The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 5, 1931 Page: 4 of 8
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Our seed store is now lo-
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stock of Garden and Field
Seeds.
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BIRTHDAY WAS ‘LOST’
BY WASHINGTON
It is generally known that George
Washington was born on February.
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month. What is not generally under-
stood is that the great man lost a
birthday when the calendar was
changed in 1752. In order to avoid
the confusion attendant upon this
change, historians have accepted
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way to express the date of Washing-
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BAPTIST SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION
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home and pay for it. But a police-
man in New York on a salary of $3,-
500 per annum was able to save
$260,000 in three years. That’s the
kind of financing we would like to
learn.
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We suggest that the housewives
read Sun advertisements thoroughly
this week. They are a guide to eco-
nomical buying.
Buy it in Whitewright and help
make Whitewright a better town.
When you spend Whitewright money
in another town you are takmg from
Whitewright and adding to her com-
petitor.
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Whitewright has had about eight
week-end rains. We think we can do
without any more bad week-ends for
the next several months. We want
to see a few fair week-ends for a
while.
The eleventh annual 13th district
Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. Con-
vention will be held in Commerce
next Thursday and Friday. The dis-
in Northeast Texas,
will be held in the
Church of Commerce.
trict is composed of eleven counties
The sessions
First Baptist
The first ses-
sion will begin at 9:30 Thursday
morning. A number of leading Sun-
day school and B. Y. P. U. workers
of the state will appear on the pro-
gram. A number of Whitewright
Baptists are making plans to attend
the convention.
Rev. L. G. Hagard, pastor of the
Methodist Church, is assisting in
conducting a stardard training school
at Denison this week. The school' ig‘1
being held each evening, with four
courses of instruction offered, and
will come to a close Friday evening;
Mr. Hagard is giving a series of lec-
tures on evangelism.
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Some people seem to think that
the way to save a dollar is to burn a
dollar’s worth of gasoline and drive
thirty miles to make a purchase,
when the same article may be pur-
chased for less money from a home
town merchant.
criminal types. It isn’t safe to ven-
ture out on the streets at night in a
boom oil town. At Kilgore this week
several hundred persons have been
arrested .in raids conducted by state
rangers and other officers. In some
towns it has been necessary to de-
clare martial law. Discovery of oil
here would make business boom in
Whitewright, but what would happen
to the town as a good place to live?
There are other things in life be-
sides money.
The thirty-fifth annual South-
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show will open in Fort Worth Fri-
day. Saturday is press day at the
show and we have been promised a
free “feed” and tickets to the, show
if we will attend. That’s some in-
ducement and we may go. We like
to see the horses buck and like to
look at the fat calves, too.
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Some people manage to save a
part of their salary every month and
with careful management for a ]
President Hoover has vetoed the | period of years are able to buy
Muscle Shoals bill, giving as his rea-
son that he opposed the government’s
entering into business “in competi-
tion with its citizens.” The Shoals
plant was to have been used in pro-
duction of electric energy under the
bill. The President’s reason for the
veto is a little bit inconsistent, since
the government is already in compe-
tition with private business in sev-
eral lines, one of which is printing
envelopes in competition with the
printers of America. If the printing
industry could manage to be taken
over by the power trust, perhaps the
government would get out of the
printing business. It’s all right for
the government to compete with the
little fellows, but the big boys must
be protected.
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Editor Waggoner of the White-
wright Sun says every once in a.
while-'a newspaper editor finds a sen-
sible subscriber. He meant the one
that wrote in to say last week’s pa-
per was better than ever. One thing
can be said about the Whitewright
Sun, and that is that it is worth more
than the subscription price. Most any
weekly paper is for that matter. Oc-
casionally some fellow will rush into
the office and want to know why edi-
tors cannot publish a paper for one
dollar per year. They can, but it
would have to be a Jittle four page
sheet. No newspaper that carries
eight pages can long survive at the
’old dollar rate. Any live weekly pa-
per is worth twice that amount.—
Wolfe City Sun.
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Farmers read advertisements in
newspapers just like other people.
Monday the writer was standing near
foui’ farmers and heard one of them
say that he wanted to buy a certain
article. Immediately one of the par-
ty said you can get it at ...................
He advertised it in last week’s Sun
at $........ per hundred pounds. The
farmer went direct to the merchant
named and made the purchasp. The
conversation took place in front of a
store that sold the same article. The
farmer walked a half block to make
the purchase. And still there are
some merchants who do not believe
in advertising their merchandise.—
Whitewright Sun.
Every individual responsible for
his own or family requirements reads
the ads, these days, or else gets
’ buncoed. Advertising is just as es-
1 sential to economical buying as read-
, ing the news to keep abreast of the
times.—Garland News.
PARENT-TEACHERS
WILL MEET TUESDAY
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It was impossible to buy a well
known brand of cigarettes in White-
wright Wednesday. The manufac-
turer of the cigarettes is offering
$50,000 in prizes for the best an-
swer on “What significant change has
recently been made in the wrapping
of the cigarette.” Everybody must
have purchased a package of the
cigarettes to find out about the
wrapper so they could try to win one
of the cash prizes. We hope some
Whitewright citizen wins the first
prize, which is $25,000. We did nor
try for t£ie prize, therefore, our
friends have a chance to win it.
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Congress adjourned Wednesday.
That’s news all will enjoy reading.
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Will some one who knows one
good thing the state department of
agriculture is good for please rise up
in “meetin’ ” and tell the public just
w’hat it is.—Richardson Echo.
That’s easy. It provides jobs for
some folks who probably couldn’t get
1 equally good jobs anywhere else.
The Whitewright Parent-Teacher
Association will meet next Tuesday
night at 7:30 o’clock at the gram-
mar school auditorium. The follow-
ing program will be given:
Invocation, Rev. L. G. Hagard.
Piano solo, Mrs. G. F. Bryant.
“The, Dangerous Age, When Is
It?” Mrs. C. I. Witt.
Round table discussion, “Books
Suitable for the Family Circle,” led
by Mrs. Bryant King.
Playlet, fifth grade pupils.
Admission to All Shows—10c and 25c
BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT
Save your ticket coupons for the big prizes to be given away
Saturday night, March 14ht, at this theatre. See the details in
the lobby.
“LEATHERNECKING”
You’ll like it for it’s full of comedy, romance, songs, laughter.
An All-Barkie Comedy—“DOGWAY MELODY”
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
R. K. O.’s GREAT MARINE COMEDY DRAMA
The Nation’s Favorite Humorist in a Role Made to Order.
Also: “DOCTOR’S ORDERS”—Comedy
“LIGHTNING”
“RENEGADES”
A Thrilling Desert Romance featuring WARNER BAXTER,
NAOH BEERY and MYRNA LAY.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
Now Showing Three Complete Changes of Program.
Operating Six Days a Week by Popular Demand.
“The Home of the Best Talking Pictures”
WILL ROGERS in
MONDAY and TUESDAY
A Great Comedy—“SOCIETY GOES SPAGHETTI”
PALACE THEATRE
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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-
spect, 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.
There are two sides to every
question, and this applies to the ques-
tion of bus and truck operation on
the highways. The fact that high-
ways are now being built largely
from revenues from the gasoline tax
gives the busses and trucks quite a
bit of ownership in the roads, for
they are certainly contributing large
sums of money via the gasoline tax
route. That the size and -weight of
trucks and busses should be limited
is admitted by all, but some people
have got so wrought up over the mat-
ter that they would eliminate them
from the highways entirely. When
times were good and the railroads
Rvere making plenty of money on
■‘long haul” business, we didn’t hear
Rny of this anti-truck-and-bus prop-
■aganda, but since business has fallen
off with the railroads, it is all the
fault of the trucks and busses. The
depression has hit the truck and bus
lines as hard as it has the railroads
or any other business, but the truck
and bus lines, unlike the railroads,
can not find anybody to blame
their financial stress.
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There are over one hundred
service men in Whitewright and
tion who are eligible to receive loans
on their adjusted service certifi-
cates. They can now borrow fifty
per cent of the face value of the cer-
tificates, and some'of them own cer-
''tificates that have a loan value of
around $750. It is said the average
loan value of the certificates is
around $500,00. It is estimated that
about 90 per cent of the ex-service
men will take advantage of the loans.
Some have borrowed on the certifi-
cates, but with the new law passed
over the President’s veto last week
all certificates have had their loan
value increased. It is estimated by
those in position to know that more
than $30,000 will be put in circula-
tion here within the next four weeks
as the result of ex-service men bor-
rowing on their certificates. This
new money should help put Old Man
Hard Times on the run.
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It seems that Whitewright may be
the last town in Grayson County con-
nected with the hard surface road
system of the county. Sherman, Den-
ison, Whitesboro, Van Alstyne,
Howe and other towns in the county
are connected with concrete roads.
During wet weather the only all-
weather road Whitewright can boast
of is the Fannin County road from
Whitewright to Trenton. The people
in east Grayson County would like to
see a contract for hard surfacing the
highways in this section of the coun-
ty let, at least before all’the other
highways in the county are com-
pleted. For the past two or three
weeks the black mud in the White-
wright section has been knee deep to
a giraffe. Dozens of automobiles
have bogged down on the road be-
tween Bells and Whitewright and on
the road south of town, and have had
to be pulled out. Such conditions
will cause our people to lose theii’ pa-
tience after so long a time.
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According to the Bonham News, a
merchant in that progressive little
city found a metallic casket in his
store while “rooting” around the
other day. The merchant is offering
to sell it at half price as it is old
stock. If you want an “overcoat” of
that kind, you can drive a bargain,
if you will see the merchant at once.
If we had the money we would buy
the casket and bury Old Man Hard
Times in it. The casket story re-
minds us of a merchant in another
town not far from Whitewright.
This merchant found a car load of
wagons that he did not know he had. |
He bought the wagons before the
World War and found them when
prices were at the top and sold the
wagons for about three times the re-
tail price they were when lost in
the warehouse. So, the merchant did
not lose after all.
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Towns all over East Texas con-
tinue to offer huge bonuses for first
oil wells near the towns. The dis-
covery of oil makes business boom
in a town, but it makes the town an
undesirable place for a peaceable
man to live for the town fills up with
bootleggers, hijackers and other (
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