West Texas towns report growth and new enterprises
Loraine forms Citizens League led by C. E. Green and Alonzo Phillips, affiliating with the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. McCamey Chamber drives membership while Wichita Falls prepares a Kraft Cheese Company cheese factory. Trent sees growth despite oil downturn as El Dorado? plans progress. Panhandle North Plains delegates head to district chamber convention in Wellington on August 25. Slaton hosts a lively sixth luncheon of the chamber. De Leon buys fourteen carloads of pedigreed cattle. Sweetwater opens a $200,000 municipal auditorium with the West Texas Chamber of Commerce band. Graham installs Major Turner E. Camp as secretary. Ballinger orders 25 blocks paving at $75,000. Oak Grove Hatchery opens in Bow ie with 6,000 egg incubators. White Deer contracts three blocks brick paving and white way system. Lamesa National Bank opens with resumed business.
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Ber of Commerce
Wichita Falls
Kraft Cheese Company
J. A. Kemp
Faith
TRENT
Trent Is
Wellington
Panhandle-North Plains
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Slaton
Slaton Chamber of Commerce
DE Leon
Graham
Turner E. Camp
Graham Chamber of Commerce
Ballinger
City Commission
Bowie
Oak Grove
White Deer
Lamesa
Lamesa National Bank
State Song Contest Committee Meets at Coleman
The State Song Contest committee from the 25th Senatorial District meets in Coleman Texas on September first at 10 a.m. to invite entrants who meet rules. Mrs Sim Cottelle of Ballinger is chairman and entries go to her there. Rules limit four stanzas max, printed text, and can be by one or multiple authors. Prize of 1000 dollars to be divided.
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Coleman
Texas
Sim Cottelle
Ballinger
Texas Song Contest Rules and 1927 Plans
The statement outlines Texas music contest rules for writers living in Texas at least five years, with submission deadlines August 15 and September 1 1927, and a state final around November 1 during the State Fair of Texas. It notes district judges from varied public and artistic ranks, elimination leading to 31 district songs plus six from a prior legislature, and a single song chosen for adoption by the legislature. Walter C Woodward signals plans amid Prohibition politics.
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Texas
Dallas
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Jesse, Marion and
George
Old
Chevrolet
North Main St
West
Loraine
Cc. E. Green
Alonzo Phillips
McCamey
McCamey Cham
Sweetwater
Chaasia
Winters Motor Co
Lek Ead
Walter C. Woodward
Drys
A.l.barlow
S. Main Street
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