State and County Tax Rate Reduced Five Cents This Year
Texas finances show state and county general levy cut to 1.05 per $100 valuation from last year’s rate. Automatic Tax Board sets general tax at 30 cents, school 20, pensions 5. losses from prohibition and liquor taxes contribute to the overall deficit. Galveston and Paris storm damage relief noted. Wilbarger County rate fixed at 50 cents with subdivison tweaks.
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Galveston County
Lamar County
Paris
Corpus Christi
Terrell
Drouth
Wilbarger County
Odell
Farmers Valley
Plans for Flashing Election Returns at The Record
The Record announces plans to flash state and local election returns on a front-yard screen tomorrow night with a Sunday extra for full county results. Judges urged to count quickly and telephone results to The Record to aid rapid public display. Public cooperation requested to avoid delays and noisy demonstrations.
Marrs couple drive to Denver after Oklahoma visit
Col. and Mrs. E. W. Marrs of Okmulgee Oklahoma traveled to Denver in their car after spending a week with Col Marrs sister Mrs. J N Johnson who joined them for the Colorado trip.
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Col
E. W. Marrs
Okmulgee
Okla
Denver
Col. Marrs
J. N. Johnson
Johnson
Colorado
Cureton Visits Vernon As AG Candidate
C M Cureton assistant attorney general arrived Vernon from Amarillo as a candidate for attorney general. He authored the Loyalty Law and Zone Law and defended major cases including the Zone Law Highways Commission Suit and Shreveport Rate Case. He served in the 1st and 32nd legislatures and backed key reforms. He went to Quanah last night and will return to Austin today.
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C. M. Cureton
Vernon
Amarillo
Cureton
Highways Commission
Shreveport
Quanah
Austin
Electric Motors Installed at Kell Mill and Vernon Oil Mill
The Texas Public Service Company installed a thirty horsepower electric motor at Kell Milling Company on Monday and has a contract to install another same size motor at the Vernon Cotton Oil Mill. The motors supplement existing steam equipment to ease load.
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Texas Public Service Company
Vernon
Kell Milling Company
Porterfield Elected Principal of Haulk School
H L Porterfield chosen as principal of Haulk School to succeed H M Lowe. Lowe will teach in Archer County. Porterfield will assist her husband and previously taught at Okla inton before resigning to become a rural mail carrier.
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H. L. Porterfield
Haulk School
H. M. Lowe
Lowe
Archer County
Porterfield
Oklainton
Vernon City Directory prep and local oil drill activity described
The Vernon directory project by Trudspeth Directory Co Inc of El Paso aims for a 1918 edition with a county taxpayer list prepared by J W Brock and a residence canvass led by E A Scott. Separate notes describe Memphis Oil Co drilling near Mlectra, with leases at 400 to 700 per acre and a Reeder place well near Electra expected to reach 1200 feet as fall drilling picks up in the Vernon area.
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Vernon
Chambers of Commerce
Wilbarger County
J. W. Brock
E. A. Scott
Youngsters Shine in Hug gins Studio Piano Recital
Ten summer term pupils of the Hug gins Studio performed a Monday piano recital on West Paradise Street. Attendees praised the instructor’s work as exceptionally good. The six week term featured many under ten performers led by six year old Snell Powell and included Charles Blair Zora Clark Vic McDowell Thelma Sherrill Lucile Estes Eula Mae Cooper Elwood Scherer Bertrand Lisman Kathleen Batchelor and Frances Collins.
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Huggins
West Paradise Street
Little Snell Powell
Snell Powell
Charles Blair
Zora Clark
Vic McDowell
Thelma Sherrill
Lucile Estes
Worrell Visits Vernon En Route to West Texas
Lieutenant T. J. Worrell former assistant state veterinarian now in government service at Fort Worth visited Vernon on Wednesday and Thursday as a guest of Dr. E. B. Jones. He was en route to points in West Texas.
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T. J. Worrell
Fort Worth
Vernon
Worrell
West Texas
New Members for Council of Defense Named
Six members join the Wilbarger county Council of Defense L K Johnson F L Massie A H Murchison L Smith T H Shive and L G Hawkins bringing total to thirteen with seven existing members W O Anderson T Smith J T Williams N R Tisdal J A Birdsong Dr J Dodson and R E Nichols W Anderson named chairman and R H Nichols secretary The council will reorganize at a courthouse meeting next Monday night A campaign will launch to organize community Councils of Defense in school areas.
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Wilbarger County
W. O. Anderson
T. Smith
J. T. Williams
N. R. Tisdal
J. A. Birdsong
Dr. J. #. Dodson
R. E. Nichols
W. ©. Anderson
R. H. Nichols
Red Cross
Liberty Loans
War Savings
Community Councils of Defense
Murchison Chapter to Install Officers Monday Night
The FE. T. Murchison Chapter No. 424 O. B. & ., will hold a Monday night meeting to install its officers.
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FE. T. Murchison
Federal Food Man Investigates Flour Sale Case
District Food Administrator B F Johnson investigated a suspected violation of U S Food Administration regulations tied to a flour sale by Trevathan store to M r Staley. Officials found no intentional violation, but ordered grocery merchants in Wilbarger to require written orders for flour or sugar.
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United States Food Administration
Sotre Vathan
Johnson
Boob. Smith
Wilbargner
Mtr
Pood Addn
Mer. Staley
Trevathan
Staley
SR. Trevathan
Wichita Falls
Durie
A. H H. Brittain
Primary voting window counts in Wilbarger County
Thirty voters registered choices in Saturdays primary before county clerk Verna Lucky by Wednesday night. Law allows pre election day voting for county clerks when voters are out of county not out of state. In Wilbarger 28 men and 2 women used the privilege. More than twenty offered to vote yesterday but time expired Wednesday night.
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Verna Lucky
Wilbarger County
County Officials Debate Poll Opens At 8 A M For Election
County Attorney S A L Morgan says polls may open at 8 a m standard time with counting to begin one hour after opening. He notes some counties plan 9 a m openings but argues 8 a m allows twelve hour operations and timely results.
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Mr. Morgan
Guy Veter
Safetock
Elise
Stallings Dead After Surgery In Wilbarger County
Mrs. Stallings of Old Union died following a surgical operation yesterday evening. Funeral at 5 pm from T. E. Robinson’s residence on West Texas Street with burial at Mast View Cemetery. Survived by husband and two sons aged 16 and 19. parents Mr. and Mrs. Yerby of Den ton. brother M. Yerby north of Harrold. She was 40, a Baptist, and the family has lived in Wilbarger County villages for 13 years after coming from Denton.
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Mia
Woon
Yerby
Denton
M. Yerby
Harrold
Through the Ages by Report Staff Poet
Fragmented poem laments ruined empires and war's toll. It questions wealth's godlike power and asks where gods are in suffering. The voice notes centuries of failure and hints at moral law guiding humanity.
Exemption Board Rules on 150 More Appeals in County
The county exemption board issued decisions on about 150 additional district board questions about deferred classification for agricultural or industrial claims and appeals from the loan board on dependency claims. Many registrants faced reclassified standings with Class IV and II changes, and several appeals were denied or altered as the district board weighed agricultural or industrial factors against dependents in local classifications.
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Loan Board
Loc Board
District Board
Pinella
Dis
Peter Hoard
Charles Lee Thompson
Ver Bailey Thompson
Percy McKinney
Thadus H. Logan
Robert BE. Owens
Joe Wilelim Thompson
Royal T. Macy
Robert Glover Whitten
Willie Lee Nelson
Crillis Patten
D. Harrison Skelton
Adolph John Wendlind
Antone Ernest Vanek
Sidney Pruitt Giles
James Monroe Shaw
Arius T. Lehhmidt
Wilken Burr Mitchell
Virgil Rodgers Sims
Hardin
Ross
Horace ©. Wilson
Geer
Sam Houston Williams
Jesse Thomas Swim
Theo Eddy Wilson
Joseph &. Martino
Edwards J. Lichiyter
Edd Thomas
Edgar Harrison Rich
Andy Lee McNabb
Robert Marion Lewellen
Alfred Lingnan
Mark C. Neal
Brooks S. McGee
Edward F. Waggoney
Vorman
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the State Automatic Tax Board
Pensions
Wilbarger Coun
Wilbarger
Texas
Kell Mill
Haulk
Dought
Jisutet
ABLE
Trudspeth Directory Company, Inc
EL Paso
J. H
Hudspeth
G. A. Werks
Mleetra
Mlectra
Mr. Works
Memphis Ofl Company
Cate
Reeder Plaice
J. J. Johnson
F Electra
Huggis Studio
Lieutenant Worrell
Council OF Defense
Shive and
L. G. Hawkins
Eastern Star
Federal Food Man
Trey Vphan
B. F. Johnson
Wieltta Palle
Istration
S. A. L. Morgan
the Law
S A. Om
VRS
KOE
Stallings
Okdaunion Farm
Stallings of
Oldwunion
Terday Toring
T. E. Robinson
Texas Street
Mast View Cemetery
Pamine
Tribunal For Registrants Ask
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