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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1922
Page
7
Local enterprises offer free trips to the Texas State Fair as part of a community exhibit program. The text details best exhibits in home improvement, poultry club work, sewing, canning, and complete record books, with lists of canned goods, preserves, fabrics, and other project items.
Odell special correspondent reports Odell school will open Monday September 4 with large attendance expected. The staff includes G Lanier superintendent Mrs Dollie Williams principal Miss Madge Pepp and others. Various local families travel and marriages noted including Dewey Marsh and Saiss Augustat Castleberry union.
Gilda Gray known as Mary Milchh ulsmi Gorecki in Milwaukee faces a divorce suit from her husband John Gorecki a caretaker in his father s employ. They wed in 19 2 and separated in 1915 after ten years of marriage.
Special Correspondent reports cotton opening quickly in the area. Neighbors and relatives visit Vernon Dallas and Lockett with trips to Medicine Park and Mineral Wells. Families like Causey Moore Cantrell Box Church and Streit attend baptisms and Sunday events. crops described as very good in Dallas area.
The W. Mo AL Women’s Missionary Association plans a meeting at Hinds on September 0 with devotion by Mrs. L F Mims and Words of Welcome by Mrs. P B Barrett. Mrs J T Marr will give a response, and Mrs J EK Billington presents “As a Life the Child Shall Lead Them” followed by “In His service.” Mrs J Wilhelm will report committees. The association is auxiliary to the Witbarger Foard Association.
A Holiness meeting began in Vernon with daily services at the church in northeast Vernon. Rev. Farris from Childress is preaching. The meeting will continue indefinitely.
The thirteen day revival led by Foy E Wallace and S Teddlie at the Church of Christ tabernacle concludes tonight. Sixty additions including forty-one baptisms were recorded with daytime crowds near 250 and evening attendance over 1 200. Wallace and Teddlie head to Plainview for a ten day meeting starting Sunday. Milholland will continue local ministry with services Sunday at 10 a m and 2 30 p m.
New York futures closed easy with scattered movement across commodities. Cotton and grains markets showed mixed but steady activity with futures posting subdued gains and closings in line with market expectations.
Mary Roper of Little Blue Maine separated from her husband fifty years ago and her sons Joseph four and Charles one were taken. She worked seven years in London, then returned to America to search for them. Joseph, now grown, learned his mother existed and she discovered the younger son is in Ohio. She hopes for a Civil War back pension worth about ten thousand dollars.
J. A. Cox spent months traveling the grain belts of the United States and Canada and has returned to Vernon. En route to Canada he suffered a severe pneumonia attack that confined him to a sanatorium at Devils Park, North Dakota for several weeks. He is reported to be slowly recovering.
Robert Turner son of May and Mars, J S Turner, injured Saturday in a crash caused by driver Lennee Bonner, has been discharged from a local hospital and is practically recovered from his injuries.
UH Blom principal of the Elliott schools announces opening on Monday September 4 for the fall term. Teachers for the season include Mr. and Mrs Elam and Miss Trisler.
Strayed two black mares aged seven or eight, branded 2 on left shoulder. One mare blind in one eye. They were near Vernon on Ke Waggoner farm, southeast of Vernon. Reward offered. Contact Jesse Payne at Vernon Phating Mill. Also offering sale of goods including baby’s Kiddie Koop, phone listed.
Dr. Robert I. Dickinson, former Methodist pastor in Colorado Springs, is announced as the new minister for the local church. He will lead morning and evening services with his family arriving today after recent exchange of pastorates with Dr. Cy Waterfield.
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