California man praises Vernon amid cross country Ford trip
A Los Angeles Ford dealer, W Y Leydon, touring to Alabama with his wife and son, lauded Vernon for its rich farming belt and fruit orchards. He praised Texas roads, noted a lack of lights at the local tourist park, and criticized local traffic violations as the town’s main drawback. He called Vernon one of the best towns in a rich farming area on his California trip.
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Los Angeles
Veron
Dave
Oesy
Leydon
Ford
Alabama
Texas
Texline
Mem
Phis
California
Pioneer P Price Dies Sudden Heart Failure at 68
K P Price a Rayland area pioneer and prominent farmer died suddenly Tuesday evening at his Rayland home at age 68. Survived by his widow and 14 children, 12 living, he was active in Baptist Church and school affairs. Funeral Thursday at First Baptist with Rev Frank McNair officiating. Odd Fellows aided. eight Ku Klux Klan members attended in full regalia for a brief service.
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K.P. Price
Wilbarger County
Raylind
Norbal
Price
A. Powell
Rule
J. F. Caldwell
G. G. Germain
Laura Nell Price
Raviland
Gundy
Joe
Bob
Wayne
Harrison Bill
William
Chisholm Price
Rayland
First Baptist Church
Frank McNair
Ragland
The
Odd Fellows
Ku Klux Klan
Dawson County Premier in Texas says best county
Christian, former manager of the steward, praised Dawson County as one of the best in Texas after touring Laanesia and Pic Springs. He noted 900,000 acres of land in one body along the Tease river valley, 19 inches of rainfall, strong crop prospects, and cotton planting this year. He ranked Vernon as the best town in the state.
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Wilharger County
Christian
Texas
Laanesia
Pic Springs
Dawson County
Tease River Valley
Yesus
Vernon
Self Serving Ice Box Installed At City News Stand
The City News Stand installs a self serve bottled drink ice box from Coca Cola. It halves ice usage and lets customers serve themselves without hands in water. The ice box holds twelve sections with bottles. customers pull a bottle from the top rack and push into a lower cold rack. It is the first Vernon installation.
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City News Co
City News Stand
Cocoa Cola Company
City News
Vernon
Lockett Builds Modern Store in Thriving Wisconsin?
Lockett community unveils a brick store on a solid foundation planned for a second or third story. Inside features a concrete floor, a 26 by 20 foot basement with a large cold storage vault, and Delco lighting. Residents hail the business as a sign of rapid local progress amid strong crop prospects and growth in Wilbarger County.
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Aredermn
Ad Substan
Lin Couercus Cboiktings
Witharter
Hockett
Feckert
Lockett
Delco Light
Wilbarger County
Vernon Concert Band Tonight on Court Square
The Vernon Concert Band presents a regular weekly concert tonight at the Court Please Tawe. The program includes marches Up with the Flag and Frisco, waltzes Moonlight, Po IK Logen, tunes The Flornide Blues and Theme Sivk, Fox Trot, Overture Slap Shot, and more. Also noting the death of Mrs. Sarah Whilen Skidmore, 58, at the Home of her son.
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Vernon
Wilh
Court Please Tawe
Berlin
Frisco
Murypig
Phillips
Das. Serer
Sarah “Hilen Skidmore
Mrs Skidmore Dies After Short Illness Near Vernon
The body of Mrs. Skidmore will be taken to a hillseothe this afternoon by the Underwood Undertaking Parlors for burial. Funeral services will be held at the Skidmore home at 2 o’clock following her death from pneumonia near Vernon.
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Skidmore
Vernon
Underwood Undertaking
Skidumrg
Leek
Mrs Walter Ferguson Wins Chevrolet Car in Vent Contest
Mrs Walter Ferguson won the Chevrolet car in the theatre contest at the Pretorium Theatre. Stella Hodges finished second and Jim Armstrong third, each winning a diamond ring. Ferguson received 2,658,500 votes, Hodges 2,006,000, Armstrong 979,165.
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Walter Ferguson
Pretorium Theatre Management
Stella Hodges
Jim Armstrong
Tom Mix Shines In One Of His Best Plays At Pictorium
Tony Mix appears today and tomorrow at the Pictorium in Three Jumps Ahead. Critics hail it as one of his finest western pictures, praising the star’s strength and presence on screen.
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Tom MIX
Tony Mix
Tits Mix
Tony
Rudisa
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P. Price
Pioneer
Dawson
Tery
Long’s Battery Shop
Clovis
N. M East Front
Bill Todd
Public Square
J. Cros
Po IK
Logen
Proliek
WH. d. Lincoln
Robbledo
KL. P. Prifer
IRS
SAK
Abd Ellen Shidmore
DES OF Pnelmones Phurse AY
E. B. Jones
Inter State Inspector
Tfree Ferguson Drug Co
Goodyear
Hoever
Ladd
Plac
Goodeyear
Cora
DR. IT. A. King
Waevoner National Barh Building
Pease Street
Candyland
A. B. Garland
Waggoner National Bank
Ficient Service
W. Marshall
Mernon
Wilbarger Street
Oliver No
Ord
J. P. McPherson & Sons
Hart Schafiner & Ma
Hart Schafftner
Marx
Norfolks
Brown
Phelps
Manhattan
Dixon Dry Goods Co
Outfitters
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