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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1922
Page
6
Wilbarger County news recounts Sept 1922 storm at Fargo with wind and rain, crop damage, and a short cotton season amid drought. It covers the Wilbarger Food Association meeting at Hinds Baptist Church, a Hen Shower fundraiser, church activities, baptisms, 4-H and school notes, and community visits from Lockett to Vernon with many names and local events.
Special correspondent reports the Martin Bildstein place gains a functioning gin with the first bale ginned belonging to Prank Choate. Mr and Mrs Clarence Woodward are mentioned among those present as the community notes progress in Parsley Hill on September 6, 1928.
Odell began the week with a large attendance as classrooms organized pupils and trustees cleared debris from the building. Nearby visitors G B Newton and family returned home after two weeks in Wise County. Attendees of a Round Timbers barbecue from Odell included multiple local residents and visiting relatives. A quarterly Methodist conference is scheduled, with Mr. McDoyal of Crowell addressing the ladies. Many Odell residents and visitors are noted in recent social and church movements, with a light Monday shower recorded.
September events capture visits by Mrs Fred Ham and Mrs J W Ladd of Vernon to locals, plus trips by Mr T E Davis to Lubbock and John Bell Lockett to Dallas. Widespread greetings from El dorado OK, Fort Worth, and Greenwood accompany notices of BOF Simmons’s death and burial in East View cemetery.
Widespread visits as Mrs Goodger and Mrs Lester of Vernon visit Sid Bradley family. Annie Nunn hosts friends from Lubbock and San Marenas with a singing evening at Sid Bradley’s. Dry weather cuts cotton, villagers busy pulling the crop. Families travel to Beaver Creek for camping and fishing. Rev Johnson to start a meeting at Wildeat on September 4 lasting a week. Community members attend funerals in Vernon and visit kin in Dallas and Lockett.
Parsley Hill notes Sept visits from Dempsey Monroes of Post City and Jennie Monroe of Delhart to sister Mrs Godfrey Streit. Charlie Ladd and Bratton of Vernon called Tuesday night. Godfrey Streit attended Tolbert church with Br Ro V Toles and wife L B Tooley present. Dave Burnsmith and Rollie Neel drove to Vernon Monday. Rh Huffman and wife and Mrs Godfrey...
Frey Sieie attended church at Thalia Tuesday. Mrs Ro Bew and daughters visited Mere. K Hafer Mondar in the Locket. Commanis Mrs. R B Box and children of Ver now visiting B & Bos. Homer Wright and family were business visitors in Vernon Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Lanier and family visited friends in town this week.
Sept 8 report from Red River with Miss Chiara McDougal returning from Canyor Herrin McDohent leaving for Denver. Mrs Lott Patterson visiting Mrs Humphreys near Odell. Grace Prize returning to Odell to continue work. Baptist meeting by Rev W Bell and Rev Pearson closes at Red River schoolhouse. Tolbert's Litford McDougal visits H N McDougal. Spurgeon McDougal family visits. Rev Graydon led services at Pleasant Valley. Nora Cook attends Fargo meeting. Locals attend C A Brooks singing school at Plainview. Fishing trip by several youths from Pleasant Valley and community. W G Perry and wife visit Odell.
Pleasant Valley notes record locals including Fern and Ann Lou Kester Mary Alice Thompson Juanits and Bratcher family members Lee Turner Charley and Emma Kester T J Watson visiting Odell on business and a picnic at Round Timbers ranch with Hubert Bratcher in Odell Saturday morning.
Mrs. Harry Mason and son Evans returned Sunday from Boulder Colorado where they spent the summer. Evans will depart for Dallas to visit Harry Perkins for a few days before heading to Austin to attend the state university. Mr. Mason continues studies in business administration and law, entering his second year at the Texas University.
Misses Daniseta and Bob Standifer returned Thursday morning from a European tour. Standifer joined a party in New York on June 15 and visited major European nations. They saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau and stayed in Paris. The group sailed from Europe in August for New York, with the Standifers stopping in Dallas as guests of Mrs Ada Gunn Welch.
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