PANHANDLE DUSTER — This dust storm which moved into Perryton on Sunday, April 14, 1935, was one of the worst recorded during the “Dirty Thirties.” This storm continued for about 12 hours, turning day into night. It was one of many such storms which swept through the Perryton area during this decade of depression and crop failure.
20TH BIRTHDAY — Perryton celebrated its 20th Birthday with a big celebration on August 22, 1939, and this was a prize winning float entered by the Sorosis Club. At right is Judge Geo. M. Perry for whom the city of Perryton is named.
BOY SCOUTS — In 1939, three Perryton Boy Scouts, from left, Miles Sumpter, Joe Cox and Billy Herndon, collected 122 pounds of rusty nails using magnets.
The Decade of the Thirties
The stock market continued to crash, the Depression began across the United States. In Perryton, the decade began with lots of optimism, but as drought combined with depression to put prices on the skids, it became a matter of survival out on the wind swept, dusty plains.
Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson robbed the banks and FDR closed them. Perryton merchants fell upon times so hard th...
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