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The Vernon Record Published and Friday VO IJ 'ME 16. VERNON, WILBARGER TEXAS, 'I TESI)AV. JINK 3, 11)24. MB -18. CLUB GiRLS HERE THREE ASPIRANTS FOR THREE DAYS FOR SENATE FROM MEET AT OTY PARK THE 23RD DISTRICT Program Complete as to En- Time for Filing for Places on Mamie Lee Hayden District Agent to Expected During Stay in Vernon Ballot for State and District Oft ices losed ocal Candidates Have Till June 1 i Manages Hotel CONTRACT IS LET FOR NEW BUILDING TO COST $30,000 I R.

I. Jones Is To Be Contractor on Dixon Store and Office Structure in Deal Closed Be Rushed CHIEF, FIGURES IN, NEWS OF THE DAY. I 1 null from over the county hcte three duys rliis Aitk, Friday ami Saturday, in mihuu I em.mip- mcnt, which iu held this year as is the custom in A Ingham jiark. Miss Fm.i.’.t demou- agent il'muger Bounty. is in They i11 arrive Thursday inorn- i ti it 10 o'clock at (Mirk, where they, will register and into mp organization.

Mayor Hai ry Mason will give the address wch -ome. Miss Mamie Lee Hayden, district a-miii. will lectuie. Miss Rama I Butler of foiancr eluh girl, now a student in B. I.

will give a lecture on and dyeing" and Miss Aria of Claude, who sjieeializf in ground supervision at c. I. A. will have charge of Tiygrou. I The girls will visit til Vcrti'ti Record and the Venn Times Bridie af ter noon.

same afternoon, they will guests at the picture shows and nl.hi will en.io) a concert given 1 the Vermin Bon cert hand. Local business men will talk. Thursday first and fourth year girls and the second and third year girls, will singe a hall game. The following program will hi rried out Thursday, Id Meet at park ami register. 10 to 11 ai inizalion 11 to 11 :45 -Welcome Mayor Mason.

12 to 1 Lunch. 1 to 1 b) Rest. 1 to 2 Talks hy former eluh uirls. 2 to 5 Ball game, first fourth year club girls, versus ond and third at Fair Bark. 6 to -Suppei 7 to Songs, games and to 0:30 Bet ready for he, 0:45 Lights out.

Friday. -June 6:1 -Rising hell. 6:30 to 7:30 Breakfast. 7 to Exercises lean camp. to Hmumdac onstffttion Miss Mamie den.

10:2.0 t', 11:45 Buftonlud Holder contest. 11 :45 to 12 lo Lunch. 1 to show. 2 to 5Vi-if Reeor Times Offices. andidates in Senator from the enatorial district, composed nle an.

Willigtger. Wichita. B.iyior. Archer. Knox Vongg comities, according to 0 Minus mode with the Bounty Democratic Executive Committee for on tin official ballot.

The filing as candidate for offices closed yesterday Three nimr for iml pill! lime district fie, are id j.tml the lists for tiii'si ht'refore h.sed. for the senatorial nomination are I. D. Parnell. Wichita Kails: B.

L. Martin. John B. Marshall, ijminuh )f iiio liumher Mr. Parnell has in the running for some time I le made a tentative announcement last fall and more recently made his formal announcement.

Both Messrs. Marshall and Martin are late entries, lmfing made theii 11 neeiicements within the past few Mr. Parnell was at one time a member of the Lower House of; the Legislature, going as Uepresen tative from Wilbarger Bounty. Mr. I Marshall is at present a member of i he Legislature.

Buinn Williams of Decatur is 'unojiposed for Congress from I thirteenth district. as is Cecil iStm-ev for Legislature from lolst district, composed of Wlehi- i i and Wilbarger counties, and his Mouther. John A. Storey, for District Attorney for Forty-sixth judicial district. Judge it.

W. Hall, for many years a resident of Vernon, is nu- opposed for chief justice of the I Court of Civ Bontraets were awarded Saturday for tile erection of a store and office mdhllng for J. A. mi the site, occupied by the store of Dixmi Dry Boosts Company destroyed hy fire las) February. The new building Is to lie two stories and basement, thirty t112 feet.

with all eight-foot casement in the ar to provide light and Mutilation The structure will cost in excess of $30,000 complete. The building contract awarded He mo as a bellhop in a Boston hotel has been appointed manager of the Lee House, one of the most exclu- 1 1 hunldng Bive hptels In Washington, D. C. He Suv filled every job known arpund A Amarillo.in nail i a architect on building and was here Saturday when bids were Several out-ol tow tractors sulunitted bids on tl in addition to the local conti Work on the foundations and 'will start as soon as materials can be assembled and building will he rustled to completion with all possible haste. Every effort will he made to have the building ready for occupancy this fall.

The ground floor will he used as a store room for Dixon Dry Goods Bomjwnv. The store front will lie along the latest and most approved plans, including recess spacious lobby and one ci non window. There will COUNTY WINS IN CONFERENCE ROAD BOND CASE ON FRANCHISE TO ON RRST TRIAL! GET GAS SUPPLY i Judge A. Martin of Wichita Falls Sustains FM a of Abatement, Dismissing Suit and Dissolving Appeal Is Taken D. M.

Owner of ihe Church Well, and City Commissioners in Session Today Practically Agree on Terms of Thursday mit attacking the validity road boud Issue voted 22. iu road district No. 4, The of tin March know us the East Vernon tkluiui jhm district, was dismissed Mon 'day morning hy Judge P. A. Mar tin of Wichita Fulls, sitting into Vernon for use as ii sneiial judge and the injunction I fuel, while no definite agreement granted hy Judge sines Lent was reached, it Is eonshh i Conferences were held today by me rs of the City Commission nnd D.

Church, owner of the Church well, south of town, relative to granting a frnneuise for SET FOR JUNE 23 REGIONAL MELTING OF WEST TEXAS OF TO HE IIEl.l) AT MEMPHIS HENKY KOROANTKAl ANGELO ELLIS'ON H- 1 li.YV- and tl to 7 7 to 7 20 Bnmes and to 0 Band oncert talk hy h-cal business men. to Bet ready for bed. Saturday, dune 7. to (1:15 Rising 1 to super vised by Miss Aria M- Blm :15 to P.real'i i-t to It Making Books Miss Ilavih'U. il Appeals at Amarillo.

to which pluee lie was ek'NUted mitt re (Jovernor Neff, following the of the late Chief H. Huff, also a former Vernon man. There are two candidates for associate justice of the Court of Civil Appeals at Amarillo. Judge Hal Randolph, appointed hy Gover- jfmirth of a serii Inor Neff to the vacancy created hy the death of Judge Huff and the and pjomotion of Judge Hall to the ichief justiceship, is a candidate to succeed himself. He is opjKtsed hy Judo Tatum of Dallmrt.

Judge of the district composed of Lfillani. Oldham, Deaf Smith and other Panhandle counties. The list of candidates for Tnlt- ed States Senator and state offices will certified hy the State Committee to the various county committees within the next few days. The time for the closing of the lists expired yesterday also. Candidates for county and pre- i offices have until June 14 to I tile for places on the official lint.

Soon after this rime the County Committees will meet, draw for pb.ces the ballot for all offices. (determine the cost of holding the primaries and the cost ug the candidates. R. A. liighsmith.

organization manager of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, was in yesterday on business. He is making a tour of this section of the territory served by bis organization working up interest in the district, (invention to he held in Memphis June 22. The West Texas Chamber of Commerce has grown to such, on extent that executive be two cut nances to the store room. The stairway to the second floor will start in the main front, lobby ot the building along the south wall. The ceiling of the first story will he seventeen feet above the! floor.

A balcony will la- built in gk OKGE rear of the first storv. Light and ventilation will be furnished was dissolved The was taken ou a phxi of abatement, filed by for the count), Berry, uml of Vei uou, and W. Dumas of Duilu-. ulleglng that the suit was not brought by proper ipartles. Judge Martin sustained the plea of the County, dismissing tile Hiiit, dissolving the iujiimtion and orderiug the eosts assessed against the plaintiffs, C.

'lew, et nl. Attorneys for the plaintiffs. Tay-! lor Taylor and J. L. Lackey of Wichita Falls, formiollv exeejrted The House of Representatives hM confirmed the right of Royal It Hll(1 KHVe Weller, Democrat, of New York City, to a seat la which wai nm is contested by C.

Ataorge, RepubUcan. Angelo Milton ElUaon. to oei f.s the Greek ex-elevaUir boy. has filed suit in New York courts for the entire 517,000,000 estato of his alleged toster father. Edward E.

Searlee, mil- Seventh ourt of Ivll lionaire recluse of Methuen. ms which was inherited by Arthur T. Appeuls at Amarillo. Walker, setrretary. Henry Morgenthau, millionaire New York The ih i of the de philanthropist, has been officially thanked by the Greek Governnient lured that the road district his relief work among refugees from the Turks in Macedonia.

1 1 out in a manner unfair and Adolph Stern, of New York City, has been unanimously elected Grand of Ih.lndepedm OMsrBTItll Ap.Jym. in N. Y. JUc order lias COO In v.l.h I.r..|.-.ly jadded to the territory of road district No. 3, known the liarrohl preeim t.

It further alleged certain Irregularities in holding the olee- VETERAN OF TWO TOTAL ATT ENDANCE WARS IS BURIED DURING MAY IS 4815 MeT WLOR. PIONEER SI NHAY SCHOOL REPORT NCV and ieeided to bold in the rear wall and meetings for discussion of the throe large skylights, problems of the various sections of I The second will be divided West Texas and in order to bring ten modern office rooms, organization into closer eon- which may used sopnilitelv or tact with the iample. cn suite The Memphis convention is the The basement will he used for of regional meet- stock room and to house the coal ings held, in addition the nnitu- Uupply and heating plant for the nl convention of the entire organi- building. The basement will have zation. The Memphis meeting will two entrances, one from the rear be the first to lie held in Go Fort the outside of the building and the other running from the fixst floor.

Tills inti ei will nVike it possible for the first floor and basement to be thrown into (die department store, if de- sii ed. The building will conform in architecture with the Smith building being creeled on comer of IMaili and Texas Streets on lot OF ERNON LAID TO REST IN HENRIETTA DAY IS LITTLE LESS THAN AVERAGE OF MONTH Funeral serviei play ef'ernoon at rietta for who died at his home tlien day, May 21. following an of years. The services were held Sun o'clock in lien- McTcylor. HI, Satur illness were Worth Denver territory.

A Bourlaml of this city, vice president the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, will preside at the Memuh's meeting, lie being the vice president for this territory. Mr. Highsmith's headquarters are at Stamford with the general offices of the organization and will spend the greater part of this iconducted by Rev C. Hunt tin Baptist church and Rev of arrangement I How ell. of the Interment took Henrietta cemetery under let I iih il) I tic aits Texa month in the Ndrthwi Panliandlc territory.

Plans are being nJule pisiple to send a large to tin Memphis regional nw and mi effort wtii probably lie made to have the next meeting for tills section held ternoii. 'The and (adjoining the new Dixon huihling The letting of the contrac: on the local Dixon building leaves onlv one lot gatioulmade vacant hy Hu- disastrous ting fire which oeeurred early iu I cb- niHry. The lot yet to improved lies between the Dixon huihling old the Waggoner National Bank pices Mi ming i g( I nfa ed (lil- ll t- to 10 lie c-y 11 :20 1 n-nmnst i1 end Ramal But- ler. to 12:20 -Lund). 12:20 to -Cleanup grounds, and break (amp.

Jim Bomar Says Traffic Laws Must Be Obeyed Vernon Merchants To Take Pert in Monster Par ad; V'Tiion merchants are being a in Take part in the mix' pa- i ado which is to be staged entu.v afternoon 2 o'clock in the down town section of the city tor- mectmg at attract tion section. Mcmphi of the is exueeted to largest enliven- iseiubled in this FEKGESON DRI i. (STORE IS mal opening of Jam to 1 Alliiigham par displn.y a business i icttla inter. W. 11, Hu ('oaauunit Week, eh is to he held at Each firm will inner telling about he art her about, the banner, those are asked 'all Mrs.

ggins. telei 226. merchants are urged take 1 ar: in community affair ami to resiMiml with rearty co as they have in other forward movements fe Vernon. T. L.

PIERCE REMODELING IH ILDING ON MAIN STREET city marshall Jim Bomar, has war on all of the regulations and fines are being imposed on offenders double driving without tail lights ai.il having cut out open, three regulations that city is espeeinll.v enforcing He -tales that he is going to enforce i law to the letter. Double iiarking where a driver is ft in the ear to move it when ear is to bo driven out from the a iolatiop of the law, the as hawing a without a iiiriver. Itoth classes of violation will I report ed ami the parties stated Mr. Bomar. BOI KLAND AND SHARP SHIP STOCK TO FORT WORTH Gaining entrance through a window iu the rear of the building, thieves burglarized the Fergeson I Drug Store Sunday night taking approximately $75 worth coties.

The entrance to building was made some time after closing time Sunday night and lie- fore oHoning time Manila) ug. No has been found as to identity of the robbers. building. It was recently purchased by A. 11.

Murehisort who lias mot yet announced his detailed plans for liuoroviiig it It is however that he will e.cit a building on it daring the present veil r. Davis No. 1 Spudlded In Sunday At Eight of I lie Masons. Tay lor was in ton, itliio Jid. PsJ2.

ID- was idilier in the Civil War and to the Volunteer autrv After the war he enlist he regula a i mv a ltd as a lieiitenalit under rook, noted Indian fighter. For mi years he served In the num. taking ourt hi ninny engage- Iriniits. lie was ill the m-moiHhle When the Custer messa- 'ii occurred on the f.it11** Big Horn, June William I Buffalo Bill, was a scout I 1 ylor's ctmtpaii After his retirement from the armv. lie was umrriefl to Hestei Ru -I Crook of llalti Maryland.

The couple were (tried In Fort Worth hy Rev J. in Well hi Mi IHfttt Mrs -Taylor went to aUeodaiec at the various Sunday Sunday morning did not come up to the nveruge established during the past two months. average Is estimated 1251 while the total attendance Sunday was 1IH5. For the corresponding Humbly lest month the I attendance was 140M which is more than last Sunday The tal amount was only one rent less tin ii the nveruge collection of past wo months. collection at Hie various Sunday schools Sun dav was while average collection oh imated from total licet ion of he pa at two months.

$111.21 eiu.li Sunday The attend tine at the Sunday schools tie month of April at)d it sectned for a while that all attendance records would he broken but in the month of May the attendance fell off until largest attendance re- rejxirted during Hint month was 11)25 as compared to 140H the han- Codyjnei Sunday in April, with! The rejiort from th rnrlotis Hun- sihools Stimhtv follows: First Methodist Church. 315 pres cut eitii 1 ilbs-tlon tion at oklaunion and that many were ullowed to vote, who, were not under the law, qualified to vote In a road bond election. An uuicndcd was flhsl May 2 by A M. Htutt. It Custla- Lon Bfare, II Wright.

Joiioniflr Thieuie. K. Gandy, A. jc Roger and 11 L. Harrell as lo- terpleadlng plaintiffs, usklnf that they made co plaintiffs with C.

llnwley, in whose the original pn-t ft ion was adopt lug the pleadings of the original petition as their own Ltml further alleging that the ejection "was ear very pidbabhf ibut the purths will agree on the terms of the fruuehiae. Mr. Church is uskiug for stuutiully the snme franchise as is Iu effect In Kleetra. Several uiiu or cbuiigcN were suggested hy Mayor Harry Mason aud othci rnetn- I ih of the Commission. Most of these were agreed to, pend ng formal drafting of the fmuch 1 so and approvul of attorneys.

Mr Chun statist that he would have to consult his attorneys iu Wiehi Falls on certain aapeefs of the f'am h'fore saying definitely would accept, ami uiete.hers of the City CoiiMiiI.ssloa also want to obtain the am I I om of the City Attorney on certain I mq i hefora pwsaiug J. s. Cook, City Attorney, was on of today. Within the next few day the of the fruiieh will be ally to rushed out and it will uot be possible until that tluie for the parties to say whether it will be acceptable to both the City uml Mr. Church.

Another meeting will be reached und the passed. Following a leugthy diseusslou. both Mr. Church and met itiers of the Commission expnsiaed the tm- lief that a satisfactory franchise will worked out. Aa soon as franchise is Mr.

Churr-h atated that he will at once drilling another gas well ami If, as he confidenfHliy a gas field will la? proved up. he will Is'gln to lay a Hue to bring Into city, if everything goes aa expected, Mr. Church says it may possible to supply gus iu Vernon before next spring If a franchise cannot agreed Mr Church will off favor of said minus by Ithe gns In the well and go deep tied in use of money which was expended 1 pir in of oil In larger sums by paid ugcuts, whuj went among the voters in said dis- und electioneered In favor of the liouils, and that mi id acts the of sniit agents un- iluly lnflueiie.sl the voters in said district and misrepresented the purposes to tin said voters to sueti an extent us to the subl cbstioii to tu'come corrupt uud held several not true, voter, sound! was tested Saturday judgment of the ouwliftisl voters in took a sudden Jump Iu arguments U'fore the ut tiu- hearing yesterday k- it, of the attorneys for the iplxintlffa, slated that their contentions was not that tie? lsw per- mittlng the eatuhUohuaent of hjho isl road districts was tional. nor that any fdstid had committed hv the Commlaslouers Court, but that the Comuilasiouera i Imd drawn the of the) iu sin a way as to he Baptist Church. 341) present with $111.25 collection.

Church, 165 nrcMMif it li collection: t'cntrnl Christian Church, land tlm production was found to bo ut the of fourteen million cubic feet dally. BhMUiber of Commerce officials, City officials and others in securing a supply of imt iinl gas for of Vernon working ou the project uuil have informal cm ferenees with Mr Church Ihe owner of the well -ample capita! to push the enternriee through to early complct ion Farm Stock Judging Team Are Given First Lesson I Mm chi- Figg. No. I on th Davis mile south of Vernon, vs as tit Sunday night at a twenty inch bit. The be drilled to a depth of with the large bit lace water will he cut of fifteen inch Tin- dl Sllilig tlm vveil In Longview Sunday i Mrs.

P. A. Pegues Dies at Her Home (Id. 1 with Seymour soon after where they were in ness. A few years I to Vernon whet i heir home for in the 1 bus! news.

Prior I in the restaurant business their miiirinu'e til. hotel bust ater they tnov- they mndt mtil and ii that he lutdj 1.1 el the sur with a found that is to sand Mrs. A well kntiwn home there illness of WHS of Lmigvie.v died ut her Sunday following an several months. Inter- made the following day This led (will -t. is i hifirst tie itched well city to be d.i! Hid I lie le I infe A.

M. B'uirlnml and Marvin Sharp shims'd 7b head of hogs and (her 24 head of cuttle to ihe Fort Worth market Monday morning. This is the first shipment made hy these men this year from their stock farm four miles east of Vernon. Mr. Bomland and Mr.

Sharp in Longview cemetery. Mrs. had often daughters, Mr: E. P.DAY NIGHT Dt FDR SHERIFFS here autl in Vcmmi. ttnd he is I by timers I ate at his fainotu restaurants (cars tiy.

For over thirty he and his wife have lived Henrietta. retired from about 16 years ago. survived Ids devoted wife and era I impttcws ami nicses i net til was my many old friends uud n' ounininm Doan. ha It. and Mrs.

Igmt Klee relatives of Mr at tided tb" funeral. 137 present with -St: collection touch Christ ls7 resent with $6.56 collection; Tmtheran chnreh, pieseiit with $2 collection, Total present at sill Sunday schools i 1 11)5 with $61.26 collection jti tal attendnm dttring month Mav is 4M5 wilti $220.71 eolleo- n. Thla is 415 less In attendance i (than last month ami less In ion. fair and unjust to the plaintiffs), (lie also stated that while evidence if in holding the lection twun found, waa of opinion that they could uot prove that therv was a snffl- ricnf rinunber Illegal lo change the rmult of the i If thrown out The of plaintiffs, he said, was based out the alleged injustice and itnfair- Iness in laving out the district as bad been (tone fa tho aae of road district No. 4.

iu rendering Lie decision Judge tiu said ttiut the eouteiitlon 1 bat a tux In unjust because yiiln tux'siyar does not btumfit dl- icetly from the of tax cannot auataiusd in law lie that tnany people iv to built court bridges, and aebuol houses who never I A Dixon of Dixon use of them, and that If the iofsis ii Joel Fain, contention of the plaintiffs on this bookkeeper for three yearn with was sound court dockets flu nine luive formed a partnership ami will a Joel B. Fain and J. A. Dixon To Open Store in Memphis I would be filled with Injunction notion lauita asking that tax for ail DKI STGRE INSTALLS NEW (TEAM CONTAIN Li; visited 11. c.

Thumir- son and Mrs. C. E. B.iKham, former Saturday r.lit wa- a busy tirm residenta here and her grand- sheriffs diomrtment when daughter. Napier.

A wide (five negroes were arrester i circle of friends In Vernon regretJ iior, for selling lea beer and The City Drug store ha- mst-iil- Imr lGssii.g. She is survived by more were arc -ti-d in th -d an electric Ice machine vvtuch four daughters ami two J. G-least of the county for F.a:- six eon.onrtnients for and T. L. has let the contract far $5,006 worth of remodeling on Hie building owned him at the have heen in the stock business for lVgues Mrs.

C. Standi fer and ing the (ream. Hv of eh 11 i' aD corner of North Main and Texas several and have been J. A. Bass, all of Longview aught here was rented for mod an eie-tric current, the eon- strcH'ts.

to he oecunied by the J. C. ers in this seetion for pu reblood (Mrs. If. C.

Thompson. Ada Okla on the rarni'iJ uiner is below freexlng point Benney oninany about August 1. stock. In the past few year they Mrs. C.

E. Basham, Wichita Fulls (grounds The men arrested hi a minimum cost. An; farm The sinre in Memphis in tie near fu- I'tre Mr Fain ueeompuuied by bis -d-ter VIis.H Fain, left yesterday for Mciuohit) and Mrs Fain will leave today to Join her iitoJcind. Mr. Fain will manager of new store OMMVMTY PROGI4.VM PRACTICE AT PARK kinds of public be set aside.

It is lmiiossible to make public that will benefit all who must pay taxes to support them, he added. The four Selected by eom- etindnatlon lust week to represent Wilbarger emint. In the farm eluh bojV district judging contest to lield in Chil- dreM June 14 were given their' first lesson iu stock judging Saturday afternoon at Okla union. The lesson was on stock. The boys will 4k- given sfK-clal ouch ing on tali tyiK-s livestock la-fore time to leuto for trie contest and from records made by 'Wlllsirgor boys some of the re to be won by them at i four boys selected ae a touta to represent Wilbarger unty at ore.

Compton Rainwater, I of union, ltb a grade of Us, jfitlbert Nettles, of Oklauntoa, with i grade of U't, fkiwin ralth of Vernon with a grade of US. and F.lmer Cnatleberry of Farg' with a (grade of 70. Contestants from between 2U and counties will take at the meet and some of the hoy stock Judges tn this par of the state are expected to take part. The Wilbarger county Rum will leave here Friday, June 13, und will return Bundsy, June 15 p. I).

Chanye, county agent and M. V. OUzeoer of OkUunion eharge of the instruction of the Ixiys uud MAN WANTED HERE accompany them on tlmir trip. ARRRNTP.D IN KLBCTRA A. J.

(M HEIJi ENTERS FIRE INMITLANCE nt HERE All children who are to building Ik being thoroughly have won many prizes at the Wil- and P. T. Pegues of Dallas, who is were taken at different places that has electricity, nvtv jpnrt in Kconornb overhauled and renonted and new barger county fair and at the other jtraveling in the Orient Ten grand, the town during -cries of raids shelving built in. Allen Davis, f.Jrs at which their stock has been hildren eleven great grand-jon houses KuptxMmd to be head local contractors have the hildren also survive her. for the salesmen have all the of keeping supplies at low teuqierature without buying ice.

the Home pageant nrc asked meet at Al- tinghain Park, Ratnrday afternoon at to practice B. C. wanted here for the allaged disposal of mortgaged prop- take a Jerty, was arreett-d in club; returned yesterday afternoon and lodged In the eounty Captain Clyde Watts brought tha er luelf 8loom. A. J.

Bchell who has been connected yrith the Yernon Drtif Btore for several fears has accepted a poart- tien wRh the Williams and Dsvia lnsunuttae.