Hobby Club forms advisory board and plans county push
Vernon area clubs organize to expand Hobby activities. An advisory committee of local leaders met at the courthouse and set a Wednesday session to finalize plans. Meetings include soliciting new members, coordinating speakers, and promoting a countywide drive for women to join and organize in every precinct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobby Club
Tolbert
Virgie Hewitt
BE. L. Keltz
R. A. Langly
Lillian Newton
Flora Lowrey
Saye ‘Opellye
White City
B. ©. Wood
Lucy Hamilton
Deans
J. T. Oates
West Vernon
R. V. Parr
E. M. Rogers
Vernon
Della Houssels
Vernon Chil
Harrold
Dodson's Liver Tone touted as safe calomel substitute
An advertisement warns against calomel and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a harmless vegetable remedy. It claims calomel causes sickness and loss of a day, while Dodson's Liver Tone starts the liver without upsetting the stomach and does not gripe.
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Dodson
ROUSE PROMOTED TO INSTRUCTOR OF ADVANCED FLYING
Rev W T Rouse reports from Bangs Texas after a ten day meeting and visit with his son Lt Le Rouse in San Antonio He serves as instructor of instructors in the aviation field at Leon Springs and Kelly Field overseeing cadets in nose dives tail spins loops and figure eights He transferred from Kelly Field to the advanced stage about two weeks ago reflecting a dangerous but prestigious post
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W. T. Rouse
Bangs
Texas
le Rouse
Kelly 9
Fie
San Antonio
Rouse
Nuit
Rowse
Leon Springs
Kelly Field
Major Charles F L McKinney Arrives Overseas
Mr and Mrs SS PL McKinney learn their son Major Charles FL McKinney has safely arrived overseas with the Shand Infantry of the National Army. He was an instructor at Culver Military Academy before joining the army and began as a captain in the officers reserve, later promoted to major.
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PL McKinney
Charles FL McKinney
Shand Infantey
National Army
Major McKinney
Ten Marriage Licenses Issued In County Clerk Office
Within ten days the County Clerk issued ten marriage licenses. Filings include FLL Spradling with Erma Batchelor, Gay Nathen with Iona Dodson, George Burrell with Roberts Brown teolored, Lee Roberts with Raby Smith, A H Newson with Dollie Williams, Rufus Parnell with Eva Tame, A Hamilton with Bertha Tabbs, Monroe Phillips with Mary Williams, Dan Cl Bomer with Louie A Williams, and Clarence Clements with Florence Archibald of Chillicothe Camp Fremont Cat.
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FLL
DeWitt Edwards Travels From Vernon to Wichita Falls
DeWitt Edwards traveled from Vernon to Wichita Falls where he is employed. He had been at his former home in Ragland several days due to illness.
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A. T. Stanford
DeWitt Edwards
Vernon
Wichita Falls
Mr. Edwards
Ragland
Mrs J F Robinson Returns After Greenville Operation
Mrs. J F Robinson reports her husband Mr. Robinson underwent an operation in Greenville and spent time recovering with his parents in Roanoke before returning to Vernon.
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J. F. Robinson
Greenville
Robinson
Roanoke
Vernon
Sergeant Emmett Robinson Visits Relatives in Vertion
Sergeant Emmett Robinson of Camp Bowie visited relatives in Vertion on a Sunday.
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Emmett Robinson
Camp Bowie
Vertion
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promoted as Internal Cure
An advertisement explains catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is described as taking blood through the system to mucous surfaces, using tonics and blood purifiers. It claims endorsements from physicians and offers testimonials, with F. J. Cheney & Co. and Hall's Pills for constipation listed.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Th. Hall
War Savings Sales Reported by Local Committees
The Thrift Bank sales total 4025 in War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps. Committees led by Mrs. Hawkins, Mrs. Morris, and Mrs. Ferrell reported daily figures for Friday and Saturday. Future bank days list several named organizers and helpers for June 26 27 and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Morris
W. S. Ferrell
G. C. Morris
Mesdames Jaither Webb
J. B. Dodson
J. A. Birdsong
O. T. Wariick
Bess Sumer
Annah Joe Pendleton
Minnie King
Enid McCarroll
Rupert Sewell
S. R. Pinkston
Everett Pendleton
Solon Sewell
Euclid Renfro
Masons Elect Officers at Vernon Lodge
Vernon Lodge No. 655 elected and installed officers for the coming year. Elected: D. P. Sink Jr, worshipful master. S. A. J. Morgan, senior warden. J. G. Sherman, junior warden. W. H. Huggins, treasurer. Frank Mann, secretary. J. Kk. Fraizer, tiler. Appointive officers named: C. T. Smith, S. Sewell, S. DP. Pinkston, R. S. McConibe, Rev. S. H. Holmes.
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S. DP. Pinkston
R. S. McConibe
S. H. Holmes
Mrs Benna Lou Cox Visits Son Ernest Cox
Mrs Benna Lou Cox returns Sunday from Mineral Wells and Nolanville after visiting her son Ernest Cox.
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Benna Lou Cox
Mineral Wells
Nolanville
Ernest
Vanderbilts Offer Idle Hour for Red Cross Hospital
Mr and Mrs William K Vanderbilt Sr donate Idle Hour estate on Great River at Oakdale and thousands of acres to the American Red Cross to serve as a convalescent hospital for soldiers. Ensign Vincent Astor and Clarence H Mackay make similar offers, forming three premier estates for wartime care. Idle Hour sits on a bluff with a two story main building and a three story wing capable of housing at least fifteen hundred patients.
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William K. Vanderbilt, Sr
Great River
Oakdale
S. 1
American Red Cross
Vincent Astor
Clarence H. Mackay
United
Idle Hour
Local residents travel and visiting relatives across towns
Mrs J B Wear and son J B dr left Monday for Oklahoma after visiting Mrs A P Baughn in Vernon. Frank Wood stationed at Camp Bowie visited his parents Mr and Mrs B C Wood of Tolbert. Mrs Hines Clark and her children of Crowell stayed with sister Mrs H W Norwood on West Paradise Street last week.
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Fred Miller
Camp Bowie
Henry Richie
Vernon
Red Cross
Elazie Page
Gladys Simmons
Verbel
J. ‘T. Chanecey
Will Doss
J.C. Cummins
J. B. Wear and Son
J. B. Dr
Points
Oklahoma
A. FP. Baughn
Frank Wood
Mrs
B.C. Wood
Tolbert
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Crow Sisters Ite
Adv
Hugh Thompson
Reductions
Crow Sisters
Paul Goetze
Stanelay
Bb. B Goetze
Sunshine Hill
Charles Fike
Lowell
Arizona
Camp Travis
Erring
Bennett
T. L. Rouse
V.sit
Son
M’kinney
Ness
Swartwood & Co
Cardu
Masons
THE
Idlehour
Orm
W. K. Vanderbilt
William K. Vanderbilt
America
Belgium
France
England
Italy
United States
Berlin
Pershing
Herring National Bank
C. T. Herring
L. K. Johnson
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