Donley County Women’s Clubs Report Strong Year and Plans
The Donley County women and girls clubs report strong progress in 1928 with dairy and poultry gains, vegetable gardens, canning output, and home improvements totaling fruit and vegetable preservation, new water systems, and furniture makeovers. For 1929 Miss Thompson leads a five year plan expanding gardens, chicken flocks, living room and bedroom upgrades, with programs approved by Texas A&M Extension.
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Jey County
Providence
Donley County Federation
State Department of Extension
A. & M. College
Highway 28 Widening Near Thalia Nearing Completion
Work on Highway 28 east of Thalia in Wilbarger County is close to finishing. The concrete pouring and curing will take several months to complete after the road widening is done.
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Wilbarger County
Thalia
Perryton Building Boom Adds Much to City
Perryton experiences a substantial building boom with a full block of business houses on Main Street a 75 by 140 foot brick garage a new Masonic Hall a 50 by 150 foot two story store and office building a 470 foot front brick motor company building and other structures.
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Perryton
Main Street
Prick Masonic Hall
Motor Company
Clarendon Resident Saw Capitol Corner Stone Ceremony in 1883
H Rutherford former Donley County sheriff and tax collector recalls witnessing the laying of the Texas Capitol corner stone in Austin in 1883. He rode from Round Rock with his father on an excursion train to see the Masonic parade Governor Treland and Texas Rangers attend a grand ceremony that included relics from the old capitol and the new constitution.
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Texas Panhandle
Texas Capitol
Austin
Clarendon
Ds. H. Rutherford
Donley County
Capitol
State of Texas
Panhandle
Rutherford
Round Rock
Texas
Texas Masonry
South
Atlanta
Georgia
Congress Avenue
Austin Masons
Capitol Site
Clarendon News
Mr. Rutherford
Hatcheries Thrive From Egypt to Modern U.S. Agriculture
Historical note highlights commercial hatcheries thriving in ancient Egypt and a rise over the past 30 years in the United States. It marks hatchery operations as a major contemporary agricultural industry.
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Egypt
United States
Texas Churches Grow Half Million in a Decade
Census figures show Texas church membership rising from 2,280,514 in 1916 to nearly 2.78 million in 1926 with 16,060 local church bodies and 12,770 church houses valued at 109 million. Female members reached 826,880 in 1926, and Sunday schools enrolled 1,102,204 in 1926.
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Washington
Texas
Bureau of the Census
Census Bureau
Produce House of Great Volume Is Built in Pecos
A modern produce house has been built in Pecos at a cost of $50,000. The building measures 100 by 175 feet, stands 50 feet high, and can refrigerate ten railway cars of produce at once. It includes a private ice house and three employee bungalows. The text also notes the Texas Indian population as 2109 and identifies the Alabama as the largest tribe in Polk County.
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Pecos
Texas
Alabama
Polk County
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Harvey
Ach
Bago
Wils Harvey Thompson
Lindsey
State Capitol
J. Ho Rutherford
Alderson’s
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West Texas State Teachers
Canyon, Texas
J. A. Hill
A. Shirley
Canyon Ber of Commerce
Frieg
Durant Cars
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