Wilbarger Over Subscribed Liberty Loan Quota
Wilbarger County has over subscribed the fourth Liberty Loan by 65 000 bringing the total to 200 600 and expected to reach 215 000 by week end Subscriptions continue with new 1 000 additions from Robert Howsells and J H Kincheloe while others push 500 000 and 10 500 requests The county Council of Defense conducts nightly sessions to press slackers to buy bonds threatening unpatriotic listing if needed
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Wilbarger
Liberty
Piper
Denton
Anderson
The
Texas Company
A.C. Boger
RB. Judd
J. J. Parnell J. FF. Gregory
A. M. Hiatt
B. E. Roberts
Mary E. Roberts
FL & M. Gin Company
R. T. Harriss Farm
Council of Defense
Liberty Loan
France
County Council of Defense
Red Cross raises funds from bushel of pears
Pears donated by Mrs. J B Lutz sold for 10 cents each. The Red Cross raised 25.05 after guesses on weight. 85 S W Bailey won and donated pears back for resale at 10 cents each. The bushel weighed 51½ pounds and organizers say ten bushels could have been sold at a dollar each.
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Red Cross
Lutz
J. B. Lutz
Mmes
W. K. Long
T. V P. Griffith
Paul Goetze
S. W. Bailey
Lillian Murchison
W. Bailey
Rainfall Brings Wheat Prospects to Thalia Area
Good rain at Thalia reported by F. Mints and G. Dale from The Record office. They note the best rainfall in a long time and foresee a large acreage of wheat. Mr. Mints has two Spanish Influenza cases at his home while his Fort Worth visitor is in town this week.
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F. Mints
G. ©. Dale
Thalia
Marines Tour For Liberty Loan Bond Drive
Privates Arthur Pelton and Leslie Rape of the US Marine Corps leave Vernon on a speaking tour to aid the fourth Liberty Loan. They visit Crowell Benjamin Knox City and Paducah and speak at a Paducah rally Wednesday. They recount Verdun and Chateau Thierry battles and German atrocities, with W A Atchison and J B Johnson also attending the Paducah rally. Another group heads to Archer City Throckmorton and Haskell, with J D Parnell coordinating Northwest Texas speakers for the Vernon Chamber of Commerce.
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Rape
United States Marine Corps
Vernon
Fourth Liberty
Baptist Tabernacle
Verdun
Chateau Thiery
Lundendorf
Foch
Kamerad
Archer City
Throckmorton
Haskell
J. D. Parnell
Vernon Chamber of Commerce
Federal
Dallas
Tolbert man reports two tanks lost after heavy rain
M W Boyer of Tolbert told The Record he lost two tanks and nearly lost a third during last week's rain. He traced water runoff to crayfish holes under a dam, dug them out, and filled the holes with dirt sacks to stop the leakage.
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M. W. Boyer
Tolbert
Starrs son injured as horse falls near Pease River
Minor Starr suffered a severely sprained foot when his horse fell while driving cattle north of the Pease River. The injury is painful but Starr hopes to regain mobility soon. He is the son of H. B. Starr.
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Minor Starr
Young Starr
H. 8. Starr
Pease River
ASK PUPILS HELP TO GET PEACH SEEDS
The War Department urges the American Red Cross to collect peach stones and other seeds to produce carbon for gas masks. Citizens, especially schoolchildren, are asked to donate dried seeds and foil items, with local drop points at Red Cross rooms and George J. Mason.
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Gas Defense Division
War Department
American Red Cross
Locas Red Cross
Wilbarger County
France
Red Cross
North Main Street
Geo. J. Mason
Swartwood & Company
N. R. Fleath
Jewery
Services Discontinued at Church of Christ Meeting
The Church of Christ in Vernon closed Saturday night as Elder Horace W. Bushy fell ill with a severe Spanish influenza attack and returned home to Fort Worth. Fidel Austin Taylor from Weatherford led the singing. both men expect to resume services in Vernon on the third Sunday in September. The meeting lasted one week with eighteen additions: eleven by baptism, six by letter, and one by reclamation.
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Vernon
Wilbarger County
A. TE. Murchison
Dallas
G. B. Zachry
White Produce Company
North Main Street
A. H. Murchison
Church of Christ
Horace W. Bushy
Fort Worth
Bushy
Fidel Austin Taylor
Weatherford
Eider Bushy
Urges Broom Corn Growth in County
A letter from I. Crutchfield of Sayre, Oklahoma, formerly of Wilbarger County, argues broom corn is a profitable crop with a longer growing season. He cites two money crops, cotton and broom corn, and notes Wilbarger’s climate is similar though it has a later harvest window. He mentions September frost and planting times that favor broom corn over cotton.
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Wilbarcer
Wilbarger
GIN REPORTS SHOW 36 PER CENT CROP
Cotton reports indicate about 3 800 bales from Willarger county farms based on 5 percent of reported gins. Vernon gins total 1511 with amounts for Planters 660 Farmers 430 FL and M 412 Oklahoma reports 275 Forge 240 Lockett 628 Tolbert 150 Odell three gins 765 Star 415 and other notes. Royal gins show near 50 percent of last year while county gin output sits around 60 percent. Prices quoted about 30 cents per pound.
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Willarger Counnty
Chillicothe and
Ragland
Vernon
Farmers
FL & M
Olktamnion
Forge
Lockett
Tolbert
Odell
Sutton
Chickasha Cotton Oi Company
Hillott
Record Subscription Price Change Notice
The Record increases price to $2.00 starting November 1 and nonpaid subscriptions will be discontinued per government regulation. Publishers have no option. Renew by calling the office or mailing a check.
donor drive for soldiers books at the public library
The library seeks donations including Harper’s Encyclopaedia of United States History alongside fiction sets and textbooks. Donors are asked to provide Kipling scrapbooks Story T-rolders and other items to cheer soldiers. Soldiers in hospitals favor short engaging reading and cartoons over war verse.
A W Ferris Dies in Chillicothe
A W Ferris dies Sunday night in Chillicothe. Former manager of Orient Milling Company and later with Ken Kell of Wichita in the tie off business. Mr and Mrs B A Williams traveled to Chillicothe yesterday as friends express sympathy.
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B. A. Williams
Chillicothe
Mar. Williams
A. W. Ferris
Ferris
Orient Milling Company
Ken & Kell
Wichita Palle
Gordon Son Arrives Safely Overseas in WW II
Mr and Mrs Carl Gordon announce their son Private Roy S Gordon has arrived overseas. He departed July 16 and was trained at Fort Sam Houston and Camp McArthur. He serves with the 28th Company BR. A BR D.
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Carl Gordon
Roy S. Gordon
Fort Sam Houston
Camp McArthur
Hampton heading to Camp Dick from Wichita Falls
Sk W Hampton returns Saturday from Wichita Falls and leaves today for Camp Dick in Dallas. He will join the repair depot of the aviation field.
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Hampton
Camp Dick
Sk. W. Hampton
Saturntay
Wichita Falls
Dallas
Unconditional Surrender and Wilson’s Peace Stance
A dramatic account of President Wilson’s reply to the German peace feeler, insisting on unconditional surrender and continued Allied military drive. The piece notes his rejection of evacuation talks, the continuation of U S and Allied troop deployments, and the implied abdication or revolution in Germany as a path to peace. It references Hohenzollern autocracy and potential Austrian separate peace moves.
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Wilson
Germany
Eagetse
United States
Prince Max
Mount Vernon
Hohenzollerns
Rhine
Austria-Hunga
Austria
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Robert Hows
Sels
Waggoner National Bank
Long Beach, Calif
J. H. Kincheloe
Pelton
W. H. Huggins
W. A. Atchison
C. B. John
Arthur Pelton
Leslie
Loan
W. H. Houregins
Crowell
Benjamin
Knox
Paducah
Henrietta and
Seymour
B. Johnson
Paduenh
Buckner
Tolbert Man
Enza
Wilgarger
Beckham County
Okla
Crutchfield
Sayre
Merly
Wilburger County
Willarger County Farms
Arnegie Librarean
Kipling
Harper's Encyclopaedia of
United
Wut
A.W. Ferris
Belgium
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