The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1953 Page: 3 of 8
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PAGE THREE
THE WHITEWRIGHT SUN, WHITEWRIGHT, TEXAS
Thursday, July 23, 1953
DOWN MEMORY LANE
THE SPICE OF LIFE
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TOP MARKET PRICES FOR YOUR
Too Young
Corn, Oats, Wheat, Barley
or Too Old
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Just Arrived: Old-Style COTTON SEED
MEAL (Oily). New Crop from the Valley.
See Us for Ground Oats, Ground Barley, Ground Corn.
Lester Haile Seed & Grain Co
Phone 257
Don’t Settle For Less Than
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Plumbing
DODGE
Fixtures &
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Fittings
Everything from a faucet
washer to complete bath
and kitchen ensembles.
36 Months to Pay Under F.H.A.
First National Bank
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Whitewright
Cleaners
Why Some Errors
In Newspapers
Over 38 Years Service to the Farmers of the
Whitewright Community
Guard Against Months!
Don’t Put Your
Clothes Away Dirty!
Don't Give Up The Trip!
If your vacation is stalled because you are
a little short of cash this year, perhaps we
can help you get away for two weeks of
fun and pleasure.
Stop in and see us about
a Vacation Loan. Pay us back
by the month out of income.
To take pride in your appear-
ance and welcome admiration
from others.
Turn your soiled garments over
to us and we’ll turn them back
again like new.
And now three of the biggest art agencies in the United
States have acclaimed the new Dodge the most beautiful
car on the American road. Every feature is engineered
for the owner’s benefit.
Jed’s rich uncle just died—’pears
they both have passed on to a bet-
ter world.
Why is it folks who want to leave
parties early and the folks that don’t
are always married to each other?
When you throw mud at somebody
you’re the one that’s losing ground.
88-year-old
formerly of
Wanted “Pepper”
Isaac Rosen stepped into the corner
grocery store; “I want some pepper,”
he said to the lady clerk.
“What kind do you prefer, black or
red pepper?” she asked.
“I don’t vant eder kind; I vant toi-
let pepper.”
Families now want
two bathrooms in
their houses.
of the study:
© HOME MODERNIZING
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But
strictest
honor is
her
the
Everyone who has tried it will
tell you that our cleaning serv-
ise is tops. Your garments are
handled expertly and efficient-
ly here and you’ll find the cost
very reasonable.
35 YEARS AGO
(From The Sun July 28, 1918)
J. R. Fleming has returned from a
visit in Atlanta, Ga.
Elgie G. Fields was among those on
“the casualty list of American soldiers
in France Saturday, having been re-
ported as severely wounded in action.
Appearing on the B. Y. P. U. pro-
gram were Miss Eunice Cook, Elvy
'Hampton, Miss Gladys McMurry and
Miss Cordelia Yeager.
W. T. Browning left Monday for
College Station, where he will attend
“the Farmers Short Course at A. & M.
College.
According to the American
Syrian Relief Commission, wheat
celling in Turkey at $50 a bushel.
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before?” he de-
to do
“He’s
DODGE has set two new official AAA
The first—102.633 MPH
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EVERYTHING TO BUILD WITH
Montgomery Motor Co.
DICK MONTGOMERY, Mgr. & Co-Owner
Sales—DODGE-PLYMOUTH—Service
510 W. Main Denison * Phone 55
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Seems a sow’s ear don’t make much
of a purse but a good calf can do a lot
for a silk stocking.
Puppy love can be the beginning of
a dog’s life.
Plus a Jingle
Two veterans were boasting about
their old outfits.
“Why, our company was
drilled,” said one, “that
presented arms, all you
was slap, slap, click.”
“Pretty fair,” said the
Got It Again
A doctor was puzzled when
tient showed up suffering from
malady he couldn’t diagnose,
you ever had this
manded.
“Yes,” admitted the patient.
“In that case,” the doctor replied,
“you’ve got it again.”
and
is
A RED RAM V-8
National Stock Car Records.
SPEED RECORD FOR A MEASURED MILE FROM
A FLYING START! The second—73.332 MPH average
for a mile from a standing start. These two records top
every existing stock car record for American cars—no
matter what the weight, price or type transmission.
make errors and several million
chances for transposition. There are
48 columns in this newspaper, so you
can readily see the chances for mis-
takes. Did you know that in the sen-
tence, ‘To be or not to be,’ by trans-
position alone, 2,759,022 errors can be
made?
“Now aren’t you sorry you got mad
about that little mistake last week?”
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The remarkable new ’53 Dodge swept the field in the
Mobilgas Economy Run—winning over its class and TOP-
PING ALL 8-CYLINDER CARS REGARDLESS OF
PRICE, CLASS OR WEIGHT! 23.418 miles per gallon.
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Get the Bloodhounds
An angry worpan rushed into the
clerk’s office. In her hand she bore
a license. To the clerk she said: “Did
you or did you not, issue this license
to Albert Briggs for marrying me?”
“Yes, I believe I did. Why?”
“Well, what are you going
about it?”
escaped.”
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Better lighting is needed in
three-fifths of the homes • . .
In one-fifth of the homes the roof
needs work—or replacement . . .
30 YEARS AGO
(From The Sun July 26, 1923)
Miss Corda Nelms and Mr. Newell
E. Skaggs, both residents of the com-
munity west of town, were married
last week.
Mrs. J. B. Williams died at the
’home of hei’ son, Arthur Williams,
near Tom Bean, Tuesday.
Bryant Penn, John Philip Barbee
and Elmo Wallace are spending a few
days on a fishing trip in Southeastern
Oklahoma.
Misses Marian Simmons and Ida
Chaney, who are attending summer
school at Denton, spent the weekend
with the former’s mother, Mrs. Cora
■Simmons.
GALLON. The very best measures of
50.516 TON MILES PER GALLON!
The editor of a small town news-
paper, when taken to task because of
an error in his newspaper, came up
with this answer:
“Yes, we know there were some er-
rors in last week’s newspaper. We
will further agree that there were
some errors in the issue of the week
before. But before bawling us out
too unmercifully about it, we want to
call your attention to these facts:
In an ordinary newspaper column
there are 10,000 letters, and there are
seven possible wrong positions for
each letter, making 70,000 chances to
A Chicago mother had raised her
six sons to be staunch '“straight tick-
et” Democrats. So when one lad,
back home from Army duty overseas,
announced that he might vote for
Eisenhower, his mother was most up-
set.
“Mom,” the soldier counter-at-
tacked, “if the good Lord Himself
were running on the Republican tick-
et I don’t think you’d vote for Him!”
Of course I wouldn’t,” she replied
quickly. “He’d have no business to
change now.”
week.
William H. Pierce,
Confederate veteran,
Whitewright, died at Sherman Thurs-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Wes Judd announce
the birth of a son on July 21.—Pilot
Grove News.
25 YEARS AGO
(From The Sun July 26, 1928)
Russell McGinnis, Clifford Gould
■and the latter’s aunt, Mrs. Billie
Beams, were injured in an automo-
bile accident on the Luella-Sherman
road Sunday night.
The State Commissioner of Agri-
culture announced Tuesday his esti-
mate of the Texas cotton crop at be-
tween 4,500,000 and 5,000,000 bales.
R. R. Waldo, an experienced fu-
neral director of Sherman, has ac-
cepted a position with the Lloyd
Moore furniture store and moved his
family here the latter part of last
Tricks of the Trade
The self-trained magician was try-
ing to persuade a vaudeville agent to
sign up his act.
“Another thing I do in my act is to
swallow knives. My best record is
swallowing 219 pearl-handled pocket
knives.”
“You don’t say,” ejaculated the
agent. “How can you manage to do
that?”
“It’s all in knowing how. I get the
knives wholesale.”
Called the Police
A woman saw an elephant in
yard and immediately called
police.
“Chief,” she said, “there’s a queer
animal out here in my back yard.
He’s picking flowers with his tail.”
“Yes,”-said the sergeant, “and what
does he do with them after he’s
picked ’em?”
“Never mind,” was
“you wouldn’t believe
you.”
Sweepstakes winner of the 1953 Lockheed Aircraft
Service, Inc., Employees Economy run BEATING EVERY
OTHER CAR (REGARDLESS OF ENGINE TYPE) IN
TON-MILES PER “ “
a car’s efficiency.
so well
when we
could hear
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Modern Family-4.2 Persons—
Demands Two Baths, Survey Shows
The great national pastime these days is working around the
home. What needs doing? Home Modernizing magazine recently
conducted a survey among its readers, and came up with some
statistics well calculated to keep the nation’s 25 million home-
owners busy. Here are some
other, “but
when our company presented arms,
all you could hear was slap, slap,
jingle.”
“Jingle?” said the other,
did that?”
Came the
medals.”
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the answer,
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Heard a fella’s mixed up a new
shaving lotion that’s supposed to
drive the girls crazy—smells like
money.
his dream boat, Millie. ‘
only rich you’d accept
enough.”
Millie smiled.
“You know, George,”
marked, “that’s the nicest compli-
ment I have ever received. It’s most
flattering.”
“Flattering that you’re a gold-dig-
ger?”
“Exactly,” the girl replied. “All
the other fellows tell me how beauti-
ful, how graceful, how charming I
am. But you’re the first one to give
me credit for having common sense.”
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JL he Sun will
consider it a favor if you
will tell us about any vis-
itors you may have, visits
you may make, parties of
any nature, or any other
kind of news items. It is
the province of this news-
paper to publish Hie hap-
penings of this community
insofar as it is possible to
do so, and your co-opera-
tion to this end is desired.
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20 YEARS AGO
(From The Sun July 27, 1933)
J. E. Smith, who resides
Luther Sears farm in .the Canaan
community, was the first farmer in
the Whitewright section to plow up
his cotton in the acreage reduction
campaign.
Thomas Sears, Woodrow Smith,
Clovis Childress, Charlie Clyde Mc-
Lean, Billie Earl Montgomery and H.
R. Musser left Monday for Turner
Falls, Okla., where they will spend
several days.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Nimmons of
Houston announce the birth of a son
on July 22. Mrs. Nimmons is the
former Miss Clara Mae Truett of
Whitewright.
Mrs. R. A. Gillett entertained Fri-
day with a dinner honoring her
daughter Sarah Belle on her 12th
birthday.
Almost Enough
Two boys were sitting in a slit
trench in Korea and one said to the
other, “How come you joined up?”
“I’ll tell you,” was the reply. “I’m
from Texas and when this war
started, a politician was making a
speech. He said we shouldn’t wait
until the draft got us—he said it was
high time we were fighting for our
national honor.
“Well, that hit me right where I
So I volunteered, and here I
I don’t regret it and I’d do it
again, I reckon. But I don’t mind
telling you in strictest confidence
that my national honor is darned
Smart Cookie!
“I know the kind of man you’re
looking for,” George complained to
“If I were
; me fast
Charity
At a charity bazaar a
young nurse sold kisses for five dol-
lars each. A stout party, old enough
to know a lot better, bought twenty
dollars’ worth, and declared:
“I’ll double the order if you prom-
ise to nurse me when I’m a patient in
your hospital.”
The lass agreed, pocketed the
greenbacks and said sweetly, “By the
way, my post is at the City Mater-
nity Hospital.”
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Doss, Glenn. The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1953, newspaper, July 23, 1953; Whitewright, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1332671/m1/3/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Whitewright Public Library.