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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1929
Page
1
Whitewright High School enrolled ninety seven out of town students the first week. they come from seventeen districts across three counties and are spread through four grades with thirty four non resident freshmen the largest group. Grammar school non residents total fifty seven and more enrollments are expected after cotton picking season ends.
Presbyterian minister Dr J F Fender was injured when his car ran into a ditch near the Wallace residence. He suffered rib injuries and blunt impact against the steering wheel while returning from A P Neff’s home with milk. Recovery hoped for soon.
The Sun misjudged paving completion last week as a large concrete mixer stalled Monday and paused until Tuesday night. By Wednesday the machine ran smoothly, and officials say paving and the new lighting system will enhance the business area once streets are opened to traffic within a few days if no further delays occur.
Up to Wednesday night White Wright gins had ginned 2642 bales of cotton, with 1746 bales by the same time last week. Gins have been crowded since Monday, one running all night to reduce seed cotton. Receipts at the yard will exceed ginning totals as some cotton is sold locally. Prices: seed cotton 6.00 6.25 per hundred. lint 17.75 to 18.50. seed 31 41 a ton for pedigreed planting seed.
Miss Margaret McMurry hosted a seven o'clock bridge dinner at her parents home to honor high school faculty members and two out of town guests. Twelve guests enjoyed a yellow clothed table with gardenias and unique place cards, followed by five games of bridge. Miss Tapscott earned high score, receiving a china puff-box as a prize.
A layman's banquet will be held at the Methodist Church Friday evening with out of town guests including Dean Jennings of Southern Methodist University and Dr J A Weeks Sherman district presiding elder. Dr Jennings and Dr Weeks will speak briefly as Dr R May leads the program. The Woman's Missionary Society will serve the banquet.
The graveling of State Highway No. 42 to Orangeville is finished. The crew moved from Whitewright to Trenton to gravel the south end from Orangeville to Trenton. About twenty trucks haul gravel. Completion of the Whitewright to Trenton section expected in two weeks if progress matches the Orangeville to Whitewright segment. The road has a six inch rock foundation with a three inch gravel layer.
State engineers survey a new path for Highway 5 from the Grayson line through Fannin to near Bonham. Total funds include 135000 state money and 65000 local share for grading and drainage. Work overseen by W D Dockery with a right of way of 100 feet, aiming to pave Highway 5 from Texarkana to Texline.
Gov. Dan Moody considered the surge of requests to declare martial law in Borger Texas Hutchinson County oil town. Ranger Captain Frank A. Hamer was ordered back to Borger as he finishes testimony in a Brownsville case. Moody said conditions are tolerable for law abiding citizens and will decide after ranger and investigator reports. Martial law had not been used in Texas since Mexia under Gov Pat Neff.
The Baptist Young People's Union of the Kentuckytown church won the county banner for greatest advancement at the county-wide training school. The banner was presented at a Sherman First Baptist Church meeting held last Sunday afternoon.
The city installs seven new ornamental lighting fixtures with GE designs in the business district. Thirteen of the twenty standards can be erected now, with eight more to be placed under store awnings pending possible adjustments to awnings.
Whitewright High School begins its football season Friday at 4 p m with a scrimmage against Denison High School's second team. Supt F W Smith coaches the locals assisted by Oswald Haynes in a cash basis equipment plan. Players include Coffman Montgomery Hall Blanton Bryant Humphreys Anderson Grow Passons Chambers Nicholson and others. Receipts from Friday's game fund two footballs and any surplus supports sweat shirts for the squad.
William Skaggs, son of Mr and Mrs C H Skaggs, was appointed superintendent of the state fish hatchery at Roaring Gap NC. He had served as assistant superintendent for six months and previously worked at a Missouri hatchery. Luther Skaggs, William’s brother, left for North Carolina to take the position of assistant superintendent.
A Sunday 4:20 pm crash at a Katy crossing two blocks north of the Katy station killed Tony McCauley 6 and seriously injured Barrow Reynolds. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry McCauley died later. Reynolds survived, and all were from Trenton. Funeral services were held at Fairview cemetery amid a large hometown turnout. The McCauleys were deaf mutes, accounting for their failure to hear the approaching train.
The Pilot Grove Community Fair opened today and runs through Friday with a wide range of exhibits. The Kentuckytown Community Fair is scheduled for Friday at the Kentuckytown schoolhouse, with both communities participating in the Red River Valley Fair October 7 to 12.
Mrs. Charles Williams of near Ee tor in Fannin County was pinned under a car that turned over in a roadside ditch two miles north of town. Her son drove, others unhurt. She was treated at a local office then moved to her sister’s home, and remained there Monday.
Mrs P Walker travelled to Childress on Friday to see her granddaughter Mrs FE D Lankford.
Local merchants boast big inventories of season’s newest goods across groceries drug hardware furniture and more. Shoppers are urged to visit Saturday to mingle with crowds enjoy special bargains and view ongoing street paving improving the town’s appeal.
J. W. McGee of the Sherman Rotary Club spoke at the Whitewright club dinner at the Baptist Church annex. He explained three life insurance options: lump sum to beneficiaries, monthly government style income, and lifetime endowment with estate remainder to heirs. He urged members to compare their income needs and the estate's protection when assessing coverage.
Finis Alverson told The Sun about Teeman Sanders six years old who weighs thirty nine pounds and picked 101 pounds of cotton for him last Friday. Alverson promised publicity for the feat and the boy already has it.
Mr and Mrs Roy Ownby and children of Denison were guests of Mr and Mrs F A Douglas Sunday.
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