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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1919
Page
4
The farmer needs solid roads for hauling to towns and prosperity. Road costs differ: rail 0.88 cents per mile, ordinary US roads 23 cents, Texas roads 43 cents, doubling Texas farmer expenses. Bond-funded road construction, paid by users via annual installments, spreads cost over road life with fairness. Farmers should weigh road costs against bad roads before voting.
Dr John H Stokes of Mayo Clinic Rochester says syphilis among men may reach 10 13 percent and gonorrhea 40 60 percent not unreasonable, calling syphilis one of the most widespread infectious diseases with millions of victims.
Dr Stokes, assistant professor at the Mayo Foundation in Minnesota, writes a non technical guide on today’s world problem of disease prevention. He lends the U S Public Health Service the right to publish the work for venereal disease control nationwide.
The New York Tribune lauds the nations' roles in the war and American mobilization. It notes 2,000,000 in line and 1,200,000 in final engagements, claiming U S power tipped the scales to defeat Germany despite critics who say missteps changed nothing.
Silent prayer and song selections Nos 200 66 and 125 mark a quiet Epworth League program. A devotional reading and ten minute talk by leader Qa Ferguson follows with a special muse The Story of the Lintthewse. Nite Attkisson and Curtis Renfro are listed among participants.
Vernon reports heat and drought with gardens wilting while Route Three residents ask for rain. Adele Sumner travels to Colorado Springs. Captain Claude Adams of Crowell returns from France with the 86th Division. J E Key and son Otho prep shipment to Wichita Falls for new residence as Key, an oil promoter with West Vernon Oil and Burkes Company, remains in oil affairs.
An advertisement from Ady promotes Kramer Studio offering free assistance to improve Kodak pictures. No charges are mentioned for the service.
Washington reports a sequence of warm and storm waves moving from the Pacific to the Atlantic with dates July 13 to 25. Disturbances reach Vancouver July 17 and Newfoundland by July 22, bringing variable rain and heat, with drier spots driven by Atlantic and Pacific moisture sources and the usual mountain barriers.
Mrs. Emma Holcomb departed Tuesday for Canyon to visit relatives, traveling alone and planning a brief family reunion during her trip.
Farmers advised to feed cows Schumacher grass to double milk output. Product available at Brown's in Ady, 50-2te.
Mrs J M Thomas and her daughters Rutye and Marguerite left Wednesday morning for Colorado Springs, Cole, to spend the summer.
A small classified notice offers cash for butter eggs and chickens at the highest market price. It promotes Full O Pep chicken feed from Brown's Ady.
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