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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1923
Page
3
Fragmented listing shows Fort Worth Telegram program items and times, including weather quotes, market quotations, church services, concerts, radio sermons, and community notices. The dense OCR obscures many details, but references to Cotton, Grain, Department of Agriculture, First Methodist, Edward Lisman, Brownwood and Commerce Texas appear.
Notice to parties who have items belonging to me requesting contact via Vernon Tee Cream Faectory and associated stores. Mentions Napier Bros. Motor and new Ford cars added earlier year. Describes unusual accounting and a town limit near Vernon.
Vernon sees visitors from Amarillo and Wichita Falls as residents buy subscriptions and medicines. Local firms Swartwood Co and RB W Drug Store promote goods from collars to prescriptions. Shoppers plan purchases of bridles duck collars and harness gear while notices invite new subscribers for The Dallas News.
Pendleton and Wichita Falls figures attend a Palace theater concert by Vietor artists. Basham of City National Bank of Commerce Vernon visits. Massie of Long Beach, a Vernon business director, also travels through Vernon. Neates Foot offers harness and mass merchandise.
Col C T Herring of Amarillo stays in Vernon for several days visiting his daughter Mrs Les K Johnson. He is an enthusiastic golfer and has appeared on local events. He serves as president of the Herring National Bank.
The First Baptist Church led in attendance with 44 present. The First Methodist, Church of Christ, Central Christian, and Presbyterian reported 471, 145, 1251, and 125 respectively. Total attendance 1224 was slightly below the three month average.
Wired Smith, one year old son of T. B. Smith, is seriously ill with pneumonia at his Vernon home.
Mr and Mrs Walter Rn McCaleb move to a bungalow style home at the corner of Bismore and Antelope streets. Plans echo the California Prize bungalow, and Mr McCaleb intends to enter life insurance sales in Vernon with a major established company.
Friday noon a civet cat trespassed in A. B. Hope's chicken yard on West Paradise street. The animal challenged the man, who intervened with a gun and killed it. No hens were harmed in the confrontation.
Special to The Record from Chillicothe Texas reports Carl Singer, an employee of Mestre Flour Mill, died Friday night after being struck on the head by flying iron when a pipe from the compression tank to the engine exploded last Friday. He was taken to Quanah hospital where an operation was performed in an effort to save his life.
Died without regaining consciousness after the accident. He is survived by his parents, one brother and one sister including Mexdames G. E. Macken and H. Babasin and Misses Mary and Pere Nie Blackrasn.
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