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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1922
Page
5
Fashion notes detail longer fall skirts, with sport wear staying near the floor and dressy outfits inching up. Colors run warm with reds, russet, copper, and blue tones, while hats and velvet fabrics dominate store displays as women shop early for winter wardrobes.
Holcom Training School reports transfers this term from Vargo listing Wilxie iarvison Viten Holland Pauline Wilheim Phelan Lindsey Verna Switzer Jewel i wards and Richard Coffee Paro students entering Vernon high school Misses Pay Cullom Flat He Williamson and Mabel McLaughlin Presbyterian Guild members plan Monday meeting at Mrs B D Frantken home on W Texas street full attendance urged.
The U S Department of Agriculture notes sectional differences in naming wheat byproducts. Hard winter regions in the Southwest Nebraska Kansas and parts of Iowa and Missouri share terms for shorts and middlings with near Northern white wheat areas like Minnesota and the Dakotas. The article explains regionally used terms such as shoria and middlings, and clarifies that milling methods are similar despite composition variations.
Mrs YX J Wilhelm president of Fargo Home and School club calls a Monday afternoon meeting at Mrs H H Scherer home to arrange the county fair booth. Members urged to attend. Swartwood & Co offers tents wagon covers pick sacks knee pads syrup pails and preservation cane.
Vernon radio pioneer, among the first owners of radio sets, reports tuning in to fifteen stations in forty minutes from TOO to 230 pm on Wednesday night. He describes a home made triple regenerative set with a 35 foot antenna and 100 four wires. Twelve stations listed include WIA Wichita Falls WHR Sweeney Kan City WLAI Waco WWI Tereau Mich WEAY Houston etc. He notes reception of signals from Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri New Mexico Colorado Nebraska Nevada Washington D C California Michigan Iowa Georgia Louisiana Tennessee Arkansas Indiana Pennsylvania and Ohio. He awaits a 590 watt set being installed by the Star Telegram to broaden coverage and keep Fort Worth broadcasts in range.
Lockett residents met to canvass firm owners and secure a right of way for the Lee Highway trans continental road. Verna Weekly was named to organize paying members for the highway association, with refunds if Vernon is not chosen. Vernon attendees included Dr H Coffees and others. Two hundred sixty thousand farm families adopted new home garden practices under USDA extension demonstrations in 1921.
A compact trade notice announces Swartwood and Co displaying ranges at Ta 1 cent. The brief item notes a promotional stock sale, highlighting inventory details and pricing in a local commerce context.
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