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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1922
Page
3
The fragment outlines a suggested program for Wilbarger County including Lee Highway, a well equipped camp ground in West Texas, county city auditorium, purebred live stock, an annual poultry crop valued at 32,000,000, and a county fair. It also mentions a systematic development of trees along both sides of the Colorado Doplogule Highway.
The Star-Telegram urges Texas mothers to organize rural Mothers Clubs to improve schooling. It notes urban clubs formed 25 years ago sparked nationwide child welfare work and argues rural areas must unite to create better schools, advocating at least 1,000 clubs and monthly meetings.
A year after the reunion of Confederate Veterans NW Texas fiddlers were honored guests. The trio performed as the dean of the nation’s bow artists, praised by press across the south and received by the governor of Tennessee in the hall of Representatives.
The East Texas publisher seems to have forgotten this memorable decision. The Record directs attention to Vernon where old fashioned fiddlers still play Pop Coes the Weasel.
Washington bulletin forecasts a rainy October with extreme temperatures and early frosts. Three reverse storm periods around October 3 12 and 27 keep the atmosphere unsettled, delaying warmth east of the Rockies while hotter weather persists west. Metober rains hoped to prepare soil for winter grain sowing.
The article recounts Red Cloud’s leadership and tactics against U S forts on the Bozeman Trail, his war like stance, the 1866 Fort Phil Kearny battle, the wagon box fight, and his ultimate peace after 1868. It notes his long life, blindness, and death on December 10 1909 as the era closes.
A weather summary outlines temperatures and storm activity from several sections across latitudes. It notes first-week October severe storms and increasing rains, warmer than usual averages, and mentions a hurricane in the first paragraph guiding regional forecasts and a need to consult detailed tables. It also reports a Texas Woman's College violin program and a Fort Worth post graduate course event with a concert program and sermons.
The First Methodist church announces a special musical program both morning and evening next Sunday. Two prominent choir members, Miss Catherine Pierce and Miss Georgian Castlebury, depart next week for school, with Pierce to attend Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Hollars Shop offers wagon hardware in stock. Located second door north of Puckett Bros. Grocery. OT-13te Buy now and save money by patronizing Hollars Shop. TO-3te
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