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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
1
The Vernon Record partners with Renfro Hardware to give away Princeton bicycles to Willarger county youths. Any boy or girl who subscribes to thirty five yearly copies wins a bicycle with no strings or age limit. An exhibition bicycle will be shown at the Record office before countywide displays.
Paying work on Vernon streets proceeds steadily with two crews active. One crew pours concrete on South Main for about a week while another grades Fannin Street. Additional paving is planned for South Main Texas Panhandle Cumberland and Pease streets.
Dr. E F Lyon pastor of the First Baptist Church has been asked by Dr George Truitt to fill the pulpit at the First Baptist Church in Dallas next Sunday morning and night. No preaching services will be held at the local church during those hours.
Engineers have sounded Red River windows preparatory to building a toll bridge at the Lee Highway crossing between here and Davidson. Construction is expected to start next week under County Engineer John Nabers. Funds and timing hinge on a ruling by the attorney general and the toll partnership of J A and J J Staley of Wichita Falls, who aim to finish by October 1.
Frisco Railway officials announce a schedule change per local agent C J Slaten. The morning train due to depart at 6 50 will leave Safelock at 8 00 a m for public accommodation. The Denver train arriving at 2 30 p m will transfer passengers to the local between 7 and 8 a m. Trains will arrive as usual at 2 p m and 5 p m.
Miss Catherine Pierce spends the summer at Camp Cohechee near Friberg Maine. The camp, established by Ward Belmont College, serves as a girls camp. She travels from heat to New York City and will teach violin at Howard Payne College in Lafayette Missouri next term.
Construction starts Tuesday on a community social center near the Frisco round house. Eight Local Carpenters Union members work free of charge to complete the building, expected this week at a cost slightly over 2000 dollars. It will serve as the Union Sunday school meeting place and reflects broad town church support.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Coleman who live three miles west of Vernon. The baby was eight days old and burial followed at East View Cemetery.
In the second week of county court and first with a jury, Judge J W Townsend reports no important matters before the court. The court will reconvene next week with a jury.
Mr and Mrs N I Sleath left yesterday for an indefinite trip to eastern points. They go from here to St Louis for business then visit his sister in Chicago before returning via Detroit to Vernon. They plan to buy an automobile and drive home.
Miss Mary Barnett is recovering from injuries after a car struck a truck she rode on Friday night. She was thrown from the truck and badly bruised. the other riders were unhurt.
Wilbarger county delegates to the State Farmers Short Course will be chosen tomorrow afternoon in the auditorium of the library. Local clubs will send four girls and two poultry club members to vie for representation at A and M College July 27 to August 1. Judges listed include Bert Bates and others. winners receive free trips. Local fundraising plans will be set, and the county teams are praised for recent activity despite heat.
Voris Spears, a child visiting relatives, was struck and knocked unconscious by a moving car on Texas street. The injury caused a brain concussion and bruises, keeping her unconscious for several hours. she later regained consciousness and was recovering.
White, confined at home with a broken leg, is recovering after a scuffle with Scott Hall in front of the City Drug Store. He stepped back onto the curb and fell, fracturing the right leg above the instep. he will stay in his rooms for about a week.
Deputy game warden W A Ish warns dove hunters they face enforcement of the law as the season opens September 1 and reports of early shooting. He also notes reports of quail killings and will use stringent measures.
Mrs. Vallie Garlington of Vaughn New Mexico daughter of WG Meg Deomild died at Las Veras Svew Mesios Wednesday morning. Funeral services were held from the home of an uncle dH Median Quanah yesterday afternoon by Rev. J. A. Storey and interment was in a cemetery beside her husband who died years ago. She is survived by a son Hebert, a sister Mrs Krauktaurd of Marion Ohda and a brother Stanford Wihalley of Cafadian with other relatives.
The infant son of Mr and Mrs Carl Lowke of Lockett was buried Wednesday afternoon in the Lutheran cemetery. Funeral services were conducted by Rev M Hennenior pastor of the Lockett Lutheran church. The brief notice records the family loss and burial details.
J C Sherrard shows two noted agricultural experts he can grow corn and cotton in Wilburger County without outside advice. He reports twenty acres of corn yielding high, thirty acres of oats headed out, and two hundred acres of cotton with promising prospects for a bumper crop if rain comes. Sherrard explains success stems from Borland bend guidance and seed selection, while noting plans to harvest soon as he travels for a few weeks.
Oil activity surged in Wilbarger County as Atlantic OW reports striking Sigler sand in No 1 Sigler 400 feet north of the discovery well. Bridwell Hendrick reports 2800 foot pay on two wells, plus multiple new locations from Landreth Production and others. Drilling continues across sections 46 to 53, with several wells at depths around 1200 to 1800 feet and ongoing underreaming and drifting.
Dr Bacon Saunders a renowned surgeon of Fort Worth and Vernon circles died in Colorado Springs after ten months of illness. He was seventy and well known to Vernon residents for professional work. Funeral plans indicate services in Fort Worth shortly.
Mrs. M. A. Dixon left Tuesday in response to a report that her father, Plutchingen of Springtown, had fallen and broken his hip. The father lost his critical condition on account of age and it is feared he may not recover.
Fragmentary listing shows market items and prices including eggs per dozen wheat per bushel and cotton middling per pound with incomplete entries and unclear figures. The readable items name eggs wheat cotton and turkeys among other commodities.
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