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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
4
Local notice lists subscription prices payable in advance for one year sixty dollars, six months, and three months. It also outlines advertising rates including display per inch, special position charges, local advertising per line, and face type pricing with notes on time content.
The recent rains have refreshed fields boosting early wheat planting and aiding cotton crops. Many people spend hot days camping, enduring flies and heat but enjoying vacations. Home merchants face heavy sales as communities prepare for warmer weather.
In a talk with Mr. B, M. McMinn, a well to do farmer south of town, reveals he has not bought lard or soap in 32 years. His wife shared the credit for home production of essentials, a practice he says helps withstand hard times as they prepare for economic droughts.
Ill-formed tale notes Wil Wheeberry of Wheeberry-by-the-Aan appeals for the return of a mustache cup and mustache fashion, claiming action heroes inspired a comeback while critics mock the effort and ancient grooming trends resurge amid chaotic lines and garbled text.
Special correspondent notes cotton picking struggles with few laborers as rain misses the area and local social calls are affected by a hog creek rise. Residents travel to Meridian and Dallas county for business. families visit relatives, with humorous reminiscences on whiskers and manners from earlier days.
Bosque County farmers, hit by drought, credit poultry profits and turkey shipments as lifelines. County agent L. Bailey notes poultry and dairy are growing industries, with 30 large ranches, terracing, soil projects, and a planned two-dam irrigation system on the Brazos River. He cites irrigation and railroad revival as keys to recovery amid scarce rain and reduced cotton yields.
More than $15,000 in damage from a late Monday fire destroyed an oil derrick near Kimball in Bonque county. The rig engine and 15,000 feet of new cable were burned. origin unknown. The wall belongs to Telegram Oil Company. drilling may resume with a new derrick as prospects are good.
A fragmented Bosque County item lists debt status as cleared with a $16,000 surplus. Mentions Bosque and Brasmi Rivers guiding irrigation potential and local delegation meetings with Turnersville and Furydell. Oscar J. Rea is cited in a cryptic welcome line amid scattered phrases.
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