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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1922
Page
4
The article describes a Vernon cooking school event on May 29 80 and 31 aiming to educate county women in proper food preparation. It emphasizes free instruction to improve daily meals, health, and the general quality of life through basic culinary principles.
Vernon plans to hire a corps of sidesmen to sell the city to outside agencies and prospective residents. The pitch touts 72 pavement blocks, a 75000 dollar country club, a 20000 acre lake south of town, twenty miles of roads and abundant shade trees. If Plainview secures the West Texas Chamber of Commerce meet, Vernon hopes to showcase its advantages to Texas and attract new industries.
The Eastern Star holds a regular greeting Monday night at the Masonic Hall. Officers for the year will be elected and candidates will be initiated.
Guvin Williams of Decatur thanks the voters in letters addressed to the whole thirteenth district. He pledges to do his best to serve and expresses gratitude for the help received. The passage includes anecdotes about gifts and clutter from associates and mentions S. P. and the sheriff in a humorous aside.
A Vernon Record note reflects on a man sitting with feet on a desk on a Leeswse porch. It muses on prosperity, boredom, and the peculiar habit of feet at desk level, while listing random items from a desk and drawers including a 1912 yearbook and a jelly Dean catalogue.
A column urges peace after the war and calls for reverence and order. Signatories condemn loose morals and sex acitivity, urging support for Sabbath observance and social restraint. The piece promotes decency and a return to religious guidance as the city rebuilds. Also notes a City Fish and Oyster Market contact and a brief social item about Mrs. B C D Yurmiett visiting the Standifers before returning to Wichita Falls.
Mrs. M J Moore hosted the Delphian club on Wednesday afternoon with Miss Ethel Haney leading the lesson. A faded scene features a bootlegger’s assistant boasting about deliveries and a plan involving blue cards while crepe on doors suggests a somber house.
A condensed chronicle of Pontiac of the Ottawa and his attempted united Indian uprising against British rule. The piece surveys his rise to near conquest of Detroit, his plotting with French aid, betrayal by an Ojibway woman, peacemaking efforts, and his murder near Cahokia by a Kaskaskia warrior who killed him with a tomahawk.
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