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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
5
Judge E L McHugh reports a second $500 drought relief fund check received for running expenses and new loans to farmers. The first $500 arrived late September. Applicants may obtain printed forms at the county clerk’s office. loans of about $20 will be issued and repaid as soon as practicable.
Local notes from Red Bluff and Vernon detail social visits and letter news. W J Jordan shows improvement from influenza. J W Adams learns from France. W W Welch’s pastor marriage listed. many families visit and attend church while schools make up days.
Elliott Dec 18 All churches held Sunday School for the first time in weeks due to sickness. No new influenza cases locally. Houtchins family in Burkburnett sick. Mrs Houtchins seriously ill. Mason family recovering. Greenwood family visiting Hutchins in Alvord. Lower grade teachers plan a holiday program and Christmas tree before Friday recess. Hollar and Jowers shopped Vernon. Boaz hosted singing. Smith family moved to northeast Electra. Downs to occupy former home. Husett expects rain aiding grain growers.
The Woodmen Circle held its regular meeting on Thursday December 12 electing officers including Mrs Anna T L Randall as Past Guardian Mrs J W McCrary as Guardian Mrs Geo Robinson as Adviser and Mrs W Witty as Clerk Also naming Miss Ethel Lancy Attendant and Mrs Dale Shive as Banker The slate includes chaplain inner sentinel outer sentinel trustees Grove Physicians and the Drill Team captain with R W Hix listed as BOM and Messrs Rogers Crim as managers and others in attendance.
The church announces weekly services with Sabbath Bible School at 1 PM and preaching at 11 AM. Night services follow at 7 PM. Worship with HW BE STUBBS, Pastor.
Mrs. J B Floyd received a message that her sister Miss Lucy S Flynt arrived safely overseas. Flynt sailed from New York on November 28 and was a nurse in Camp Logan before sailing. Floyd’s brother Private R T Flynt reached France in September but no word since a letter from Paris Island notes his arrival.
Rainfall on Wednesday night and Thursday in Vernon totals one and a quarter inches. December rainfall to date reaches one inch five eighths after priormeasurements. Wheat conditions in Texas are reported at one hundred percent by the U S Department of Agriculture.
W M Thompson traded his fifty acre West Vernon farm to Will Cook for Cook’s East Vernon residence. Thompson says the move will place him nearer town for easier access for him and his family. An old paper ad excerpt notes low egg prices and a drug store promotion at Pendleton & Son with a free hot coffee event next Friday afternoon.
Help V Laundry offers advertising appeal for Empire Laundry with notes on dry cleaning services and promotions. Pendleton and Son's Drug Store sells cut glass at low prices while Weip is asked to apply to the Empire Adv. and suggests sending clothes to dry cleaning with phone number 205.
Herring Bennett notes a ready supply of the real old Niggerhead coal so buyers should act fast. The item appears in a compact Vernon scene with Judge lL W. Allred of Chillicothe visiting Vernon on business Wednesday.
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