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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1925
Page
7
Senator J. W. Reid of Canyon leads a Home Beautiful contest ending September 10 with prizes for five room and smaller homes and rentals. Judges from nearby towns will evaluate cleanliness lawn appearance paint and overall beauty as Canyon Chamber of Commerce backs the effort attracting visitors and tourists to the area.
The Northwest Texas Girls Camp at Ceta Canyon near Canyon completes half its session with about ninety girls, mainly from Memphis, enjoying swimming hiking and studies on missions. Rev John E Eldridge assists, with lectures by Prof L F Sheffy and Mrs T V Reeves. The sermon will be delivered by Dr P W Horn of Tech College. Attendance is expected to reach two hundred by August 24.
President Coolidge approved the Belgian debt settlement in a swift move from Washington to Swampscott and Northampton. E C Geisser, the president's stenographer, delivered the documents by white house automobile after Coolidge arrived from Plymouth Vermont for an overnight stay. The deal was negotiated by the American debt commission following talks with Secretary Mellon and Senator Smoot, with Coolidge giving verbal approval earlier.
Professor R F Young long time leader of the Roman language department at Southwestern University Georgetown dies at home at age of forty years plus after forty years residence in the city. Mississippi girl found dead in Jacksonville with pistol near body and Bible pencil on bed no message found.
Canyon and Randall county will be represented on the program of West Texas Farmers Education Congress to be held August 26 and 27 at Amarillo. John Knight, swine breeder of Canyon, H. C. Roffey, J. W. Jennings, Randall county agricultural agent, and W. E. Bennett, breeder of Herefords, will speak. Prizes of purebred livestock await counties with large attendance. Randall county hopes for high honors and aims to win part of the individual prizes.
Mrs J I Kendrick, president of the eighth district of Texas P T A, will address Canyon teachers during the September 7 to 11 institute week. She will outline two years of district PTA work for area schools and children.
In Dawson County farmers have planted hundreds of acres in beans after recent rains. In Patricia, 20 miles southwest of Lamesa, almost a thousand acres were sown in the past week. Beans should mature before frost and markets are strong. Many farmers are also sowing turnips, with one grower reportedly earning substantial credit from turnips sold to a local grocer.
In Sweetwater on August 20 A F Cox age 75 a grocer was killed instantly after being run over by a switch engine in the Orient Railroad yards. He allegedly stepped from a nearby train into the engine's path.
The Tierra Blanca report covers Canyon’s Baptist church hosting the associational sermon with themes on selfishness and world needs. Dr. J. M. Cook of Montezuma, NM, defends Baylor against evolution charges in Christian Education talks. Dr. John R. Hicks substitutes for Dr. Groner and addresses Home and State Missions. Amarillo’s Rev. McClurkin spoke, and Thursday focused on committee reports.
Col Ousley addressed Plains farmers urging coordination in marketing to make farming pay. President Farris presented him, bouquet of roses. John T Orr Dallas Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association spoke on progress. Mrs Phebe Warner Claude spoke on living conditions for farm families. John C Burns Texas Hereford Assn discussed livestock methods. Blanche Ramsey Amarillo and Mrs Roy Rowe Plainview sang. After adjournment, tours of irrigation district and city sites preceded a courthouse lawn basket picnic.
Abilene August 20 Robbers blew open a safe at the Santa Fe railroad station in Tuscola near here with a heavy explosive charge. The safe was torn to pieces the door blown through the roof and a large hole torn in the floor. About $80 in currency was destroyed only $10 to $16 obtained. No arrests made.
Floydada and Lockney public schools will open September 14. Over 60 percent of rural schools join the date with a 10 percent gain in scholastics countywide, 11 percent overall. Rural schools hire four more teachers than in 1924. Bonds voted and buildings completed in rural areas push total expenditure near $80,000.
The Barton sisters, orphans from Wellington, receive funds from Duke relatives scattered across Texas and North Carolina. Grandma Simpson, who has cared for them since infancy, will raise and educate the girls locally rather than place them in an NC orphanage. Further money promised to two Duke cousins funds distant connections.
A large scale dairy project gathers 2300 farmer cows to produce whole milk for condensary markets and butter fat. The effort aims to boost butter fat production and meet rising demand.
The total revenue derived annually for the county was estimated at one million dollars.
A Texas party led by B. Oates visits Bethany Missouri and Des Moines area dairies to study high yielding herds and diversified agriculture. The tour includes O. P. Tilley’s 360 acre farm, J. N. Tippett and R. C. Thompson farms, and stops at Longview show farm, Mountain Brothers Guernsey herd, and notable dairy figures as Dee Prichett and E. T. Meredith. The tour notes growing calf clubs and cross state influence from Wisconsin and Minnesota.
A long list of attendees from Memphis to Amarillo and Clovis appears in a cowboy reunion roundup. Names include W. E. Cox, J. Wynnie, W. H. Ingerton, Mage Lord, J. Dodson, J. T. Christian, F. W. Cunningham, B. H. Conner, J. E. Moore, Geo. Thompson, J. D. Storks, Geo. Abbott, J. C. Jenkins, Randh McQueen, and many others across towns like Pampa, Canyon, Hereford, Plainview, Floydada, Silverton, and Del Rio. The piece reads as a ceremonial roster of participants and locales without a narrative event.
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