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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1925
Page
8
County census figures show more than 5,000 school age children though many are unreported and duplicated. Superintendent L A Hollar warns that finances depend on complete tabulations and state money. rural areas include about 3,000 children with 2,700 in Vernon.
Lockett school will host a literary program Friday evening April 17 at the school building. Readings short plays and other entertainment will be performed by the student body. This will be the last program before commencement exercises May 14 15 according to Principal B C Bird.
The Friday bridge club will meet Monday afternoon at 8 30 with Mrs Sumner hosting. Mes. doe Sumner will entertain guests in the afternoon gathering.
A move in Parsley school district No 26 to consolidate with Kincheloe is supported by County Superintendent L A Hollardt who plans to leave the first four grades at Parsley. He says consolidation can allow a single teacher to serve the merged school and remove most one teacher schools in the county. Only four such schools remain Wisburger county Parsley Taradise Ronda and Guggishers with three near feasible consolidation opportunities.
Camp Cabell records two new members Dr A R Hays and Th B Thenderson at the regular Saturday gathering in the courthouse. The local camp eyes the annual reunion in Dallas on May 19 with Rev W A Bentley of Abilene to preach at the Oklauni Christian Church Saturday night and Sunday.
Rev. J. L. Moore of the Presbyterian Church of Vernon will deliver the Geneva High School commencement address using Psalm 144:12. B. O. H. Boyd, alumnus and Geneva schools superintendent, requested the address honoring his late father who spoke at the Alabama school forty years ago.
An old cough remedy advertised as Mr Kings New Discovery for Coughs promises rapid relief with a single teaspoonful held in the throat for 15 to 20 seconds before swallowing. The formula is claimed to soothe irritation while loosening phlegm, applicable to coughs bronchitis and hoarseness, with no harmful drugs and priced at a teaspoonful dose.
The figure travels to Ramer to deliver the commencement address at the local school he once attended as a boy, underscoring a hometown connection and returning to his early education roots.
Mr and Mrs W Pryor and Mrs FE McDowell completed a week in Vernon and nearby towns and returned to Amarillo yesterday. Pryor is a traveling salesman for the Westmoreland Company of Amarillo and visited Mrs J E Collins, sister of Mrs McDowell and aunt of Mrs Pryor.
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