The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1934 Page: 4 of 8
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FRIDAY MORNING
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Friday, March
1934
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Farmers in this section are seen
busily engaged in the work of plant-
ing com this week; taking advantage
of the very fine spring-like weather
that has prevailed a number of days.
Many people from this section this
week have been in Fort Worth to at-
tend the largest show there they have
ever seen; in fact, so large that some
have made the trip and failed to get
in to see the rodeo—not even being
standing room for all who were there
the first three days; and that is
something very unusual.
These bad-looking northers that
rush in on us this late in the season
are of short duration and not very
severe or hard to take.
Most all laws have their good fea-
tures as well as their bad ones; and
it is up to the citizenship to help en-
force all of them as long as they are
in effect—and help get the bad fea-
tures removed as quickly as possible.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson
Wednesday designated the week of
March 19 to 24 as “financial inde-
pendence week.” Texans were urged
to participate in educational pro-
grams to be given in various cities
during the period. “We are just
emerging from a distressing period,”
the governor said in her proclama-
tion and asserted “it is especially fit-
ting that we should be giving more
study as individuals, and as a com-
monwealth to ways and means of
achieving financial independence.”
Many radio listeners report having
heard the splendid address of Senator
Tom Corinally last Tuesday night; his
subject being the -administration’s
recovery act as sponsored by Presi-
dent Roosevelt' and the democratic ad-
ministration—a review of happenings
during the first year President Roos-
evelt has been leading our people
back to better times.
Everyone wants something done by
the government to bring back pros-
perity and normal conditions; how-
ever most people want it done with-
out their business or individual inter-
ests being affected in any way—and
for this reason the plan is working
slower than it would if everyone
would willingly join in and do their
part and be willing to suffer some in-
convenience themselves.
Dr. J. W. Hunt, 60, founder and
president of McMurry College, died
at his home in Abilene Monday night.
His death removes from the ranks
of Southern Methodism one of its
strongest and most picturesque lead-
ers, a former cowboy, frontier editor
and circuit rider whs brought to his
career as a college president a rich
and varied experience rarely found
in a school man.
Mrs. C. R. Nichol who is believed
to be just temporarily staying in
Seminole, Oklahoma, while her hus-
band, Evangelist Nichol, is doing the
preaching and some teaching for the
Church of Christ congregation at that
place, is “back home” this week, mak-
ing headquarters for the few days
with her sister, Mrs. N. W. Willett,
Jr. at this place and with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. E. A. Priddy, at Valley
Mills; however her friends who see
her here can hardly realize she is a
visitor.
Clifton College is again sponsoring
the County Interscholastic meet to be
held here this week and every good
citizen of this community seems to
be anxious to do his part in making
the meet a success and entirely sat-
isractory to everyone; especially the
visitors to Clifton. It is reported that
one or more towns in our county are
not participating in this meet, and
the children of such places are the
ones who lose from failure to get the
training offered them in this way; not
those said to be responsible for their
not being privileged to do so.
Motorists of Texas are warned to
be careful about their brakes. The
chief of highway patrol reports that
there is to be an all-year campaign
against defective automobile brakes,
and that automobiles may be stopped'
any time and anywhere in the. state
by testing crews to learn the effec-
tiveness of a car’s brakes—and then
in many cases' let. the driver of the
car with defective brakes “tell it to
the Judge.” This section of the high-
way law is to be enforced for the
good and safety of human lives that
--! are endangered by cars driven when
men and other citi- their brakes are ineffective. So
fSv"
Some business
Zens of a town who never take part ] might be safer and cheaper, too, for
“Ih any movement to cause the town.'all of us to know our automobile
to grow or hold the business it has,! brakes are doing their stuff when
sit back and criticize individuals and! we are using it.
organizations who are trying to make -
their town and community a better! The Western Produce Company is
place in which to live. The man whoja new business institution in Clifton,
is always trying to help do things is It opened for business last week in
less apt to criticize than those who the well known produce house on
take no part or concern in their com-! north side of town which was former-
munity’s welfare. ly used by the Waco Packing Com-
-- pany. Hardie Youree, a former citizen
Clifton people extend a very hearty land produce man of this city is the
Welcome to the many visitors from j district manager, and H. L: May, a
all sections of the county who will be Clifton resident for most of his life
LAND USE
Notwithstanding the price of the
commodity whether it be cotton, corn,
or hogs, the economies in production
of th§se commodities, like economies
in producting the articles of com-
merce, largely determine the profit to
the grower or to the operator. Some
definite observations n from records
furnished by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station show that re-
markable economies in production can
be effected in the western cotton belt
in the cost of producing cotton; and
likewise other figures show that an
extraordinary degree of efficiency in
producing meat and silk can be ac-
complished in the more humid regions
of the south as compared with what
is known as the western cattle re-
gions.
In the production of cotton for in-
stance, the usual practice in the
“cotton patch” sections of eastern
and central Texas ranges from the
one-horse plow to the two-horse cul-
tivator adapted to single-row culture,
and one man is perhaps above the av-
erage when he produces and harvests
10 to 20 bales of cotton in a season.
Such a farmer can plant or cultivate
from 6 to 7 1-2 acres per day at best
and needs 50 to 100 days to pick 10
to 20 bales. In the Corpus Christi
area and in other sections of western
Texas where large fields and suitable
weather conditions enable the use of
tractor-drawn four-row planters and
cultivators, one man plants an aver-
age of 43 acres per day according to
records published in Bulletin 362 of
the Texas Experiment Station; and in
Bulletin No. 452 of the Texas Sta-
tion it is shown that one man with a
one-row stripper can harvest 5 bales
in 12 hours. This means that it is en-
tirely practical for one man with a
half section in farm to prepare the
land in some two weeks by listing
with a four-row lister, plant with a
four-row planter of single seed cell
type in less than 10 days, and culti-
vate every 10 days if necessary with
a four-row cultivator and finally har-
vest in 25 to 50 days a crop of 100
to 150 bales. No steps in efficiency
seem possible to enable the “cotton-
patch” system of production to com-
pete with the expansive system which
can be widely adopted and is to a
considerable extent actually in prac-
tice in certain parts of western Texas.
There the soil is reasonably fertile
and the rain fall while less than in
Eastern Texas is nevertheless usu-
ally sufficient for cotton production,
because it falls largely during the
growing season. The comparatively
level surface of the West Texas lands
also enables easy control of water
run-off so that the crop may have the
fullest benefit of whatever rain falls.
In this area weeds are usually not
difficult to control and the single seed
type of planter enables a stand that
does not require chopping and hoe
work generally is very light.
In the matter of livestock produc-
'*■ | tion through grazing occurs another
Austin, Texas, March 12.—Pure
milk is nature’s most nearly perfect
food, according to the Texas State
Department of Health, and persons
should be sure that the cows which
produce the milk they use are in
healthy condition.
It is estimated tat 2 per cent of all
milk cattle have bovine type tuber-
culosis. Tuberculin testing of cattle
will definitely prove whether the
cow has tuberculosis. If a person
owns their own cow, she should be
tested, and if milk is being pur-
chased, the purchaser should make
sure that the cattle in the dairy he
patronizes are free of this disease.
These tests should be made each
year, and if milk stock is to be pur-
chased, they should be tested before
completion of the sale.
About twenty-five per cent of all
tuberculosis in children is of the
bovine type—fatal bovine tuberculosis I
YOUNGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS
Mentone, the governmental seat of
Loving County, the youngest county
in Texas, visions additional prosper-
ity through construction of thte $2,-
600,000 Red Bluff reservoir and irri-
gation system. Its 300 citizens are
now surrounded by oil derricks which
tower above grazing lands that ex-
tend for miles in all directions. About
7,500 acres in Loving county will be
reclaimed under the dam to be built
through a PWA loan. It is from these
farms that Mentone visions such
prosperity as will permit of bond
issues to erect suitable county build-
ings, pave streets and installation of
other modern civic conveniences found
in larger towns and cities.
Mentone enjoys the distinction of
having the smallest courthouse and
the Smallest jail in the world. Its dis-
trict courtroom is in the rear of a
long, corrugated iron covered build-
ing, with a drug store in the front
portion.
The courthouse, erected in 1931, at
a cost of $3,000, houses the clerk’s
with a brick
striking instance of adaptation of the
area as related to economies in pro-
duction. The western uncultivated
lands yield rich grasses and have been
long known for their value as graz-
ing lands but due to sparse moisture
some 10 to 15 acres is required per
grazing unit of one average sized
adult cow. The “cotton patch” lands
of eastern Texas due to abundant
moitsure produce heavy growths of
grazing and when the better plants
are substituted abundant grazing is
available at the rate of from 1 to 4
adult cows per acre, as shown in
after the fifth year is rare. It gen-
erally attacks the lymph glands and a°d sheriff’s offices,
bones. When not fatal, this disease,!vault for county records. The jail, a
when it attacks the joints and bones,1 one-room affair, which is seldom used,
usually leaves the child crippled for!’s about the size of a single car ga-
life.
The C. W. A. has created a fund to
pay for the destruction of each tu-
berculin cow. Of course, the disease
must be certified by an accredited
veterinarian. The State Live Stock
Sanitary Commission and State De-
partment of Health are very anxious
to control this disease. The former
to improve the dairy herds and the
Health Department to protect the
public health. Every one can help by
demanding that the cows where they
purchase milk be tuberculin tested.
^THANKS
To the firemen who rendered such
quick assistance and stayed until dan-
ger was past.
Mrs. T. A. Box..
Rev. and Mrs. Andrew Byers ac-
companied by Miss Rowe, sister of
Mrs. Byers who is here from Austin,
drove up to Fort Worth yesterday to
see the sights offered by the Fat
Stock Show and Southwest Exposi-
tion.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Parker and Ed-
win Parker left early this week for
Texarkana where they were called
on account of the illness of the Park-
er brothers’ father.
rage.
Up to 1930 Loving County was at-
tached to Reeves County for admin-
istrative purposes. That year the cit-
izens voted to attend to their own
affairs, and the county was organized.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this opportunity
of expressing our sincere thanks and
appreciation for the many acts of
kindness and sympathy extended to
us last Saturday during the
funeral and burial of our dear moth-
er and grandmother, Mrs. Carrie
Handley.
Words cannot express the wonder-
ful comfort it brings to the bereaved
ones and the sense of appreciation in
a time like this.
May God’s richest blessings rest
upon you all the way through the re-
maining days of your life.
With sentiments of the highest
esteem, we are
Sincerely your friends,
The Children and Grandchildren.
Oren J. Canuteson, one of the pop-
ular salesmen for the Clifton Mer-
cantile Company, handed in money
this week to be credited on his Rec-
ord subscription.
TINIEST PHONE COMPANY
SERVES 14 ON ONE LINE
Columbus, Ohio.—The smallest tel-
egraph company in Ohio, the Shortin’
Ridge Telephone Co., of Revenge,
Fairfield county, wants to charge its
customers $1 a month for service.
An application has been filed with
the State Utilities Commission for
tariffs for the 14 subscribers who are
all on a single line. The company pro-
posed a charge of $1 a month for
35 calls, with 3 cents additional for
excess calls.
Organized in April, 1933, and con-
structed at a cost of $1,066, the tele-
phone company is now ready to do
business. Nine miles of lines and 14
instruments comprise the communi-
cation system.
Political Announcements
District Offices ............ $15.00
County Offices ............................ $tt).00
Precinct and Commissioners’
Offices ...................................... $7.50
The Record is authorized to make
the following announcements, sub-
ject to the action of the Democratic
Primary, July, 193<ff
For Congress, 11th. District—
O. H. CROSS
For Representative—
VERNON LEMENS (re-election)
For County Clerk—
CLARENCE McCORKLE .
ALFRED HARDWICK
CHAS. M. GANDY
For Commissioner, Precinct 3—
T. G. BRITTAIN (re-election)
EDWIN W. SPITZER
WILL C. HAFER
O. J. JOHNSON
For Commissioner, Precinct 4—
J. PIERCE RICHARDS
F. W. (FONEY) WALLACE
For Tax Assessor & Collector—
D. PRESTON HORNBUCKLE
For County Judge—
BURRELL F. WORD
For County Superintendent—
CLARA F. RICHARDS
For District Clerk—
MAGGIE B. LITTLE
For County Treasurer—
ALMA T. BUTLER
For District Attorney—
PENN J. JACKSON
For Sheriff—
PEARL BENSON
s here this week on account of the In-j and well experienced because of hav- recent bulletin" of the Texas Exten-
terscholastic Meet being held at this jng been associated with a number of
place. The three auditoriums which j produce concerns and worked in every
are located at the Clifton College, I department and capacity of the bus-
fhe high school building and Cityjiness; most recently with the Waco
Auditorium are being put in readi-; Packing Company, is local manager,
ness as well as the splendid athletic On another page of this paper the
field in State Park in the eastern j firm and its managers are running
edge of town, with plenty of people their first advertising announcement
appointed and in charge of affairs to!of their business anil want those in-
see that the visitors are properly j terested to read it,
cared for. ■. j ______
----- | Tne newspaper people of Texas had
Wichita another enjoyable time at Fort Worth
this year on “press day” at the Fort
Worth Fat Stock Show and South-
west Exposition; Saturday being des-
uUO,,uc ignated as the annual day for the
HI county’s own bovs. stonned with Clif- newspaper fraternity. The excellent
manner in which the different organ-
izations of Fort Worth treat the
members of the press has caused in-
creasing numbers to attend each
year, and this time the crowd was
much larger than it has ever been on
such an occasion. We are sure that
every newspaper in the state feels a
desire to help promote this education-
al institution called the Fat Stock
Showr and with the wonderful treat-
ment given the “gang” each year it
is no uouble to get publicity to put
it over. The attendance this year has
been the largest of any previous year,
according to reports; and it is said
that overflowing crowds have been in
attendance at each rodeo performance
several hundred being turned away
Hon. C. C. .McDonald, of
Falls, one of the candidates for gov-
ernor of Texas this year, accom-
panied by his partner, Geo. W. An-
derson, one of Clifton and Bosque
county’s own boys, stopped with Clif-
ton friends Wednesday as they were
passing through the state; and many
of our business men and citizens had
the pleasure of meeting a man with
aspirations to hold the highest elec-
. tive office in our state, air. McDonald
is probably one of the best known
lawyers and politicians in Texas; he
having taken an active part in pos-
sibly every election and stumped the
state for more candidates for govern-
or during the past twenty years than
any other man; and if he can cam-
paign for himself as well as he has
been able to for others he will warm
things up and make this one of the
most interesting campaign years our
state has ever known. If for no other
reason, the indorsement Mr. McDon-
ald starts out with will get him a
■very large vote; and probably for the
game reason he will lose a large
vote—but this is just the way politics
•Ct and react whether it be right or corner” as has been reported for sev-
- wrong.
sion Service which gives instructions
for planting and developing improved
pastures. This means that the East
Texas cattle raised can pasture more
than ten times as many cattle per
section as can he grazed*in the west
and offers a much better utilization
of the land through grazing than
through the production of cotton. The
best Interests of tho farmers them-
selves as well as of the government
are served in accepting the obviously
better land use of each region.
A loss in producing effort is like a
fire loss and ultimately falls upon the
public, while a gain in producing ef-
fort should ultimately contribute to
the general welfare.
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• Stocking tops that stretch hotli ways! Up and down
for length. Or round and round for width. Every well-
dressed leg needs Custom-Fit Top. Also Phoenix
"Doggy” colors—Spaniel, Setter, Collie and Greyhound
, smartest shades for Spring. Another boon is the
Phoenix "long mileage” foot, with Tipt-toe and Duo-
heel reenforced for hard wear.
on several occasions that could hot
even get standing room in the arena.
This looks as though better times are
returning, and not “just around the
eral years.
MOSLEY-WICKMAN
On March 3rd, at seven-thirty in
the evening, Miss Clarice Wickman,
formerly of Hico, surprised her many
friends by becoming the bride of Mr.
Layton Mosley of Clifton, Texas. The
ceremony was performed in the pres-
ence of a small group of witnesses at
the Clifton Methodist parsonage with
Rev. Edgar N. Scarlett officiating.
The bride wore a beautiful white
flannel suit with blue accessories.
Mrs. Mosley is the beautiful and
accomplished daughter of Mrs. J. S.
Barton of Lanes Chapel.
Mr. Mosley is the son of Mr. W. J.
Mosley of Clifton, Texas. He w.
reared and educated in Waco.
The many friends of this happy
couple extend sincere wishes for a
long, happy life together.
They will be at home in their apart-
ment -at Mrs. J. T. Torrence’s, Clif-
ton, Texas.
Better Grades $1.25—$1.50
j|| We have just received a large shipment of Summer Dress
Goods. The shipment includes all new colors and patterns in printed
ss Piques, printed Voiles, printed Batistes, printed Swisses and lots of
ill other new materials.
Every piece a “Gilbrae” Fabric. The name “Gilbrae” is the
| “Sterling” mark of quality in fabrics, always assuring fast, fadeless
U colors of superior weave and texture—a guaranteed value at the
price offered.
Prices Range from 20c Per Yard Up.
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1934, newspaper, March 16, 1934; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth776985/m1/4/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.