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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1919
Page
4
Wilbarger county reports strong participation in Victory bond drives with a quota of 175000, noting past bond investments and a growing push to meet the target before the campaign ends. Some residents are urged to pay their shares, while fire insurance rates reflect the county’s improving fire-loss record and community safety efforts.
Enrollment figures show Wilbarger county farm clubs rising with 579 members across crops and livestock sectors. County Agent N B Wisdal hails youth interest, noting new county-wide clubs and a dedicated club worker to expand agriculture study and club activities.
Rev Tenry F. Brooks will preach at the Vernon Methodist revival with Robert E. B. Houston of Greenville directing singing and W. El Gadkins of Fort Worth leading personal work and Sunday School. Services run 10 to 11 in the morning and early candlelight at night.
An ad touts a nausea free refined calomel variant called Caro tabs. It claims reduced salivation and purer medicinal qualities. One tablet at bedtime with water is promoted as simple and safe, with a pleasant taste and no griping. Price listed as thirty five cents per package.
Local soldiers discharged before the five cent mileage rate took effect received only tires and one half cent. The War Department has not announced plans to pay the remaining one and a half cents or how it will be provided. Esther Swartwood, secretary of the Home Service Department of the Local Red Cross, notes the lack of a firm payment plan.
A partial OCR reads manager W Bennett saving sheds and tones of Hessinett Lumber Company as repairs continue. The fragmentary text notes efforts to preserve structures and tones, with unclear context and names.
A distorted OCR item mentions cream separators and a related purchase or event at an institution or location named Siete. Names and terms appear garbled, but reference to equipment and a specific place is evident. Further context unclear due to legibility.
The bulletin notes cold waves and frosts spreading south, with May rainfall below average except near early and late May. Warm waves arrive mid May, crossing Rockies and reaching Newfoundland by May 22 to 27, with storm waves following. June will bring notable cropweather changes and a three- period rain pattern in May.
Fragmentary OCR notes list items such as hitch forks field kegs army cots and harness from Bennett Lumber Co. with a July entry and price marker. The readable text indicates a sale or inventory mention for camping and agricultural equipment.
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