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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1918
Page
5
Rev Ham preaches that love is the supreme force guiding Christians and tempering tempers. He cites Paul and personal testimonies, urging daily scripture reading, prayer, and family harmony to convert hearts and influence communities in Wilmington and Vernon.
I Z Vitamons of the State Department of Education spoke in Vernon about a million dollar rural school appropriation and war training in public schools. State Superintendent W F Doughty was named Federal Agent to supervise war training. schools urged to support Red Cross work Liberty Bonds thrift stamps and food and fuel conservation.
The Department of Agriculture cuts its forecast for the 1917 crop by 40 million bushels due to unfavorable June weather. Corn leads a record outlook with 8.16 billion bushels, while barley oats white potatoes and rice also exceed prior records. Wheat remains above the five year average but the overall crop prospects include revised estimates across multiple provisions and farm stocks.
The report lists initial production figures for corn, white and sweet potatoes, tobacco, and rice. It also gives July 1 condition percentages for winter and spring wheat, all wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, potatoes, tobacco, rice, hay, apples, and peaches, indicating varied deficits and near normal levels across crops.
Walter Thompson writes to his father from Camp Mills after leaving Camp Bowie praising the Red Cross. He describes traveling through Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Tennessee Indiana Canada New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania by rail and steamboat with four days of travel. He notes Red Cross postcards ice cream cake and cigarettes given at each stop and praises the officers and hosts. He mentions another son who has been notified to appear before the authorities.
Mrs Covey of Oklahoma District was in Vernon Saturday. Mr Covey has returned from College Station where he studied agriculture. He has resigned the Oklainion school principalship and will teach at Penelope in Hill County next year. Miss Movelle Parker and Hyacinth Yeal returned Sunday from Snyder Oklahoma where they attended a house party and also visited Frederick Oklahoma.
Exemption Board on July 25 notes the youngest son in Oklahoma, registered June 5, now of majority since first registration, has been notified to expect a call at an early date.
Mrs P Lod Carpenter returned Sunday from visits to Beeville San Antonio and Dallas. The trip covered several Texas cities and was reported in brief local notice.
A brief OCR fragment shows a sequence of decimal numbers 1.15 1.35 1.45 1.85 2.35 2.65 2.95 followed by a lone a. The readable portion suggests a data row or measurement series rather than a complete article.
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