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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1920
Page
15
Frisco rail service updates schedules with trains renumbered as 622 2 and 618 617. Vernon departures and Clinton arrivals shift to new times enabling close connections at Oklahoma City for north and east trains.
A United States Department of Agriculture home economics kitchen guide presents a self rising bread method nicknamed salt rising. It uses warm soured milk corn meal and fat to ferment before kneading and baking. Tips include temperature control water bath and fermentation signs with gas release.
A colored regiment's colonel orders the adjutant to pick a suitable orderly. He selects a former elevator boy who shows pride and politeness. The man explains tact as fitting the moment and recounts a bathhouse joke about recognizing tact on the spot.
The notice lists two map sizes and prices: an 18 by 22.5 inch ledger paper version priced at $1.00, and a 45 by 60 inch version priced at $7.50. Signed by MO. B. NABERS, County Surveyor, Vernon, Texas.
Ravland gossip and updates report Dr McBride travels for health to Mineral Wells, Mira Joe near recovery after minor operation in Vernon, Shia Affe builds two more rooms, Tarcey White sells business and moves to Vernon, Bennett family at daughter A J Jorden’s bedside in Roaring Springs, partners replants after heavy rain halts fieldwork, Parrishs travel to California, Baptists plan a children’s day, several residents seek medical advice in Vernon and Rochester, Misses Velma and Moshe Newman visit Tolbert area.
White Produce Co offers top market prices for chickens and eggs and notes a new location on North Main Street between Frisco and Denver railroads. Whone US6. 66-tf
A group of Vernon men led by AL C. Roynes and others, including TL Pierce and TR S Hoveselsthong Beach, Calif., invest in oil prospects near Bryan. The drill site sits on OL T. Pabor’s holdings, near Bryan, with support from the Consolidated American CHL Company as the venture moves forward.
J H Pendleton advertises a secondhand fountain with cloths and steel not carbonated plus two seed tanks for sale. Formerly used at Peoples Drug Store for tennis, wheels, and more. Location First Guaranty State Bank or Pendleton residence. In Vernon Misses Daisy Jones and Mattie Smith visited Electra for Electra High School commencement last week at Lorena Friend’s home.
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