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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1918
Page
1
The Texas Food Administration begins releasing households from voluntary wheat saving pledges while maintaining the half and half rule. Bakers must continue using at least 25 percent wheat substitutes in victory bread. A fish consumption campaign aims to boost domestic intake and reserve beef for Europe.
A Dodge driven by W M Thompson overturned at Main and Paradise streets around 8:30 AM. The car veered onto the curb and toppled onto its side in front of the Baptist church but occupants including two young ladies and Thompson escaped injury. A rear wheel lost all spokes and a front axle was sprained. The vehicle was righted by onlookers.
At the K T Murchison Chapter 424 O E S meeting in the Masonic Temple at 8:30 PM Monday, officers were installed including Mrs J G Sherman worthy patron L F E Kester worthy patron Mrs J A Lucky associate matron and other posts. Star points appointed Ada Ruth Martha Electra with D H Henry D P Sink Jr and EB Leutwyler missing two members present for the ceremony.
Judge E L McHugh states several candidates have not filed their expense accounts for the Saturday primary. The law requires these accounts be filed within ten days after the primary.
Wichita man Charles Bialkowsky wins contract to build two stores in Vernon replacing existing brick walls with a 60 by 110 foot Perkins Timberlake unit and a 30 by 110 foot Woolworth store. Both will feature modern basements, plate glass fronts, and Woolworths design from their own architect.
Elbert Griffiths, age nine, invested in War Savings Stamps earning $15 from summer cotton chopping. He donated every dollar to the war effort and saved for his future. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Perry Griffiths of Cumberland Street and is praised as a patriot by friends. He later bought $16 more in War Savings Stamps before school closed.
Revival services at Wildeat ended Sunday with Rev. L. B. Tooley of Estelline preaching and many conversions each service. No service Thursday night due to draft orders sending many young men away. parents were expected to want time with their sons.
Registrants of Class 1 embrace daily drill after Tuesday start by the Board of Instruction. Over fifty men attended Wednesday practice and more sought sessions Thursday morning. Men of draft age join selective service recruits, with some having sons in service, as county residents are urged to participate.
J. T. Brown left Vernon to settle in Tacoma taking a Hupmobile on a 2800 mile trek in thirteen and a half days. He reports rain through Colorado Wyoming Utah and half of Idaho with the car breaking no records yet. He praises wheat yields of forty five to sixty bushels per acre and alfalfa at two to three tons per cut, and says apples cherries and berries are exceptional. Brown aims to keep pace with Wilbarger county friends upon return.
G B Newton of Odell will not enter the second primary against W W Matthews. N R Heath, county chairman, conveyed the advice. The second primary includes Matthews for public weigher precinct 7. The only county office is tax collector with Blair and Whitesides in a runoff. Nabers and Cocke Jr for district judge. Parrish and Spencer vie for congressional honors. State posts include lieutenant governor attorney general comptroller and criminal appeals judge and possibly railroad commissioner.
The Local Exemption Board was notified that the thirteen men needed for Camp Cody in Deming New Mexico have been canceled. Registrants from Class of 1918 were summoned to entrain between August 5 and 10, but no reason was given for the change. Major Townes requests counts of remaining 17 registrants in Class 1 as only three are available and all are excused temporarily.
T. H. Hudspeth departed for El Paso today after finishing his portion of the new city directory. E. A. Scott is canvassing the residential district to compile the book, and information for the county directory listing all taxpayers outside Vernon is in. Hudspeth says the directory will be ready for delivery later this month.
Professor W G Shipp, principal of the local high school, is due back in Vernon about August 20 after a summer of work at the University of Texas. He is currently at his old home in Greenville.
Charles A. Gloyna, living southwest of Vernon, says a timely rain could push his cotton to a bale per acre. He explains moisture-conserving cultivation, thin planting, and diligent care have left his crop with good seed yield.
Temporary structures are up and materials are gathered as a prelude to the Northwest Texas Insane Asylum project in Wichita Falls. Attorney General B F Looney sits on the locating board and has been in the city for several days.
Vernon will adopt lightless nights next Monday under a national fuel conservation order effective July 24. Non essential lights including storefronts, signs, and exterior building lights must be extinguished with only minimal street lighting for safety. Each violation is Waste. Texas officials report actions to Garfield.
Leonard Wright, seventeen, son of J B Wright, died yesterday morning in Bowie. He recently moved from Vernon with his family and had worked nearby before relocating on July 21. A Vernon Record note that he was a local high school sophomore last year and left many friends behind.
Arthur P. Denton of Dallas John Ryan and T. J. Von Zubin of Fort Worth visited Vernon Thursday to inspect Main street concrete paving laid over three years ago during J. and Sewell’s mayoral term. They unanimously pronounced it the best they have ever seen.
Harold Brelsford formerly employed at the Denver depot received release from the local Exemption Board to join the navy. He is at Fort Worth recovering from surgery to remove a physical disability. Brelsford, initially classified II on his railroad claim, waived the deferred status.
J. and Love returned home Tuesday night after six months away while operating a threshing machine near Fairmont Oklahoma east of Enid. Love reports abundant rains in that section and crops looking fine.
The county has raised 859,065.04 in War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps from December 1917 to August 1 1918. Vernon post office collected 54 145.04 of the total, with 4 919.97 moving to the national treasury via other offices. June proved the record month with 30 217.50 from 6 830 War Savings Stamps and 6 946 Thrift Stamps. The total pledged across Texas remains far above Wilbarger totals, and officials expect all pledges will be fulfilled as crops come in.
W A Bruce brought in a ball of cotton showing a two inch staple and fair texture to demonstrate that cotton picking time is near. Bruce owns a small field to the west of town and expects readiness soon.
Ty J Summerour returned from Fort Worth with a carload of Duroe Jersey hogs. Hogs weighed 165 pounds each and brought top market rates at 19.80 per hundredweight, signaling a strong price for light hogs.
J Ray exemption board names Chaley J Ray as chairman of the Potter County Exemption Board. Ray formerly owned a business in the county and takes the lead role in administering local tax exemptions.
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