The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1946 Page: 3 of 8
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CUTOH MOPTO, CLIFTON, THXAS, FEBRUARY 8, 1946
I
NOTICE
2>7.o.',
I have purchased the Seat Cov-
er Department from Lloyd Lane
and will be located at Leo
Richards’ Garage.
YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED
BILL WEATHERFORD
MERIDIAN COURT
AND LOCAL NEWS
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Mrs. Fred Micllliieney and daugh-
ter, ’Sandda, of Beaumont, are visit-
ing Mrs. Mclllheney’s (parents, Mr.
and Mrs, T, W. Porter.
Mrs. M. L. Crabtree passed away
Monday night after suffering a heart
attack about a week ago.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Nichols left
(test week for Bryan where they will
snake their home while Mr. Nichols
is in school at A. & M. College.
Chaplain J. W. Sprinkle, of the U.
S. Army, and wife, and Rev. Floyd
Johnson arid wife were visitors in the
B. L. MoCord home Sunday. Rev.
Johnson preached at the Methodist
Church Sunday night.
Clara F. Richards is' confined to
. her home due to illness. Her many
friends wish for her a speedy recovery
that she might be Iback at her post as
Principal of High School.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Johhson had as
cnests in their home this week-end,
. Roberta Connely and Mr. and
Mrs. Julian Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jaimes H. Stockard of
Washington, D. C., are visiting Mr.
Stockard’s .parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.
I. Stockard. Mr. Stockard has just
received his honorable discharge from
the Marine Corps, and will be en-'
rolled at Baylor University as; a Pre-
Mod Dental student soon. Mrs.
Stockard comes to Meridian as
-bride of a few weeks. Their many
friends here wish for them success
and happiness.
Terrill Hinds, of Cleburne, visited
Billie Curtis Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Cochran is . visiting in
Waco* with her sister.
Major and Mrs. J. Ames Frakes
and <baiby, LaRue, en route from
Columbia, Tenn., to San Antonio, were
recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Curtis. ’ >
Mr. and Mrs. Thurman J. Bates and
children, Thurman Jr. and Judy, were
recent guests of Dr. and Mrs. J. T.
I Archer. Mrs. Bates is a sister of
Archer. .
Recorded in County Clerk’s
Office:
John R. Thomas to R. T. Ragsdale
—lot 4, block 8, Main Street Park
-addition to the town of Meridian, con-
sideration, $6,760.00.
,C. D. Seawright to Hulda Sea-
■wTight—undivided 1-25 of 136 >1-4
acres out of the Stephan Williams
survey, consideration, $76.00.
F. E. Sumnnetall to S. V. Alexander
—parcel of land recorded in Vol. 13,
page 7, Deed records, Bosque County,
Texas, consideration, $1,300.00.
Alma Swenson to Bamey Swenson
_6.8 acres out of the H. G. Pannell
survey, conerideration, $1,600.00.
Fred Hall to W. A. Simpson—lot
Mock 12 in the town of Valley Mills,
consideration, $2,500.00.
A. E. Oneal to 'Louis T. Powers—
lots 11 and 12 in block 23 in the town
of Valley Mills, consideration, $800.
Mrs. An
Deeds
Roy S. Pool to Fred Hall—lot 5 and
part of lot 6, block 5 in the town of
Valley Mills.
Joe L. McNeill to A. M. Long—
E. part lot 3, block 12, town of Valley
Mills, consideration, $44.28.
C. C. JStryker to Gus Walsleben—
lots 1 arid 2, block 47, Edgewood ad-
dition to the town of Clifton, con-
sideration, $4,000.00.
R. T. Ragsdale to Elgin Davidson
—207 acres of land out of the John
Rogers survey, consideration, $13,000.
J. W. Marrs to G. P. Marrs—25
acres of land out of the Clairbome
Neill survey.
O. D. Cranfill to M. A. Sorley—
lots 3, 4, and 5, block 3, town of Cran-
fills Gap, consideration, $300.00.
Willie Kane to Bill Kleibrink—
15.9 acres out of the George Raines
survey, consideration, $426.60.
W. R. Hill to J. J. Kirby et al-
lots 1 and 2, block 8, in the town of
Walnut Springs, consideration, $600.
J. W. Gosdin to Dr, W. W. Melton
—parcel of land out of the W. T.
Charles survey, consideration, $16,-
000.00. t,
W. H. Pilant, et al, to Earl .Pilant—
part of lots 11 and 12, block D, in the
town of Clifton, consideration, $450.
Earl Pilant to J. B. Lumpkin—part
of lots 11 and 12, block D, in the town
of Clifton, consideration, $700.00.
E. A. Jackson to Tom Odom—par-
cel^ of land out of the James McCul-
lough survey, consideration, $200.00.
E. 0. Box et al to A. C. Moore—
tract of land out of the John Breakly
and A. P. Thompson survey, consider-
ation, $3,750.00.
W. C. Owen to W. N. Brister—N%
lot 1, block 15, town of Meridian, con-
sideration, $2,800.00.
W. F. and J. F. Barnes, to J. R.
Laurence—parcel of land out of the
Jamfs McCullough survey, considera-
tion $200.00.
M. B. Sirmann to W. H. Jackson—
lot 6, block 5, Fairview addition to
the town of Walnut Springs, consider-
ation, $250.00.
, Minnie J. Brown to W. C. Owen—
N% lot 1, block 15, in the town of
Meridian, consideration, $2,250.00.
Lloyd Reed to Jim Stanford—part
of lot 1, block 3 in the town of Valley
Mills, consideration, $275.00.
Marriage Licenses:
Sherman H. SchiMer and Miss
Doris Dahl.
Cosmo Smith and Miss Wanda Lou
Patterson.
NEWS FROM MOSHEIM
* COMMUNITY
We’re having real nasty weather
and if the Saying is true about the
ground hog we will continue to have
it for six weeks. Oh dreadful thought.
Bro. Conner filled his regular ap-'
pointment Sunday. On account of
bad weather the attendance Was
small.
Lloyd and Jack Loper are at home
now. Both have honorable discharges.
We are aJwayts glad when any of the
boys get home to stay.
A. p. Pearson was here Monday on
business. He ‘had a feed mill here for
a while and left as business was not
so good. They have been in Tampa
for several months. He says they
may come back and make Mosheim
their home. *
Mr. and Mrs. Tip^pn, our grocery-
man,; and Bun Cummings and wife of
Gatesville visited relatives in' Austin
two Sundaysb.agw.’ ( Mr. Tiptonr trie'tj
his luck fishing but didn’t catch any-
thing. #
Mrs. S. O. Ficklin has been having
trouble with her knee again, hasn’t
been able to be up much for two or
three weeks.
/Several from here attended the ball
game at Clifton Saturday night.
Mrs. Charley Cummings has been
in bed five weeks with sciatic rheu-
matism. She is a little better at this
writing. .
Wanda Patterson, daughter -ef, Jed
Patterson, and C. Smith very qhfetly yj
left a ball game last week and got1
married. We wish them success in
life.
Mr. and. Mrs. Warren of Speegle-
vilie and Mr. and Mrs. Summerford
and daughter of Permela visited Mr.
and Mrs. Oma Pennington two Sun-
days ago. Mrs. Harlin Horton, a
sister-in-law of Mrs. Pennington and
whoise husband is expected home from"
the Navy soon, had spent the week
with the Penningtons and returned
home with her parents, the Warrens.
J. R. Williams and wife visited her
parents, the J. P. Richards, last week.
Also, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Richards
spent the week-end witly-the Richards®t
SUNDAY i:
The 17th annual University of
Texas Round-Up has been scheduled
for April 5, 6, and* 7. The colorful
Rtound-Up parade will be held for
the first time since 1941. Reunions
will be heltf of the classes of 1886,
1891, 1896, 1901, 1908, 1911, 1916,
lfcl, 1926, 1931, 1936, and 1941.
and with her parents, the Cowens, at
Clifton.
Johnnie Joe Cummings and Irene
Miihlhause are attending 4-C at
Waco. They visited home folks over
the week-end.
,Vara Gladys Jones, who is teach-
ing at Oglesby, was home for the
week-end..
Inez Sockwell of the Bartlett school
faculty was home for the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs, Marshall Mitchell
went to Waco Saturday night and
attended a show while there.
The H. D. Club met the last meet-
ing with Mrs. Oarlie Barker, having
decided to piece a quilt and sell
for the ‘benefit of the club. We took
scraps and ail tools needed and having
decided on a 'pattern we pieced several
blocks. We will make It at meetings
when the agent is not there to give
us a lesson. It was a very enjoyable
meeting. Cake and hot chocolate and
coffee were served. The next meet-
ing on Feb. 12 will toe with Mrs. N. M.
Calfee. We are* supposed to make a
dress form.
Bro. Stone and wife-are attending
a meeting of the pastors this week in
Dallas.
It was only a question of time until
the modest statements of us Texans
about our Stat^,, would get a rise
outta our friends who dwell elsewhere
and recently that’s just what hap-
pened. An individual; signing him-
self as Rattlesnake Robert, went to
bat for New Mexico in the New Yort
Herald-Tribune. Actually, he is the
noted poet and* short story writer, S,
Omar Barker; and the Herald-Tribune
and Mr. Barker have given permis-
sion to quote his kidfling article:
^“Despite a profound reverence for
the self-conftssed colossalitude of
Texas, 1 feel that the Lone Star's tall
shadow should not be permitted un-
duly to adumbrate the modest
merits of her nearby neighbor to the
west.
I refer to New; Mexico, forty-
seventh star in the flag, not to be
confused (though it generally is)
with Mexico—the good neighbor. re-
public which supplies, via. the south-
west wind, 50 per cent of the Grade
sand in every Texan’s craw, New
Mexico, of course, supplies the rest.
‘Actually, Texas is n6 bigger than
New Mexico, It only appears to be
bigger .because it is spread so much
thinner. The mean average thick-
is of New Mexico from sunshine
to sea level is 5,600 feet. The higher
you go into the mountains, the mean-
er it gets. Straight down .from the
snow-capped crest of Truoh-as Peaks,
New Mexico is 13,206 feet thick, and
little left over. Mashed down- and
rolled out to the same thinness as
Texas, New Mexico would reach all
the way from Yalta to the Atlantic
Charter with enough lap-over to flap
in the Texas wind. On the other hand,
the thickest point in Texas, an
has to put up signs to show the water
which, way .to run when it rains; yet
its mountains are' so steep that the
bears which inhabit them have all de-
veloped corkscrew tails so they can
sit down once in a while' without
sliding off into Texas-
“There is no place in Now Mexico
from which on a sunny day ((which
means every day here) you cannot
see a mountain, smell a pine tree, or
hear a Texan. Snow falls so deep in
New Mexico’s mountains that it takes
40,000 automobile loads of Texas hot
air each summer to melt it.
“On that fabulous river,"* the Rio
Grande, New Mexico and Texas split
honors fifty-fifty; New Mexico fur-
nishes the water and. Texas furnishes
the sand for it to sink away in.
“■Naw Mexico is- a game country,
too. If ell the deer horns in the state
were clustered together into one
giant hatrack, it. would make a good
place for Texans to hang their hats
on when not talking through them.
Combine all the mountain lios’ -tails
in New Mexico into one and you could
brush all the heel flies out of Texas
in otie swish.
“Speaking of oil, all you have to do
in southeastern New Mexico to start
a filling station is to stick a garden
hose down a gopher hole.
“New Mexico raises every mention-
able crop, including cotton, cattle,
beans, buckaroos, (wheat, sheep, chili
con came and the hopes of Texans
who hanker for some place to go
trout fishing.
“There are more writers, artists,
jack-rabbits and political aspirations
to the square inch in New Mexico
than there are bureaus in Washing-
ton.
“And the sun shines 365 days of the
year, and twice on Sundays."
So says Mr. Barker of New Mexico.
ITINERARY OF COUNTY 1
DEMONSTRATION AGENT
Monday,.' Feb.
Valley Mills 4-H.
Tuesday, Feb. 12—Mosheim H.
Club.
Wednesday, Felb. 13—Repor
Training School in Lampasas.
Thursday, Felb. 14—Cayote H. D.
Cl rib.
Friday, Felb. 15—Garnersville H. D.
Club.
Saturday, Feb. 13—Meridian office,
—Jo Garland, Oo. H. D. Agent
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Cold Preparations
Liquid; Tablets, Salve, Nose Drop*
CAUTION! Use only as directed.
BURRELL F, WORD
ATTORNET-AT-LAW
MERIDIAN, TEXAS
* H. J. Cureton
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Meridian - Texas
Central Texas Bus Line
Safety—Comfort—Economy
Lv. Clifton for Temple —
........................11:35 a.m.—5:36 pan.
Fare to Temple $1.00. Round trip $1A0
Lv. Clifton tot Dallas—
------------------ .7:55 a.m.—5:40 p.m.
Lv. Clifton for Fort Worth—
---------.7:55 a.m.—5:40 p.m.
Lv. Dallas for Clifton— „
-------------------8:00 ami.—1:20 p.m.
Fare to Dallas ....$2, Round trip $3.00
Fare to Fort
Worth itiagp Round trip $2.71
Worth for Clifton—
-8:30 a.m.—2:30 pmu
JOE HYDE, Driver and Mgr. tfi
Lv. Fort Wor
Twenty-three manuscripts have
been submitted in the playwriting
contest sponsored by the University
of Texas department of drama, E. P.
Conkle, resident playwright, an-
nounced. Each year 'the University
drama department sponsors the pro-
duction of an original play, ip order
to give beginning playwrights an op-
portunity to see their work produced
and criticized. Final date for sub-
mitting the playsj is February 15.
average screw-billed angleworm could
bore through to the bottom in one
wiggle. •
“New Mexico is the sunshine state
because its scenic beauty is so e
trancing that even Old Sol cannot let
a day pass without taking a good
look at it.
“Compared to New Mexico, Texas
is a newcomer.*'A million-years before
Tex Columbus fourteen-mnety-ibwoed
America, an early settler known as
the Folsom Man was practicing point
rationing in New Mexico. He used
arrow heads for red points. No points,
no buffalo meat.
“Four score years 'before the First
Texas cowboy scuffed a 'high-heeled
boot on Plymouth Rock, a Mr. Coro-
nado, oi;Spain,- was1 eatiiigeotn off
the cob in New*' Mexico and mailing
home pictograph postcards of five-
storied Pueblo tourist courts marked
‘X-My-Room-X. , Come on over, the
climb is fine.’
“Speaking of climate, New Mexico
is where all Texans who have the
tires come every summer to cool off
and brag aibout the Texas climate.
“Npw Mexico has plains so flat
that the State Highway Department
WHEN YOUR CASE
TRACTOR
NEEDS NEW PARTS.
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We Carry Complete
Stock of
Case Tractor Parts Now.
Your Visits Are Always
... Welcomed; .. ^ .
Come In To See Us Often.
■ —-c - v;
Siler & Torrence Implement Co.
DICK TORRENCE, Manager
STEPPING ON IT
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The old-fashioned fellow occasionally passed away
by blowing out the gas. These days some of the
young fellows accomplish the same result by
stepping on it. Most people “auto” get that.
We have no desire to knock the automobile busi-
ness, yet once in a while we see some fellow riding
around in a car and “stepping on the gasoline”
who would have been better off if he had kept his
funds on deposit at the bank, awaiting some
profitable investment. It reminds us of the old
in order to take the
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Shag Rugs—All colors
Aluminum Chicken Fryers
Juice Extractors
Covered Cake Pans
Cahister Sets x .
Cutlery Boxes
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Pyrex Custard Cups ,
True TemperSpading Forks
Axes
Car;
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Tractor Tires
Sealed Beam Headlights
Gas Water Heaters
Firestone Batteries
Passenger Tires & Tubes
Fog Lights
Luminous Walt Plates
Metal Kitchen Stools
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Baldridge, Mrs. Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, February 8, 1946, newspaper, February 8, 1946; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth796713/m1/3/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.