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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1918
Page
2
Grady Johnson and a list of corDoral draftees including Earl Wieder anders and Austin A. Donk are named for local Board No. 4 in Dallas. George Carl Pearce slated for spur Board in the draft process.
Mrs. Jesse Dale will instruct a class in home care of the sick at the basement of the Methodist Church. Local physicians approve the course and hope it will train women to take the place of more experienced nurses joining Red Cross war nursing efforts.
J M Underwood reports Youngblood and KS Kelly reached Berthoud Colorado on Friday and prepared for a fishing expedition of three to four weeks. Youngblood remarked on exceptionally good wheat yields with some fields threshing fifty bushels per acre observed during the ascent.
Classified ad notes a new .4-room bungalow on Cumberland Street offered for sale or trade. Seller would consider a small farm in exchange and prefers no large indebtedness. Contact 47-SIP Adv. W. M. Herr.
The BE.T. Murchison Chapter No 24 will hold a regular meeting Friday night to elect officers. Mrs. Rena Watts is noted in the notice.
J E M Hedley arrived in Vernon for the first time since leaving fourteen years ago. He recalls no paved streets or modern conveniences, noting many changes since his Vern on days. Hedley, now living in Norman Oklahoma, visited his brother in Chillicothe.
Rev. ELV. Cox of Texas Woman's College Port Worth reports stronger attendance this year with about 450 students enrolled last session and expects more girls to attend next term.
Clifford Angus Austin Prueti Doves Ridgers and Irvin Kah have Javan given permits by the tovdl exemption board to enlist in either the Navy or the Marine Corps. The youths plan to depart this week to enlist. Rev G C Baumgarter of the Han Ransey Evangelistic Campach left Sunday for Brooming Grove to arrange a cath patign. A Puckett A Duse June McNatt and Ellis Martin went fishing yesterday at Groesbeck Creek.
Local leaders urge Texas to boost self sufficiency by growing and marketing cotton locally while expanding food and feed production. They warn allies and neutral nations will need millions of bales, stressing cooperation among tankers merchants and farmers to avoid cotton crop sacrifice.
Mrs Jesse Dale announces a Vernon class on Home Care of the Sick to help households cope with nurse shortages. Those interested should call for enrollment on Wednesday. Central contact phone is listed as 72.
Classified notice for a shop named One Very Thing Store offering to buy sell and exchange all kinds of second hand goods. Contact phone listed as Si Ite. Local reader ad repeats shop’s service in brief merchant style.
Theaters spotlight Wim S Hart in The Bandit and The Preacher a Western photoplay with Robert Edison Rhea Mitchell and Gladys Brockwell as a tense clash of outlaw and moral preacher. Also Franklin Parnin in The Empty Cab and Pay Day with Sidney Drew offer newsroom realism and melodrama.
Two appliances offered at a bargain price. A five burner oil stove and a SO poud refrigerator are advertised as available in good to excellent condition. Contact Postoffice box 354 for details.
An advice column urges women to improve their stride and avoid corns from high heels. It promotes Freezone as a cheap remedy to remove corns or calluses, claiming it dries and shrivels the corn without skin irritation.
W. S. Lundy returned Saturday from a business trip to Austin. W. H. Anderson and family left yesterday in their automobile for Mineral Wells.
Miss Julia McHugh visits her uncle in Electra. Mr and Mrs G L Ham and Mrs Guy Ham of eeahan visit relatives in the Lockett community.
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