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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1922
Page
8
Ballots for the Saturday July 22 primary were printed today and will be mailed to voting boxes. The 95 names include numerous district candidates and Wilbarger county officials with the pledge to support party nominees.
A multiplace roundup reports a Fort Sill gravel bank collapse killing Lewis Muer sche and injuring three others. Lone trains canceled on the M K & T system affects Wichita Falls routes. Galveston stockman Martin Hain found dead. and Covington exhibition race fatality claims Fernand Clement and Henry Baker amid a crowded scene. Also notes Gainesville death of Mary R. Caldwell, New York restaurant closure conditionally easing liquor rules, and various regional items from Amarillo to Dallas.
Reports from Illinois Missouri South Dakota Nebraska and Kansas describe hail rain and high winds causing widespread property damage and loss of life. A tornado near St Charles South Dakota virtually wiped out a 200 person town. farm buildings and cottages suffered major destruction. Improved rains brought crop benefits in some areas while Missouri and Nebraska rivers rose. Kansas and Iowa faced heavy rain and dangerous weather. A cattle disease appeared in Clay county and an elderly farmer near Jacksonille was killed when struck by a train while crossing tracks.
In Graham a one year old Edward Sanders was found dead in the cemetery beside the Anthony grave as police search links a July Fourth drowning near the Brazos River to a poison bottle and photos of the Anthony sisters. In Mart Texas Fletcher Lambert and Victor Carley died when a smokestack collapsed during work peril three miles from a grieving boy who reported his father’s fall.
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