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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1922
Page
3
Trinity University Male Quartet from Waco will perform at First Presbyterian Vernon. The four earnest singers blend well with clean comedy and engaging program, entertaining audiences with encores. Admission is free. a free will offering will be collected.
Foster's Bulletin from Washington warns of a major drought within three years affecting a large North American region and several key crops. It predicts July droughts in South America mirroring American January droughts, cites misleading government crop reports, and urges farmers to protect seed and labor for sowing while noting varied regional harvest prospects and weather patterns.
The Bureau of Public Roads and USDA tested mixing cement with adobe soil in Solano County California to improve road subgrades. In 6 to 12 inch depths, cement to soil ratios of 1:10 and 1:20 reduced shrinkage cracks, though not creating a concrete surface. Additional trials and cost data will follow.
A Studebaker light six driven by J. Williams of Nanticoke Pa becomes first vehicle to summit Tillsbury Knob near Nanticoke Luzerne County in a perilous ascent along a foot path. The car, after reaching the 700 foot peak, stayed on summit for a week with headlights lit, then descended by challenging route.
Bertha Ross recalls a July Fourth at Wanderers Creek near Chillicothe in Hardeman County. Cowboys, fifty miles from a fiddler, danced to Cotton Eye Joe as a long celebration unfolded with flag raising, speeches, and prizes from six shooters to horses, ending with the Star Spangled Banner uplifting settlers in the buffalo country.
The cemetery association will meet in the Carnegie Library Wednesdays afternoon at 4 welock. Members are asked to attend.
Camp Cabell U C V No 125 Virginia City VA adopts resolutions thanking Cotton Belt Railroad for two cent per mile travel rates to Richmond for Confederate veterans and praising Captain John K Lehane and Gus Hover for their courteous protection during the reunion journey.
GT Davenport of the Wesley Chapel community ten miles south of Vernon visited the Record office to share news of a grand Sunday school picnic and basket dinner scheduled at Wesley Chapel on Friday.
Friends from nearby communities gather for a day of pleasure with candidates speaking. A big pot event is planned, promising a good time for all. Attendees from across the center bring baskets while ice cream and drinks are sold to fund a Sunday school wagon fund.
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