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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1922
Page
8
Daxian reports George Purl of Dallax County, recently selected representative, frames a wife desertion bill. The proposal, approved by several women’s organizations, would make wife desertion a felony and is expected to be acted on by the next legislature.
Avan Texas December 11 Governor Neff will grant Christmas pardons to a number of convicts. W B Walthall private secretary said names would be announced around December 20 as the Governor would be in the Rio Grande Valley and not in his office until about that date.
The Queen Theatre lineup lists Johnny Walker in My Dad on Thursday, Ruth Roland in The Timber Queen Friday and Saturday, Harold Lloyd in Ask Father on Saturday, plus James Oliver Curwood's Trail's End and a two reel comedy Game Bright. Features include Barbed Wire and I Am the Law, with Shiek of Araby and Bull Dog Courgee, and a note on The Timber Queen Friday and Saturday. Also church program items, a piano vocal sequence, and a Christmas box sale by Carpenter Bros.
State and county court records show multiple prosecutions under the prohibition law with various sentences including two to four years in the penitentiary for different defendants. Visiting lawyers and local obituaries, cemetery burials in Meridian, teacher examinations, and population shifts are noted. The piece closes with a remark on the northeast shift of the U.S. Negro population since 1900.
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