Clarendon Wins West Texas Chamber District Convention Title
The 1926 North Panhandle District convention of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce ends in Clarendon after Hereford and Shamrock withdraw from the race. Col. R. Q. Lee of Cisco presided, with irrigation talks by Porter A. Whaley and other speakers applauded. Resolutions praise the organization and pledge support for canal and dam projects on the Canadian river. The ninth annual meeting will be in Amarillo next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olin F. Hardy
Dalhart
Hereford
Shamrock
Clarendon
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Col
R. Q. Lee
Cisco
Col. Lee
North Plains
B. M. Whitaker
A. H. Lehdigh
Lee
Porter A. Whaley
Stamford
Mission Theatre
Sam. M. Braswell
J. R. Sharp
Cc. H. Walker
Dalhart Texan
E. L. Woodruff
Santa Rosa
New Mexico
Ww. T. C. Co
Homer D. Wade
P. W. Horn
Texas Tech
O. V. Vernon
Amarillo
West Texas
Great Panhandle
Texas
Stratford
Texhoma
West
Mineral Wells
Oklahoma
Large audience greets Col R C Lee at Texhoma
Texhoma August 24 A large audience welcomed Col R Q Lee and his party for a Panhandle Plains goodwill tour stop in the Texhoma high school auditorium. The program featured orchestra music and speeches on diversified farming and agricultural prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texhoma
Col. R. Q. Lee
Lee
Panhandle Plains
B. M. Whitaker
Haskell
Plains
Col. Lee
Carl Guin
Dalhart Chamber of Commerce
E. M. Whitehead
Cisco
O. F. Hardy
Amarillo
Katy Agent Dies In Missouri Kansas Texas Rail Rescue
William Knight, 40, a Katy railway agent, drowned while attempting to save Opal Woods near Carter Oklahoma. Woods was rescued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katy
Carter
Okla
William *. Knight
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company
Opal Woods
Here
Miss Woods
Woman Found Dead in Well Near Eastland Home
The body of Mrs. Frank Miller, 61, was found at her Eastland home by her son-in-law Will Smith. Investigation ruled death a suicide. she had suffered ill health and just returned from medical treatment. The body lay in the well about three hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Well Eastland
Frank Miller
Will Smith
Flood Control Board Begins Consideration of Panhandle Streams
Texas and Oklahoma flood control commissioners open a survey of the Canadian River tributaries in the Panhandle planning dam sites from New Mexico to Texas. Officials from Oklahoma New Mexico and Texas discuss flood impoundment to protect Panhandle farms and reduce Oklahoma damages, with a farm congress address scheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flood Control Board
Panhandle
Red Rivers
Texas
Oklahoma
Palo Duro Canyon
New Mexico
E. E. Blake
Mr. Blake
A. Lincoln Fellowes
Department of Agriculture
Amarillo
J. J. Hill
E. W. Hardin
Marvin Jones
Mrr
Weesed
Blake
Two Denton County Men Charged With Bank Robbery
Yancey Storey and Shelby Stiff were arrested on the Storey farm near Denton on charges of robbery with firearms in the June 9 daylight theft of the First State Bank at Krum. Officers recovered masks linked to the bandits, while two other suspects, three Black men and two white men, were detained, and a search yielded two automobiles a 50 pound dynamite case liquor and other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denton
Yancey Storey
Shelby Stiff
Storey Farm
Here
First State Bank
Krum
Denton County
Story Farm
Dallas County
Tom Hickman
Anti-Saloon Leaders Outline Convention Plans
Officials of the anti saloon league outlined plans for the biennial convention to be held in Chicago November 5 to 10. Bishop Thomas Nicholson said the event will be the greatest yet, with representatives from every state presenting prohibition survey data and strategies against liquor interests’ nullification propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Antisaloon League
League
Thomas Nicholson
Hawaiian Flight From San Francisco Delayed To Monday
The proposed PB-1 flight from San Francisco to Hawaii was postponed from Friday August 28 to Monday August 31 due to difficulty mounting a new engine to replace a broken oil feed on the big plane that arrived from Seattle last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
San Francisco
Hawaii
Seattle
Court grants release of 13,800 acres in Johnson oil suit
In Panhandle 71st district court Judge W R Ewing ordered 13,800 acres freed from litigation as part of the E B Johnson et al versus Geo E Montgomery et al case. Leases on over 8,000 additional acres held by multiple operators will face final disposition next Monday, with Dorset Carter and Prairie Oil and Gas Company to begin development immediately and new leases issued to Gulf Sinclair Skelly Pure and Lawrence R Hagy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W .R. Ewing
71St District Court
Panhandle
Hutchinson County
E. B. Johnson Et al
Geo. E. Montgomery E Et al
Johnson Ranch
Prairie
Vacuum, Pure, Gulf
Sinclair, Free, Coal and Oil
Brothers Oil Company
Emerald
Newmain
Roswell Oil & Development Company
G. B. Heywood
A. W. Heywood
KE. A. Haines
J. W. Greathouse
Margie Co. Caperton
J. O. Whittington
H.C
Dorset Carter
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Gulf
Sinclair
Skelly
Pure
Lawrence R. Hagy
Body of white man found in box car at Texarkana
A white man’s body was found in a box car loaded with ties at a creosote plant in Texarkana after the car was unsealed. A purse contained a slip with the name J. W. Tucker of Lake Providence Louisiana and another slip showed a cotton picking record bearing the name Arthur Simmons. The body was too decomposed to describe features, but had brown hair. The car had been loaded in Cross County Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Texarkana
J. W. Tucker
Lake Providence
Arthur Simmons
Cross County
Arkansas
City to talk trade with water company after Jones report
Amarillo officials plan to negotiate a purchase of the water company properties after City Engineer H B Jones completes an appraisal. Mayor Lee Bivins says the city will offer a fair price based on the engineers valuation and aims to reach a satisfactory agreement, with bond sales to be reopened soon under current tax limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Company
H. B. Jones
Lee Bivins
Jones
Bivins
Amarillo
Abilene Trade Boosters Arrive In Amarillo Tonight
One hundred twenty five Abilene boosters travel by train over Fort Worth and Denver arriving in Amarillo at 6 55 pm. They will be welcomed by a committee, attend a band concert, parade along Polk street and Taylor, hear J N Riggs speak, then enjoy a banquet at the Amarillo Hotel and a ball at the American Legion hall. Torzien Farwell’s orchestra provides music. The delegation continues to Childress Memphis Clarendon and Claude before departing at 6 20 am tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Amarillo
Fort Worth
American Legion Hall
Torzien Farwell
Wichita Falls
Childress
Memphis
Clarendon
Claude
Santa Fe
Plainview
Lubbock
Nine Jurors Picked in Bass Mullins Case Trial
Special to The News from Lubbock reports nine jurors chosen for the trial of Bass Mullins charged with criminally assaulting a 17 year old girl in July 1924. Testimony is expected to begin tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bass Mullins
Weather summary for Amarillo region and outlook
Amarillo and vicinity Tuesday will be fair with partly cloudy skies and little temperature change. Eastern New Mexico reports partly cloudy in the north and generally fair in the south with light variation in temperature. high pressure remains northeast and northwest while low persists over the upper Missouri valley. Showers have been reported in parts of the northern and central Rocky Mountain region, east Texas, and the south Atlantic coast areas with fair conditions expected tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
New Mexico
Missouri Valley
Rocky Mountain
East Texas
Atlantic Coast
Amarillo Yesteray
Wiscesavecsivecto Noor
Mail and express car looted on Santa Fe train
An undetermined amount of mail and express loot was taken by robbers who boarded Santa Fe train number 75 between San Diego and Santa Ana. They fatally shot and beat Elmer Campbell, the express messenger in charge of the combined mail and express car. The crime was not learned until the train arrived in Santa Ana at 8:47 p.m. with Campbell unconscious aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Santa Ana
Calif
Santa Fe
San Diego
Elmer Campbell
Campbell
Klan Officials Gather for Convention at Buckeye Lake
Grand Dragons and Titans of the Ku Klux Klan from across the country will move to Buckeye Lake near Columbus for their annual meeting. Imperial Wizard Dr. Hiram W. Evans arrived as leaders say the governing body will plot the second offensive to awaken the American conscience and champion fundamentalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Ku Klan
United States
Buckeye Lake
Hiram W. Evans
Washington
Montreal Blaze Homes 61 Families Homeless
A Montreal fire on Aug 24 destroyed an entire block between Sanguinet and Emery streets. Windy conditions and low water pressure hampered efforts, with fire under control by 2 am though a three story dwelling burned fiercely. Sixty-one families lost homes, and firefighters suffered smoke exposure. one woman broke an arm when a hose cart crashed into a cigar shop window. The blaze began in an ice house and affected twenty or more dwellings and other buildings. Losses not yet estimated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Montreal
Sanguinet
Emery
Gasoline price cuts widen midwest oil war strike
Two cent reductions by Standard Oil companies of Indiana and Nebraska announced to night mark their first moves in a Midwest gasoline war. The Indiana cut aims to meet competition and affects eleven states including Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri Kansas Oklahoma North Dakota and South Dakota. In Shreveport, C L Matsrew a lineman for Southwestern Electric was killed after touching a high powered wire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Standard Oil Companies
Indiana
Nebraska
Middle West
Standard of
Chigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Ansas
Oklahoma
North Dakota
South Dakota
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Leta
Anes
Whaley
Peggy Roberts
Roscoe Carl Ziegler
Newark
N. J
Ziegler
Col.r. C. Lee
Herbie
May
May Seymour
North
C. D. Cates
Baraboo
Wis
Denver
Midwest
Jefferson
Jefferson County
J. M. Joyner
County Farm Bureau
Madison
Wisconsin University
C. N. Johnson
R. A. Moore
Department of Agronomy
Madison Association of Commerce
Don Moway
Hawaiian
Box Gar
Friendship
Motosado Zumoto
Tokio
Japan
America
Denver Station
Mailclerk
Express
Dragons
Titans
Lake Resort
Shreveport
C. L. Matsrew
Hneman
Southwestern Electric Company
Chickie
Evening Post
Douw
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