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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1920
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows a post office notice issued at Welling Exab under March actions. Details are illegible but indicate official mail handling or postal posting within the period.
The letter advocates cutting weeds and notes demand for lighted streets and 24 hour service. It mentions a Panhandle electric plant and warns against using coal oil lamps. Indications point to a third party formed by disgruntled Republicans and renegade Democrats with Laallette as leader.
Altus Oklahoma health officer plans next week clean up and home store inspections. Cards labeling sanitation will be displayed at stoves and homes and cannot be removed without health official order. Quanah Observers
Fragments describe oil strike in Lest or Willington area causing concern over sanitation and public health. Officials plan rapid cleanup and readiness for a population surge as workers arrive and the town anticipates a new development.
Last Sunday at Quail an all day singing drew attendees who witnessed an exciting fist fight. Four gentlemen clashed over a prior dispute with blows lasting a few minutes before authorities separated them. The crowd deemed a singing event no place for such ungentlemanly conduct and the day proceeded without further incident.
Linen and linen paper maps of Collingsworth County show streams width and exact locations. The M K & T Railroad, school houses, drilling wells for oil, and other features are accurately depicted. DYSART NICHOLSON advertise abstracts farm loans and insurance. Telegrams mutilated report Mexico unrest affecting U S administration.
Washington reports May records show the average family's food budget rose three percent from April and seven percent from January as sugar flour and potatoes drive costs higher. The Labor Department notes food accounts for about 18 percent of a working family budget and prices are unlikely to fall while food costs keep rising. Sugar up 26 percent corn meal 14 percent flour 7 percent potatoes 3 percent since April.
Farmers around White Deer seek about five hundred harvest hands. Those seeking work should come to White Deer or write for wage information. The notice is from The First National Bank of White Deer and Fid Riley inviting business.
A bond election is set for July 17 1920 in Aberdeen school district No 2 to authorize 3000 or six bonds of 60600 each for building a free school. The county court may levy a tax to pay interest and establish a sinking fund. Eligible property taxpaying voters may cast ballots.
The speaker proclaims that if provided with wartime spending, they would fund universal land purchases, endow global attire programs, construct schools on every hillside, establish academies in towns, and create colleges in each state with qualified professors, pledging transformative education and welfare.
Dysart and Nicholson advertise farm loans abstracts and insurance. Gunsmith shop closing urges customers to contact W G Taylor. Peters Shoes prices affirmed. Quail Merc Co promotes hail insurance through Mrs J M Strong Agency. A new horse shooer at Ed Rileys.
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