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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1921
Page
3
J A Creager urges Wilbarger County voters to support road bonds citing labor costs, federal and state aid, and regional need. He travels Oklahoma Kansas and Colorado to witness road conditions and argues bonds will create jobs and prevent tax money aiding neighboring counties.
Mr and Mrs Dewey Wilson returned from California where they attended the Big Tree Convention of Pacific Mutual Life agents in June. Mr Wilson earned a free trip for high sales and completed a home office training course by correspondence to tailor policies to buyers needs. He ranks among the companys top producers and has qualified for a free convention trip to New Orleans in fall 1922.
City of Vernon Texas invites sealed bids for city depository services from banks corporations or individuals. Bids must be submitted to the City Secretary by September 1 1921. The city reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Secretary S H Hal.
A. R. Thomas of Parkburnett and head of Thomas Lumber Company traveled to Vernon on Wednesday for business linked to the local yard.
Prairie View Baptist Church will host the Wilbarger Association women next Wednesday September 7. The program includes hymn Jesus Calls Us devotional welcome words, responses, president's message, committee announcements, voices from the field, vocal solo, official reports, juvenile and personal service leaders, address by District President Mrs BE Francis, report of committees and election of officers, and Mizpah Benediction.
PTA members arrange homes for all teachers attending the fourth county institute in Wichita Falls. County Superintendent Birt Bryant says room and breakfast will be provided at $1 per day. Teachers arriving by Sunday to Mr Bryant at the courthouse for assignment. those arriving Monday to the high school building.
The FE. Tr. Murchison Chapter 4240 memorializes Annie Brannon, a devoted sister, wife and mother, with heartfelt sympathy. It directs the family toward solace in faith, notes the loss to the home, and orders copies sent to the family Vernon papers and recorded in the minutes, dated August 18 1921.
Tans announced plans to erect America's largest printing plant in Chicago to print western editions. The company will produce the Saturday Evening Post for western distribution. Dolphins and Hugh Bonreant returned from Fort Worth and other Tarrant county trips to visit relatives. They visited Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Satterwhite in Vernon. Mrs. F. W. Henry returned to Dallas after weeks with her mother, accompanied by her sister Miss Minnie Renfro.
The DeKreko Brothers attract crowds at the Wilbarger County Fair with a daily afternoon and evening program. The midway sits east of the grand stand as visitors fill the grounds. Highlights include a wild west exhibition with a two year old Jersey bull, a carry minstrel show with an all star cast, wrestlers and boxers, snakes and their handlers, a knife thrower, and singing girls.
Frederick W. Galbraith Jr national commander of the American Legion at his death in Indianapolis will not be interred in Arlington Cemetery Washington. Burial will be Withie Wade at Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati where the body was placed in a temporary vault after the largest military funeral in America since the Civil War.
The Vernon School Board annnounces a fire escape will be constricted immediately at Shive School, noting it will be the only building with this feature while others have adequate stairways and basements not higher than five feet above grade. Mr and Mrs N R Heath and Miss Dorothy are in Colorado for a month with Dorothy planning a Chicago trip for winter study with an aunt in Wichita Falls visits. Ten days
Voters in Witharger county will elect a county superintendent of schools on Saturday September 10. The election fills the vacancy caused by the resignation of JON Fulcher who becomes principal of the local high school. The ballot lists Mrs Della Houssels and J A Hollar.
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