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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1921
Page
1
Miss Clara Lentwyler visited Lafty and Sunday with her sister Mrs Cilat Meek in Quanat. Hobinson spent Sunday in Oui.
A Dixon North Main Street window displays overseas souvenirs from Aubrey Foster, a local ex serviceman. The collection includes a German uniform fragment from the Argonne, an Iron Cross, camouflaged helmet, a St Mihiel trench knife, a Franco Prussian pipe, a gas mask case, and a 35 centimeter shell paper cutter, gathered during three months on the front with the 859 Ambulance corps in the 90th division.
Members attended a Saturday dinner at the Hotel Veron with attendees including J Lynn Thomas butter specialist A and M College Miss Bess Edwards Miss Esther Sorenson G R Jones and several residents from Tolbert Harrold and Vernon Also B H Lisman of Fort Worth represented A W Greene Cotton Co and bought a block of Bennett and Scott goods and 100 bales from the Vernon warehouse
J B Sneed of Paducah is reported to be in the city, with no additional details provided.
Guy O. Shirey, commander of the Department of Texas American Legion, states only about 15 percent of the 217,000 Texas ex service men and women are enlisted. He cites Legion contributions to police, flood relief in Rio Grande Valley, and aid to destitute veterans, urging the public to support former service members joining the Legion. The organization aims to be first in the hearts of fellow citizens.
Thompson, March 21. Special correspondence reports Willie McClare of Burkburnett spent Monday night with his sister Mrs Oscar P. L. Crites. Little Frances of White City visited T. M. Dennis and family. G. R. Jones county agent visited the school last Wednesday. A party was held at H. Mitchell’s home Friday night. W. W. Jackson and daughters Marie and Willie Pearl were Vernon visitors Saturday night and Sunday. Several community residents attended the Oklahoma track meet Saturday. Mrs P Clement visited W. W. Cole near Chillicothe last week.
Mayor Andrew J. Ve ters of Boston went undercover in Wayfarers' Lodge to study unemployment relief. Dressed in worn clothes, he shared a room with forty homeless individuals and later worked at the woodpile for his breakfast before reporting a fairly comfortable night at City Hall.
Ex servicemen of Wilbarger county honor Sergeant Albert E. Robinson a Vernon native who died October 27 during World War I leading his platoon in France. He overcame medical obstacles to enlist at nineteen and served with Company 1 142 Infantry overseas from July 1918 until armistice. He is posthumously recognized with a Croix de Guerre and a recommendation for the Distinguished Service Cross.
Defines the Legion’s purpose including defending the constitution, maintaining law and order, promoting one hundred percent Americanism, preserving war memories, instilling individual civic duty, opposing class autocracy, ensuring right over might, fostering peace, protecting democracy, and honoring comradeship through mutual aid.
Official statement from the Department of Texas American Legion leaders calls on the public to support a recruitment campaign for ex service men. The message emphasizes benefits of Legion membership and urges involvement from eligible and non eligible service members alike.
A poem ponders the fate and sentience of weapons forged in steel. It questions whether guns and related artillery long for the road to slaughter, whether makers receive aid, and whether their power remains moral or becomes a fatal burden in war. The piece contemplates tool and creator, duty, fate, and divine guidance.
Marriage licenses issued March 1 to James Clyde Rea and Miss Lot tie Mable Castleberry of Tolbert, and March 16 to Batley and Miss Lillian Noble. Also notes good stationery sale 50 percent off at Fergeson Drug Co.
Mrs A Reagan of Dallas arrived Thursday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs BOM Lentwyler on South Main Street. She plans to stay in Vernon three or four weeks.
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