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Newspaper
Vernon Record
Location
Vernon, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1922
Page
4
The county considers a plan with seven proposals including the Le Highway, a well equipped caml ground in West Texas, a county city auditorium, purebred livestock program on every farm, a two million dollar annual poultry crop, an annual county fair, and systematic tree development along both sides of the Colorado-Gulf Highway.
An editorial extols radio as a science breakthrough breaking farm isolation. It notes radios connect Wilbarger County farms to ballgames, weather, crop reports, sermons, and music from distant cities, with low-cost sets under 50 cents empowering a broader back-to-the-farm movement and urban conveniences reaching rural life.
The article argues Vernon needs a modern gas system pleudit SCH system and other urban improvements including paved streets libraries water and electricity. It claims Vernon compares well with larger cities in utilities and institutions except for a lack that holds back growth, though the surrounding trade and growth prospects are strong.
Vernon civic leaders weigh bringing natural or artificial gas to town with sources at Electra and near six to eight miles away. Amarillo field looms to the west as a potential vast reservoir, with numerous towns between Vernon and the field likely to gain gas access. Citizens are urged to plan for future gas service from any viable source to secure reasonable prices and growth.
In New Castle county Delaware two district dairy exalt clubs held shows on August 4 and August 8 where club members demonstrated selecting and fitting dairy animals for exhibitions under extension worker guidance. Ninety farm youths have enrolled in dairy calf clubs in four years, with a notable rise in purebred dairy cattle kept by adult farmers reported to the USDA.
Perry Howard, son of Mr and Mrs A D Howard, has gone to attend the medical college of the state university. A Columbia Military Academy graduate of Columbia Tennessee, he served as captain of Company B.
Georgia farmers reported to the U S Department of Agriculture that during the first half of 1922 they shipped live poultry in cooperative lots. The poultry were fed managed and standardized for shipment as advised by state and county extension workers.
A compact sketch of Geronimo's life from Go-Yath-Lay to a life in exile. The account covers his rise as a war leader, the mass killings by Mexicans, pursuit by U.S. forces, capture in 1886, and later years including missions, shows, and attempts to return to Arizona.
Washington reports October will ease heat and humidity, with rainfall shifting. sections predict cooler days and storm patterns through early October. A separate note discusses ether theories of space, planetary material exchange, and sun building forces, followed by a recipe for Trish Potato cake from a cooking school contest.
A garbled broadcast listing from WWAA and sister papers outlines a Sept 24 to Sept 30 schedule featuring musical programs with notable artists, weather forecasts, cotton region bulletins, market news, and baseball scores. The weekly plan includes multiple time blocks across meters and central standard times with daily music spots and finals.
Dr A P Howard and A C Robinson, famed for resin and bow, left Thursday for Weatherford to assist in staging an old fiddlers exhibition. Several other violin artists are expected to attend the meet.
A cordial note invites friends visiting Dallas to stop at 1406 Main Street at Harry Gremms Barber Shop. The text references Bil Bradford and notes county extension agents conducted 1921 demonstrations on 250,000 farms with diverse crops and animals, reporting 5 000 field meetings with about 1 000 000 attendees per USDA reports.
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