The Whitewright Sun from Whitewright, Texas • Page 5

Thursday, August 8, 1940. THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS Mrs. B. S. Montgomery spent Friday in Trenton, guest of Mrs.

Clarence Woosley. Miss Dorothy Hamilton was a visitor in Dallas Tuesday. Misses Inez and Gladys Ray visited friends in Gainesville Sunday. Mrs. Charlie Swope of Bonham visited Mrs.

R. A. Gillett Tuesday. Miss Sallie Moore is visiting relatives in Sanger. I OR good used piano, or will trade for Ball.

Mr. and Mrs. Glen Earnheart visited in Fort Worth Monday. D. R.

Lewis and Mrs. L. LaRoe are visiting relatives in Durant, Okla. Mr. and Mrs.

Jack Cooper and son Wallace of Slaton are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lee Wilson. Mrs. Kate Kincaid is 111 at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Olivia M. Whedbee. Mr. and Mrs. E.

J. Tuft and children of Mansfield, are visiting her father, J. W. Henry, who is ill. Mrs.

Oscar Harris of Randolph spent Wednesday afternoon in the home of Miss Cora Morrow. Miss Anna Ruth Johnson is spending two weeks with relatives at Shawnee, Okla. Mrs. Nadine Kight and daughter, Barbara, are expected to return today from a visit in Florida. H.

Benedict and his granddaughter, Claudine Glidewell, of Wichita, Kansas, are visiting friends here. Lem Tittsworth in Bonham has Bedroom Suites for $29.95, $39.95, $69.95, and $89.95. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Welch announce the birth of a son at Wilson N.

Jones hospital, Sherman, Aug. 6, 1940. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Vestal of Dallas spent the weekend with Mr.

and Mrs. C. A. Wilson and Mr. and Mrs.

J. T. Vestal. Miss Marjorie Lee Jarvis is spending the week in Dallas, visiting Mr. and Mrs.

Clyde Vestal and Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wilson.

A. E. Lawson of Waxahachie, former Western Union telegraph operator here, visited Miss Ruth Cox Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs.

M. R. Smith, Miss Mae Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Brown and children are spending today at Sulphur, Okla.

Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Coggins and Mr.

and Mrs. W. S. Giles left Tuesday for South Carolina, where they will visit relatives for two weeks. Mr.

and Mrs. Curlee Cummings and daughter of Dodd City visited here last week-end. Mr. and Mrs. R.

B. Gordon spent the week-end in Sherman, guests of their daughter, Mrs. John Livingston. I will pay $5.00 reward for the return of a lost white gold diamond L. Johnson.

Mrs. Minnie Patterson and Mrs. A. jT. Short today visited the family of J.

B. Bartee, who died at Denison last night. Mr. and Mrs. N.

L. Manning and daughter moved to Dallas Wednesday, where Mr. Manning will be connected with the Highland Park Junior High School. John Reeves, manager of the Cole Davis Company dry goods store, will leave Sunday for St. Louis where he will purchase merchandise for fall and winter.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burk of the Canaan community, accompanied by Miss Lola Craig of Bells and E.

Looney of Tom Bean, left Wednesday for a visit with relatives in Virginia. Addison and Burgher Reed Vestal of Pittsburgh, and Mr. and Mrs. H. O.

Leuschner of Flint, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Vestal.

Miss Opal Bennett, residing south of town, underwent an appendicitis operation at St. Hospital, Sherman, last Thursday night. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hedgpeth and daughters, Frances and Elizabeth, returned Tuesday from a visit with friends and relatives in Lubbock County.

Tom Cunningham, vocational agriculture teacher here, is attending a meeting of agriculture teachers at Texas A. M. College, College Station, this week. Robert M. Cantrell, son' of Mr.

and Mrs. J. L. Cantrell of Whitewright, has been named editor of the Bonham Daily Favorite, succeeding Miss Katherine Pate, who has gone to Corpus Christi. Mr.

Cantrell has been sports editor and news reporter for the Favorite since last October, going to Bonham from Marlin where he was employed on a newspaper. He has also worked on newspapers at Goose Creek, Del Rio and Sherman since his graduation from the University of Texas where he majored in journalism. Hamp Harper Makes Statement To the Citizens of Fannin County: I want to thank ult of you for the kindness shown me in the first primary election, and I want you to know that I sincerely appreciate your friendship and hope you will consider this a personal message of thanks. In the first primary election I received 4,281 votes. I am 2,349 votes ahead of the second man.

Of the 42 voting boxes in the county, I carried 30, having received a majority in ll boxes and tied in one box. Those of you who had friends whom you supported in the first primary and, if they were eliminated I will sincerely appreciate your vote and influence in the run-off election August 24th. If at any time I can be of service to you, please do not hesitate to call upon me. Again thanking you for the nice vote I received in the first primary, and assuring you I will do my best to see you between now and next election, I am, Most sincerely yours, W.H.(Hamp) Harper Candidate For Assessor and Collector of Taxea, Fannin County The Sherman army recruiting station announces that Wilmar T. Sims and A.

D. Tillery of Whitewright have enlisted in the infantry at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio. Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Thompson of Pilot Point and Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Mclver and daughter of Bonham visited Mr. and Mrs. E. T.

Doss Sunday. The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will hold its regular business meeting at the church at 2 p. rn. Monday, it is announced by Mrs. Floyd Everheart, president.

Absentee voting got under way in Grayson County Tuesday and will continue until Aug. 21. Persons desiring to cast absentee ballots may do so by going to the county office in Sherman, or by writing the county clerk for a ballot. Hot, dry weather of the last three weeks has been good for the cotton crop, and prospects are bright for a good crop in the Whitewright area with continued favorable weather. An excellent corn crop is already made.

Mrs. Eddie Storey of Chickasha, and two sons. Virgil Storey of Oklahoma City and Edward Storey of Chickasha, visited Mrs. sisters, Mrs. Helen Sullivan and Mrs.

Ethel Jenkins, last week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Montgomery and their grandson, Eddie Sandlin, and S. T.

Montgomery Jr. left Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Montgomery and family at Flora Vista, N. M.

C. B. Bryant III left Saturday for a trip to Yellowstone Park and other points in the West. He accompanied Dr. and Mrs.

Coble D. Strother and daughters and Mr and Mrs. G. H. Wilcox and son of Sherman.

Mrs. J. E. Montgomery and children returned to their home at Longview Monday, after spending several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

F. M. Echols. Mr. and Mrs.

Roland Rhoades and their two daughters and son, Hazel, Frances and Billy, returned to Slaton Tuesday after a visit with relatives southwest of town. Clyde Whitworth and Miss Floy Lemon of Savoy were married Tuesday evening and are now at home in Whitewright. Mr. Whitworth has employment with the Morgan Food Store. Their friends extend congrat- ulatkms.

Mr. and Mrs. Ted Nevils, residing east of town, announce the birth of a seven-pound daughter, Teddie Ann, at Wilson N. Jones Hospital, Sherman, Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 7, 1940.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hamilton returned Tuesday from a visit! in Missouri. Mr. Hamilton said the i corn crop in Missouri was so badly burned by drouth that he be- lieve rain now would be of much benefit.

Mrs. Lawrence Schadegg of Stillwater, who was called here by I jthe death of her father, J. R. Mur- phy, went to Cotulla today to visit her sister, Mrs. A.

U. Knaggs. Mr. and Mrs. George DeVaughn of Wichita, Kansas, were Sunday guests of Mr.

and Mrs. A. T. Short. Mrs.

DeVaughn is the former Hazel Benedict. I Mr. and Mrs. Cloy Horton and daughter, Janis Jane, and Mrs. Corner May and son, Kirk, left Monday for Spring Valley, where they will visit Mr.

brother, Eldon Horton. They will also visit San I Francisco, Yellowstone National Park, and other points. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Hamilton have been advised that their son, Guy Hamilton Jr.

of Houston, is on active duty with the National Guard which is undergoing a period of intensive training in Louisiana. Guy enlisted in a Houston National Guard company several weeks ago. Mrs. Marion Craig suffered a badly bruised and cut hand this morning while using the wringer on her electric washing machine. Her hand was caught and pulled through the wringer rolls, and she jerked it out without releasing the tension.

Twelve stitches were necessary to close the wounds. Jack Wallace of Whitewright, third year trainee at the citizens military training camp, Fort Sill, was a member of the camp's winning team in the softball tournament, and has been presented with an award, The Sun is informed by Major Crump Garvin, commander of the camp. Mr. and Mrs. George Ball and Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Murphy visited Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clark in Winnsboro last week-end. They were accompanied home by Miss Ellen Margaret Ball, who had been visiting there for two weeks.

Mrs. A. U. Knaggs, the former Miss Samantha Murphy of Whitewright, was elected district and county clerk of La Salle County in the primary election July 27. Her husband died Several days before the election, and the voters wrote her name on the ballot, defeating Mr.

opponent. Mr. Knagg had been district and county clerk for 20 years, and his father held the office for 40 years before him. City Attorney Roy Washburn of Greenville is confined in a Sherman hospital with a badly broken left arm sustained Saturday night when the car he was driving was sideswiped by a truck on the highway between here and Bells. Both bones in Mr.

Washburn's arm were splinter and pierced the flesh. He was en route from Sherman to Greenville when the accident happened, and was treated by a Whitewright physician before being taken to the hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Skaggs and daughter and Miss Ola Wall of Marion, N.

and Miss Helen Osborn, who had been visiting in North Carolina and South Carolina, arrived in Whitewright last Thursday afternoon. En route they visited many points of interest, including Atlanta, New Orleans, and the docks and beaches at Pensacola, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Skaggs and daughter and Miss Wall, who are guests of his mother, Mrs.

C. H. Skaggs, will return to Marion Saturday where Mr. Skaggs is manager of a state fish hatchery. Lieutenant James Badgett of Duncan Field, San Antonio, spent the week-end with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Ray Badgett. Lieutenant Badgett is a pilot in the army air corps reserve, having been one of the first pilots trained under the training plan inaugurated some 18 months ago. He was assigned to active duty after completing the training course at Ryan Field, and Randolph Field and Kelly Field, Texas. The wives and sisters of American Legion members have reorganized the local auxiliary, with the following officers: President, Mrs.

Allen T. Short; vice president, Mrs. J. P. Darwin; secretary, Mrs.

H. T. Arterberry; treasurer, Mrs. Tom Cunningham; sergeant-at-arms, Mrs. Claude Dillon; historian, Mrs.

E. H. Hughes, and chaplain, Mrs. George Burnham. A meeting is to be held at 8 p.

rn. Tuesday at the Short barber shop, and all women eligible for membership are invited to attend. Golden Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. John Gibson Sloan held open house Saturday afternoon at their home southwest of White- wright in celebration of their golden Wedding anniversary.

A picnic dinner was served at their home Sunday with all their children and several grandchildren present. Their homestead is located on an 84-acre farm four miles southwest of Whitewright, where they have lived continuously for 40 years. They also own another farm with the same acreage in the same neighborhood. jThey have renters who take care of (the farm work while Mr. and Mrs.

Sloan handle produce, on an average of 15 to 20 pounds of butter and 40 dozen eggs each week. Besides doing general housework and a great deal of canning, Mrs. Sloan spent much time piecing quilts until two years ago when the death of her daughter-in-law left in her care twin infant daughters. Since that time she has devoted her life to 14he rearing of these two children. Mr.

Sloan, known to his friends as was born June 8, 1868, on a farm three miles east of Pilot Grove, the son of John and Cynthia Sloan. His father was born in Tennessee and (his mother was a native Texan. Mrs. Sloan was before her marriage Miss Laura Ellen Fite, daughter of John and Jane Fite. Her mother was from Missouri and her father from Tennessee.

She was born Nov. 8, 1872, in Bell County but moved with her parents to a farm one and jone-half miles east of Trenton when two years of age. Both of her parents died when she was a small child and she lived in the home of her aunt, Mrs. W. R.

Adams, south of Pilot Grove, where she was married Aug. 3, 1890. To this union were born 12 children, among whom were two sets of I twins. Eight children are still living and all were present in the home over the week-end. They are Mrs.

E. B. Dixon, Mrs. D. R.

Badgett, Mrs. Foy Ashley and Mrs. Loy Garland, all of Whitewright, Mrs. Roland Rhoades and Lucian Sloan of Slaton, Tom Sloan of Olney and Mrs. B.

W. Holland of Whitesboro. They also have 24 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs.

Sloan are both lifelong Democrats and for 39 years have been members of the Baptist Church, having been baptized in the same service. Their membership at present is at the Pilot Grove Baptist Church. Mrs. Sloan is an active member of the Bethel Home Demonstration Club. She says her greatest wish is that they may both retain their good health and live to celebrate their seventy-fifth wedding anniversary.

they thought Germany was preparing to invade their country. When the call to arms came every man was at his post within a few hours and women took their places in the factories, on the farms and other places, Mrs. Madonne said. Mrs. Madonne told of her visits to other countries before war was declared.

Her talk was one of the most interesting the club has had in a long time. Hank McLean, J. A. Alexander and W. J.

Foley of the Sherman Rotary Club were visitors. jU. Knaggs of Cotulla; a sister in Kentucky; 27 grandchildren, and 12 great grandchildren. Out of-town relatives attending the funeral were Mrs. Lawrence Schadegg of Stillwater, Mrs.

A. U. Knaggs and two sons of Cotulla, Mrs. S. L.

Young and children of Denton, and James Lay of Stinson Field, San Antonio. Missionary Society Elects Officers SMALL AAA PAYMENTS INCREASED The Missionary Society of the Central Christian Church met at the church Tuesday. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Emory Christian; vice prseident, Mrs. Gomer May; secretary and treasurer, Mrs.

George Burnham, and world call secretary, Miss Mae Hall. Devotional was led by Mrs. W. M. Williams, assisted by Mrs.

Grover B. Smith. Mrs. Lloyd Motley of Van Alstyne gave a vocal solo, with piano accompaniment by Mrs. J.

L. Kirkpatrick. The work for the next missionary year was outlined and explained by Mrs. Ben Hearne of Denison, who is now a member of the state missionary board and state world call chairman. Mrs.

Motley, who is president of the bi-county missionary union composed of, Fannin and Grayson Counties, explained the work and the benefits to be derived from participating in it. The meeting closed with the missionary benediction. Other visitors were Mrs. Perry, Mrs. M.

B. Morgan, Mrs. Frome and Mrs. Parsons of Denison and Mrs. Sanstrom of Van Alstyne.

Mortuary COLLEGE STATION. Texas farmers in 1939 benefited to the tune of more than five million dollars under the provisions in the AAA program which increases small pay! ments. All payments of less than $200 are subject to increases ranging from less one dollar to as much as $14. For example, a payment amounting in the regular procedure to $6.00 would be increased $2.40 to total or, a payment amounting to I $58 would be increased $13.80 to to; tai $71.80. Proportionate increases are granted on all payments of less than $200.

Reports of the AAA in College Station reveal that 337,459 payments were increased under this provision, the increases totaling $5,251,547. On the other hand, deductions totaling $183,382 were made under the provision that no payment to any individual, partnership or estate can exceed $10,000. These increases are made in an effort to give the small farmer added purchasing power which he badly needs, George Slaughter, chairman of the state AAA committee, pointed out. Another provision of the program aiding the small farmer is that the minimum soil-building allowance for any farm shall be $20, an amount which permits the small farmer to accomplish soilbuilding work which he otherwise would be unable to do. Shower For Bride- Elect Mrs.

Charles Ayres entertained Friday afternoon at her home with a shower, honoring Miss Myra Nell Vestal, bride-elect of Mr. Stanly Schulz. Games and contests were played. Mrs. Newton Manning presented the to the honoree.

Refreshments were served to fifteen guests. Adding machine Sun. Mrs. John H. Madonne Makes Rotary Talk Mrs.

John H. Madonne, who recently returned from Bern, Switzerland, wag guest speaker at the Rotary Club luncheon Friday. She was presented by C. B. Bryant who had charge of the program.

Mrs. Madonne is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

McMurry of Whitewright. Her husband is United States consul at Bern, where she resided two years before returning home, when it was thought Switzerland would be invaded by Germany. Mrs. Madonne told of a visit to Germany a few weeks before war was declared and described conditions of the country at that time. She guve an interesting account of the Swiss people preparing for war when J.

R. MURPHY Funeral services for John R. Murphy, 82, were held at 4 p. rn. Saturday at the Central Christian Church, conducted by Rev.

LeRoy Anderson, pastor. Interment was in Vittitoe Cemetery, west of Whitewright, under direction of Glen Earnheart. Mr. Murphy died at IO p. rn.

Thursday on his farm southwest of town, where he had lived for 44 years except for a few years when he lived in Whitewright. He had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Murphy brought his family to Texas 45 years ago, living one year near Tom Bean before purchasing the farm where he died. He sent his I household goods and implements through in two wagons, paying two young men a twenty-dollar gold piece each for driving the wagons on the month-long trip, the family making the trip by train.

The family dog, a Newfoundland, came through with the wagons and remained with the family in Texas about a month, but apparently like the climate for he made his way back to Kentucky where he was made welcome by Mr. sister. In going back to Kentucky the dog had to cross the Mississippi River, and either stole a ride on a ferry or swum across, as there was no bridge spanning the stream then. John R. Murphy was bom in Cumberland County, Kentucky, June 22.

1858. He was married to Miss Edith Staton Oct. 23, 1887, in Clay County, Tennessee. Mrs. Murphy died April ll, 1939.

Mr. Murphy was a member of the Central Christian Church. He is survived by two sons, S. H. and J.

V. Murphy of near Whitewright; five daughters, Mrs. W. T. Henderson of Whitewright, Mrs.

S. L. Young of Denton, Mrs. J. A.

Schadegg and Mrs. Lawrence Schadegg of Stillwater, and Mrs. A. CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH Leroy Anderson, pastor. Sunday school, IO a.

rn. Precahing at ll a. rn. CHURCH OF CHRIST Bible Study, IO a. rn.

Preaching, 10:55 a. rn. Preaching, 8:15 p. rn. Bible study, Wednesday at 8:15 p.

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