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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1925
Page
10
A Home beauty column advises facial exercises to tone muscles for young faces while noting results depend on overall health. It includes a recipe for almond cream, skin tightening clay packs, a blonde hair rinse, and guidance on eyebrows and ankle care from a roster of reader submissions and beauty tips.
Shamrock reports a rising building outlook with new brick business houses and about twenty new residences under construction. Key projects include Bowers corner two story structure, J. M. Tindall building upgrades, Corner Drug Store Co renovation, and Shamrock Hospital by Drs Zeigler and Gardner. Plans detail the Britt Munday Motor Company fireproof site, E L Tarpley brick complex housing Shamrock Hardware renamed Hamilton Benson, plus space for a piano shop, Farmers and Merchants State Bank addition, Hunter Dry Goods, and Kersh Hardware. West Side Hotel adds ten rooms. bank expansion to house Lewis Brothers and H B Hill. Battery B seeks to repair toys for local children before Christmas.
Dave Derden, manager, sends hand bills to towns outlining rules and prizes for band contests at the Tri-State fair. On Sept. 27 a massed bands concert directed by Derden will feature more than 400 musicians. Numerous city and school bands from across the region have signed up, with prizes from 75 to 400 dollars for various class levels.
Plainview records the re election of F M Butler as president of the Plainview Board of City Development at the first meeting of the new board. Old officers C A Pierce H R Fritz and C G Goodman were re elected. Directors named include Shelton Bowman Collier Fritz Barker and Pierce to oversee transportation agriculture civic improvements publicity commerce and entertainment. Routine bills were approved.
Plainview Elks Lodge No. 1175 establishes a Students Loan fund to aid worthy youths who cannot pay their college costs. A committee led by H. S. Hilburn will manage the fund. one Plainview student has already used the loan for A and M College and left the day after receiving it.
County hosts a mapping event at 113 West Seventh featuring a display on the Ten Commandments. Organizers invite public participation and discussion about local outreach and civic education.
Amarillo police held Ben Jackson for investigation as the grand jury awaited testimony on another matter. A foreman sent a witness out, but Ben left the courthouse thinking an officer was to receive him and has not been seen since. Ben is described as a large, restless man known for drifting.
I. F. Moore of Kress, a banker-mercant, was in Amarillo today and stated that he has five sons and each son has five sisters, indicating a large family.
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