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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1925
Page
4
The Vernon Record announces publication on Tuesdays and Fridays and lists policies for addressing changes. It details advertising rates for classified and display ads, local notices, obituaries, poetry, and corrections policy for misprints.
The legislature debated a bill to nominate appellate judges by convention instead of direct primary. The piece argues judges must be impartial interpreters, free of partisan influence, and questions direct primaries which reward political campaigning over legal merit. It notes the bill failing to pass both houses but passing one signals growing recognition.
The Record notes progress toward placing judicial qualifications above politics. It supports extending reform to district judges, arguing district courts protect citizens’ rights and correct lower court errors, while appellate judges should also be chosen for fitness. Mr. and Mrs. W W Fletcher of Memphis visited Vernon with Miss Lucile Fates returning home Sunday.
Haule Hill News reports Miss Electra Tooley and Miss Leal Lynch spent the weekend with her parents near Chillicothe. Mrs. FE. L. Clark visited at Mrs. B. D. Thomas's home Friday afternoon. Barney Sherrill attended the Fat Stone Show in Fort Worth last week. Singing at Jackson Spring Sunday drew H. R. Barrett and family, Mance Phillips, F. H. Green and family. John Knapp and family shopped in Vernon Saturday.
The Parent Teachers Association of Shire school will host a bakery sale Saturday afternoon at the White Horse Market. Home made pies cakes and assorted bakery items will be offered. Also includes small notices about Purina baby chick and animal feed products and local phone listings.
C B Johnson of Amarillo travels for business and visits his mother Mrs W C Johnson and brother Les K Johnson and family. Also noted is a local motor supply advertisement inviting callers to wash and grease ears while asleep with a phone contact.
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