Resettlement Authority Details Farm Rehabilitation Loans
The Resettlement Administration has issued loans totaling 51 713 10 to 148 farmers in Collingsworth County since July 1 1936. Loans cover farm supplies livestock household needs feed seed and food with county supervisors guiding farm plans and home management. Rehabilitation funds statewide from July 1 1936 to June 12 1937 totaled 2 522 888 20.
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Resettlement Administration
Collingsworth
Harvey S. Darman
Wellington
Joana
Plymouth and Samnorwood By Mrs C W Frista
Mrs Edna Hodges of Houston visits her parents Mr and Mrs W L Browning and brothers Ernest and Nolan Browning. Mr and Mrs James Whitfield visit Abra relatives. Rev J C Clement and wife visit son Edd of Wellington. historic Plymouth angers over Pilgrim controversy.
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Edna Hodges
Houston
W. L. Browning
Ernest and Nolan Browning
James Whitfield
Abra
Claud Whitfield Sanday
J. C. Clement
Edd
Wellington
Clement
Community Notes and Local Visitation Highlights
The farming community reports crops being planted and grasshopper poison efforts underway. Local families share visits and illnesses including Mrs. Breeding recovering from an appendicitis operation. Mrs. Ray of Corpus Christi with her daughter in Wellington. Several residents travel to Canyon and McLean for summer plans and family gatherings. An unrelated line notes a physics fact: at 30 knots a destroyer is lengthened six to eight inches by side pressure.
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Alin Coleman
Shamrock
Wayne Laycock
Ola Mae Tate
Buster Stoaks
Mark Mitchel
McLean
John Byrd Guill
Elmer
Pearl Strong
J.C. Breeding
Alice Laycock
Alice Brewer
Wheeler
Farmers and ranchers boost land gains in Texas programs
Northwest Texas county agents report farmers improving holdings under the Agricultural Conservation Program. Potter County lays out 36 dam sites with 14 finished and five under construction, averages 8 000 cubic yards in fills, while 12 dams built before heavy rains held. Callahan County has 740 producers in the 1927 program, Nolan County 75 farms and 80 percent of cultivated land enrolled, and Gray County ranchers plan 75 tanks totaling 30 projects under range conservation. Dams range 500 to 4 000 cubic yards.
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Texas
Potter County
Callahan County
Nolan County
Gray County
Rose Schneiderman Named Secretary of New York Labor Dept
Miss Rose Schneiderman, longtime leader of the New York Women's Trade Union League and former NRA Labor Advisory Board member, has been appointed secretary of the New York State Department of Labor.
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Rose Schneiderman
New York Women's Trade Union League
NRA Labor Advisory Board
New York State Department of Labor
Local Residents Attend Visits Across Texas and Kansas
Mrs. R H Templeton left for Dallas Thursday. Mrs. Fred LeDerer visited Vernon last week, then returned to McAllen after visiting Mr and Mrs W W Monroe and Mr Dayton's Kansas City relatives. Mrs. Austin ONeil and Mrs J C Dean were Shamrock visitors. Bernice Martindale is improving after a two week illness. Mrs G B Miller left for Pampa for a few days with daughter Mrs Earl Tompkins. Zula V Porter visited sister Mrs Eugene Wright in Fort Worth last week.
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Fred LeDerer
Vernon
Fred H. Dayton
Daugh‘ter
Phyllis Gail
McAllen
W. W. Monroe
Mr. Dayton
Kansas City
G. B. Miller
Pampa
Earl Tompkins
Zula V. Porter
Mrs
Eugene Wright
Fort Worth
Family News Notes From Rhome and Surrounding Towns
Florence Bobo of Rhome visits her sisters Mrs. C. E. High Mrs. J. B. Castleberry and Mrs. Dewey Bilis this week. Mig Bobo will leave next week for New York City to attend Columbia University. Mrs. Silas Henry spent the weekend in Chillicothe visiting her mother Mrs. Poole. Gerald Farr Christine and Claire Jo Hicks of Seymour visit their father Rev. W. B. Hicks.
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Florence Bobo
Rhome
C. E. High
J. B. Castleberry
Dewey Bilis
Mig Bobo
New York City
Columbia University
Silas Henry
Chillicothe
Poole
Gerald Farr
Christine and
Claire Jo Hicks
Seymour
Rev
W. B. Hicks
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Plymouth and
Samnorwood
C. W. Frista
Plymouth
Pilgrim
New York
Mra
Ava Lee Groves
Jeryth
Hanrsz
Mokea'a
Hanes
P.H. Hanes’ Knitting Co
Winston-Salem
N. C
BAK
Ualea- Meistesckromerss Tech
Bes
Glennis Wiseman
R. H. Templeton
Dallas
Austin O'Neil
J. C. Dean
Bernice Martindale
Armstrongs
Birdbrand
Bird - Brand
Coca
Wi de Pyke
Court House
NK Allagher
GRO
Steve Owens
C.D. Slay. Gro
Collingsworth County
Buick
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