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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1927
Page
3
A report from Moundsville West Virginia recounts in Work and Hope how the state penitentiary adopted humane reforms over the past 25 years. It contrasts brutal past punishments such as flogging ball and chain water cures and underground dungeons with trusted outside work and more human treatment.
Co. P. Wasson of Dallas represented the Southwest Shippers advisory board in Amarillo and Shreveport planning for the next meeting in Shreveport on February 9. The discussion covered traffic matters and a survey of this season's cotton crop handling, noting Amarillo members.
Mrs E O Sheets of Burger visits sister Mrs Lord. Max Merry of Morrow Thomas Hardware travels south territory this week. R H Cleghorn returns from Vernon to visit family for several days. Dr R M Bennett leaves Tuesday for Rochester Minnesota for medical treatment. G W Taylor of Taylor Marble Tile Oklahoma City is in Amarillo on business.
Turkish leader Kemal Pasha showers gifts on five adopted daughters from Anatolia and war orphans. He enrolls Zahra and Sabiha in the American College for Girls and plans extensive schooling abroad for Sabine and Afet. The Ghazi keeps the daughters from public exposure while supporting their education.
In Sioux Falls South Dakota a family pheasant hunting trend has emerged with the mother driving the car the father handling the gun and the children serving as lookouts as they cruise highways where abundant fowls roam this season.
Miss Ethel M. Hilton becomes the state’s first woman assistant attorney general, handling school system rulings and opinions. Appointed by Claude Pollard, she has also ruled on labor law matters, including actions against superintendents of state institutions. formerly a Galveston shorthand reporter and then assistant county attorney.
In St. Michael Alaska on December 3 Associated Press notes junking of palatial Yukon river steamers Hannah Susie Louise, tied to memories of Yukon gold rush era. The vessels once ferried argonauts to fields and carried nuggets or failed hopes along the Yukon.
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