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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1921
Page
12
The piece debates a 10,000 funding plan for road building, weighing a paved highway from HlBedthe to the Wichita route against needs across Harrold and nearby communities. Judge McHugh notes county road funds are exhausted, arguing spending all on the highway would strain other towns and services.
County commissioners plan to set aside $50000 in each of the four precincts to upgrade main roads and construct permanent bridges and culverts. The move aims to improve travel for taxpayers and lay groundwork for a broader county road system.
The Record News reports statisticians show U S cotton spindles by state with North Carolina high and Massachusetts claiming leadership in production versus consumption. George Robinson critiques swindles while Texas mills are urged to consume Texas cotton to boost riches.
The report shows 357 843 square yards in Queens, 118 300 in Richmond, and 503 649 in Manhattan with year over year gains of 355 percent in Queens and 100 percent in Richmond. It lists asphalt laid in many cities including Chicago 1 613 800, Detroit 1 205 0, and Baltimore 660 665 square yards, noting Fort Worth 172 247 and Columbus 5 500 square yards among others. The last city expects 165 000 square yards in 1022.
The piece divides Africa into three regions Christian Africa in the south with about five and a half million people, Pagan Africa as the largest mass, and Mohammedan Africa spanning from the Equator to the Mediterranean with about forty million. It notes education as a global frontier and estimates one hundred million people without a written language.
City engineers report to the Asphalt Association show sixty million square yards of asphalt paving planned for urban streets this year. The gain marks a 25 percent increase over last year and would cover a coast to coast asphalt road thirty feet wide from Augusta Maine to San Francisco California. Major gains include Saciman Miel Akron Rochester Des Moines Boston Norfolk Detroit Portland Roanoke and San Antonio with double and triple yardage in several cities. New York City boroughs total seventy thousand square yards with Bronx and Brooklyn noted.
Dr. O W Wilson will be in Vernon at Standifer Hospital Sunday October 25 for an ENT clinic. J A McFall advertises used Dodge Brothers and Ford cars at 30 North Main. Miss Addie Thomason spends a week with her parents in Amarillo. Mr and Mrs W D Berry leave Tuesday for a Dallas Fair visit.
Mrs. J. J. Parker departed Tuesday for a visit in Cleburne, outlining plans to tour the city and visit friends during the trip.
County demonstration agent compiles staple prices to help club women judge the value of their canning. The list shows item by item costs in cents for preserves, beans, kraut, ketchup, and dried vegetables and fruits, highlighting unit sizes and rates.
The Lisenbee Furniture Co. will move November 1 from East Wilbarger street to the Hahn building at Main and Wilbarger. Alterations are underway. Peyton Phillips’ friends held a farewell dance Tuesday at Ladd residence on East Wilbarger before his move to Tampa Florida. Mrs J Bb Ramage of Nashville Ark arrived in Vernon to visit her son Gus Ramage pastor of the Central Christian Church.
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