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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1925
Page
2
Dorothy Dix writes that at age thirty a woman who trained as a teacher can shift to being an efficient office worker. She argues against a mother's fears of men in offices, notes most bosses care about spelling, and urges commitment, speed, and reliability to succeed.
A jumble of hometown notices reports That Here There Everywhere Childress is the fastest growing town off the cap rock Harold Alkali Bugbee of Clarendon visits friends in Amarillo and other local items note businesses prescriptions taxis bank references and social chatter across Amarillo Wellington Pampa and Cooper-Irvin Motor Co records.
Dorothy Dix condemns men who abandon wives and infant children to poverty and denied education. She recalls broken fathers returning aged and sick while their children bear the burden, urging sympathy and accountability for parental failings.
At the theaters The Mission features The Shock Punch with Richard Dix, a red blooded Paramount comedy. Racing for Life presents Eva Novak with William Fairbanks in a big thrill ride. Excuse Me stars Norma Shearer and others. The Jolly Flappers offer Goodnight Nurse with Big Boy McBride plus fast action films.
Rupert Hughes comedy opens with Norma Shearer and others for a two day run at the Fair. The program also features The Sky Plumber and The Shock Punch with Richard Dix. Neal Burns in Call A Cop and Jack London Adventure join the lineup with vaudeville acts. Next week adds Kansas City vaudeville and extended Jolly Flappers engagement plus stage prologues by Myrtle Ludden.
John Naylor of Clarendon led a double deck truck of hogs to the new Amarillo packing house and earned thirteen cents a pound for most hogs, eleven for one. The crops promise to break records in Donley County while local society notes mention fairs, visits, and travels across Amarillo, Colorado trips, and business updates.
O. V. Vernon secretary of the Board of City Development will be a principal speaker at the district meet of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce in Dalhart on August 24. He will discuss the functions of a chamber of commerce.
Clarence A. Wortham's World's Best shows have been secured for the Amarillo Tri State exposition from September 26 to October 1. The company features rides and more than twenty separate shows and advertises a midway rivaling Coney Island and Atlantic City among big state fair circuits.
Lubbock Texas July 16 Every West Texas boy who is willing to work for an education will graduate from Texas Tech under a plan by President P W Horn The acre product plan would apportion irrigable land near the campus to students wanting to work their way through college Each acre could yield at least 600 dollars from intensive cultivation
Walter Irvin paid for the sales force dinners at the Harvey House last night. He set a June quota of eighty five cars and offered a banquet if met. The team surpassed the goal selling and delivering 134 automobiles in June for the Coopes Irvin company. Short talks and a general good time followed the banquet.
Amarillo delegates will present a series of reports from the national convention of real estate boards at the local board meeting to be held at Hotel Palo Duro tomorrow noon. The gathering follows last week’s postponed session to hear Col. R. Q. Lee of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce and brief remarks from T. M. Bruner Bill Askew Tom Cotten and C. P. Atwood about Detroit.
R. B. Masterson ships 1,000 head of three year old black Angus steers from the Masterson ranch in King County to W. W. Marrs of Fort Worth for fall delivery. The cattle, of the straight JY brand, are yearlings by shipment and appear in excellent condition. Marrs, who operates a large ranch near McLean, handles many cattle. The price is not learned but the deal is believed to total about $60,000.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Summers plan a Colorado automobile vacation starting Saturday. They will tour parts of the state and this trip marks Mr. Summers' first real vacation in seven years, after busy work on Amarillo-Country Club, Roberts' Place and Summers curb soda service at Johnston's.
A Texas Panhandle girl, Miss Lida Witt, sleeping on the seventh floor of the Hotel Roselyn in Los Angeles during a recent quake, woke to swinging lamps and shaking rooms. She later returned to Amarillo and preferred Panhandle sandstorms to California quakes.
Amarillo Oil company lays a four inch conduit from the Pan Tex station to Warrick No 1 in Potter county so oil will soon flow into Amarillo. Warrick is the sole producer in the county and the line plan anticipates handling future Panhandle field production as development accelerates.
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