Ousley Heads Plainview Farm Bureau Convention Program
Colonel Clarence Ousley will deliver the principal address at the Northwest Texas District Farm Bureau convention in Plainview August 20 and 21. Attendees include F A McKay, John T Orr, C Q Moser, and W D Farris. The gathering draws farmers from 39 West Texas counties centered on Hale County with entertainment planned.
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Globe
Plainview
Clarence Ousley
Texas
United States
Charles A. Culberson
Northwest Texas
Texas Farm Bureau Federation
Ousley
L. R. Campbell
Dallas
F. AL. McKay
Memphis
Tennessee
John T. Orr
C Qo, Moser
W- D. Farris
Federation
West Texas
Beeville
Sherman
Hale County
Plain Views Chamber of Commerce
Thought He Faced Death Shoots It Out With Cops
Terrified after believing officers aimed at the electric chair Ed Robinson negro fought a death struggle with police in Houston as they tried to fingerprint him. He was shot by Detective B W Payne after prisoners beat R R Reifel to aid escape nine shots exchanged Payne and Robinson who grabbed Reifel revolver from its holster.
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Hy United Press
Houston
Ed Robinson
Conference on $50,000,000 Texas oil suit set
A counsel conference is called for next Wednesday to study the legal program in the 50 million oil suit brought by the state and joined by private claimants. The case concerns the Humble oil field in Harris County where the tract in question is argued to be state land valued with oil extracted at about 50 million dollars.
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United Press
Austin
Humble Oil Field
Harris County
Ashtola cowhand chronicles mischief in West Texas town
Im recounts colorful visits to Clarendon and McLean with jokes about cowhands, cowpunchers, and local figures. He notes Ashtola Sunday school records, JA wagon cowboys, and bees about XITs 6666s and 6666s while previewing West Texas events and a June tour by Colonel Lee of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. He ends with a playful call to submit West Texas team names and a final chuckle.
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McLean
Chamber of Commerce
Ashtola
Lou McClelland
Lou
Panhandle
Colonel Lee
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
North
Laude Boy Farmer Succeeds With 1925 Harvest
Claude August 1 Wayne Eubanks a Boys Farm ing club member in Armstrong county reports bumper crops. He sowed wheat on cotton land and harvested thirty one bushels per acre. Wheat tested 61 14 pounds and sold at 1 65 a bushel. He hopes a cotton yield of one bale per acre with a good season.
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The
Globe
Claude
Wayne Buebanks
Boys’ Farming Club
Armstrong County
Wayne
J. C. Eubanks
Acre
Floydada Girl to Head Home Economics at Teachers Meet
Miss Gertrude Connor of Floydada will direct the home economics section of the Panhandle Plains Teachers Institute to be held at West Texas State Teachers College September 1 to 12. Miss Jessie W. Harris of Austin will instruct the section. Topics include clothing contests budgeting housekeeping and home economics problems.
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Gloves Canyon
Panhandle- Plains
Dodge Brothers Launch Major Factory Expansion
The Dodge Brothers, Inc. begins its largest expansion in history with eight new buildings totaling over 4 million square feet. Costing about eight million dollars, the project aims to raise daily capacity to 1500 cars by January 1, 1926, and will employ thousands, with 1000 extra workers to be added for the expansion.
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Dodge Brothers, Inc
F. J. Haynes
Dodge Brothers Construction Department
Flames destroy seven buildings in Liberty Texas
A morning fire starting near the Josey Miller Feed store in Liberty, Texas, destroyed seven one story frame buildings including two hotels, a cafe, a tailor shop, a hardware store, and the Southern Pacific depot. Damage estimated at $100,000 with telegraph and telephone lines wiped out. Fire control achieved by 2 p m after relief calls to Houston and Beaumont.
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United Press
Liberty
Texas
Josey Miller
Southern Pacific
Houston
Beaumont
Southern Pacific Railroad
Amarillo Youth Fined For Reckless Driving
Jess Deadwiley, Amarillo youth, fined $1 in police court and his driving permit cancelled for 90 days or until October 1 on a charge of reckless driving.
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Jess Deadwiley
Amarillo
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W. A. Cassidy
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Conference ON State
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Coronation
I*rank Kistler
Pany
Clarendon
Donley County
Queens
Chamber of Com O
Tin
Cireeze
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Tech
Cat L. King
Harry
Thereal King
Cat
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Thereal
A. D. Fensty
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Ph. D
Amarillo, Texas
Laude Boy Farmer
Floydada Gire
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Chryd
Sler
Wason
Chrysler-Lockheed
Spartan
Duco
the Panhandle Motor Co
Polk St. Hone
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