Reception and Ball End West Texas Convention Week
Society notes describe a grand reception and ball at the Amarillo Country Club honoring Senoritas and escorts from West Texas cities. Over 300 guests attended with Mrs. William Boyce and W. C. Gatson leading the arrangements and punch served amid music. Other items include visits of Dallas and Vernon guests, a Houston Street ice cream social, news of a baby girl born to the Kellys, a 1923 bridge club gathering, bedding pickups for Women’s club rooms, and bedding returns for St. Andrew's parish visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
William Boyce
W. C. Gaton
Amarillo Country Club
Lindsay Nunn
R. €. Neely
Felice Stinnett
Sadie Claude Curtis
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
West Texas
Carroll Goes to Dallas for Life Saving Operation
Six year old Carroll Motley leaves Amarillo with his parents for surgery at the Shriners and Scottish Rite hospital in Dallas to relieve leg damage from a gasoline fire. The Globe Carroll Fund has raised 349.50 to cover clothes, incidentals, and hospital costs. donations from F. J. Storm family H. P. Boone Mrs. C A Hale and others completed the fund. Birth announcements and visits noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Motley
Johnson Street
Rear
Dallas
Shriners
Scottish Rite Hospital
Amarillo Shriners
The
Globe
Carroll
Wheeler Resumes Dry Crusade Testimony at Senate Hearing
Wayne B Wheeler testified before the Senate campaign funds committee on anti saloon league finances after bringing a mass of documents from Westerville Ohio He discussed year book data and reported 1926 receipts of 84817488 with expenditures of 84696521 including salaries publicity and state allocations Amarillo officials and local press were thanked for courtesies during the convention with notes of appreciation for Green Brothers Furniture Remington Typewriter Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Pree
Washington
Wayne B. Wheeler
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Ington
League
Westerville
Ono
Anti- Saloon League
Reed
Ernest H. Cherrington
Eyer
New York Times
Wheeler
Missourian
St. Louis
National Organization
Nareld VF. Johnson
Record News
Wichita Falls
Mas Bentley
Star-Telegram
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Johnson
Chamber of Commerce and
Board of City Development
Green Brothers Furniture Company
Remington Typewriter Company
Funeral for Gladys Green Held at Polk Street Church
Funeral services were held at 3 pm at Polk Street Methodist Church for Miss Gladys Green twenty years old daughter of Mr and Mrs W Green of Wildorado. Rev L N Stuckey officiated. Interment followed at Liane cemetery under Winckbern Funeral Home. Mixes Grove died Monday afternoon at a level hospital after a brief illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polk Street Methodist Church
Gladys Gireen
W. Green
Wildorado
L. N. Stuckey
Taral
Liane
Winckbern Wareral
Mixes Grove
Level
Weepeek Vertilaver Noted In Teen Interest Chronicle
A cryptic OCR-like line appears to reference a faux product or activity called Weepeek Vertilaver linked to teen interests. The readable fragment offers no clear event dates or locations, but suggests a novelty item or concept noted in a small local chronicle.
Wives and husband found dead in New York home
Servants say the couple quarreled all day before Berlety Brewster, 29, and his wife Frances Leen, 21, were shot in their bed room. A pistol and two empty shells lay nearby. Coroner cannot identify the shooter. The Brewsters wed in Calvary Church on October 17, 1924. Mrs Lyon of Oswego was her grandmother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlety
New York
Lowe
Brewster
Bervants
Me Brewster
Calvary Church
Long Island
James Lyon
Oswego
Newspaper men eager to return to Amarillo after convention
Report notes that many press correspondents aim to come back to Amarillo soon, though a full roster of the paper boys covering the convention was not available. The understanding is that more than fifty journalists from various newspapers and press services participated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
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Mrs. C. B. Carswell
Adele Summer of
Vernon
John C. Fain
Forest Avenue
Zack Scott
Anne Scott
Zack Scott, Jr
Mary Lewis Scott
Austin
Houston Street Methodist Church
Betty Nan Kelly
William Troy Kelly
St. Anthony’s Sanitarium
Betty Ken Kelly
Mee Kelly
Mary Elizabeth Melellan
George &. McLellan
Taylor Street
Pes
Nancy
Bridge Club
A. 3. Taylor
Fifth Street
Roberts Place
the House Engineering Corporation
Buffalo, N. Y
Toney Chisum
Globe’s Fund For Crippled Child
Shrine TO Pay
A. V. White
East Sixth Street
Erle Thompson
Dumas
John Wheatley
Jack
Pode Srees
Hugh Whitcomb
N.Y
Gladys Green
Athen
Cowen
Crete
Bcbolink
Will Teade
Wells
Amarin Dally Sewer
Lewis N. Jensen
Southwestern Life Ins. Co
Texas
Blackburn
Gello
Wehend
Aden
Lydia E. Pinkham
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