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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1960
Page
4
Notes discuss effects of a highway bypass on Meridan and the town. Advocates cite reduced fire risk and better parking as benefits of shifting business toward the new route. Absentee voting begins Monday at the Clerk's office with May 3 as the deadline. May 9 Democratic primaries loom with long ballot and budding races.
Fair officials lament continued BB gun damage to barns as Clifton Record shows its largest circulation in six months per Audit Bureau figures. Business trends 1954 to 1958 favor food stores, services and entertainment. Clifton school district pursues delinquent taxes every decade, while students compete in regional tennis meets with mixed results.
Local families and relatives from Clifton and nearby towns gathered for weekend and extended visits. Notables include Mrs. B. W. Whitney and Mrs. C. E. Gowan from Memphis with relatives, the Solbergs of Austin visiting their grandmother, and the Lenderman family from Lufkin visiting Anton Amundson and kin.
Nine 4 H Club youths are urged to apply and write essays for eight registered Duroc gifts and one male pig in the Sears Roebuck Foundation swine program open to Bosque County members including girls. The Pioneer District Beef Cattle Performance Testing field day is set for May 19 at Spring Mountain Ranch near Meridian with barbecue and details to follow. Also notes weigh dates for winter and spring calves, performance testing sale eligibility, and visits from Pecos residents Mr and Mrs Al Carlson and family to relatives in the county.
Classified listings feature tomato plants and rugs for sale from Marvin Harvey and Gilmore and Davis Inc. plus Motorola radios and TVs at Watson Feed & Hatchery and Clifton Locker Plant services and farm seed offers from Bronstad Feed Mill and Cottonseed suppliers. The note ends with a family visit report involving the Coles and Braswells.
Mrs. Luther Thompson 93 a native of Clifton died Thursday night April 7 in Dallas after living in Wichita Falls since 1900. She was the last of 11 Kell siblings and a pioneer Wichitan. Survived by two Dallas daughters Tempe T Bell and Abbie T Willis a granddaughter and three great grandchildren. Funeral services were held April 9 at Hampton Vaughan Funeral Home Chapel Wichita Falls with burial there.
The family expresses sincere appreciation to relatives and friends for thoughts prayers flowers cards and memorials during the illness and after the death of Albert Petterson May God bless each of you. The Family Of Albert Petterson
The Carpenter family thanks everyone for the kindness shown before and after the passing of W F Carpenter. Special thanks go to the Goodall and Witcher Clinic Hospital doctors, the ladies who provided food, and Minister J Roy Waldrum and the Church of Christ choir. May God bless you.
Notice to all trespassers about fire risk on the Helm farm property spanning about three miles along both sides of the highway, starting roughly one mile north of Clifton. Keep clear to prevent fires.
Reverend Iver Haugen pastor of St. Olaf Lutheran Church Cranfills Gap and Melvin Saunders Meridian traveled Monday to Minneapolis Minnesota to attend the Evangelical Lutheran Church Convention in April 1921 Saunders served as a church delegate.
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