West Vernon News and Local Events Highlight Builds and Games
West Vernon reports on a new blacksmith shop and garage being built on West Wilbarger Street near the Fair Park. Hinds teams visit, with West Vernon boys winning 27 to 11 and girls tying 12 to 12 before a 14 to 12 later score. A box supper at the school funds playground equipment and a Christmas tree. Other items include church preaching, births, visits, a piano and plays, a whiskey seizure, and fairgrounds directors meeting with informal talks on sale of land.
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West Vernon
Owen Find
Harris
Weet Vernon
Hinds
West Vernon Boys
Gam
Tve
Dee
West Vernon School
Fair Association
Wilbarger County Fair
The
Haanlier of Commerce
Mrs Roberts travels to Waxahachie then Tahoka visit
By special correspondence from Lockett Mrs EB A Roberts left last Tuesday for a week with her mother in Waxahachie before returning to visit Tahoka and then move there Mr Roberts went to Tahoka G A Glenn father of Mrs L J Lincecum arrived for a visit Rev Edgar Pippin preached at the Baptist church and Sunday school plans a short program.
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Wol. Martin
Ogiharmion
Tawi
Naomi Lincesum
Chil Heathe
Liv
TD RB. Leverett
T. E. Davis
Eunice
Vivian
Clasence McCaleb
Rudolph Hoffman
Jonn Bell Lockett
HW. Cato
Fred Ham
W. L. Martin
Judge Hutt
Vernon
J. G. Church
Oklainton
Lockett
Parsley Pit
Cecil Therp
EB. A. Roberts
Waxahachie
Tahoka
Roberts
G. A. Glenn
Mis
L. J. Lincecum
Mr. Glenn
Snyder
Tex
Edgar Pippin
Baptist Church
the Baptist Sunday School
Colorado Doubles Road Mileage in Seven Years
Colorado shows a dramatic rise in improved road mileage over seven years per a USDA study. From 1914 to 192? improved roads grew from 13,208 miles to about 20,400 miles with total road lengths rising accordingly, graded and drained, sand clay gravel, macadam, and other surfaces. Revenue per square mile stands at about $85.50 with roughly half a mile of road per square mile.
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Colorado
United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers adopt self feeders for hogs in Li after demonstrations
More than 25 000 farmers adopted self feeders for hogs in Li following demonstrations by extension workers, according to a report to the United States Department of Agriculture.
Vernon pioneers recall arrival day in a 1889 memory
Five Vernonites reminisce with Traine about the day 7 landed in Vernon in 1889 and the early days of settlement. The group at Wagoner National Bank recalls weather, hosts, and the initial arrival while a newspaper reporter notes the coincidence of the visit. Miss Memowene Pickering and Mark J. Wright wed at Central Christian parsonage, planning Hannibal, Missouri, after marriage.
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Vernon
Traine
Pom H. Shite
TNS
WO Andersen
Wieder
Thie Tvia
Memowene Pickering
Hamnibal, Mo
Mark J. Wright
Central Christian Parsonage
Hannibal
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Harrold
Madama Alice Saseit
Grand Opera Contralto
Armando Leuci
Miss Margaret Witherstine
Dan
Glo P
Pendleton Music Store
Musician's Club
Yarnon
Vernon Storage Battery Co
TSS
Missouri
Toy
Kansas
Puckett
Anna Q. Nilson
J. J. Manns & Sons
North Main Street
Weite Rose Caaafs
West Side Square
Vernon Electric
James Gardner Rossman
Panvalaine
Marleen
Erona
Marvella
Bolivia
sChanuts
Chanuts
Gauntlett
Boidoir
Nashua
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