Red Cross Notes Highlight Local Auxiliary Activities
The Odell auxiliary plans a Saturday auction for Red Cross funds with donated ham and eggs. West Vernon junior and senior auxiliaries organize, knitters rush supply, and a large turnout drives surgical dressings. Professor Hollar distributes Junior Red Cross literature as teachers endorse countywide drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odell
Red Cross
J. G. Sherman
L. A. Hollar
Teachers’ Institute
Firemen's Meeting Postponed to 1919 Cuero
Rh D Shive local fire chief reports state president has postponed the firemen's convention for a year due to war conditions. Free transportation is unavailable under railroad director orders and mobilization has taken many men. No meet in 1918. next convention set for Cuero on the second Tuesday in May 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rh. D. Shive
Shive
United States Director of Railroads
Tose
Cuero
Seed Distribution To Wilbarger County Girls’ Clubs
Miss Mary Sue Maddox, home economics demonstrator, sent 200 seed packages to girls in Wilbarger County clubs. Government supplied the tomato and pepper seeds. First year girls received Stone tomato seeds. second year girls received Perfection Pepper seeds and tomatoes. Maddox has 506 membership cards, 116 more than last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Sue Maddox
Wilbarger County
Fargo Church Notice and Local Advertisements
Elder R F Whitaker of Tipton Oklahoma will conduct services at the Church of Christ in Fargo Saturday night He will occupy the pulpit at 11 oclock Sunday and Sunday night All are invited to attend Also notice of local ads including four room bungalow for rent at Key and Wilson sales and visits by local residents with various purchases and items for sale such as a 1916 model Ford car and Edison record list from Vernon Record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. F. Whitaker
Tipton
Local Classified Notices And Advertisements Summary
Various notices and ads include selling chickens to G B Zaehry at Summerour Building and Magi Hair Tonic at Freeman Shirley Barber Shop. Mentions of Ford parts supplier Ferrell Swartwood Co. and Incubator gear by Swartwood Co. Local people Jim Jordan, W W Duke, Charles Francis, and Harper Reed appear with travel and visiting notes. Also references to The Record subscription push and livestock feed trips from Maple Hill, Kansas area.
Local notices and ads blur town chatter in Vernon
Classified fragments show social updates from Mrs Evans in Mineral Wells to Mr Renfro. trips by F J Miller to Lenoir NC. local real estate offers by J A Puckett & Son. announcements of guests at Camp Bowie. carload purchases of beets. and ads for carpet cleaner Dusbane, coffee at White Trose Cafe, poultry netting, and glassware shipments.
Puckett and Son Advertises Extended Mineral Visit
The note mentions J. A. Puckett & Son and calls out various items like cigars and grits in bulk. It records relatives in Harvold wishing well and an extended visit to Mineral, with a farewell that signals travel plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Puckett & Son
Pete Adly
Fete
Well Located Town Properties For Sale Or Trade
A. P. Peck offers a modern cottage with five rooms bath kitchen pantry two blocks from Main Street with sidewalk water sewer and electric lights. Also a nine room house with two acres of ground near town edge and a four room bungalow on the east front. Ady 2-tf.
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A. P. Peck
Chillicothe visitors from Worven on business
Mr and Mrs Lloyd Paynes accompanied by Mrs Wo Pd Horne and Mrs Wood all from Chillicotte were in Worven Friday on business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Paynes
Wo Pd. Horne
Wood
Chillicotte
Worven
White Rose Cafe Adverts Son of Orr Hit by Sickness
An item from Adv Dette Key notes Jesse Orr, youngest son of O L Orr, is ill with an unspecified illness prompting local concern and a cafe promotion at White Rose Cafe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Rose Cafe
Dette
Key
O. L. Orr
Jesse
Canned okra and tomatoes offered by local stores
Canned okra complements canned tomatoes at two local shops. J A Parkett & Son and Cheate Ady advertise the produce at 20 cents per quart, highlighting affordable canned vegetables for households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Puckett & Son
J. A. Parkett & Son
Cheate Ady
Pierce Returns From Dallas Fort Worth And Chico Trip
TL concluded a Dallas Fort Worth and Chico visit Sunday where he conducted business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Dallas
Fort Worth
Chico
Riddle of Chill and Football Plans Named in Vernon Record
The Record notes Mry. aid Mes and Wo M. Riddle of Chill cothe were in Vernon Friday. It reports I. M. Leutwyler and Beldon Matthews visiting Wichita Park Sunday and mentions Ferrell Swartwood Co at North Main offering the area’s largest stock of word parts west of Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford
Fort Worth
Ferrell- Swartwood Co
North Main
Ferrell Swartwood Co
M. Riddle
Chillcothe
Vernon
I. M. Leutwyler
Beldon Matthews
Wichita Park
Funeral service held for Jromter’s only son
Elder Boy BE Walthice attended the funeral Saturday in Elee tra for the only son of Mrs. B. M. Jromter, with family and local mourners in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. Walthice
Eleetra
B. M. Jromter
Edwards Plans Crowell Payment for 15,000 Home
Be lowers traveled to Crowell to make a payment related to securing a new 15,000 dollar home for R. B. Edwards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. Lowers
Crowell
R. B. Edwards
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
West Vernon
Belgium
Fargo Church
Porrent
Key & Wilson
T. A. Grogan
Chillicothe
J.G. McCarroll
Brownwood
B. & W. Drug Co. Ady
A. J. McNeill
Bellevue
Edison
B. & W. Drug Co
Ben Scheluchin
la Grippe
J. A. Ayers
Margaret
Scottsville
Kentucky
Eunice Wilson
Adg
G. B. Zaehry
Summerour Building
Freeman-Shirley
Sue Withers
H. A. Withers
Wichita Falls
W. F. Barnes
Maple Hill
Smith’s
Hotel Vernon
Freeman-Shirley Farber Shop
North Main Street
Jim Jordan
Ragland
Wim. Cameron & Co
W. W. Duke
Kirkland
Uncle Sam
Pendleton & Son's
Clarence McGill
Camp Bowie
Swartwood & Co
Ady
J. T. Brown
Memphis
Wellington
Lockhart
M. G Neathery
G. M. Whitehurst
Mr. Whitehurst
Freeman-Shirley Barber Shop
North Mai Street
M. G. Neathery
Charles Francis
Town
Harper Reed
Mr. Reed
Mrs. Francis
Atomy
Texas
J. R. Renfro. Ady
Hells
Zachry
F. J. Miller
Lenoir
N. C
Ness
A.T. Raghand
Graham and Mineral Wells
Vernon Record
Kansas City
J. A. Probst
Erin View
Crayson County
Pretmonda
Pauline Abbott
J. 2
Meta Ayers
Dusbane
Adv
Mary Lyn Walker
Altus
Okla
J. R. Jones
McArthur Building
South Court Square
Wright's
Puckett’s
Gladys Tah
Ht. 1. Guthrie
Swartwood & Co. Adv
Mrs. J. 8. Haynes
M. G. Neanthory
Rowhard
Bisbee, Ariz
Lome
Harvold
J. L. Murray
Dolieon
Trevathans
States Food Administration
J. A. Puckett
Ben
Aily
Sewall
Tolbert Lumber Company
T. H. Chancy
Tolbert, Texas
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