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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN. WHITEWRIGHT. TEXAS
Thursday, September 13, 1934.
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Miss Lena Mae Gowdy was hostess
to the West End Bridge Club Friday
evening. The house was beautifully
decorated with cut flowers and ferns.
Miss Pernie Badgett won high score
honors for the club and Mrs. Ed La-
Roe for the guests. Mrs. A. T. Short,
Mrs. H. T. Arterberry, Mrs. H. P.
Donigan and Mrs. R. T. Pennington
won table favors. A salad course was
served to club members and the fol-
lowing visitors: Mrs. L. LaRoe, Mrs.
A. L. Jackson, Mrs. Ross R. May,
Mrs. Lee Wilborn of Austin and Mrs.
Holmes Connelly of Trenton.
That in 1918 the daily cost of war
was $224,000,000?
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Insurance Agency
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Pascal Farley, Owner
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offers its Texas readers the opportunity to pay their
subscriptions at a reduced price. There’s no limit to the
number of years you may pay for at this price, which
applies to subscriptions in arrears, subscriptions in good
standing, and new subscriptions alike.
Mrs. T. E. Sears, who is leaving
soon for Denton where she will re-
side during the school term, enter-
tained the primary department of the
Presbyterian Sunday school, of which
she is superintendent, Saturday aft-
ernoon in the church basement.
Games were played and refreshments
were served. Mrs. F. O. Mangrum
and Mrs. Fred Cook assisted Mrs.
Sears in the entertaining. After re-
freshments were served the children
presented Mrs. Sears with a surprise
handkerchief' shower. Little Miss
Margaret Lucille Hanna gave a read-
ing and presented the gifts.
Can you better afford to
sell a ton of hay or ^few
bushels of oats and buy in-
surance with the money,
or maybe lose all your
feed and grain by fire?
Think it over I
will have to start something else now F. M. SLOAN WILL
to keep his name on the front page.
And he will do it.
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The visit of the Denison goodwill
tourists to Whitewright Thursday
evening proved a fitting climax to
this series of neighborhood gather-
ing§ which might be appropriately
called adventures in friendship. The
Whitewright visit was in many ways
the most successful of the series', the
Denisonians being given a
That the cost of the battleship
“Colorado” was $27,000,000? And
that thi,s sum is only $3,000,000 less
than the total endowment which
Johns Hopkins University has accu-
on~tmulated since it was founded in 1876.
C. W. Dennis, pastor.
Just a few weeks remain of the
present conference year. It is of the
utmost importance that every Metho-
dist attend Sunday school and the
church services for the next six Sun-
days. For various reasons, a number
of our congregation have been ab-
sent recently* We insist that you be
in your place next Sunday at 11 a.
m. and 7:30 p. m. Sometimes it
seems from the newspaper accounts
that there are more week-end visitors
than there are week-end worshipers.
Some people make high speed but get
nowhere. You need the influence of
God’s House. We invite you to wor-
ship with us at the Methodist Church
next Sunday.
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Huey Long is still “Kingfish” in
Louisiana. His candidates won in
Tuesday’s election. The “Kingfisfr”
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The good will program put on in
Whitewright last Thursday night'by
the Denison Chamber of Commerce
was above par and won the praise of
all who witnessed it. Our visitors
from Denison met many old friends
and made many new ones on their
visit to Whitewright. Whitewright
was glad to have them. Denison and
Whitewright have much in common
and should know each other better.
Come to see us again soon.
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This is the fourteenth day of Sep-
tember and at least seventy-five per
cent of the cotton crop has been
picked. In the “good old days” cot-
ton picking was just getting under
headway by the middle of Septem-
ter. The New Deal has brought about
many changes.
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Dallas has been selected as the city
for the Texas Centennial to be held
in 1936. At that time Texas will cel-
ebrate one hundred years of unex-
ampled progress, from barren wilder-
ness to modern commonwealth. Dal-
las outbid Houston and San Antonio
for the centennial location. The Dal-
las bid totaled $7,971,000. Some
money for a six months’ exhibition,
but Dallas will make good with the
help of all Texans. Houston and San
Antonio have joined hands with Dal-
las to make the centennial a grand
success.
F. M. Sloaan, who has operated a
general merchandise store at Pilot
Grove for more than a quarter of a
century, will move his stock of goods
to Trenton ftov. 1. He has rented
from Clarence Jones the old furni-
ture store building on the corner of
Pearl and Hamilton streets and will
conduct his store there. Carpenters
Commenting on the fear expressed
by the agricultural administration
that the low yield of cotton this year
will be offset by another bumper
crop next year, the Dallas Times
Herald says, “The fear may be justi-
fied, but if the price of cotton does
not rise higher than 13 cents the
farmers will not be strongly
tempted.” This comment is indica-
tive of the ignorance on the part of
metropolitan editorial writers as to
what is in the minds of farm owners
and farm operators. If anybody be-
lieves that 13-cent cotton will not in-
duce farmers to plant every avail-
able foot of land to cotton in 1935,
provided government restrictions are
lifted, all he has to do is look back
one year to 1933 when the largest
cotton acreage in history was planted,
with the price of cotton i----- -----
what it is now. Farmers in West
Texas are trying to rent entire sec-
tions of land with the intention of
planting every foot of it in cotton
next year in the event restrictions
are removed. Farm owners have in-
sisted for years that their tenants
plant as much cotton as possible,
knowing that the money return per
acre from cotton is greater than any
other crop, year in and year out. The
government will do well to consider
these things before abandoning con-
trol measures.
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Regular preaching services will be
held Sunday.
11 a. m., subject, “A Good Soldier
of Jesus Christ.”
7:45 p. m., subject, “The New
Testament Church.”
All members are urged to be pres-
ent for Bible study and both preach-
ing services. The public is invited to
hear the discussion of these sub-
jects.—J. R. Waldrum, minister.
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ing the building.
Mr. Sloan is well known in this sec-
tion and is one among the largest
turkey buyers in North Texas. He
operates four trucks now and gathers
up through the country all kinds of
country produce.—Trenton Tribune.
NOTICE: All notices of entertain-
ments, box suppers and other bene-
fits, where there is an admission fee
or other monetary consideration, will
be charged for at regular advertising
rates. Memorials, resolutions of re-
gpect, etc., also will be charged for.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation of
any person, firm or corporation that
may appear in the columns of The
Whitewright Sun will be gladly and
fully corrected upon being brought to
the attention of the publishers.
Farmers particularly need The Sun, for it publishes
all the news of. interest in connection with the Govern-
ment’s farm adjustment program. We receive these
news releases direct from Washington and College Sta-
tion, and they are to be depended upon. During the past
year we have had many compliments from farmers for
the presentation of farm adjustment news. This service
will be continued as long as there is need for it.
Each little denizen, that steps up-
on this bridge of time, meets this
wonder world entirely from without.
But he begins at once to build with-
in. “He is a part of all he meets.” He
sees, thinks, reasons and grows, all
within. This wonder world is his.
Three score years and ten gives
him “drift wood to build his winter’s
fire.” What if the storm comes?
What if “inhumanity to man” finds
him? If “Snowbound” just softly
closed the door, leaving the light in
the window, and commune with the
unseen Guest “if winter comes.”—
Contributed.
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Son, Doctor, Too
His son, Dr. Ross R. May, is asso-
ciated with him now and their office
is in the Kirkpatrick drugstore.
With more seniority than Dr. May
as a Whitewright citizen, Dr. Powell
recalls how the latter harvested grain
where Whitewright has stood these
many years. He came with his fa-
ther, Ambrose Powell, to where
Whitewright now stands in 1877 from
Kentucky, and is an authority
early history of the community.
He recalls the sale by George
Blanton of an extensive tract of the
fertile black land to the Katy rail-
road for $20 an acre with a wheat
crop, harvested just before the rail-
road took possession, yielding more
than the ground sold for. His wife,
likewise a pioneer, was Miss Emma
Robb before her marriage. .
It was in 1911, according to Dr.
Powell, that a disastrous fire visited
Whitewright and came near anni-
hilating the town. Starting in the
business district, the blaze made a
clean sweep south to the Cotton Belt
railroad. The loss amounted to many
thousands of dollars.
Dr. Powell also recalls the tornado
that struck Whitewright a glancing
blow in 1919, killing a number of
persons in the eastern edge of the
community and continuing north to
Canaan to claim more lives and in-
flict heavy damage to property.
(From Denison Herald)
Of the sturdy pioneers who estab-
lished Whitewright more than a half
century ago, only two men survive to
about half .rejoice with the younger citizens in
the achievement the community has
made. They are Dr. Reynolds May,
who at 83 years af age is one of the
county’s oldest practicing physicians,
and Dr. J. N. Powell, 78 years old, a
veterinarian whose agility belies his
age.
Both men have lived in White-
wright since the town was estab-
lished and have continued active in
their respective professions as the
community marched forward undei’
the impetus of prosperity and
through the adversities of conflagra-
tions and tornadoes.
After his graduation in the spring
of 1878, Dr. May moved a few miles
northeast of Whitewright where he
began his practice, riding back and
forth to town, and shortly afterward
established his home within the then
embryo city. His wife, a member of
the Rathbun family, likewise was a
pioneer.
Through more than a half century
of service, Dr. May has experienced
thrills and hardships that came to the
small town doctor in early days. He
can not begin to enumerate the
times he has saddled his horse and
splashed along rain-soaked trails
through the thickest of nights to
some isolated farm home where a
life dangled in the balance.
That he is active now despite his
more than four score years is graph-
ically attested by the fact that he re-
cently spent a day and night with a
maternity case before returning to
his office to triumphantly announce
the addition of a new Whitewright
citizen.
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rousing .will begin work next week remodel-
reception by the people of that com-
munity. However, such a visit to
Whitewright was not a new thing.
Denison citizens have been making
such journeys once a year for many
years, attending the annual home-
coming celebration which, White-
wright stages each season. But the
good-will journey Thursday evening
was different, in that it represented
the spontaneous desire of Deni-
sonians to repay courtesies extended
in the past.—Denison Herald.
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The Whitewright Sun, of which J.
H. W’aggoner is publisher, , is one of
the most beautifully printed country
weeklies that reaches our desk.—Mc-
Kinney Examiner.
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Two Whitewright
Pioneers Recall
Town’s Founding
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