The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1928 Page: 3 of 8
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To Oar Dairy
Friends
We are pleased to announce die
opening of our new creamery in
Clifton.
We will appreciate the patron-
age of the dairy farmers of the
Clifton vicinity.
We are of* for and with the de-
velopment of the dairy interest of
Bosque County.
We are in the market for sweet
and sour cream at the highest mar-
• ket price.
We invite the public to come
and let us show you our new plant.
Quality Stock
Farm
By Special Correspondent
WALNUT
By mistake in using an insect pow-
der for baking powder in
bread, one death resulted
Sunday and
The Big rain of Saturday night will a family of aix were made very rick,
benefit the grain and corn crop of this j Sunday morninjg the family of J. H.
section quite a lot. j Davis, including his four children and
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Tergerson and his sister-in-law, Miss Mint Shipman,
family attended the confirmation ser-
vices at Clifton Sunday. Miss Stella
who reside about 8 miles northwest
of town, were suddenly taken very
NEW FEED MILL AND
FEED BTORE FOR CLIFTON
Stewart and Vickers have just in-
stalled an uptodate feed store in part
of the Yoaree produce house near the
depot. They have installed a feed
mill of the latest model which will
grind anything from the best of meal
and graham flour for kitchen use to
all kinds of feed stuffs.
All users of feed realize that it
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BOY SCOUTS WILL
LOOK FOR PUNCTURES
Midland.—“Broadway of America
Anti-Puncture Day” will be observed
by Boy Scouts of Sweetwarter, Colo-
rado Spring, Midland arid Odessa
some time this month, to be latar des-
ignated.
Boy Scouts of these towns in the
Buffalo Trails Council will patrol tha
highway from Odessa to Sweetwater,
goes much farther and is better feed tiding any cars held up by punctures
when ground. This mill will chop any and ——the road for all oune-
thing from shelled corn to maize and'tttre liabilities. The work will be done
kaffir in the bundle, in small and „nder direction of F. D. Craft of
large quantities to suit the farmer, Sweetwater, Scout executive, who re-
st a reasonable price. The mill is now < centjy formed three troops at Mid-
in operation. | ^d. ,
This firm also carries s full line of
ultry foods and other feed of all
kinds.
Owing to the increased poultry and
dairy interests in this community,
this new enterprise will be of great
benefit to Clifton and community.
By getting all kinds of institutions
is what makes Clifton the best town
in the county. Come to Clifton.
ter*s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M.
Turner here during the week-end.
They were accompanied home by
Clyde Turner who will visit his sis-
ter for a week* ^
Miss Lets Vickrey was in Iredell
Saturday afternoon, where she met
with the trustees of the Gordon
school who elected her principal of
their school for next year.
R. W. Honeycutt was in Arlington
on business last week.
A. B. Poston made a trip to Merid-
ian Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Kleibrink are the
proud parents of a daughter born to
them here last week.
V. C. Vickrey and Misses Blanche
Tergerson, Stella Vickrey were in
VaUey Mills Saturday.
Messrs. Dolphian Honeycutt, Paul
Abbott and Floyd Vickrey were visi-
tors to Iredell Saturday.
Wallace Duncan of Meridian was
here last week to see the voters of
this section.
WHAT PRICE INVESTIGATION?
The country has spent 830,000,000
and the railroads have spent 895,000,-
000 in attempting to value the rail-
roads for the purpose of rate-maktng.
That 8125,000,000 has had to go into
an investigation of which less than 10
per cent of the work has been done,
The whole matter is now in litiga-
tion and will probably be in that con-
dition for years. But even if the inves-
tigation is completed, and the litiga
tion ended, the valuation will not be
worth much as a basis for rates, for
capital must have a return if it con-
tinues to go into any etnerprise, and
that fact will have more to do with
rates than any commission’s arbitrary
valuation. Besides, capital is only one
item in the cost of tranportation.
The investigation is in reality a fac-
tor in making rates higher, for the
railroads must earn the millions
costs them, and they have only
way to earn it.—rates.
Tergerson was a member of the con- sick at the breakfast table. One of
the children began vomiting, and the
- other children and the father soon
guests in the home of Mrs. Carpen- did likewise. A physician was sum-
moned and the discovery was made
that an insect powder had been used
by mistake in place of a baking pow-
der, in making biacuits for the morn-
ing meal. The doctor administered an
antidote and though Mr. Davis and
Miss Shipman were not doing so well,
nothing further of a serious nature
was thought of the matter during the
day. All of the younger members of
the family except a small son, about
8 or 10 years old, had gohe to church
nearby and Mr. Davis and Miss Ship-
man retired early, not feeling dis-
posed to attend the church services.
About 8 o’clock Mr. Davis sent hia
son to his aunt’s room to ascertain
how she was feeling. A knock on the
door brought no response and the
father was called, and as he entered
the roam he saw that she was strug-
gling and in a moment or so she was
dead.
Miss Shipman was a sister of Mrs.
Davis, and after Mrs. Davit’ death
several years ago, became housekeep-
er for Mr. Davis and assisted in rais-
ing his children. She also raised the
children of her youngest sister, who
died when they were very young, and
several of her younger brothers, who
lost their mother when small. She
was a daughter of Uncle Billie Ship-
man, was 48 years old, and is sur-
vived by her father, four brothers,
Dave of Dallas; Herman of Chalk
Mountain; Gus of Glen Rose; and
Roy of Walnut Springs, and a sister,.
Mrs. John Harlow, of near Duffau—
besides other relatives.
She was a member of the Baptist
church and loyal to her faith in Jeans.
Burial was had at Smith’s cemetery,
near Chalf Mountain, Monday after-
noon at 4 o’clock, and the service,
which was conducted by Rev. Loyd
Lester of Fairy, was largely attend
The tragic death of this good wo-
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GRAND BALL
At Womack Hall on Friday night, services.
S. E. LUTHERAN CHURCH
Sunday, May 20th.
Sunday School at 9:30.
Morning services at 10:30 a. m.
Baccalaureate services at 8 p. m.
This being Educational Sunday, an
offering for our church schools will
be received at the morning services.
Prof. T. A. Hoff, dean of religion
at Luther College, will conduct both
May 25. Music by Smith’s Orchestra
of McGregor. ll-2tp
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Choir meets on Friday night.
O. T. Boe, Pastor.
ST. OLAF LUTHERAN CHURCH
Service in the Brick Church next
Sunday morning 10:30.
Service at Cove Springs 3 p. m.,
English.
The South Ladles Society meets
next Wednesday afternoon, Mrs.
Bernt Olson entertains at‘the home.
The North Ladies Society meets
next Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Emil
Pederson entertains at the home.
Confirmants meet Saturday morn-
ing 9:30.
Sunday School and Bible Class ev-
ery Sunday morning 9:80.
Choir meets every Tuesday night
7:30.
J. A. Urnes, Pastor.
care and administrations, and beloved
by all who knew her, her death could
not do otherwise than cast a great
gloom over relatives and friends alike.
—Walnut Springs Hustler.
f\NE factor more than any other will determine the
number of miles left in your car. That factor is lub-
rication. Peed your motor the right oil regularly and
youflI protong its life indefinitely. Peed it the wron& oil
—then watch it wear out
Conoco Motor Oil specializes in keeping cars young. It
protects the moving parte—thus reducing wear
tear and staving off old age.” Conoco Motor Oil flgh
friction—the motor’s worst enemy—and clings to the
cylinder walls with its constant oily film under prac-
tically all conditions of motor operation and strain
There’s a particular grade of Conoco for your motor. Ask for it.
CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY
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NOTICE OF ELECTION
WHEREAS, the City Council of the
City of Clifton, Texas, deems it ad
visable to call an election for the pur-
poses hereinafter mentioned:
THEREFORE, BE IT ORDERED
by the City Council of the City of
Clifton, Texas, that an election be held
on the 11th day of June, 1928, at
which election the following propo-
sition shall be submitted:
“Shall the City Council of the City
of Clifton be authorized to levy a tax
of 1 % m i 11 s on the one
dollar valuation of all taxable prop-
erty in the City of Clifton, Texas, for
the establishment and maintenance of
a municipal band in said city.”
The said election shall be held at
the City Hall in the City of Clifton,
and G. B. Helm is hereby appointed
manager of said election.
The said election shall be held un
der the law regulating the establish-
ment of bands of the State of Texas,
and only qualified voters, who are
property tax-payers of said city,
shall be allowed to vote.
The vote at said election shall be
upon an official ballot, submitting
clearly said proposition, and the
same shall be expressed as follows:
Shall the City of Clifton establish
and hereafter maintain a municipal
band? Yes. No.
The manner of holding said election
shall be governed by the laws of the
State regulating general elections.
A copy of this order, signed by the
Mayor of the City of Clifton, attested
by the City Secretary of the said city,
shall serve as a proper notice of said
election.
The Mayor is authorized and direct-
ed to cause said notice to be posted
up at the City Hall and two public
places in the City of Clifton for at
leaat thirty days prior to the date
of said election.
The Mayor is further authorised
and directed to have said notice of
in some newspaper
----- circulation published in
eitv, and which notice shall be
each week for two eon-
He was a shabbily-dressed little
man: swarthy, blackhaired, obviously
of foreign birth. His hands were the
cracked, dirt-stained hands of the
unskilled laborer. It was easy to see
that the two dimes he held In hit
fingers represented a fairly large
sum to him.
So he took his time as he scanned
the toys in the five and ten. He
passed up the painted robber balls,
the jumping jacks and the glass tala-
phones that held candy, without a
second glance. The month organs and
pop-guns likewise failed to interest
him. But the tray of tiny, csstiron
autos held his attention.
At length he selected two—a red
motor car and a blue roadster. He
gave the salesgirl his two dimes with
care, as if he were afraid he might,
drop them and lose them under the
feet of the swirling, impatient crowd
about him. And as the girl took the
toys, he leaned forward and,„ with
the suggestion of an apologetic smite,
asked her:
Could you tie a colored string
around it? It’ll be a birthday pres-
ent.”
And, as the shabby little man
stood waiting for his package, tied
in the gay red string, there was a
look on his face that somehow made
least one onlooker feel that life
pped a rare, revealing hint.
The man was not just a poorly-paid
working man, squeezing his purse to
provide two dimes for some chubby
youngster at home. He was a symbol,
a manifestation, mean, yet heroic, of
that quality in humanity which pro-
vides eternal proof of a man’s fit-
ness for a better world.
There was love, there, and kinnness,
and a patient acceptance of a hard
destiny. The man plainly had not had
an easy time of it Plainly he had
been hungry, had known the tragedy
of poverty at close range. The lines
of his face held no expression of
hope. Yet, in spite of all theae things
there was no sign of discouragement
or surrender. This submerged frag-
ment of humanity knew he could
never rise; yet he was not quite beat-
en. Had the world trodden on him
and broken him? Very well; here
was a package tied with red string
for an answer. The little boy at home
would have a birthday regardless.
Life drops hints like that now and
then. They come unexpectely and
they reveal much. They put to shame
all our philosophizing, all our specu-
lation. We see, and in a flash we
know. We have o.*r moment of vision,
and w* see that we are, after all
rather fine; that there is something
in us that will endure after the
earth has cooled to a lonely, desolate
cinder, spinning in empty space.
“Could you tie a colored string
around it? It will be a birthday pres-
ent”.—Houston Chronicle.
For Light Housekeeping
furnished, Me Mrs. Guy
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—beginning May 15, for a
limited time, The Armstrong
Table Stove is offered at $8.50
—with the Cruet Set, consist-
ing of containers for olive oil.
vinegar, mustard and a salt
hi# pepper shaker, FREE.
AN EXPENSIVE TASK
David Bros, have had a trouble-
some and an expensive experience the
past month which was no fault of
their own. They sold a car load of
Whippoorwill peaa to S. D. Carpen-
ter of Pittsburg and had them loaded
here ready to ship to Los Angeles,
California. The inspector found a few
cotton seed in one sack and turned
the whole car down, on account of the
State of California having a quaran-
tine against Texas cotton sqed. This
made it necessary for the seed to be
carefully picked and recleaned, so for
the past month David Bros, have had
a crew of hands going through the
peas and they are
done &nd Urva onlv
ion of cotton seed in the entire bushel
of pees. They say it is almost irapos-
•iblMo find any peas that have been
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 18, 1928, newspaper, May 18, 1928; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775163/m1/3/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.