Canyon swimmers thrill crowd with pool pageant across Nat
J M Darrow aged 62 swam the length of the pool at the Nat while reading an Evening Post. He kept the paper dry except when held. Winners included J V Younger Canyon who won a silver loving cup for best all around swimmer and diver, and Oma Wilson Canyon who topped the women’s events with a $10 bathing suit.
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J. M. Darrow
Nat
Evening Post
Asberry Stokes
Canyon
J. V.younger
J. F. Moody
Beaumont
Oma Wison
Vera Sizemore
Pauline Wilson
Eagene West
Amarillo
Gray Studio
Oma Wilson
Spencer-Nunn
Ham's
I. YV. Younger
Ralph Collier
The
Post
Bill Gilbert
Two Arrested In Raid Seizing 30 Gallon Still Near Amarillo
Potter County sheriff's deputies and Randall County officers seized a 30 gallon still, two and a half gallons of liquor and twelve 50 gallon empty barrels on Elmo Green's farm, 18 miles southwest of Amarillo. Elmo Green and J. O. Faulkner face charges of manufacture of liquor and possession for sale.
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Potter County
Sheriff's Department
Randall County
Elmo Green
Amarillo
J. O. Faulkner
Vernon Leaves 10 Attend Board Meet
Vernon secretary of the Board of Development left for Fort Worth to attend the Texas Commercial Executive Association board meeting. The next meeting place will be named with Dallas Tyler San Antonio and Lubbock listed as possible hosts.
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O. ¥. Vernon
Board of Development
Fort Worth
Texas Commercial Executive Association
Tidders
Dallas
Tyler
San Antonio
Lubbock
Summer Book Demand Grows For Potter County Library
Demand for books doubles since school ended with two large shipments arriving. Librarians stay busy as 230 books depart daily. Miss Alice Curtis notes the workload while Miss Willie May Martin is on vacation. Edna Ferber's So Big starts Tuesday in Evening Post.
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Potter County
Alice Curtis
Willie May Martin
Edna Ferber
Evening Post
Plainview Wins Epworth League Cap Second Time
Plainview district of the Methodist Epworth League won the silver loving cup for best all around record at the closing session. Lubbock took top honors in the stunt contest. Rev. R N Huckabee spoke on the Hughes Caperton memorial fund, $2570 pledged. Credit points toward Christian Culture Certificates went to 260. Ninety volunteers planned to go to foreign fields. 60 had prior commitments. Officers installed included A J Vaught as president and Ruby Lee Landers as treasurer.
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Plainview
Methodist Epworth League
McMurry College
Abilene
Clarendon College
Clarendon
Lubbock
C. A. Bickley
Vernon
R. N. Huckabee
Hughes-Caperton Memorial Fund
Epworth Leaguers
H. K. King
Waxachie
W. E. Hamilton
Anson
A.J. Vaught
Lamesa
W. Burk Stinson
Amarillo
Vera Vorter
Tulsa
Ruby Lee Landers
Everett Dison
Canyon
Era
Hughes- Caperton
Children Warned Against Dangerous Play at Tenth Viaduct
City manager Jeff D Bartlett issued a warning to children to stay away from the Tenth Street viaduct work site. He cited ongoing dangers as workmen repeatedly had to shoo children from the area.
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Tenth Street
Jeff D. Bartlett
Sherman County Re-Survey Map Completed in Texas Panhandle
The only complete re survey map of Sherman County, Texas, and likely of any Panhandle county, was completed after a year of work by county surveyor H T Trigg. The survey covers original tract acres now in adjacent counties and lists precise acre totals.
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Texas
Panhandle
H. T. Trigg
Sherman County
City Briefs Highlight Local Visits and Births
Miss Vera Taylor of Durant Oklahoma visits San Jacinto Heights guests Mr and Mrs R A Young at 607 Kentucky Ave. E C Helm leaves for Fort Worth to be staff photographer for Fort Worth Star Telegram. Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs R D Robinette buried at Llano Cemetery with Griggs Undertaking Co in charge. Mr and Mrs S Burleson announce birth of eight and a half pound son. Burleson works at Santa Fe water service department.
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Vera Taylor
Durant
Okla
R. A. Young
Kentucky Ave
San Jacinto Heights
E. C. Helm
Kerr and Walsh Architects
Fort Worth
R. D. Robinette
Fillmore Street
Llano
Griggs’s Undertaking Company
Miss Lucile Harper Improves After Illness
Miss Lucile Harper deputy county clerk who had been seriously ill was reported to be improved yesterday.
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Lucile Harper
The Red Rain Mystery Opens in Sundays News
A teaser announces the start of a new detective serial in Sundays News. Readers are invited to telephone the paper at No 322 to call and follow the opening installment and a full month of installments.
Slim Jim and the Force and Salesman Sam at Evening Post
The Evening Post runs three full pages featuring comic strips Slim Jim and the Force Salesman Sam and Out Our Way. Readers follow humorous misadventures across the three-page spread with familiar characters in lighthearted daily panels.
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Evening Post
Slim Jim and
the Force
Sam
Mrs Earl Saunders to visit Oklahoma City and Texas towns
Mrs Earl Saunders and her daughter Nadine of 1191 Buchanan Street will depart this morning for an extended visit to Oklahoma City Wichita Falls and Eastland. They will be away until September 1.
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Earl Saunders
Nadine
Buchanan Street
Oklahoma City
Wichita Falls
Eastland
Plans for $50,000 Anton School Building Drawn
Special to The News from Lubbock June 26. Contracts let to Butler Brothers for drawing plans and specs for a $69,000 school building at Anton between Lubbock and Littlefield. Architects busy preparing plans. once approved, contracts will be let. The Anton project boosts a town under a year old on Ellwood lands northwest of Shamrock.
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Lubbock
Anton
Littlefield
Santa Fe
Butler Brothers
Ellwood
Shallowater
Ropesville
Hockley County
First Baptist Church
Idalon
Panhandle Plains History Project Aims For Texas Lore
Judge T F Turner told Amarillo American Business Club members that the Panhandle Plains Historical Society plans a factual Texas Plains history. He cited gaps in memory and fiction, urged local business support, and noted funds are needed for the effort at the Amarillo Hotel meeting led by Paul Speer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Paul Speer
Filling Station Opens on Fillmore by Amarillo Men
The McDonald and Harper Filling station at Fifth and Fillmore streets opens today in Amarillo. Ed McDonald former city police officer and Sid Harper of Cooper-Irvin Motor Co. opened the station. To each purchaser of five gallons of gasoline today a carnation or a quart of oil is offered.
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McDonald
Ledbetter Family Hosts Monthly Drug Company Dinner
Members of the Ledbetter Drug Company business family attended a dinner hosted by Ben T. Ledbetter at the Amarillo Hotel. The gathering marked the monthly inaugural meeting and discussions focused on drug business matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ledbetter Drug Company
Ben T. Ledbetter
Amarillo Hotel
Father of Amarillo Man Dies at Coleman
E. H. Pittman, 78, father of Amarillo County Clerk E. M. Pittman, died yesterday at his Coleman home. Funeral will be Sunday. Pittman’s mother died in Coleman the previous Friday and was buried the following Sunday.
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E. H. Pittman
E. M. Pittman
Amarillo
Coleman
Bartlett and Wolff Reach Trans-Mississippi Finals
Arthur Bartlett of Ottumwa and Clarence Wolff of St. Louis won their trans-Mississippi golf semifinals at Omaha Field Club and will meet in a 86 hole final. Bartlett defeated J. O. Swick 6 and 4, Wolff beat Bob McKee 7 and 6 after par 73 in morning play.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Arthur Bartlett
Ottumwa
Iowa
Clarence Wolff
St. Louis
Omaha Field Club
Bartlett
J. O. Swick
Des Moines
Wolff
Bob McKee
McKee
Swick
Ottumwan
Big Cattle Ranch Being Broken Up for Deaf Smith Farms
Hereford June 26 Deaf Smith county homeseeker gains as 4000 acres of pasture land known as Mormon lane, part of Syndicate property, are cut into 160 acre tracts. Henry Wikingon says the land will be sold to farmers seeking homes. Colonization starts immediately and the entire body is expected to be sold by early fall.
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Deaf Smith County
Henry Wikingon
Poultry School at Hereford to Benefit Deaf Smith County
Hereford to host a poultry school this fall under the extension service of the A and M College. Deaf Smith County Poultry Association and H H Hawkins report a short course to start after word of a mammoth hatchery for Hereford. Dairying may be added to the poultry program. invitation extended to West Texas towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry School
Hereford
H. H. Hawkins
West Texas
Rock Island Train Schedule Changes Take Effect Tonight
Rock Island timetable shifts begin at 12 01 am with No 41 departing Amarillo at 450 pm now 111 and 112 adjusted to 240 am and new connections at Tucumcari with Nos 11 and 12. A second change moves the 715 pm departure to 815 am and the westbound arrival from 720 am to 650 pm.
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Rock Island
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JM. Darrow
Oman
Moneyworth
J.w.timmons
10Th and
Fillmore
Andys
Taylor ST
Deandi Fruit Company
A. J. Lindemann
Durkee’s
Epworth
Sherman
No. 322
United States
Ledbetter
Bartlett and Wolff
Deaf Smith Farms
A. & M. College
Deaf
Rolling Stones
East 5Th Street
Polk Street
Florida Street
Pierce Street
West 6Th Street
Crater
Packer
Folgers Coffee
M & L Transfer and Storage Co
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