The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1924 Page: 2 of 8
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iquidation and Closing Out Sale
Owing to the continued illness of Oscar J. Rea,, our manager, for the past 90 days, and
his inability to resume work, we have decided to place
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Our Entire Stock of Merchandise and Fixtures
At a Price For Cash, Regardless of Cost
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Our creditors have patiently waited for the money due them, and we hope to liquidate all indebtedness
before our Mr, Rea makes a temporary removal to Southwest Texas for his health. In order to clean the
slate we kindly ask ail our friends who may owe us to come forward now and make settlement. At this
time we especially need the co-operation and support of our friends and customers. Our “Hat is
off” to you for every past courtesy. NO GOODS CHARGED AT THIS SALE.
SOME PRICES THAT MAY INTEREST YOU.
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Two New Home Electric Sewing Machines, each........$47.50
Any Second-Hand Sewing Machine, only....................... 10.00
One Kelley Walking Planter, only ............—------------ 13.50
One Superior 5 Disc Drill, only........................................ 32.50
Two Superior 11 Disc Harrows on Wheels, each........... 30.00
One 50 Light Lalley Light Plant, complete, only........$300.00
One 50 Light Lalley Light Plant, less battery, only .... 225.00
One Western Electric 25 light Generator with Board 45.00
One 5 passenger Dort Car, only .................................. 100.00
Get your Wool Sax now, each only.................................60
Barrel Salt, per barrel only................................................$2.75
15 Gasoline Irons, new and second hand, at a price
without service, each only.............................................. 1.99
Sweeps and Shovels, per pound only...............................15
Assorted Bolts, per pound only.........................................15
Come and see our Prices on Soap, Baking Powder, Coffee, Dishes, Cutelry, Etc.
Sale is Open. Come and .Look for the “Red Tag.” They Tell The Story
OSCAR J. REA CO.
CLIFTON,
TEXAS
HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND
“Dear John,” the wife wrote from
a fashionable resort, "I enclose the
hotel bill.”
“Dear Mary,” he replied, "I enclose
cheek to cover the bill, but please do
not buy any more hotels at this figure;
they are cheating you."—Life.
Under Fascismo the people of Italy
•r« becoming thrifty. For the pres-
ent fiscal year the incrase was $168,-
000,000 over the corresponding figure
of last year.
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Half your Living
Wfcoat Money Gad
PROGRAM FOR THE INTER-
SCHOLASTIC LEAGUE MEET
Ton can make It easily at home.
HMtinga’ Beods, Plant* and Bulba,
*"Tha Standard of the South,” are all
tally described with hundreds of actual
photographic pictures in the new 1924
Seed Book of the South. This new
Hastings* Seed Catalog is the great-
est and* most useful Seed Book ever
published for the South. You need it,
and we want you to have it entirely
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We are also giving to each 1924
customer S SEED PACKETS of
BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS ABSOLUTE-
LY FREE. The Hew Catalog tells all
about it and gives ‘‘every care for the
consideration of tha buyer tor pur-
chasing and planting seeds, bulba and
says the 8eed World Re
The Interscholastic League Meet
will be held in Meridian Thursday.
Friday and Saturday, March 20, 21
and 22. Below is a program for the
three days:
Thursday Night. 7:30
Declamation, both rural and inde-
pendent.
Friday Morning—9 to 12
Spelling, rural and independent.
Debate preliminaries. #
Essay writing.
Junior Field Events—50 yard dash,
running high jump, 100 yard dash,
running broad jump, 440 yard relay,
chinning the bar.
Friday Afternoon, 1:30
Music Memory contest.
Art Memory contest.
Senior Field Events—50 yard dash,
discus throw, pole vault. 120 yard high
hurdles, running broad jump. 1 mile
run, 12-pound shot put, 100 yard dash.
Friday Night. 7:30
Debates and Singing.
Saturday Morning, 9 to 12
Tennis-and Volley Ball.
Senior Field Event?—880 yard run.
Vanning high jump, 220 yard dash.
1 mile relay, 440 yard dash.
WALNUT SPRINGS GIRL
MURDERED IN NEW YORK
view. We want you to hAw and
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keep the wonderful new Seed Book
Ik your home for ready reference at
aR times Write for it now. A poet-
card will do. It will come to you by
G, HA8TIJ
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FOR TRUCK SERVICE
In or out of the city
PHONE 197
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B. Y. P. U. PROGRAM
Opening exercises by the President.
Song.
Leader—Eleanor Fricke.
Introduction by Leader.
“God Revealed to Man”—Mrs. L. E.
Tennison.
“Sin and Salvation”—Fanny Barton.
“The New Testament Pattern”—
Lelia Oswald.
“Thy Kingdom Come”—Mayme
Glass.
“The Equality of Believers"—Mrs.
C. Brown.
“Baptists Also Deny Some Things”
—Discussed by the Union.
Secretary Report
Bible Quiz and Benediction. W
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BEFORE THE FIRE
J. L MCSPADDEN
Iciiftoa, Texas*
New York, Feb. 8.—Miss Louise
Lawson, a young moving picture
actress, formerly of Walnut Springs,
Texas, was strangled to death today
after a desperate battle with thieves
ir. her fashionable apartment house in
West Seventy-Seventh street. Gems
valued at several thousand dollars
were missing.
Miss Lawson, who was described
as unusually attractive, had been tak-
ing minor parts in local film com-
panies.
Bound to Bed Posts
New York, Feb. 8.—Bound to the
posts of her bed and writh her mouth
gagged, Miss Louise Lawson, a 24-
year-old motion picture actress, today
was found dead in her room in a
fashionable apartment in West Sev-
enty-Seventh street.
The actress’ hands had been “spread-
agled” and tied to the bed posts with
a dog leash. Her Belgian police dog
j was found lashed to a chair in another
room of her apartment.
The body was discovered by a negro
maid who went to the apartment to
prepare breakfast for the actress.
The police said the murder must
have been committed after 8:30 o’clock
this morning, as the tenant in an
adjoining apartmet said she had heard
Miss Lawson’s bell ring several times
at that hour. To the girl’s query, the
caller replied he was the express man.
The door was opened, the tenant said,
and the caller apparently entered.
Nothing more was heard.
The body was attired only in a night
gown. A portion of the towel about
the woman’s head had been stuffed
into her mouth and it had beert fas-
tened to the sides of her head with
adhesive tape.
Spent Holidays in Walnut
The dead girl, mentioned in the
above dispatch, is a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. A. R. Lawson, of Walnut
Springs, her father being a prominent
merchant of that place.
Information as to his daughter’s
death was first conveyed to Mr. Law-
son via long distance telephone. He
declared that he had a letter from his
daughter last Wednesday.
Miss Lawson, according to her fath-
er, was in Walnut Springs little more
than a month ago, spending the holi-
days with her parents.
She has been on the stage for the
last two or three years. Miss Lawson
is a Texas girl, born at Alvarado.
“THANKS”
The American Legion Auxiliary
wishes to thank all who helped the
auxiliary in any way the past year,
and especially do we thank those who
contributed to the Christmas packages
sent to the disabled soldiers in the
U. S. Veterans Bureau Hospital No.
78, at North Little Rock, Ark.
With the assistance of the following
business enterprises, individuals, cash
donations, the auxiliary’s cash dona-
tion of $24.75, and personal work,
eighty-two Texas boys were remem-
bered.
Following are the donations made:
Carpenter Bros., 82 sheets of Holly
paper to wrap packages and 82 empty
Holly boxes for home made candy;
Clifton Mercantile Co., sugar, $1.00;
The Schow Co., sugar, $1.00; Home
Grocery Co., Sugar, 50c; Joe Loper,
sugar, 50c; O J. Rea & Co., tfujUr,
50c; A. A. Miller, sugar, 50c; Hans
Jenson, sugar, 50c; Sellars & Sellars,
four spools of tinsel cord to tie pack-
ages; J. E. Swenson, cash, 50c; Mrs.
Ed Anz and son, cash, $1.00.
Eighty-two individual packages,
wrapped in holly paper and tied with
gold and silver tinsel cord with Christ-
mas stickers on each, with card of
greetings from American Legion Aux-
iliary Unit No. 322, Clifton Texas, in
eac^ package. Eighty-two assorted
packages, each containing one pencil,
one note book, one handkerchief, one
package of chewing gum, one package
of cigarettes, one small box of pecans,
and one box of home made candy.
This unit also sent two large boxes
of small cakes, home made, to worthy-
boys of the World War..
Did we do enough for the Texas
boys ? No, but we did what we could,
with your help, trying to live up to
the preamble of our constitution. Yes,
the boys received every package. You
may understand how the gifts this
unit sent were appreciated if you
could read the retter received from
the President of the American Legion
Auxiliary, Department of Arkansas,
War Memorial Building,, Little Rock,
Arkansas. Just a part of this letter,
that you may understand how glad
we ere that we did our “bit”:
Mrs. McCurry Brown, president
American Legion Auxiliary, Depart-
ment of Arkansas, says: “Your won-
derful shipment added so much to the
happiness of your own boys. If you
could have seen the looks on their
faces, the smiles where before were
only morose expressions, you would
have felt amply repaid for the great
amount of trouble you and your unit
COOLIDGE IS TOLD MELLON
PLAN CAANOT BE PASSED
Washington, Feb. 10.—Republican
leaders in Congress went to the White
House this aftembon and in a two-
hour conference bluntly informed
President Coolidge that the Mellon
tax bill, with its 25 per cent maximum
surtax on the rich, can not be passed.
The President was informed that
it would be possible to pass the re-
vision bill within four weeks, provid-
ing the Republican make the best
deals they can with the Democrats and
insurgent Republicans, who are now
threatening the defeat of the Mellon
rates and the substitution of their
own. A compromise of 35 to 36, pos
sibly 40 per cent, is anticipated by
Republican leaders. *
What President Coolidge said to
the Republican leaders this afternoon
was not revealed, but there is reason
to believe he instructed them to drive
as hard a bargain as possible, stick
as closely as possible to the Mellon
program, and at all events pass a
tax reduction measure at the earliest
possible moment.
DESPERATE MEASURES
In his announcement on a Sunday
morning the vicar c regretted that
money was not coming in fast enough
—hut he was no pessimist.
“We have tried,” he said, “to raise
the necessary money in the usual
manner. We have tried honestly.
Now we are going to see what a bazar
can do.”—Exchange.
More than $3,000,000,000 have been
spent by American railroads this year
for materials, fuel, supplies and main-
tenance of equipment,
Candy may be gradually worn off
the seat of the trousers by putting
sandpaper on the chairs.
STAR PARASITE REMOVER
given Chickens in drinking water ab-
solutely rids them of all insects, keeps
them healthy and increases egg pro
duction or money refunded.
40-10tc. Clifton Mercantile Co.
must have gone to send such gifts.
Please accept my sincere thanks per-
sonally and thanks of every member
of the Arkansas Department, the
American Legion and Auxiliary, as
well as of the eighty-two boys which
you had such great part in making
happy. The boys received their gifts
Christmas morning just as they re-
turned from breakfast. Please know
that you and your unit have proved
noble and true in this splendid under-
taking, and that you are really living
up to the preamble of our constitu-
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We hope that'ly reading a part of
this letter that you can understand
more about the work we have before
us, and appreciate what we feel hon-
ored and proud to do for such worthy
hoys. We hope to be able to do more
for our boys in 1924 than we did in
1923. ■
Mrs. J. N. Fallis, Post President.
Mrs. D. C. Holverson, Post 8ee’y.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1924, newspaper, February 15, 1924; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth776041/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.