Lions Club Banquet and Charter Program Delights Vernon
The Vernon Lions held a ladies night and charter presentation featuring Dr J D Parnell of Wichita Falls as guest speaker. The event at Hotel Vernon showcased Lions creed, city progress talks, and entertaining program with music by Goetze orchestra and civic remarks from officials, ending with a celebration of Vernon’s growth and school expansions.
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International Association
Vernon Lions Club
Wichita Falls Club
Booth
Beaumont
J. D Parnell
Wichita Falls
United States
M. J. Moore
Hotel Veron
Velock
Goetze
Harry Mason
T. J. Mims
First Baptist Church
Lions
J. D. Parnell
Vernon
Parnell
New Cotton Exchange Opens Upgrade Market Outlook
The Maginnis cotton exchange opened Monday sparking a rapid price rise of 800 a bale after government reports showed 71.2 percent of normal with 34,802,000 acres and an 11,055,000 bale yield. The exchange offers spots and futures quotes from Liverpool New York and New Orleans plus Chicago grain quotes. Frank Love leads the exchange delivering market service to cotton men and farmers. The exchange closed for a holiday but will reopen with quotations tomorrow. Grain interest grows from Chicago Board of Trade quotes received via the exchange.
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New York
New Orleans
Chicago
Frank Love
Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Four Vernon Men Join In Walkout
Four Vernon men from Frisco and Fort Worth and Denver railroads quit at ten o clock Saturday zero hour. Three from Frisco mechanical division and one Denver yards carman left. no prior demonstration, no expected trouble, officials say operations continue.
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Denver
Vernon
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Round House
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Daylight Robber Steals Narcotics From Vernon Store
Vernon authorities hunted a teenaged suspect after a daylight burglary at Baker Brothers drug store. A quick entry through the back, pried lock, and theft of morphine and narcotics drew a citywide and county search, with the culprit vanishing before capture. Detectives pursue whether the thief was a dope user or a narcotics ring f ron errand.
Maine Youth on Long Hike Stops in Vernon
Charles Morrison 19 of Bridgetown Maine is undertaking a 5000 mile hike from Maine to California along the southern route. He began in March on a wager, aims to finish in six months, and has passed through seventeen states including New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania Ohio and Texas. He traveled via Vernon for a rest stop while seeking conveyance and plans to follow the Bankhead Highway through Texas using a pup tent blanket haversack and canteen for overnights.
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Ohio
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Illinois
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Bankhead
Leghorn Pullet Claims Early Laying Championship
Jd R Messick of three miles south of town reports a White Leghorn pullet that hatched February 15 began laying June 2 at four months old. He believes the Leghorn remains the best general purpose farm breed and is more convinced than ever.
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Jd. R. Messick
Messick
Frank O Neal Case Dismissed Monday
Federal officers failed to link deputy sheriff Frank O Neal to a conspiracy accused after a June examining trial. The case, arising from a Wichita Falls raid that yielded a barrel of whiskey, was continued then dismissed as evidence remained insufficient. O Neal resigned his commission and will resume duties with the sheriff's department. He praised supporters for withholding judgment.
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Frank O'Neal
United States
A. Lantz
Wiehitt
Wilbarger
O’neal
Wichita Falls
Tyler
O'Neal
Ish
Sheriff's Department
Death of J H Grove Former Howard Payne President
Rev L J Mims of this city reported the death of J H Grove former president of Howard Payne college Brownwood Texas occurred early Monday after an operation for hernia ten days earlier Grove had left Brownwood Thursday night after seeming to recover Dr Mims visited him Monday night and Grove died within moments He is remembered as a hard working educator survived by wife Roxie Grove director of music at Howard Payne and Hugh Grove a business man plus two children
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J. H. Grove
Howard Payne College
Brownwood
Texas
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Mims
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Vic
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Howard Payne
Hugh Grove
Vernon Gateway to Pleasure Lake described by chamber official
The West Texas Chamber of Commerce foresees Vernon as a key gateway to a future pleasure lake region. Mc Carter urges plans for a Vernon to lake highway and notes irrigation water will boost local land value. He highlights freight audits, grain rate issues, and a Brownwood meeting on July 10 as pivotal to West Texas growth.
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Commerce
Vernon
Yeeno
McCarter
Wilbarger County
Wilbarger
Take Worth
Port Worth
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
West Texsas
Wheat Belt
Texas
Kansas City
Tt Iw
Chamber of Commercce
West Texas Chamber
Brownwood
Splendid Rains Boost County Crop Prospects
A heavy weekend rainfall across Wilbarger County and lower plains brought one to two inches Saturday night and another shower Sunday, reviving crops and easing drought fears. Farmers report corn and cotton thriving, wheat improved, and harvests likely to be bountiful, with local merchants seeing increased business as rain aid farmers. Roads in good condition despite wet weather.
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Wilbarger
Horney
Virioneiy
Pahoahedle
Electra
Abilene
Tlaskell County
Sermoaur
Burkburnett
Wichita Walls
Lubbock
Libbock
Vernon
Sheriff Ish Seizes Giant Wilbarger County Still
Sheriff Ish and deputies recovered a large copper moonshine still on the Rex Boyd old place near Harreid and displayed the vat on the courthouse lawn for public view. The operator was not captured, and authorities say arrests of the bootleggers continue as they trail the “wet goods” men.
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Downties
Wilbarger County
Court House
Rex Boyd
Harreid
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