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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1919
Page
14
The Clifton Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting at City Hall next Tuesday April 22 at 3 p.m. for electing officers for the year and to handle other business. All interested are invited. Oscar J. Rea, Prag.
Local Dots Commissioners' court is in session this week and will give full report next week. Miss Alice Moore returns to Meridian after spending weeks with friends in Dallas Fort Worth and Denton in North Texas.
E A Osborne and Jack Smith visited. Clifton and Walling’s Bend residents in town for business. Miss Annie Brittain returns home from Temple. orchestra at Meridian College entertained a full house. Will Hale convicted of lunacy awaiting asylum. Mrs G P Robertson returns from Dallas. Miss DeArmon visits Walnut Springs. Mrs Dan Cutbirth of Coyote visits Meridian. Mrs Ed Landtropp dies at Spring Creek. funeral held at Meridian cemetery. she leaves husband three children and many relatives. Large funeral attendance marks the mourning period.
Sunday School at 10 a m with a special Easter program by children. At 11 a m Voluntary with choir anthems O Be Joyful and He is Risen, solo My Risen Master by Mrs John M Grimland, sermon on the Risen Christ, solo Beyond the Dawn by Mrs Elwood Lovelady. At 8 30 p m special choir music Calvary, solo by Mrs E L Boston, sermon by the pastor, Evening Prayer quartet. Visitors invited. Geo F Kornegay Pastor.
Dolly A. Draine of Russellville Arkansas will conduct a church meeting starting Friday night April 18. Everyone is invited to attend this local service hosted by the Apostolic Church community.
The advertisement promotes showings at Bray Pictograph Educational and Goldwyn releases. Friday features Fatty Arbuckle in Fatty in Coney Island. Saturday offers Alice Brady in The Knife. Monday presents Mae Marsh in The Face in the Dark. Tuesday Wednesday include Why Germany Must Pay and a Thursday Mae Marsh film Polly of the Circus. Also Houdini 11th episode The Net.
Meridian Texas April 14 report says the Benedum Trees well on the Rogers farm near the Bosque County north line has reached a stage suggesting oil and gas. Other county wells include Burt and Griffith on Mat Weaks farm near Iredell drilling past 500 feet and several rigs and ground-casing active on multiple surveys from Meridian to Valley Mills with two wells contracted for Ludlam and Thomas and pending parks ranch location.
The San Jacinto High School auditorium hosts a Friday evening program on April 19 at 8: 00 under the PTA. listed items include songs poems readings and piano solos by students and guests with no admission charged and all are invited to attend.
Classified note offers a Stande-Mak-a-Tractor for sale or trade by J A Bernhardt of R 1 Clifton Texas. The piece includes a humorous aside about matrimonial fears and jokes about wives with a jelly wobble laugh, recalling old fashioned sayings about husbands and wives.
A concise adage notes that true happiness stems from lifting others' spirits. The quote urges trying this approach to prove the idea as truth.
A sacred Easter cantata The Easter Messenger by E S Lorenz will be performed by the Scandinavian Lutheran Church on Sunday April 20 at 8 30 p m The program includes an organ prelude choral selections soprano Anna Hoff and several solo and choir pieces A cordial welcome is extended to all The piece notes Clifton High School students success at the county meet and hopes to support them in district and state meets.
The district interscholastic meet will be held in Waco on Saturday April 19 occupying a full day. Events include debates for high and rural schools, declamations spelling and essay writing with results announced then. Counties McLennan Hill Dallas Bell Bosque Hamilton Coryell will be represented. Waco not with McLennan. District winners advance to the Austin state meet May 1 and 2.
A girl who once could fit all she wore into a violin case is now said to be able to pack her wardrobe into a clarinet case this summer. The remark highlights growing space efficiency and playful shapeshifting fashion imagery.
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