountain man who finds city life exciting yet true to his roots.
Want Ads list items for sale including a 1931 Chevrolet coach in good condition. Also two canary birds for sale with reason given. Real estate and farm equipment offered by Manning Clark & Meador. Pianos for sale near Whitewright. An auto finance service advertises car loan refinancing with quick approval at Sherman office.
Governor Allred opposed any plan to overhaul the Texas tax structure at the upcoming special session beginning Sept 28. He noted focus would shift to raising revenue for old age assistance and warned federal matching funds for pension rolls may be limited. He planned talks with pensions director Carpenter and tax commissioner Anderson before addressing the Legislature.
R L Markham of 129 West Hall street was hurt Saturday when a loaded trailer broke loose from a passing car and pinned him against his parked truck on East Sears street near the Southern Pacific roundhouse. He suffered a fractured vertebra and multiple broken ribs. 54 years old.
Machines drafted to combat soil erosion in Hardeman County. R H Smith, a young resident, notes the plains suffer dust and washing rains that threaten land, but a new machine may halt erosion and protect the soil.
A farmer has patented a device that forms small dams in furrows at intervals to trap rainfall and absorb it into the soil. The machine can attach to existing farm implements. Experiments show water-blocked land yields twice as much as traditional methods, with no waste land from terracing. Negotiations proceed with a local firm to manufacture the implement.
Utica New York Frank B Seaton deputy county clerk sought state and city permits to shoot a woodpecker he said is slowly but surely eating his house down He said the bird pecked a large hole through the roof needing shingles replacement and was starting another hole He noted game laws protect woodpeckers so a special permit would be needed to shoot one and a permit to discharge a weapon within city limits
In 1851 the first significant submarine telegraph line began operations, marking a milestone in global communications as a new underwater link connected distant regions and enabled rapid transcontinental messaging between nations.
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