The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1960 Page: 3 of 10
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Clifton Pop Squad
Moots, Names Officers
On Tuesday, May 24. during the
last week of school, the members
of the Clifton High School Pep
Squad held a meeting for the pur-
pose of electing officers for the
coming school year.
Officers named were Sandra Ap-
pleby. president; Dolores Wagner,
vice president; Janice Willenborg,
secretary-treasurer; and George
Anne Bronstad, reporter.
During the meeting the mem
hers decided that their uniforms
for next year would be white pleat-
ed skirts, white blouses, and green
ests Slogans also were selected
for the ribbons for each football 1
game during the coming season.
Mr and Mrs. J. P. Carlson and
son, J. P. Jr., and his friend, Jerry
Hildebrand, of Pampa. spent the
week end of May 28 and 29 in Clif-
ton with home folks and'with Mrs.
Carlson’s mother, Mrs. H. A. Jen-
son, who is recuperating from two
fractured ribs on her left side in
the home of another son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Cathey, near Mosheim Mrs.
Jenson fractured the ribs as the
result of a fall which she sustained
on Sunday morning. May 22, when
she slipped on the steps of the
Cathey home.
Last Services Held at Lanes Chapel Church on May 29
Take A Closer Lookl
(By Miss Stella Vickrey) | May 29. with Reverend Hayden
near Clifton, on Sunday morning, odls' Church’ and Reverend Mon-
tie Stewart, present pastor of the
congregation, officiating.
It was a sad occasion for mem-
bers of the church, but it was a
move that was necessitated because
of the gradual migration of resi-
dents of that Bosque County com-
munity to nearby towns and other
Texas cities.
Earliest record of the Lanes
Chapel Church dates as far back
as 1870. The exact date is not on
record, because the first church
burned to the ground in approxi-
mately 1894, along with all of its
early records and a fine library.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. McCuistion
arrived in the Hollis Prairie com-
munity in Bosque County, later to
be known as the Lanes Chapel com
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The lj*nes Chapel Church, which
now is closed after approximately
90 years of service to its commu-
nity, long has been noted for its
oldtime camp meetings. These
meetings were held in the sum-
mertime, along about the first
week in August or the last week
in July. A week before one of these
occasions the settlement would be
alive with preparation for the meet-
ing. The women would wash, iron,
and cook, while the menfolks would
go to the tent grounds and stretch
the tents. Each tent had a lantern
hung at its top, and at night these
tents resembled a small village.
Children of the community could
hardly wait until the day came to
move from their homes lo the camp
grounds. The men would kill a beef
and divide it among those persons
who were camping. Everyone also
had a fine orchard of fruit, which
munity, in the early spring of 1870 j was enjoyed.
They stopped for lunch at a lovely
shady grove in the center of that
community.
Near this grove was located a
small creek, with its banks lined
in an abundance of very pretty
wild flowers. Wild turkeys, hogs,
cougars, and panthers arc said to
have roamed through dense shrub-
bery at their leisure, and tall grass,
waist high, which waved in the
wind, along with a deep blue sky,
furnished an ideal setting for the
new settlers who werer,>very much
impressed with the new surround-
ings. *
Mrs. McCuistion, who was a de-
voted Christian leader, said, “Here
is where we will have the church.”
She followed this statement with
her sincere prayers, and she little
realized that three generations of
community residents would benefit
from her timely suggestion.
Mr. McCuistion purchased 500,
acres of land in the center of the
Hollis Prairie community, includ-
ing the suggested site for the
church. He donated three or four
acres on the southwest corner out
of this tract for a Methodist Church.
This land was an ideal park in
itself, containing a number of tall
post oak and necan trees. Many of
these trees still are standing.
John R. Lane soon arrived in
the community, accompanied by his
sons, Radford, Elzia, and Irving, all
of whom were excellent carpen-
ters. Consequently, they began to
erect the church and its pews im-
mediately.
Mr. I,ane was a great Christian
leader, and the new church he fin-
ished was his pride and joy. He
kecl ihe .church clean at all times.
Once, when some mischievous boys
spit on the floor, he went to the
village of Valley Mills, had a num-
ber of posters made, and tacked
them upon the walls of the church.
These posters read, “Boys, please
don’t spit on the floor.”
Other prominent workers in the
early years of the church, in addi-
tion to the McCuistions, were the
late Mr. and Mrs. John Cox and
the late Mrs. I,aura Mayfield.
Little is known of this pioneer
first church, but it is presumed
that the early ministers were cir-
cuit riders. Soon after the church
was erected, the name of the set-
tlement was changed from Hollis
Prairie to Lanes Chapel in honor
These camp meetings were great
spiritual occasions and were pre-
sided over by some of the finest
consecrated Christian men in the
Central Texas Methodist Confer-
ence. James M. Robertson, of Me-
ridian, a pioneer of this section,
once said that the singing on those
occasions could be heard one-half
•i mile. Many persons of loday can
date their greatest religious expo
riences to those oldtime camp
meetings held at T,anes Chapel.
As previously mentioned, the
first Ixines Chapel Church was
burned to the ground in approxi-
mately 1894, along with its rec-
ords and library The second church
was erected in about 1895. and it
was a very large church. In 1905
my father, Albert W. Vickrey, and
my uncle. W W. Vickrey, also do-
nated land across the road to the
church
Camp meetings were held under
a brush arbor until 1909, when a
fine new tabernacle was built. The
first camp meeting held under the
new tabernacle was conducted by
Reverend W. J. Mayhew, then of
Valley Mills, and Reverend C. C.
Hightower, of Clifton. Three serv-
ices were held daily at that meet
ing, and people came from all of
the surrounding communities by
buggy, wagon, and horseback to
attend
In 1938 a fine revival was con-
ducted at the church by Reverend
Hayden Edwards, then of Clifton.
The threshers were running in the
community at that time, and they
would take off at 11:00 a.m. in
order that their hands could at-
tend services. Many fine young
men dedicated their lives to Chriit
during this meeting.
In 1922 the Lanes Chapel Church
was torn down and a new one re-
built. Since that time the annual
conference/has used this church
for a training school for young
ministers Among them were W.
J. Shelton, Mike Pattison, Jimmy
Mobley, Frank I^each, James Shu-
ler, Tony Campbell, Jerden Davis,
Reverend Faust, C. R. Nichols, and
the last pastor, Reverend Stewart.
Some of these young ministers
preached their first sermons at
Lanes Chapel.
All of the ministers who were
sent to this historic church long
will be remembered, and their
memories will linger in the minds
of John R. Lane, a devoted Chris- of present and former residents of
tian gentleman.
The Lanes Chapel Church has
been in the Gatesville District of
the Methodist Church since 1888,
and it has been linked for many
years with Mosheim and Cayote as
the Mosheim-Cayote-Lanes Chapel
Charge. Among a few of the min-
isters and district superintendents
heading the church have been
Reverend J. W. Culwell, Reverend
R. W. Call, Reverend Cole, Rever-
end Stone. Reverend Hulme, Rev-
erend A. J. Helm, Reverend Rich-
ard Hiser, Reverend W. J. Gaulty,
Reverend S. P. Gilmore, Reverend
C. G. Williams, Reverend Swiscove,
Reverend J. M Hays, Reverend
Berry, Reverend Roy I**ngston.
Reverend Floyd Johnson, Reverend
C. C. Sessions, and Reverend Oran
Stephens,
Giving so much of their time
and efforts to make the Lanes
Chapel Church successful during its
long history were Mr. and Mrs. R.
M l.ane, Mr. and Mrs. W M Rice,
the Cox family, the Barton family,
the Dansby family, the l.ane family,
the Sowell family, the Vickrey fan)
ily. W. F. Kirk, and others.
One young minister was born
and reared in the Lanes Chapel
community — Reverend Wayne
Smith, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W.
W Smith. Wives of two Methodist
ministers also were reared in the
community—Mrs. Rube Sisserson
and Mrs. W. J. Shelton.
Blessed be the memory of the
I-anes Chapel Church that now
stands so all alone. The stately
large post oak tree still seems to
be standing as a guard in front of
the structure, just as it did in
1939 when a tornado destroyed J.he
tabernacle and blew one half of
the roof onto this tree, thus help-
ing to keep the church from be-
ing destroyed.
This report, by no means, is a
full and accurate one of Ihis long-
established church, but the lack of
records prevented such an account.
It only seemed fitting that as much
of a history as possible should be
written following its last service.
Its future now rests with the an-
nual conference of the Methodist
Church in session this week.
MRS. BALDRIDGE IS
HOSTESS TO BRIDGE CLUB
On Friday afternoon, June 3,
Mrs. Robert Baldridge Jr. enter
tained the members and guests of
the J. O. Y. Bridge Club in her
attractive home at 515 South Ave
nue J in Clifton.
Following five entertaining games
of bridge high score and second
high for club members went to
Mrs. N. W. Willett and Mrs. Joseph
O. Nelson, respectively, with Mrs.
Kent Appleby receiving high guest.
Mrs. Jack Nixon and Miss Bernice
Schow were awarded the slam
prizes for being the last partners
to bid and make a slam during the
afternoon
Mrs. Baldridge served a delicious
salad plate to the following mem-
bers and guests present: Mesdamcs
Willett, Nelson, Appleby, Nixon
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hu-
len C, Aars, Charles M. Isenhowcr,
V. D. Good a 11, Tom G. Parks, J.
Bruce Parks, J. C. Kincheloe, R I,.
I<ane, Jack R. Hill, E. E. Stewart,
W. T. Thompson, and L. E. Ten-
nison and Miss Schow.
Mrs. M. K. Bradstreet Sr. will |
serve as hostess for the next club
meeting on Friday afternoon. June
17.
JOSEPH SOLBERGS ATTEND'
TLC GRADUATING EXERCISES
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Solberg, of
Route 2, Clifton, were in Seguin
last week-end to attend the bacca-
laureate and commencement exer-
cises for the 1960 graduating class
of Texas Lutheran College, which
were held on Sunday. Among the
70 graduates were their son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ken-
neth Solberg.
Mr. Solberg, who received his
Bachelor of Arts Degree, plans to
enter Luther Theological Seminary
in St Paul, Minnesota, this fafc.
Mrs. Solberg was the recipient of
a Bachelor of Science Degree and
plans to teach while they are is
St. Paul
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry McCoy, of Port
Lavaca, a son-in-law and daughter
of the Joseph Solbergs, also were
in Seguin for the graduation exer»
ctses last week-end.
NOTICE — The Clifton Record
makes an excellent birthday gift
for members of your family living
away from home. tfe
To the voters of Bosque County:
LET ME TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK EACH
ONE OF YOU WHO SUPPORTED ME IN THE RECENT DEM-
OCRATIC PRIMARY ELECTIONS AND MADE ME YOUR
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR SHERIFF.
I SHALL DO MY UTMOST TO MAKE EVERY CITIZEN
OF BOSQUE COUNTY A GOOD SHERIFF. AGAIN, I THANK
EACH ONE OF YOU.
Sincerely,
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Baldridge, Robert L., Jr. & Baldridge, Mrs. Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, June 10, 1960, newspaper, June 10, 1960; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth778537/m1/3/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.