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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1919
Page
8
A brief item notes a woman and her sister Mrs Harry Mason left Saturday for Wichita Falls for a few days visit. Paul B. Stublett travels to Los Angeles California Friday and plans to visit his sister Mrs Strickfiind at Branson Colorado en route.
County officials consider issuing 1.5 million dollars in bonds to build permanent highways. Plans include about 6 miles of concrete roads with nine foot lanes and gravel shoulders, a main county east to west road, and two north side connectors. A vote could be arranged within sixty days, likely in late April.
Fort Worth Denver district engineer M A Stalner visited Vernon Saturday regarding the 2,500 foot brush mattress levee being built on Pease River west of Vernon. It protects the south field, railroad trestles, and road bed from overflow after heavy rains and rises upstream.
Tolbert Baptist Church hosts a pie supper next Friday night with proceeds for parsonage improvements. Music by Misses Agnes and Gertrude Gelhansen and a reading by Miss Bird Lantrio accompany the event. The Everything Store at Ste Athy in West Texas Street offers full cash for unwanted furniture and invites country entries.
Public health notice reproduces a 19th or early 20th century household remedy pitch for California Syrup of Figs. It advises mothers to treat a sick child with the laxative to purge sour waste from the bowels and restore vitality. It warns against counterfeits and urges buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Company product.
Mrs J Bowers left last night for Miordada to spend a few days in the interest of the Bowers Oil Company. Mrs J W Coffee returned yesterday from Tipton Iowa where she visited her daughter Mrs Charley Petty.
Mrs BF Herlacher returned to her Electra home Saturday night after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J Key for a time.
Local ad claims collar pads offered at 65e each with a call to buy from THE EVERY-THING STORE showing a concise sales pitch.
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