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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1922
Page
4
Voter slate lists candidates for county offices including clerk sheriff district clerk treasurer and judge with several incumbents marked Re-election. Several commissioners and a city post are shown. A Hill Crest Country Club dance is noted along with a Farm loan offer of 2 000 000 and cash ready upon title transfer.
Vernon merchants plan to attract two years of construction spending from Wichita Falls and nearby towns. Officials count on Vernon as the local hub for supplying materials, with Ele ktra Seymour and Wichita Falls seen as rivals. The project should boost traffic on the highway and raise business for Vernon firms.
County and city officers seized a still Saturday morning and uncovered a new means of illegal liquor transport Saturday night. Five prisoners were taken into custody. The action signals a strong enforcement stance as authorities pledge continued crackdown on bootlegging and illegal liquor, stressing the seriousness of penalties and public safety.
The WPhiinview Club hosted a millinery demonstration led by Miss Jula Croodfellow, assistant to the Outreach Agent for Witbarger County. About fifty women attended at the local school, crafting fourteen buckram hat rims and beginning velvet coverings amid praise for Miss Goodfellow and the event's value to the community. The extension notes plan to include millinery in the 1922 program.
Current conditions show farm products rally breaking the postwar price slump. Wheat and hog prices lift farm income while overextended cattle loans fade. yet wage and rail costs restrain overall recovery, and coal and textile wages drive continued stagnation. This survey notes durable gains for farmers but warns of limited broad recovery until costs fall.
Vernon high school freshmen beat Box schoolhouse 16 to 12 on the freshman diamond near the high school. Walker and Farley pitched for Vernon with Bourland Sherman and Baker batting for East Vernon. The freshman yearlings also defeated Shiver school 28 to 0 with Walker Farley Fletcher and Ferguson contributing.
We express our heartfelt thanks to our friends for their kindness during the illness and death of our wife and mother J. D. Ferguson and family.
Vernon school officials urge enumeration of all children aged 7 to 17 within three days to boost the local school fund by about ten dollars per child. Superintendent BW L Doheney notes new residents may have moved in with children to be counted.
District Court notice from Wichita Falls listing Cook Grocery Co partners Steve Cook and Chas Lee Cook as bankrupt. It announces the first meeting of creditors on March 6, 1922, at the office in Wichita Falls to prove claims, appoint a trustee, and examine the bankrupt, United States referee Thelbert Martin.
A charged exchange portrays racial taunts and intimidation as one speaker warns another about an ominous fate. The dialogue hints at fear, social hostility, and violence in a tense community moment.
Fragmented text from a historical page mentions a Baltimore business college and a speaker asking for spelling and costs. Not enough clear facts to identify people, places, or events with confidence.
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