The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1925 Page: 2 of 8
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THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Sun and Dallas News, both $2.25.
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VALENTINES
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Confectionery
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“Business is Good”
Lester Haile
Planter and Cultivator Demonstration
display the
various
CASE PLANTERS
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OLIVER CULTIVATORS, PLANTERS, MIDDLE BUSTERS, P&O PLANTERS AND TURNING PLOWS, McCORMICK-DEERING PIVOT-AXLE CULTIVATORS.
MANNING & CLARK
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GOOD EQUIPMENT
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I have seed corn, sudan and other
farm seed. See or phone
Stories of Abraham
Lincoln
Plant A. D. Mebane’s Pedigreed Seed this year
and be in line again this fall for my liberal cash
premiums on your cotton and seed.
Headquarters for Planting Seed
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upon her
long time.
THIS COUPON
and FIVE Cents good for
TWO packages of “Chest
o’ Gold,” that popular ap-
petizing Prize Package.
readers,
repro-
DAMAGE SUIT FOR $36,250
RESULTS FROM CAR ACCIDENT
There will be a singing convention
at Canaan, three miles north of town,
SINGING CONVENTION
AT CANAAN NEXT SUNDAY
WHITEWRIGHT GIRL OFFICER
IN GLEE CLUB AT C. I. A.
Have ;
Man”?
P. 0. Confectionery
Chesley Rutledge, Owner
J. L. KIRKPATRICK
Your Druggist for 23 Years
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Sir Oliver Lodge describes the hu-
man eye as a ladio receiver. Some
of the ladies manage to do a good
deal of broadcasting with it, too.-—
New York Herald Tribune.
. I buy more of this high grade seed than any other individual in
the entire Soifth, and by doing so I get better prices than a dealer
that only buys a few cars. xThis enables me to save you money.
The A. D. Mebane Pedigreed Seed will be sold cheaper at White-
wright this year than they can be bought elsewhere—cheaper
than you can buy them direct from Mr. Mebane’s Company.
Helps Those Hard Coughs.
The danger of “flu” is its tendency
to develop pleurisy and pneumonia.
Stop your cold before it reaches this
danger point, and for the cough, and
painful wheezy breathing, take
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. Fine
also for bronchial coughs, tightness
in chest and troublesome night
you read “To the Last
’ We have a few of the
books left to sell for 75c.
Strong, heavy
standard,, sweep
or middle
. buster can be
k used.
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& Genuine I;
The Case Cell Drop Planter is the best on the market.
This is not an idle assertion but is backed up by years of
service in your own neighborhood. It is the only Planter
on the market with a one seed force drop. This insures
uniform planting of the seeds, giving every one the same
chance to come up without crowding. You save the
price of the planter in one year’s time by lowering the
cost of chopping and cultivation.
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next Sunday afternoon. All singers
and lovers of music are invited to be
present.
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Mr. Trout, the district representative of the J. I. Case Plow Works Company, will be on hand to explain in detail the many advant-
ages of the Case line of Planters and Cultivators. Come in and look them over.
And what could be more appro-
priate for St. Valentine’s day
than a box of sweetness? Se-
lected to your liking and special-
ly packed for the occasion, our
line of KING’S Candies for Am-
erican Queens will surely please
Denton, Texas, Feb. 10.—A glee
club composed of twenty-two mem-
bers has been organized at the Col-
lege of Industrial Arts at Denton,
under the direction of Orville J.
Borchers, professor of voice. The
organization made its first appear-
ance at a recent meeting of the Den-
ton Rotary Club. It has since oeen
presented over radio.
Miss Anice Carlisle of’ Dallas is
president, Miss Elizabeth May of
Whitewright is vice president, and
Denton; Josephine
Alice Scott, Cle-
Lockhart;
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wherever he went. He kept the of-
fice until it was discontinued.
His Letter to Mrs. Bixby.
RegardecT~by many authorities on
English as the finest composition in
that language is President Lincoln’s
brief and tender letter to Mrs. Bixby
on the death of her five- sons in de-
fense of the Union cause.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
To Mrs. Bixby, Bostop, Mass. *
I have been shown in the file of
the War Department a statement to
the Adjutant General of Massachu-
setts that you are the mother of five
sons who have died gloriously on the
field of battle. I feel how weak and
fruitless must be any word of mine
which should attempt to beguile you
from the grief of a loss so over-
whelming. But I can not refrain
from tendering you the consolation
that may be found in the thanks of
the Republic they died to save. I
pray that our Heavenly Father may
assuage the anguish of your bereave-
ment and leave only the cherished
memory of the loved and lost and the
solemn pride that must be yours to
have laid so costly a sacrifice upon
the altar of freedom.
Yours very sincerely and respect-
fully, A LINCOLN.
CASE CULTIVATORS
The famed bross-head or Parallel Beam; Seat Guide Cul-
tivator that a boy can operate with ease; Admiral B.
Walking Cultivators; in fact we carry as complete a line
of farming tools of the best makes on the market as will
be found anywhere.
Sherman, Feb. 5.—A suit for $36,-
250 for personal injuries has been
filed in Fifteenth district court as
the outgrpwth f a recent autombile
accident on the streets of Sherman.
The suit, which is styled Ralph
Harris et al vs. T. C. Bass et ux, al-
leges that Ralph Harris, age 12, was
struck by an automobile driven by
Mrs. T. C. Bass, the accident occur-
ring at the intersection of Travis and
Houston streets on Dec. 1, last.
Damages in the sum of $25,000
are asked for the injured boy
$11,250 for W. F. McNutt and Mrs.
Ruby McNutt.
Monday and Tuesday, February 16th and 17th, will be Implement Days in Whitewright. We will have on
types of advanced Planters, Cultivators and other Farm Implements that go to make a good farmer better.
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Miss Mabel Wilbar of Gordon is sec-
retary and treasurer.
Other members are Jean Pender-
grass, Leonard; Louise Holloman,
Calvert; Hazel Vaughn, Vernon;
Theresa Nimitz, San Angelo; Mary
Bethel Starke, Holland; Mary Lee
James, Wills Point; Bernice Robin-
son, Bartlett; Imogene Raine, Uvalr
de; Ruth Beall, Trinity; Sinda Stur-
gis, Grand View; Lillian Hudson,
Pearsall; Verla Woosley, Hillsboro;
Gladys Kelso,
Gray, Bonham;
burne; Virginia French,
Martha McNeill, Port Arthur; Mar-
garet Sommers, Brenham; Christine
Cochran, Trinity.
in his eyes, Lincoln said to a friend:
“All that I am or hope to be, I owe
to my angel mother—blessings on her
memory.” She was five feet and five
inches tall, a slender figure, pale,
sad and sensitive woman, of a heroic
nature. Her death occurred in 1818,
two years after her removal from
Kentucky to Indiana.
Lincoln’s First Fee.
Among Lincoln’s first cases was
one in which there was little chance
of success, but he did succeed with it
and received a fee of five hundred
dollars. “Why, I never had so much
money in all my life before,” he ex-
claimed, as he counted it over in the
presence of a friend. “I have got
just.five hundred dollars. If it were
seven hundred and fifty, I would go
direct and purchase a quarter section
of land and settle it upon my old
step-mother.” His friend loaned him
the difference, taking his note for it
and then advised him not to give the
land to his step-mother outright but
to settle it upon her for her use dur-
ing her life time. To which Lincoln
said: “I shall do no such thing. It
is a poor return at best for all the
good woman’s devotion and fidelity
to me, and there is^ not going to be
any half-way business about it.”
Not Fit For the Presidency.
Early in 1860, Lincoln was often
mentioned for the Republican nomi-
nation for president. Though he was
classed with Seward, Chase, McLean
and other celebrities, any pride he
felt in the association was artfully
concealed. In all cases, he discour-
aged mention of his name in this re-
lation. To one man who proposed it,
he wrote: “I beg you will not give it
further mention. Seriously, I do not
think I am fit for the presidency.”
The Ugliest Man.
Lincoln related this story: “One
day, riding on the circuit, I was ac-
accosted by a stranger who said ‘Ex-
cuse me, sir, but I have an article in
my possession which’belongs to you.’
I wanted to know how that was. Then
the stranger took a jack-knife from
his pocket. ‘This knife,’ he said,
‘was placed in my hands some time
ago, with the injunction that I was to
keep it until I found a man uglier
than myself. Allow me, sir, to say
that I think you are fairly entitled to
the property’.”
This story frequently is related to
illustrate Lincoln’s appreciation of a
joke, even when it was on himself.
A Village Postmaster.
President Jackson appointed young
Lincoln postmaster at Old Salem.
The position was too small to be re-
garded politically and Lincoln was
selected because he was the only man
who was willing to take it who could
make out the returns. He was very-
much pleased with the appointment,
because it gave him an opportunity
to read all the newspapers that were
taken in the community. Since there
was no revenue to be derived from
the officp, he made a postoffice of
his hat and carried the village mail
This 12th day of Febriiary being
the anniversary of the birth of Abra-
ham Lincoln, a few stories and inci- '
dents of his life and character will
prove of interest to our
therefore some of them are
duced here.
Hunting a
Lincoln rode into Springfield, Ill.,
on a borrowed horse. He. had just
received his license to practice law.
Entering the store of his friend,
Joshua F. Speed, he asked what a
single bed would cost. Speed told
him what he wanted would cost sev-
enteen dollar's. “It is probably cheap
enough,” said Lincoln, “but I want
to say, cheap as it is, I have not the
L money to pay. But if you will credit
k me until Christmas and my experi-
■ ment as a lawyer here is a success, I
■►will pay you then. If I fail in that,
I will probably never pay you at all.”
Speed was so impressed by the mel-
ancholia of the young man that he
offered to share his bed in the room
above. Lincoln’s face brightened as
he went up to look at the room. Re-
turning, very happy, he exclaimed,
“Speed, I’ve moved.” The two men
occupied the room and bed for sev-
eral years.
Hatred For Slavery.
Lincoln reached his majority in
1830. Soon after this event, he ac-
companied a flat boat he had helped
to build from Old Salem, Illinois, to
New Orleans. He remained a month
in that city, where he saw negroes
“in chains, whipped and scourged.”
It was then that “slavery ran the
iron into him.” From a slave auction
where he saw a mullato girl sold, he
moved away with “unconquerable
hate.” “If I ever get a chance to hit
that thing,” he exclaimed to his com-
panions, “I’ll hit it hard.”
His Modesty.
Secretary of the Treasury Chase
resigned after a disagreement with
President Lincoln. The president
was urged by his friends not to ac-
cept the resignation. They told him
that Chase was a “national necessi-
i ty” “How mistaken you are,” ob-
served the President. “I used to have
similar notions. No, if we should all
be turned out tomorrow and could
come hack here in a week, we should
find our places filled by a lot of fel-
lows doing just as well as we did and,
in many instances, better.”
Lincoln’s Compassion.
Dincoin had just signed the pardon
of a young soldier who had been sen-
tenced to be shot for sleeping at his
post. Turning to a friend, he said:
“I could pot think of going into eter-
wifb'the blood of that poor
young man on my skirts. It is not
to be wondered at that a boy raised
on the farm, probably going to bed
at dark, should, when required to
watch, fall asleep; and I can not con-
sent to shoot him for such an act.”
Lincoln’s Mother.
Lincoln’s mother died when he was
in his tenth year. They laid her to
rest under the trees near their, cabin
home. It is related that the young
boy, grief stricken by his loss, sat
grave and wept for a
In later years, with tears coughs.—advt.
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Waggoner, J. H. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 12, 1925, newspaper, February 12, 1925; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1295031/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Whitewright Public Library.