Reduction in City Taxes Evident For The Coming Year
City Secretary H. Hall states a likely twenty five percent reduction in Vernon property valuations after canalization in late month. Despite lower valuations the city expects similar municipal revenue due to 1920s new fire water sewer and sidewalk works and 250+ new houses boosting assessed value by about two million dollars. 35 percent goes to school maintenance while commissions defend added revenue as necessary for services.
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H. Hall
Vernon
Fire Department
Board of Equalization
Board of Commissioners
Cemetery Association
Water Works
Joe Parker Constructs Six Room Bungalow in Vernon
Joe Parker will build a six room frame bungalow on S Nabers Street behind the B J Parker residence. Work starts soon using material from the adjacent old W F E Naylor house once occupied by Mrs. Etta Long and Miss Lora Long, a Vernon landmark built over thirty years ago.
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S. Nabers St
B. J. Parker
Joe Parker
Parker
Etta Long
Lora Long
Long
Vernon
W. FE. Naylor
Rube Berry Weds Beaumont Girl
Rube Berry son of T A Berry of Vernon married Miss Leila Jawle of Beaumont on March 7. The couple met at Texas Christian University where Berry starred in baseball and basketball and served in the S A T C. They will reside in Fort Worth where Berry works at Stockyards National Bank. Berry is Vernon born and raised and attended local schools. He was an all state baseball player and served as vice president of the T C U student body last term. His brothers W T and M C Berry live in Vernon.
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Vna
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth
Berry
Stockyards National Bank
Vernon
W. T
M. C
Easter Sacred Music Observed at Tolbert Methodist Church
Easter Sunday service at Tolbert Methodist Church featured piano by Gertrude Gethansen and Anna Tooley with Dorothy Chancey on violin. Readings on the Resurrection by Odell Simmonds Oleta Swinburne Monette Brooks, and Mrs Mabel Read Angata Castleberry sang Silently Sleep. Choir offered select songs and Pastor R V Tooley gave a Resurrection talk to a large congregation despite bad weather.
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Methodist Church
Tolbert
Gertrude Gethansen
Anna Tooley
Dorothy Chancey
Odell Simmonds
Oleta Swinburne
Monette Brooks
Mabel Read
Angata Castleberry
R. V. Tooley
Fruit not hurt claim by A. F. Howe in West Paradise
A. F. Howe of West Paradise street says fruit has not been materially damaged. He owns several trees and expects a bumper crop if no further harm comes to the yield.
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A. F. Howe
West
Paradise Street
Highway to Gulf marked along Colorado to the Gulf route
Workers and chamber representatives in Wilbarger county blaze Colorado to the Gulf highway markers from Hleetra to Chillicothe. Three miles of bands now mark the road with half mile or quarter mile spacing and signs placed to deter weed obscuration.
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Colorado
Wilbarger
Wilbarger County
Hleetra
Chillicothe
DIRT STREETS GET GRADING IN CITY LIMITS
Eight blocks of city streets on West Yumparika and South Tolay streets are being graded this week with property owners along the highways bearing most of the cost. Last week McKinney Street from North Main to the city limits was graded to connect with the railroad road, financed by the city to ease travel as the main east road near it is being paved.
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Yumparika
Tolay
McKinney
Farm Bureau Movement Spreads Across States
The Farm Bureau movement gains support nationwide with government backing. Bureaus pool crops, secure producers’ costs and profits, and allow mortgaging crops if markets fail. The Texas federation plans a 2,000,000 pound wool pool with Houston warehouses and strong county organization.
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Texas Farm Bureau Federation
O. Moser
Houston
Elk Ladies Alter Friday Club Plans At Lodge
Mrs 3. P. Hicks, chairman, says the Elk ladies will not use the local club rooms Fridays as planned but will hold a social afternoon at the lodge on the last Friday of each month with open house for members. At the next meeting on Friday April 20 a 42 tournament will likely be held. no hostesses have been appointed yet.
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Elk Ladies
3. P. Hicks
Ladies
Rob U S Davis Home Robbery Strikes Davis Residence
Thieves broke into the cellar of the A. S. Davis residence on Ft Yamparika Street last night. They carried off fifty to sixty pounds of sugar and a quantity of jellies and preserves despite a recently installed cellar lock. The Davis home had been robbed of preserves about four weeks earlier.
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A. S. Davis
Ft. Yamparika St
Davis
Vernon to Play Childress This Afternoon at Fair Grounds
The local high school faces Childress high school in a baseball game this afternoon at 4 o'clock at the fair grounds. Baird will pitch for Vernon. The Iowa Park game set for Saturday has been canceled at Iowa Park school's request.
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Childress High School
Baird
Vernon
Iowa Park
Farmer Hurd Lives at Home Near Vernon in Wilbarger County
The Record profiles R. J. Hurt a Wilbarger County farmer who lives at home despite scarce money. He sold pork, earned 40.95 dollars from chickens, keeps 90 hens and 200 chicks, plants an orchard and cabbage patch, and cultivates over 17 percent acres with four mules. He paid 200 dollars an acre three years ago and plans to plant the rest of his wet land.
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Mrs. Hurt
Hopkins County
Wilbarger
Hart
Wilbarger County
Two Vernon Young Couples Marry in Electra Weddings
Two Vernon families unite as Miss Dolly Howard and Miss Adeline Donges wed Marvin Rudd and Francis Brown in Electra. Dolly Howard is 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Howard. Adeline Donges is 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Donges. Marvin Rudd, 22, manages Chandler Lumber yard in Mesquite and East Wik barger streets. Francis Brown, recently from Benjamin, worked at Vernon Drug Store run by his brother R. O. Brown. Both couples began romances recently and plan future moves after weddings.
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Dolly Howard
Dre
A. B. Howard
Adam Donges
Electra
Marvin Ravid
Francis Brown
Rudd
Vernon
Texas Woman's College
Marvin Rudd
Chandler Lumber Company
Mesquite
East Wikbarger
Howard
Wichita Falls
Mrs. Brown
Holcomb Training School
Benjamin
Vernon Drug Store
R. O. Brown
Brown
Two Men Kill 507 Rats in One Day Near Vernon
JF. C. Mints and John Larky living twenty miles southwest of Vernon killed 507 rats on the L. A. Foster place aided by two dogs and sticks. They drove rats from hidden places and dispatched them, reporting 758 rats killed in two days.
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JF. C. Mints
John Larky
Vernon
L. A. Foster Place
Mints
Larky
Fifty Eight New Members Signed by Junior Directors
Fifty eight new members were obtained in the drive by the Chamber of Commerce junior directors. W. T. Berry led the effort with the highest percentage, while J. E. Timberlake’s committee finished second. A banquet at Bailey Hotel celebrated the results with approximately fifty attendees and guests from senior and junior boards.
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Chamer of Commerce
W. T. Berry
J. E. Tinberhike
Bailey Lotel
Lecture on Rearing Chicks by F W Kazmeier at Library basement
Poultry specialist F W Kazmeier of Texas A and M College will lecture April 9 to poultry raisers on Rearing Chicks Standard Bred vs Scrubs and Marketing of Eggs. Demonstrations in judging poultry and a Q&A session will follow. The meeting is conducted in the library basement with demonstrations planned for morning visits.
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F. W. Kazmeier
Texas A. and
M. College
Lecti En
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Lakewood
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Beaumont
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Bk. Gibson
The
Highway Association
Electra and
Chillicothe Chambers of Commerce
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Raton
Denver
Galveston
Says
Eyoot Thalin
Banat
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New England
South
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Farm Bureau
Foard County
U. S. Davis
Will
Childress
Stillman
Fareed
Beaunvais
Fred Beauvais
North Woods
James A. Stillawn
New York
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R. D. Hurt
R. J. Hurt
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Hurt
Adeline Donges
Napier
A. A. Thingst
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Bennett
Scott
CL Pace
Io. Hatin Gro
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Youngblood
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Creath-Nicholson Investment Co
Parr Brothers
Vernon Grocery Co
Dove
BE. CO
J. Howard Timberlake
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Melangeli
Creager Stros
Bo Wer Wash
W. C. Alderman
Ti. J. Parker
J. M. Underwood
Minarik and
Mallow
C. R. Holder
Chances Puckett
Curtiss Renfro
BE. L. McCarter
D. M. Hooper
W. W. Snodgrass
Smithson and Lynch
Gum Bros. Co
D's Fixit Shop
Columbia Battery Station
J. C. Gilliland
Mra
Jo H W. Trout
J. J. Murray
J. ¥. Owen
T. Ja Rouse
R. W. Abbott
Davis May
L. M. Lovelace
William Crutchfield
Eggleston
M. A. Battendorf
Service Auto Supply Co
Still
I. M. Anderson
FH. C. Thomas
Eugene Kitz
Verna Lucky
Smith and Vernon
Bh. M. Haney
We PD
Lon Byars
J. L. Sneed
Federated League
Vernon Board of Junior Directors
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