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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1925
Page
6
Abilene residents Sam Atwell and S. T. Grinstead visit local figures. J. D. Curd’s hosts welcome guests. The community is reminded to watch for Art Exhibit news and enjoy the play His Inheritance at the High School Auditorium on Friday March 13 at 8 15 PM.
Mrs Dallas Southard returns from a visit with a friend and attends grand opera in Dallas. T L Williams of Avoca conducts business in Stamford Saturday and Tuesday. SeeWorld paintings featured during Art Exhibit at the Intermediate School Building. Mrs W L Brigham of Corinth undergoes operation at Stamford Sanitarium and recovers.
Reuben Olson returns from Ft Worth and works with father in Olsburg. Stamford visitors include Cree family and others paying dues and handling business. Kin visits note new baby Charles Howard born March 9. J W Price, Abilene Scout Executive, inspected Stamford Scouts and hopes to work with them again.
The Stamford Retail Merchants Association is formed with W. M. Harlan as president R. M. Kinard vice president L. E. Larche H. K. Langford and Walter McDaniel as directors W. T. Phillips serves as secretary and the office is on the south side in the Masonic Ridg. The group aims to unite merchants improve trade conditions promote fair competition enforce retail laws and encourage honest advertising and clean business practices.
Senior class play directed by Mrs. H R Fuller presents His Inheritance about a handsome young salesman who inherits a girls boarding school and insists on running it his way. Humorous situations ensue as the plot unfolds at the High School auditorium Friday night March 13 by the class of 1925.
J. Ross and W. H. Wright presented an unusually large egg to the office. The egg measured 8 inches long and 6.75 inches wide, weighing 4 ounces on Wright Cash Grocery scales. Ross raises Rhode Island Red chickens with plentiful eggs, while Wright markets Wright's Feed and hoped to buy the egg for customers.
Austin lad Burnett Pharr served four years as director of the University Longhorn Band and four years at the state university. Under his direction the Longhorn Band grew from a struggling club to one of America's premier college musical organizations.
An Art Exhibit of Fine Art Pictures will be held in the Intermediate School on East Moran April 6-11. The exhibit is loaned free of charge for the School's Picture Fund. It offers rooms a chance to obtain pictures and the public a view of many world art treasures.
The Woodman Circle Drill Team invites friends to a Tuesday evening event at their hall with progressive games and small charges. Proceeds support a fund as the group plans a trip to San Antonio in April.
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