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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1921
Page
4
Attendees at the Vernon Chautauqua this week and next will seek entertainment plus learning. The event is praised as a high quality educational institution and worthy of community support, with volunteers working without pay seeking broad cooperation.
Vernon residents show strong town pride and support for local institutions. Banks with capital and surplus exceed 700000, Kell Milling opens a leading flour mill, and Hill Crest Country Chair offers noted beauty and convenience. Citizens back library and stores, sustaining Vernon’s high standards.
The American Forestry Association proposes cooperation with the American Legion to plant memorial trees for Colonel FE. W. Galbraith Jr. killed in an automobile crash near Indianapolis. One of his last acts as Legion head was to plant memorial trees at the Dixie National Highways junction near Dayton Ohio.
A lender recalls helping a distant farmer who borrowed yearly then used a $400 loan to clear land fence and paint his house. The project inspired the farmer to enroll his children in the town school, place his sons in the high school, and become Sunday school superintendent.
Fragments describe American Legion posts urged to plant trees as a remembrance for Colonel Gilbraith amid a treeless landscape. The text emphasizes lumber, posts, and pier timbers as local needs and memorials.
In Denver the AFL convention advocates Open Shop as a balanced approach for labor and employers. It cites publicity costs and cooperative newspapers, questions the Quen Shop, and calls for legal union incorporation while opposing intimidation and special privileges. The Open Shop seeks fair conditions for all, despite potential abuses.
Eleven year old Cecil Burkett faces a second murder trial after a day of debate over the fate of his playmate Benny Slavin. Jurors told Judge Pentecost that an agreement could not be reached and the case would proceed in circuit court in Starke County Indiana.
In a brief family note a father recalls guiding his eldest boy to the state university where he plans to study agriculture and graduate next June. A second boy, already a sophomore, follows a similar path as the father envisions a new agricultural vision for Arkansas without preaching diversification. Local business notes report Ken G. McAdams Lumber Co. receiving posts and Cy Long traveling to Wichita Falls for several days with Perkins-Timberlike Co. as local manager.
A Methodist Sunday School class in Vernon organizes a baseball team for youths sixteen to eighteen to arrange games with nearby towns. The notice invites other teams to match up and provides no further details.
Baptist workers held a market last Saturday at Massie Wright Grocery Company and raised twenty dollars. The money will go to a fund to purchase a typewriter for Miss Blanche Groves, missionary in China. See Trabhlpraf Tires at J B R Lutz office corner Texas and Fannin.
Money to lend on farms in Wilbarger Foard Hardeman and nearby Texas counties. Long time at low rates. Lisman Son and Davis Summerour advertise ready funds for improved farms with ample capital.
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