Ramblin round the Gap and Lutefisk supper memories
The Cranfills Gap column recalls a Lutefisk Supper at the Gap School with visiting Norwegians and old friends, plus holiday events like a Christmas Craft Show, school programs, and Christmas Cash Drawings. Comings and goings list local visitors, gatherings, and health updates from late November to early December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Bronstad
Buster Bronstad
Furman Grimm
TR. C. Reiersons
Grimms
Houston
Norway
Minnesota
Dallas
Home Hint Preserves Autumn Leaves With Iron Pressing
Extension housing specialist Benny Lay suggests pressing leaves with a warm iron to set color then soaking the pressed leaves in a glycerin solution of one part glycerin to nine parts water. After soaking, press between blotters to keep leaves flexible.
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Benny Lay
First Methodist Church Crawfills Gap Service Notice
Rev Dale Yant leads worship at First Methodist Church Crawfills Gap Texas with Sunday service at 9 30 a m and Church School at 10 30 a m
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Crawfills Gap
Texas
Dale Yant
Christmas Cash Drawings Set At Gap Drug Store
Christmas Cash Drawings are planned in Crawfils Gap with no purchase necessary. On Saturday December 21 from 1 to 5 pm at Gap Drug Store, about 35 prizes totaling 125 dollars will be awarded hourly to eligible residents. participating businesses include Gulf Service Station Farmers Butane and Gap Community Foods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfills Gap Garden Club
Binous Tindall
Chamber of Commerce
Gap Drug Store
Crawfills Gap
Gulf Service Station
Johnson’s Garage
Farmers Butane
Rhodes - Tindall Hardware
First Security State Bank
Wm. B. Bertelsen Insurance Company
Gap Community — Foods
Polk’s
Crawfills Gap Drug Store
Gap Feed Mill
Olen Dunn's
Thelma’s
Paul’s Recreation
Moody Green's Cleaners
Country Kitchen
Gap Laundromat
Humble Service Station
Gulf Wholesale
G. M. Phillips
Gap Implement Company
Santa Party Arrives in Cranfills Gap December 21
Santa will arrive about 2 p.m. Saturday at Cranfills Gap with candy for children. The Cranfills Gap Chamber of Commerce Executive Committee met December 9 to plan Christmas drawings. Members Si Johnson, Ben Rhodes, Cecil Rohne, and James Lee discussed compiling a list of local students and families for drawings.
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Santa
Cranfills Gap
Si Johnson
Ben Rhodes
Cecil Rohne
James Lee
Johnson
Gap
Mr. Buell Dies at 81 in Clifton Hospital
Charles W. Buell 81 of Cranfills Gap died Tuesday December 3 at Goodall-Witcher Hospital Clifton from pneumonia complications. Services were held December 5 at St Olaf Evangelical Lutheran Cranfills Gap with Rev. Marvin O Ottmers officiating. Burial in St Olaf Rock Church Cemetery. Survived by widow Mae Buell daughters Anne Norris Grace Richman Agnes Stone Shirley Davenport four grandchildren five great grandchildren two sisters. He formerly served as Deputy Sheriff in Polson Montana and as Special Officer for the Interior Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Buell
Cranfills Gap
Goodall-Witcher Hospital
Clifton
St. Olaf Evangelical Lutheran Church
Marvin O. Ottmers
Melvin Saunders
Meridian
William Whitford
St. Olaf Rock Church Cemetery
Otto H. Reesing
A. G. Hutton
Orvilleh. Reesing
Ernest O. Reesing
Mervin Reesing
Orville B. Jones
Sidney E. Reesing
Frederick Buell
Clinton
Iowa
Montana
Elva Mae Suher
Anne
Grace
Agnes
Shirley
Buell
Lake County
Polson
Flathead Indian
Stewart
Nevada
Department of the Interior
Carson City
Mr. Buell
Utah
California
Elva Mae
Mae J. Reesing
J. Edgar Hoover
Crawfills Gap
Texas
Clifton Hospital
Mae Buell
Walter
Anne Virginia’ Norris
Winnemucca
Chester
Grace Arlette) Richman
Houston
Agnes Laura Stone
San Francisco
Calif
Shirley Helen Davenport
Margaret Olney
Martha Moehl
Beatrice
Nebraska
Courthouse Deed Transfers Across Multiple Texas Counties
Walter L. Poston Diane Poston to Carol Knudson and J J Lee 1.50 acres out of Samuel R Newton Survey. Veterans Land Board receives 72.69 acres across John Belden and other surveys. Numerous transfers involving Lake Whitney areas and Bosque Hamilton counties. New cars registered include 1968 69 model pickups sedans and a El Camino.
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Walter L. Poston
Diane Poston
Carol J. Knudson
J. J. Lee
Samuel R. Newton
Vivian Sample
Archie W. Roberson
Lena Roberson
Pop Sample
Steele Creek Acres
Lake Whitney
Irene Jones
Feme
Eddie Braun
Ruth Braun
Lakewood Harbor
Gertrude Cherino
Mary Jester Chilton Gaines
W. F. Chilton, Jr
Thomas R. Vick
Joan Vick
Samuel K. Lewis
B. F. Rundell
Vera Welsh
George Welsh
Nina Newton
Ima Newton Smith
Gillet Newton
Weston Newton
Elsie Shannon
Leon Shannon
Billie Shannon
Edith Shannon
Veterans’ Land Board of Texas
John Belden
George Walsh
F. C. McConnell
Ind
Orinda McConnell
J. C. Royal
W. H
T. ¢. Stricklin
William H. Patton
Hamilton
Bosque
Bosque County
Hamilton County
William Chesley Runyon
Richard Thomas Runyon
Betty G. Allen
Marvin L. Allen
William Motley
John Bruckner
Larry Don Turner
Charlotte Turner
Greenwood Subdivision
J. K. Woosley
Sandra Woosley
Jeffie F. Hanna
Opal M. Hanna
G. L. Woosley
Margaret Woolley
W. H. King
Surrey
Meridian
First Baptist Church Sunday Schedule
Rev Horace C Goodman leads Sunday School at 10 a m with preaching at 11 a m and evening service at 6 30 p m at the church.
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Horace C. Goodman
Fourth annual Lutefisk Turkey Supper serves 700 guests
About 700 guests and 75 workers attended the Crawfills Gap School Cafeteria event on Saturday night December 7 for the Lutefisk Turkey Supper. The final group is shown above finishing lutefisk potatoes white sauce melted butter turkey dressing gravy green beans and cranberries.
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Crawfills Gap
Booster Club
G. M. Phillips
C. E. Stevens
Early 1960 Social Security W-2 guidance and 1968 meeting
Advice on furnishing Form W-2 with early Social Security applications and withholding statements from each 1968 employer. Bob Barnes will speak in Clifton at 9 30 am in City Hall Dining Room on Tuesday December 17 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ris
Bob Barnes
Clifton
City Hall
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Cranfills
Ramblin
With Ruth Reierson
Charlie Buell
Selma Bronstad
Allen Bronstad
Tommy
Fort Worth
Lonnie Tergerson
Rt. 2
Bronstads
Gap School
Bob Martin
Lillie Simmons
Dennis Kirk
Otto Roesicke
Kirks
B. T. Hamby
Roesicke
R. C. Reierson
Kirk
Ernest Reierson
Floyd Broncers
Homer Burleson
M. J. Bertelson
Homer Bronstad
Denton
Clyde Bronstad
Marguerite Bronstad
Chris J. Rohne
Owen Welborn
Roy Welborns
Scott and White Clinic
Temple
Victoria
L. F. Pace
Scott
Ernest Zammin
Jimmie
University of Houston
University of Tulsa
Welborns
Ray Grimland
Ray Welborn
Lutkin
Randy Ramey
the Gap
Mill Jr. College
Hillsboro
Lufkin
Walter Kameys
Cecil Meador
Ft. Campbell Kentucky
Archie ‘Tergerson
Bob and
Tammy
John M. Johnson
Harold Wiese
Robert Prokschl
Ernest Rohne
St. Olaf
ALCW
Wendell Knudson
Marvin Ottmers
Dennie Pendleton
Charlie Johnson
P. B. Rohne
Homer Olson
Belvin Swenson
Ivan Johnson
Alice Pierson
Alice Burleson
Bill Schibler
Harry Blue
Ottmers
Reierson
Knudson
Circle 2
Crantills Gap
Jr. High
Tredell
Morgan
Insurance Agency
WM. B. Bertelsen & Company Insurance Agency
Crawfills Gap, Texas
Gene Knudson
Janelle Johnson
P. O
F.d.lc
First Methodist Church
Wayne
June Blum
Cranfills Gap, Texas
Shurfine
Prestone Anti-Freeze
Libby
Shurfresh
Oak Farms
GAP Community Foods
Courthouse Records
Charlie Bill Patrick
Benita Marie Young Af
Tiallas
J. H. Johnson
Hico
Arthur Guinn
Iredell
George Calvert
Keith Patterson
B. Kasper
Pasadena
W. J. Cunningham
Sehila Rice
Waco
First Baptist Church
Artistic Floral & Gifts
Bennie Hanson
Jay Hastings
Crawfills Gap “Lions” Booster Club
Clifton Record Photo
OUR Savior’s Lutheran Church
Rev
Albert Petrich
Elmer Luckenbach
Clifton Lutheran Sunset Home
ALC
Turkey Creek
Mere
Mrs. Eldon Zimmerman
Waco Marble
Granite Works
N. Highway
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