 The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, January 14, 1926 pg. 5 PILOT GROVE NEWS In appreciation of the fine weather Sunday, all the Sunday Schools were well attended with good interest. There were large crowds for the Sunday morning and evening preaching services. Rev. J.A. Henderson preached at both hours at the Baptist Church. We are proud of our community, not only in regard to its religious interests, Sunday School and church services, but we have one of the best rural public schools in the state. Also we have a clean little country town, not large in number of population, but a splendidly located and conducted trade center for a big territory of industrious farming people. We did not learn the extent of all business done here during the past year, but one of our merchants obligingly gave out the following financial report which his business did: Cotton handled in 1925 - $63, 445.69 Poultry, butter and eggs - $25, 609.29 making a grand total of $90,000. P.A. Kilgroe of Valley View was here last week on business. Charley Kaiser and Hugh Jones were business visitors in McKinney Saturday. D.M. Taylor was a business visitor in Sherman Saturday. Dug Henry, who is working on the good roads near Denison, spent Sunday here with his family. Miss Lillian Matthews, who is working in Sherman, is spending a few days here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. L.A. Matthews. Birch Allison and family of White Mound were guests of relatives here Sunday. R.W. McMillin, who has been confined to his bed for the past few weeks, is improving some. F.M. Sloan and family and Mrs. Annie Wilson and mother, Aunt Betty Sloan, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Webster at Whitewright Sunday. Mrs. O.G. Bow and other relatives from here are in Sherman with her brother, Tom Russell, who is seriously ill at Sherman Hospital. County Demonstration Agent, C.C. Morris, of Sherman is to be at Joe Burk's farm Wednesday, where he will direct some terracing. The wife of Mr. Lovell, who moved here a short time ago from north of Kentuckytownm underwent a serious surgical operation in Sherman week before last. She is improving. W.P. Ownby, living 4 miles north of here, celebrated his 84th birthday Sunday. He is the oldest member of the Methodist Church at this place, having been a member since 1881, or 45 years. In appreciation of his faithful Sunday School attendance, the Sunday School presented him with a box of fruits and candy last Sunday morning. Uncle Watt, as he is lovingly and familiarly called, is loved and honored by young and old, and many warm hand-clasps and good wishes were extended to him, which caused his eyes to twinkle through a mist of tears as he said: "I've been in Sunday Schools for over 60 years, but this is the best one I was ever in." Pilot Grove News Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |