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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1919
Page
2
The theaters offer The Beloved Impostor with pretty fashions and a dainty heroine who bets a kiss against a man hater to win love. Also shows Lady Tsen Mei in For the Freedom of East and What Love Forgives starring Barbara Stulton Johnny Hines.
The derrick is being moved today to the drilling site of Liberty Oil Development Company near Harrold. WP H Robin, secretary, says drilling will commence at once. The company owns 80 acres near the Piper and Sumop leases, close to large wells, with capital of 80000, and is composed largely of Vernon residents.
Local posts and plans show Plainview postmaster moving into oil ventures while Iowa Park plans street lights. MemphIs area cattle trade hits Amarillo for 400 and Fort Worth hosts Fat Stock Show sows at 250.61. Chil tress hosts Panhandle Swine Breeders March 28 29 as Frisco depot extends at Frederick. Indictments tally forty four in Hale county grand jury. Donley Floyd and Wichita Falls report test wells and horse thefts near Henrietta. Buff Orpington lays an unusually large egg as J A Wayland notes freak hen size in Plainview.
Postmaster J W Townsend announces postage on letters will drop to two cents and post cards to one cent starting July 7. The two cent rate follows a wartime three cent increase from last year. Townsend has acquired Victory stamps, three cent, akin to standard stamps, with a design featuring a renowned woman and uplifted flags of the end and Allies.
Three announcements list Harper Reed and Dr. T A King for place No 8 and E J Witty for place No 4 on the city commission elections set for April 1. Mrs A J McNeill and her sons left Sunday for Bellevue to visit relatives and will be away several days.
A Wichita Falls reader endorses Donn s Kidney Wills now named Dow ns Kidney Pills reporting prompt relief from kidney backache and urinary disorders. The testimonial from Mrs J A Pike 180 Scott Ave reinforces the product usage with a price of 60 cents and availability at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Makers Buffalo N Y.
Reverend H M Long, conference missionary for Northwest Texas and New Mexico of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, has entered retirement per Vernon reports. He moved to Fort Worth after three years as pastor here and will act as conference missionary secretary for Animal Conference without pay, not active in church work.
Kidney weakness grows slowly and can lead to incurable disease. Start treatment with GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules now, take three or four daily until pain ends. The remedy has long been a national Dutch preparation with a charter granted in 1696.
An advertisement urges housewives of Tieiland to buy Real Dutch Drops Gold Medal Haarlem Old Capsules for strength and health. It promises refunds if not satisfied and warns to seek the sealed Gold Medal box in three sizes from the druggist.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh in all stages by acting through the blood. The ad offers 100 dollars to any case it cannot cure and invites readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio, with druggists selling the remedy at one dollar.
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