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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1919
Page
3
An agricultural notice warns that overweight and languid hens reduce egg production. It advises proper care including ample fresh air and sunshine, green feed, bread and cake crumbs, meat scraps ground with corn meal and bran, grain management, lime or oyster shell grit, and constant clean water to sustain steady summer laying.
Hon. Lucian W. Parrish of the Thirteenth District has introduced a congressional resolution asking the War Department to donate a captured German cannon to Wilbarger County for a war monument. Other Texas counties listed include Wise Baylor Cooke Montague Archer Throckmorton Wichita Jack Clay Denton and Young. Availability hinges on ocean transport and possible congressional funding for delivery and placement.
Workmen repair a South Main Street home owned by Mrs L E McCurdy. The building burned last fall while occupied by R J Jones. J R Norris leads carpentry work. Gladner Young was in Burkburnett on business Saturday. Ad shows homes for sale and oil leases by T P Lisman & Son brokers.
A letter to County Agent N R Tisdal from the director of stock judging at AL M College offers county agents score cards and hints at a big surprise for the team winning the state pair at Dallas next fall. The Farmers Short Course at College Station July 21 26 will be open to boys club members and county reps urged to participate. The Wilburger county team will be chosen from boys earning trips to the State Fair via county fair records.
County Agent N R Tisdal announces 10000 in premiums from the Chicago Board of Trade for grain and hay shown during the first week of December at the International Live Stock Exposition in Chicago. He urges Wilbarger county farmers to save their best grain and hay for exhibit, noting this new feature expands awards beyond stock, with Wilbarger men already winning prizes.
List describes a four room house with nearby lots, a barn and sheds, fencing, a dugout, a dead tree, a dug well, and removal terms. Contact Dr AL Howard or T W Smith for details. Adg. 40-216.
M T Daily of Newcastle Texas arrives to live in Vernon and will work as a driller with Home Oil and Refining Company in operations south of Vernon. The relocation marks his association with local oil industry activities.
Crowell residents Riley and George Self along with L A Andrews M Thompson FE Bomar and Johnson and John Rasor were visitors in Vernon on Sunday. Pay your Record subscription now.
Mrs. O. El Sherman of Oklwanon has supplied her community with cabbage for two weeks. A five pound head arrived Friday. She sources plants from South Carolina and plants in January. She says frost-proof plants cannot be frozen and they produce well.
John Ray of Crowell traveled to Verney yesterday to see his son Joe who returned with a discharge from hearn.
The Central Christian Bible school will present Children’s Day exercises on Sunday with Porcion missions as the central idea. Leo has prepared the program as the service begins at 10:30. A special invitation is extended to SHarel’s friends and the public to attend.
Mee J P Plovd and her children left for Burkburnett yesterday to visit Mr Plovi who works for the Golf Production Company. After a few days they will travel on to Arkansas to visit relatives.
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