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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1921
Page
11
County officers uncovered a whiskey still about eight miles below Rock Crossing on Beaver Creek. Five barrels of wash were found and destroyed. three armed men were questioned and released for lack of decisive evidence. Sheriff Ish vowed to continue crackdown on bootleggers in the county.
Vernon resident Mrs J J Strickland reports severe back and kidney pain from a kidney disorder. She says after using Doan's Kidney Pills she recovered and her kidneys stayed in good order, praising the remedy and recommending neighbors try it.
The notice calls for musicians singers readers entertainers dramatic talent lecturers platform managers juvenile workers storytellers tent crews and agents for next season. Promises good salaries and travel across the United States Canada Alaska New Zealand Australia and England. A free list of chautauqua managers and booking agents is offered to anyone sending the president secretary and treasurer details of local cautat qua to The Billboard in Chicago. Also reports travel of Aly Parwin Haney and Ror Gennett to Haskell county and visits by Mrs KE Alexander and Misses Pauly and Vesver Fitzgerald with brief local travels and departures in Oklahoma and Vernon.
The Holcomb Training School in Vernon began seven years ago in an abandoned church at Mesanife and Wichita Streets and grew from a small commercial offerings to a full program including public school courses. Under principal B F Relcomb and staff including Mrs M V McDougal and Ida Baker, it expanded to high school and commercial training, remodeling the former Westbrook residence into a modern one room schoolhouse with growing enrollments and local demand.
The second floor houses care for nine students and spacious first floor recitation rooms. The past year is called the banner period for the institution with 107 attendance. 167 attended the proceeding year. Thirty students enroll in the summer Training School course ending soon. Staff includes B F Holcomb superintendent and math science instructor, Mrs M V McDougal history English instructor, M V McDougal bookkeeping and trust ness administration, O A Yaexsen bookkeeping and business administration, and Emerson frotcomb shorthand and English. Primary work last year was led by Miss Verdan teCartey. Mr and Mrs Wy O Haney returned Saturday from a visit to points below Knox City.
Young Methodists invite Siemodist Church members to Ta’elock church Saturday evening for a watermelon feast with a promised abundance of melons. Piano tuning offered for $10 reward and free work if not brought to first mass condition. piano repairs and tuning emphasized.
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