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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1921
Page
9
Local commerce groups establish a cream station at Bargdell and Stanley groceries run by Pure Milk Products Company of Wichita Falls. Farmers may deliver cream Tuesdays and Fridays, with testing and payment on delivery. J J Handley will be present next Friday to discuss feeding cows testing milk and cream care.
A fire at 3:45 p.m. damaged the Herring National Bank roof causing about 50 dollars in damage and brief downtown alarm. Firemen found flames after tearing off roofing. chemicals then extinguished the blaze. Origin blamed on weathered boards left on the roof by workers.
R. R. Dickey, 22, fireman on the Texas Special, died February 22 in a wreck near Waco. W. M. Dickey returned from Dennison after attending his son's funeral. He leaves his parents in Vernon and a wife in Dennison.
A ten pounder girl was born February 26 to Mr G W Lanier and Mrs Lanier twenty miles southwest of Town.
A girl weighing nine and a half pounds was born February 25 to Mr and Mrs J B Gregory living in West Vernon.
A Vernon American Legion post calls a Thursday evening meeting at the courthouse with about 165 members invited. Officers for 1920 will be elected and plans discussed for club rooms while considering compensation claims vocational training and bonuses.
Miss Lucile Ferguson of Vernon has leased the Sink Studio of Crowell and will take charge today. She is a photographer with years of experience, previously working in Oklahoma and here. Mr and Mrs Kinky Pail Sink and their baby plan a short Vernon visit before heading to another location.
A report notes adjustments to a standpipe system used to provide water during civilian shortages. The standpipe is temporarily used to ensure sufficient supply and kept ready for firefighting use.
W. A. Walker of Vernon plans a private potato curing facility near Ragland in Wilbarger County. He will grow sweet potatoes on over 100 acres, harvest about 20 000 bushels, and plant 500 bushels of seed potatoes on a 100 acre tract to provide curing and storage. He recently bought seed at Longview and will set beds mid tract for easy planting.
A fire at the Colley residence on West Paradise Street damaged fifty to sixty chicks and wrecked a hive area. Water mains supply was cut briefly as firefighters contained the blaze and cooled the scene.
The Colorado to the Gulf Highway Association proposes red and white marker bands on posts and telephones in towns from Denver to Fort Worth. Maps are being printed for the north and south routes, with distribution to follow. Officials urge delegations from Denver to Fort Worth for an April meeting and a coordinated booster program with shared travel costs.
Mrs. 8. P. McKinney of Long Beach California records Wednesday temperatures in the mercury readings and mentions pleasant Thursday and Friday warmth. She notes many people bathing in the arena and flowers everywhere and adds she lived in Vernon until last summer.
The weeks old infant Vevey Kenneth Clark Hoek died and funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 4 30 from the residence on Wider Way Be Wallace area.
Governor Neff proclaims Health Week from March 8, urging statewide sanitation drive. State Health Office reports towns promising cooperation as campaigns outline sanitation, food handling, and disease prevention. Local clubs organize a city cleanup with a designated wagon and daily focuses from March 9 to 15.
A bridge project miles east of town on the Oklainian roadway began Thursday. Construction crews expect to complete the structure soon as they push toward finishing this major local artery.
Mrs. Beulah Mason of Chicago offers her wavy brown hair for sale to raise funds for a hemstitching machine. She hopes the device would let her work at home and provide for her two young girls Norma five and Virginia ten, with help from an older sister’s salary.
Katy Bea a year old cow pony from the Carta Blanche ranch near Electra won a quarter mile race against an Oklahoma bred race horse. Backers of the rival horse wagered heavily as Cowboys at Vernon had prepared Baby Bem for the contest with a $1,000 purse on the local track. The cow pony led by six feet at the finish in its first competition.
tuford O. Brown publisher of the Vernon Record is named a delegate to the Press Congress of the World to meet in Honolulu Hawaii October 4 to 14. Appointed by John ston Cooke president of the Texas Press Association, Brown is joined by Texas delegates RE A Carlock H B Hilburn Lee Satterwhite Tom Finty Jn Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald W G Sterrett Louis J Wortham and Col Frank P Holland representing regional papers.
Mrs. Eddie Jennings of Electra was brought to a local hospital Monday after she attempted to shoot herself. The bullet pierced her left breast and exited under the shoulder blade. Relatives cited health as the motive for the self injury.
A baby boy was born February 16 to Mr and Mrs Frank Johnson residing in B Veruog. The family confirms the birth and welcomes the newborn into the household.
Senator Morris Sheppard replies to a local Chamber of Commerce letter on pending Congress measures. He supports the Livestock Bill, questions the Coal Bill, discusses Muscle Shoals fate, and calls for tariff equity and aid to Agriculture Commerce Labor and Interior departments. He also notes seed distribution and inauguration funding positions.
Seven members of the local Masonic order conferred degrees in the Blue Luge Friday at Bleetra on candidates from har town. The visitors were tendered a banquet in the evening by the women in the Eastern Star. Those who went from here were W. H. Stroud, Everett Haney, O. O. McCurdy, J. Owen, Rolly Hooper, L. L. Boutwell, and BE. Porterfield.
A girl weighing eight and one half pounds was born February 24 to Mr and Mrs R D McDuff in Oklaunion.
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