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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1918
Page
8
Ardmore and Fort Worth area items report visits from Miss Bennie Works and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Smith of Fargo. A baby’s illness improves per a Yaklaunion message. Local sales include hog shipments at 15.85 per hundred and property listings for sale or trade near Main Street with several houses and bungalows offered by A. P. Peck Ady.
A Wurlitzer pipe organ has been installed in the Pictorium Theater booth. It can be played by hand or roll and includes flute, violin, stopped diapason, drums, bells, triangle and other effects with a high grade concert piano. The instrument cost 2200 dollars.
H N Norton from Vernon says no local stock losses from the blizzard though cattle suffered. He plans to grow his own meat again next year and may have a few pigs to sell. Neighbors out that way are reducing livestock to a minimal herd, which could push pork prices higher. George Leudtke and R D Besselmen visited from Maple Hill on Saturday.
The article details the president requesting teachers to volunteer for indexing registrants. It lists numerous men ordered to local board for physical examination and outlines further assignments to report on specific days, with many service numbers and names among those notified or scheduled for examination.
Local residents are mentioned visiting towns, returning from Camp Bowie, and taking jobs. J. A. Ammons, Clifford Young, and Romer V. Moore appear with family and employment updates. Real estate and sale listings, millinery purchases, and a carload of cotton seed are noted along with a recovery update on Thomas from a burn incident.
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