Forty and Eight to Initiate Six New Men Tonight
The Forty and Eight plan to initiate six new members at an American Legion Home in Fort Worth tonight with Lewis P. Wields, chef de guerre, presiding. Names of candidates withheld pending possible additions, followed by a supper after the ceremonies. Delegates to the Forty and Eight convention were elected last night, but names will be released later. All members are urged to attend by 7:30 p.m.
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American Legion
Lewis P. Wields
Fort Worth
East Third Street paving to continue under city commission
The city commission ordered paving of East Third Street from Fillmore to Grant after a petition signed by over 90 percent of local property owners. The meeting also discussed buying a fire apparatus for San Jacinto but took no action. Most business was routine with a fleeting push to sell university holdings.
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East Third Street
Fillmore
Grant
City Commission
Third Street
San Jacinto
Panhandle flood control plan eyed for cheap irrigation
At Plainview a luncheon outlined a South Canadian river flood control and irrigation project. A super power plant would power pumps across four shallow water belts in Hale, Deaf Smith, Bailey, and Roosevelt counties enabling widespread irrigation. Eastern capitalists and officials back the plan, with Goethals and Fellowes cited as key figures.
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Stinnett
Plainview
Hale County
Hereford
Deaf Smith
Muleshoe
Bailey
Portales
Roosevelt County
New Mexico
Irrigation Commissioners
Oklahoma
Kansas
Texas
Winfield Holbrook
B. F. Yoakum
New York
Frisco Railway
Poe
Yoakum
Amarillo Kiwanis Club
Panhandle
Detroit
Henry Ford
Amarillo Board of City Development
Goethals
Associated
L’ress
A. E. McGregor
Pueblo
Oldham County
McGregor
Potter County
Cimmaron
Topeka
Colorado
George S. Knapp
Arkansas
Knapp
United States War Department
Knap
U. S
United States Department of Agriculture
A. Tiincoln Fellowes
Fellowes
Mississippi
United States
Lilies of the Streets at Mission and Paths to Paradise at the Fair
The Mission shows Lilies of the Streets with Virginia Lee Corbin and Johnny Walker and a strong moral. Paths to Paradise, a comedy drama with Raymond Griffith and Betty Compson, plays today and Friday at the Fair Theater. Thursday night Amarillo’s Board of City Development hosts a banquet at the Amarillo Hotel with Panhandle town representatives attending.
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Lilies
Virginia Corbin
Johnny Walker
Raymond Griffith
Betty Compson
Fair Theater
United States
Amarillo
Board of City Development
Panhandle
Plainview
Stinnett
Walter Blackburn
W. ©. Irvin
Joe Williams
FE. H. Petty
G. C. Saunders
Farm women hear plea for shorter farm hours at fair
Miss Eula Elliott spoke at the fair describing farm life from before sunrise to after sundown and urged shorter hours for farm labor. Two vocal solos were performed by Earl Gough with Mrs. M. D. Ramsey at the piano.
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Eula Elliott
Earl Gough
M.D. Ramsey
Congress Opens at Mission Today in Merchants Building
The congress opened yesterday in the Merchants' building with O P Russ presiding at the morning session. Satterwhite urged Panhandle farming potential, noting cotton output rose from a few years ago. Mrs. R S Thompson welcomed farm women and urged practical improvements while criticizing excessive legislation. Russ delivered the response.
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Congress
Merchants
O. P. Russ
Satterwhite
Panhandle
R. S. Thompson
Press
Farm Congress Advocates Centralized Marketing Power
C C French and Yoakum spoke on creating a national co operative marketing organization to set prices and regulate distribution, eliminating middlemen who capture billions from producers and consumers. They predicted Texas would surpass Illinois in grain sorghums and urged feeding sorghums to beef and hogs to aid farmers. Women’s day runs 9 to 11 am at the congress with the states program at 2 pm at the municipal auditorium.
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United States
Yoakum
C. C
French
Fair Grounds
Municipal Auditorium
Lee Satterwhite welcomes visitors to Farm Congress
Lee Satterwhite, speaker of the house, welcomed farmers to the West Texas Farmers' Educational Congress at the Tri-State Fair. He said cotton valued at 70 million dollars was produced last year across 36 counties tributary to Amarillo.
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Amarillo
Lee Satterwhite
House of Representatives
West Texas
Amarillo to Host Convention Plans and Wade Assignment
Wade notes foundation work underway and plans unfolding as committees show investment and civic appeal. He will visit Amarillo early next year to coordinate publicity and arrangements, with six weeks of preconvention work and strong support from local business leadership and B F Bennett. Fort Worth leads in memberships with Amarillo third, Wichita Falls close behind.
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Amarillo
Wade
B. F. Bennett
Fort Worth
San Antonio
Wichita Falls
Telephone Girl Now Well in Marshalltown Iowa
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped a telephone operator in Marshalltown Iowa relieve bearing down pains and cramps after two years of illness. She also used Liver Pills and recommends the medicines to friends. Another testimonial from Dover New Hampshire reports dizziness loss of appetite and nervous weakness improved after taking the Vegetable Compound.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
P. E. Everts
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