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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1925
Page
12
B F Bennett organization manager says Amarillo may get an extra director and one of its three directors could become vice president if local membership quotas rise. West Texas Chamber of Commerce, the second largest regional body, has 7,000 members. Amarillo has over 200. A canvass for new members starts Monday.
Canyon Aug 19 Special War News Superintendent A D Payne announces the Canyon public school system will open September 14 with a faculty of twenty and a student body exceeding seven hundred. Ten high school teachers and ten in the grades provide a wide curriculum, including music and expression, manual training, and home economics.
Mrs T H Fuller from Walpole New Hampshire reports health improvement after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She was in pain and unable to work for months but now is strong enough to care for two babies and herself. She endorses the remedy for women who are weak run down and nervous.
Columbus driven Edgar Howard of Columbus Nebraska praised Marvin Jones of the 18th District as a capable congressman. Howard a Democrat and Columbus Telegram owner noted Jones’s Washington regard. Howard traveled from Roswell with family overland after apple crop work.
Formal opening of the Lucerne apartments at 1109 Polk street will be held Saturday from 3:30 to 10:30 p m. Residents and Dr D Roach owner invite all with interest in apartment houses to attend and inspect. Music will be provided and a club room on the second floor will be named. A $5 prize will go to the person suggesting the adopted name. A committee of judges includes Mrs Frank Woolfin Mrs F S Newbold Mrs W M Hall Mrs L W Bussey Mrs Charles Hoover Mrs H T Fisher Mrs Tom Currie Mrs Ed W Hardin and Miss Ruby Kirk. There are 56 families and every apartment is rented.
Miss Alberta Rogers reports gaining 15 pounds in six weeks after using McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets amid flu recovery. Ad claims 60 tablets for 60 cents, with a 30 day money back guarantee if no improvement. available at City Drug, Ledbetter Drug, Austin Drug, and other druggists.
Formal opening of the Real Service Station No. 7 at Sixteenth and Jefferson streets will be held Saturday, August 15. Managers will give a half-pound box of chocolates with every five gallons of Rose gasoline purchased. The station will carry a full line of accessories. Station No. 7 is in charge of H. G. Kilgore.
Special to The News from Muleshoe reports four modern brick business houses to be erected. Two will be two story structures with a rooming house and offices in the others. A. V. McCart to build two. C. D. Gupton to build the remaining two. Finger Nails advertise SEA SHELL GLOSS.
The Four County Medical Society will hold an educational meeting in the courthouse in Memphis tomorrow with Judge McWhirter of Gainesville as principal speaker. Dr C M Rosser, president of the State Medical Association, will address the gathering, with physicians and citizens from Childress, Collingsworth, Donley and Hall counties invited.
Muleshoe Aug 13 The Shallow Water Valley Cantaloupe Growers Association builds crates and hitches up for the melon season with about forty cars planned for shipment. Most melons head to Dallas as the shallow water valley around Muleshoe grows into a notable truck garden area using centrifugal pumps for water from nine to thirty feet.
Amarillo’s population thinned as about twenty professionals chose work or travel after Sheriff Pollard urged action. Many loafers reportedly departed the city, signaling the sheriff’s firm stance on employment over idleness.
The post office department announced Omar Wm Love as postmaster at Conlen replacing Benjamin Rhodes who resigned. Frances Lee Rozar will succeed Marl C Jones as postmaster at Dunlap. Five applicants took the civil service exam for the Dodsonville vacancy: Mia Mary Rollings Luther A Rollings Luther A Hunt Ploy A Wynn and Francis M Downs. The office pays a salary of 1100 dollars.
An important Amarillo Real Estate Board meeting is scheduled for today at noon. The committee in charge urges full attendance as matters of interest to all members will be discussed. Cr. G. Parker and H. E. Hertner arrange the program. Several important committee reports are to be presented.
A period advertisement touts Black and White Soap and Ointment as remedies for pimples blotches eczema rash and tetter. It claims a positive decline in blemished faces and notes sales exceeding two million packages yearly with liberal packaging and enthusiastic dealer recommendations. The 500 size Ointment is three times larger than the 260 size and priced economically.
Two young boys were arrested and brought before the corporation court for robbing the cash drawer at Roberts Olver, a lumber firm. Only a few pennies were taken. the break in went unseen, but police quickly identified the culprits, with Chief Cain noting such youths are easily caught by familiar tricks.
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