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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1927
Page
18
Stotts and Holcomb of Denver awarded a 163000 contract to install pumping equipment reservoirs power house and collateral gear for Amarillo’s last unit of its water plant. Work is to be rushed with temporary pumps to prevent water delays and the big thirty inch pipeline expected by April 1.
The Amarillo Lodge Social and Welfare committee organized a new Boy Scout troop with B. P. O. E. A. F. Brodt of Morrow-Thomas Hardware chosen as scoutmaster. The troop will meet each Friday evening in the Elks Home gymnasium.
Deputy Sheriff O. S. Sloan brought back Clarence Ross from Denver. Ross is indicted on auto theft, and is jailed here awaiting arraignment.
FP P Works and Jas W Bassett announce the formation of a law partnership with offices in Smith Building under the name Works Bassett. Judge Works has practiced in Amarillo for years while Bassett recently moved from Greenville Texas where he spent about thirteen years in general practice.
The ten story Medical Arts building at Eighth and Polk streets will be built by Gilsonite Construction Company of Dallas. The structure features dark red brick with stone and terra cotta trim. Brick procurement was through Acme Brick. Excavation and foundation work have been completed by John McKnight, with work to begin at once.
The Medical Arts building, being erected by Charley Fisk and associates, will be one of the finest structures in the city. A lantern slide of a mummy with tuberculosis from 3,000 years ago was shown by Dr. D M Cannan at Bedford College London.
S F Balentine notes a peculiar fault in section 10 block Y Hutchinson and plans to gamble a well hoping to clear it. Tom Curtis forecasts Amarillo’s pennant race and a big tournament. O V Vernon jokes about talking to the wrong man on the phone. Out of Gas Phone 1000.
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