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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1926
Page
10
The piece recalls Amarillo’s school population rising from 700 to near 7,000, highlighting a twenty three year span. It references a rare edition of the Amarillo Advocate published by J F Leckney and H B Mar.
In July 1908 Amarillo’s scholastic population exceeds seven hundred with facilities for about five hundred. The Advocate notes the town’s patronage could support a college or independent literary school and cites a four hundred pupil building plus a forthcoming addition for 150 pupils. The senior high school can near 100 students and a new extended period would enroll about fifty more next week.
John Stith was sentenced to die in the electric chair after indictment, trial, and conviction for slaying 69 year old Mrs Ella Heath on August 22 at her brother's farm near Portsmouth. Heath was robbed assaulted and strangled with a plow line. Stith was tracked to his home by a faulty rubber boot heel.
The piece recalls Chicken Lake eighteen miles north of Amarillo once stocked by the Amarillo Outing Club with bass perch and catfish where members rested from cave and city life. Some say four pound bass swam the clear artesian waters though later voices question the lake’s existence amid Palo Duro canyon’s popularity. It notes California forest orders restricting smoking camp fires and public use affecting eleven forests in the state.
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