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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1918
Page
7
Wednesday proved the busiest day with 105 bales weighed by Bryant’s public weigher. Total fall handling reached 5,675 bales. beat gins reported about 3,500 bales, one gin’s exact figure unavailable. Oklahoma lint gins about 400, others around 850. market quotes at 26 cents per pound, up from yesterday.
Local notices report the burial of T Robinson at Chillicothe after excited illness and pneumonia in his wife Bessie and infant son T L Jr. The family received care from Dr Daniel and relatives. multiple deaths follow amid pneumonia and contagious illness, with community sympathy and ongoing local duties.
The three gins have ginned 1603 bales and 24 pounds by December 11. Local ads from Trevathan's Cash Store promote 25 pound meal at 1.00 and 1.60 on Saturdays and Mondays. Mrs Salena Hammond and Sgt Tammond visit Mrs Manis, mother and brother. Mrs Gaines Sigmar Tanner visits family before Camp Pike transfer.
WANTED By experienced farmer with a large family to rent a farm near Vernon Texas. Will take a mule or milk cow on halves or operate by the month. Address CL Carson care of Tom Metray Re B D No 4 Vernon Tx. We appreciate your trade Come to see us B and W Drug Company Vernon Texas displays ivory items and a line of ivory goods from B W Company Ady She2te
Announcement notes 25 pounds meat for $1.00 available Saturday and Monday at Prevathan's Cash Store. Mentions Lieutenant T. J. Worrell and Mrs. Worrell relocating to Fort Worth from Camp Stanley and Worrell remaining on the reserve list of officers.
County Superintendent N Mulcher announces the compulsory school law becomes effective Monday December 16. Several communities have already announced their implementation dates for compulsory attendance.
Public warned not to trespass on the Watts farm property on the 4th West Highway. No hunting allowed. Violators will be prosecuted.
Legal notices demand publication of a county estate notice for A A Ball deceased with administrator Virginia Tisdaly to sell 97.8 acres in Smith and Hines surveys, described boundaries, reserve one acre for school, terms set for January term 1918 Vernon court. Also a sheriff sale in Vernon by L C Hinckley against Thomas Champion to satisfy a $200 judgment, sale of a three-stone monument marker at Champion Marble Yard on December 24.
An ad-style note warns against abusing laxatives and calomel to force digestion. It promotes Nature's Remedy NR Tablets to balance stomach liver bowels kidneys, improve digestion and biliousness, and offer a money back guarantee through J. HW Pendleton & Son Drug Co in Vernon Texas.
The document commands Florence Carter to appear in Wilbarger County District Court in Vernon on the first Monday in February to answer a petition filed December 10 pointing to a marriage dissolution with James Carter. It details residency, the couple’s Wichita Falls marriage on December 22 and separation July 26, and alleged abandonment plus a $2000 transfer in April 1910 while she was in Belton, Texas.
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