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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1918
Page
1
The Local Board in Wilbarger County outlines which jobs count as non productive and lists excuses for idle time. It urges registrants to consult the board if unsure and to report any idle or misclassified workers, stressing enforcement of the new rules with common sense and sympathy.
Rev Ham denounces traitors to God as despicable while examining Samson’s biblical career. The sermon highlights idol worship, disobedience, and misuse of gifts, noting Samson’s rise and fall from promise to ruin and warning Christians against profaning divine endowments.
Trustees announce Guggisberg district will start July 15 and Paradise district August 5 for two month terms. Schools recess until fall to accommodate farm work. Miss Dilen Hix will teach Guggisberg, starting July 15, after Denton summer studies. Miss Mary Weatherall will lead Paradise starting August 5 after graduating locally.
J. P. Bennett, two miles west of Vernon, visited town Wednesday and announced ripe watermelons cantaloupes and peaches within ten days. He says his fruit trees were only lightly harmed by worms though wind broke some limbs.
City youth held a thirty minute prayer service in the Methodist church basement on Wednesday night. Services will be held nightly at eight o'clock for the Ham Ramsey meeting duration. The schedule allows attendees to go directly to the tabernacle after the service.
County Superintendent L A Hothir announces state aid applications for Wilbarger County rural schools for next year. Trustees must file contracts with teachers and apply promptly. aid amounts will be determined after August 1 by the State Board of Education and State Superintendent. Last year 22 schools received 9275 in total state aid, with most getting 3500 each and one school receiving 200.
E F Piper received a letter from his nephew Tom Piper saying he is in New York bound for France. He serves in a Medical Field Artillery company.
Vernon readers describe a rapid harvesting effort as businessmen strip 115 acres of dirty cotton in five days. County agent N. Ro Visdad notes progress with daily tallies, naming workers including Frank Murchison and J. W. Brock, among others, as crews push through the fields.
Judge McHugh announces farmers actively engaged in cropping will be excused from juror summons for the county court on Monday. He says food and feed production for the war effort justifies relief and that others can be found to serve on the jury.
Judge E L McHugh will hear jury cases in the county court next week as this week is devoted to non jury matters. The court expects to continue for three weeks if necessary.
Lieutenant Clyde Young, tied to France front reports via his mother, describes bombing inland German towns from airfields near Chermans. He recounts dropping tons of bombs and firing thousands of machine gun rounds, noting a nearby downed plane after handing over to a successor. He expresses pride in American air power and mentions plans to return to Tours, France.
Chief Yeoman Joe Gann U S Navy spent a few days in Vernon with relatives and friends then departed Monday night for Marlin for a short stay He has been a patient at the Naval Hospital New Orleans and received a 25 day sick leave On return to New Orleans he will be assigned to duty aboard a new destroyer for overseas service to hunt U boats His sister in law Mrs W B Eddins accompanied him as far as Marlin.
H C Colbert brought a large cotton ball to the Record office on Wednesday. He expects the cotton to be ready to pick within a fortnight. Colbert owns about fifteen acres of this field and another similar tract. He notes worms have not bothered the crop, attributing it to weed control and regularly cutting grass at the row ends. Colbert has walked his cotton five times.
Claude Bennett, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bennett, came home Wednesday from Dallas where he went to enlist as an apprentice seaman in the United States Navy. His father awaits orders without a definite call date.
Wilharger county provides 122 of Texas 8700 white volunteers for Camp Travis during a five day period beginning July 22. Preparatory notices go to Class One men as the local Board believes enough to fill the quota. Twenty-three men depart on the noon train tomorrow as part of about 1000 sent to Fort Sam Houston.
Miss Opal Lorena King twelve year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe King died Tuesday after an appendectomy. Funeral services were conducted by Rev Tom Kay at 5 pm Wednesday at Mrs Mary Berry’s residence on North Mesquite Street with interment at East View Cemetery. Her father works at Hampton Metal and Plumbing. Relatives Phillip and Newth Durham and families attended. The Record extends sympathy to the family.
W H Huggins visited Wichita Falls to bid farewell to his brother Joe W Huggins of Childress who is enlisting in the Sixty third Engineers railway division at Fort Benjamin Harrison Indianapolis Ind Joe W Huggins a partner in Huggins Andrews of Childress was employed in the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway dispatch office in Wichita Falls for years before moving to Childress He was above the draft age.
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