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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
4
The Vernon Record SEMI-WEEKLY issued Tuesdays and Fridays announces Nichols, Brown & Company as publishers. It is entered in Vernon, Texas as second class mail matter under the act of Congress, March 3, 1878. Subscribers changing address should provide old and new addresses for prompt delivery.
In Vernon the Federated Clubs organized mowing and raking to clear weed jungles after city officials made little progress. Residents note weed heights and spreading seed last summer and fear miasma and disease. The author urges women to devise a plan to keep vacant lots weed free and cover upkeep costs.
The Red Cross will inaugurate Home Hygiene and Nursing courses, stressing continued postwar service. Texas infant and child death tolls prompt urging dozens of counties to enroll, with Public Health Service noting over half could be prevented. The free Red Cross training aims to save lives and reduce family illness.
Fort Worth city commissioners will consider rents received on property when fixing tax values this year. Property owners are accused of profiting from high demand for housing, with officials noting that increasing tax values may not lower rents.
The community would gain additional funds to improve a growing city. Vernon rents are described as potentially unreasonable. The Vernon commission could profitably study the Fort Worth plan. Extra money could be used for worthy purposes including cleaning up North Fannin Street.
The New York Times piece contrasts Bolshevism with the American tradition of self government. It argues that Americans, rooted in Magna Charta and constitutional rights, will resist alien radicalism. The piece asserts that the American system is elastic and adaptable by generation, unlike revolutionary autocracies.
President Wilson asks Congress to authorize a loan of 50,000,000 to Austria Poland and other European nations and Armenia for food relief per Secretary Glass. Glass says the loan is needed to avert actual starvation. In Texas influenza cases total 258 with 221 in Dallas 3 in Waco and 9 in San Antonio. Georgia organizes a Cotton and Exporting Bank of Georgia with 2,600,000 capital to aid marketing and financing.
Subject to the action of the Democratic Primaries on July 24 1920 county officers are named for tax pegs 7 with T. care for public weigher A. F. Ivy.
The Episcopal Diocesan Council at Galveston this week endorsed eugenics and the League of Nations covenant while discussing general church matters. The article notes the Georgia bank stock subscription by bankers and farmers as the state’s cotton crop continues. The Georgia bank is set to join the Federal Reserve system when organized.
Governor W. P. Hobby asked the State Food and Drug Department to use its corps of ten inspectors to assist local officers in enforcing the dry law. The inspectors will render all possible help to uphold Prohibition.
Presbyterian Church notes: Sunday School at 9 45 a m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 p m. Preaching Sundays at 11 a m. and 7 15 p m. Next Sunday preaching at both hours by Pastor Gaines B Hall.
Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 15 p m and preaching each Lord s day at 11 a m and 7 15 p m pastor Tom Walker will fill the pulpit at both hours next Sunday indicating the schedule and minister.
The church announces Sunday School at 9:80 a.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:15 p.m. Sunday preaching at 11:00 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Next Sunday preaching at both hours by Pastor K. R. Bareus.
Central Christian Church offers Sunday School for all ages at 9:45 AM and preaching at 11:00 AM and 7:30 PM by the pastor. Morning theme is Completing our Father's Tasks. Evening hour continues with the same parish program.
Washington reports warm waves hitting Vancouver by February 3, 9, and 15 with rising temperatures across the Pacific slope. Storm waves follow a day later while cold waves trail behind. Disturbances move east in a broad arc from the pole, with electro magnetism tied to Earth’s motion and storms. Forecasts emphasize Vancouver, Rockies, plains, Great Lakes, Gulf states, and Newfoundland into mid February.
The note lists a prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 pm and a choir rehearsal Friday at 7 30 pm led by Pastor John T Bradbury. Strangers and friends are invited to attend. Also mentions a request for clean rags at the Record office and a sick Emerson Hotcomb with a cold. Record subscription payment urged.
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