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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1961
Page
5
County Agent and Mrs Floyd Key hosted as Bruce Lindsey Bosque County Farm Bureau president attended with his two daughters Juanita and Carrie Lindsey at the Texas Farm Bureau Institute event.
The annual training school for County Farm Bureau leaders ran July 25 to 28 in Mineral Wells. It offered classes on leadership responsibilities and Farm Bureau procedures, with sessions on current agricultural problems. The Keys and Lindseys will relay information to Bosque County members at the September meeting. Several notable instructors attended, and students should return with valuable information.
Memorials totaling 46 dollars were donated to Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home in memory of Emil T. Johnson who died there on July 8. Contributors include staff of the Clifton facility, local couples from Clifton, Houston Circle 6 women, Waco residents, a friend from San Marcos, and a Raleigh North Carolina couple.
Clifton Chapter No 232 installs new officers for the year led by installing officer W H McCown and installing marshal L E Tennison High priest J A Hyles and multiple officers including M R Pat White, R C Womack, L E Tennison, W W Land, Jim Sinclair, Robert Baldridge Jr, J W Perry, L B Polk, J R Hill, J C Kincheloe, C E Pratt, and chaplain W H McCown. Royal Arch Chapter officers then take corresponding roles in Clifton Council No 168. Meetings are on the third Monday each month.
Mr and Mrs Lawrence Ringness hosted relatives and friends at the Community Public Service Company Clubhouse Reddy s Retreat on Lake Whitney from Friday morning July 28 to Sunday morning July 30 Attendees included Byron Kern and son Nathan Dr Minah Hansen of Dallas Bobby Anderson of Fort Worth and many Ringness family members and guests from Clifton.
On Sunday July 30 the Shepherd reunion gathered at the Girl Scout Building in Stephenville. Attendees included Buck and family Shepherds, Ella Shepherd, W C Ammons, and others from Stephenville, Hico, Cranfills Gap, Richmond, Midland, and Clifton. Next year’s reunion is planned around the same date at Clairette.
Eighteen interested 4-H parents attended the organizational meeting at the Meridian courthouse establishing the Bosque County Adult 4-H Leaders Association. Officers elected include Louie Sonntag president Al Hanson vice president and Mrs Reierson secretary. Next meeting set for October 23 in Crawfalls Gap with programs planned by the committee.
Mrs. Otho Jones stayed in Huntsville from Sunday to Wednesday last week with her son Dennis Jones and his wife and their children Tim Richard and Rosemary for a family visit.
The column lists numerous families visiting relatives across Meridian and nearby towns including Amarillo Plainview and Dallas. Highlights include Arther and Newberry families in Womack, Hancock and Marshall kin at Lake Travis, and Benfer and Lambert relatives in Waco Clifton Waxahachie and Arlington.
Gene A Harville of Sealy named new Santa Fe railway agent at Temple succeeding Wilburn DuBoise who retires after 51 years service. Harville joined the Santa Fe June 11 1948 as telegraph apprentice in Dublin and later served as telegrapher and agent. He is a former Sealy Chamber of Commerce director and Baptist Church member, married with three children Laura Gaile Renee and Donald.
Mrs. L. C. Perry and her son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs W L Burgan returned home August 1 after a vacation in Florence Alabama with Mr and Mrs Ed Lane. Burgans son Bobby Burgan who often visited his grandmother here joined the United States Air Force July 17 and is stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
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