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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1924
Page
3
Miss Jessie Clark 17 of New York describes being robbed by two men at a rug shop on June 10. She was chloroformed and woke on a train bound for Chicago then Dallas with money and new clothes. Her father W E Clark offered to pay her home fare.
Pot ter county Democratic candidates are reminded to pay assessments by tomorrow night. County office candidates owe $60 each while precinct office candidates pay $10 each, per the announcement by Grover Hill, county chairman.
More than 1500 is being spent on 500 feet of roadway through the Palo Duro canyons, owned by H C Harding. The improvements add a ten percent grade to ease park traffic. A July 4 barbecue is planned with John Snider as chef, aiming to break cooking records.
J W Powell of Dalhart and J B Scott of Plainview visit. Frank Timms marks twelve years at First National Bank. Bank examiner Gilbar Hedrick in Amarillo. Klopstein build a 4500 home in country club addition. Various visits, Lions clubs meetings, and heat wave notes frame a day in Amarillo with curb work on Washington street and state press visitors photographed.
G B Clarke president of the Associated Advertising club of Galveston speaks at the Amarillo hotel lunch session. He promotes the Galveston September convention and covers state-wide plans under the tenth district auspices. Lee R Williams urges broad merchant attendance for a productive meeting.
Special to The Globe Childress reports crops damaged by a week of intense heat and grasshoppers. Young cotton fields stripped clean, corn stripped to stalks, and wheat oats and barley cut. threshing will start next week.
Canyon Texas June 21 arrangements have been made to send the Canyon Buffalo band to Adobe Walls June 27 to furnish music at the unveiling ceremonies on the old battlefield site. Twenty pieces will travel under conductor C E Strain with camping outfits for a two day stay. Attending will be President J A Hill and Nelson Phillips former Texas supreme court chief justice who will speak in the afternoon. Judge T F Turner Amarillo Panhandle Plains Historical society president will serve as master of ceremonies.
Childress county reports a population of 15,000 people with 2,000 cars. In Childress city there are nineteen filling stations with an annual business exceeding $1,000,000.
J M Butler secretary of the Panhandle Bankers association writes Mayor Eugene S Blasdel praising the city's welcome while the bankers convention was in progress here Sanger Texas reports the new water and sewerage system is completed and will be in use in a few days
Samuel R. Vauclain president of Baldwin Locomotive Works passes through Laredo en route to Mexico City for a second talk with President Obregon. He says an order for 3 000 cars will rehabilitate the Mexican national railway and other government lines. Mexico has ordered thirty locomotives to be delivered in July and August. Fifty modern locomotives with cars will boost rail traffic between Mexico and the United States.
Canyon Texas June 21 June 26 is the final date for student enrollment in the summer normal program at West Texas State Teachers' college. A steady stream of students is enrolling as the session approaches while in Lufkin Texas construction starts on the new settling basins for the water supply plant doubling its capacity once finished.
Be C with plumbing company offers stove connections hose mending hydrant installation. Located at 700 Cleveland contact phone 1541 for service.
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