Season's Greetings for Christmas and New Year
A festive greeting expresses wishes for a bright Christmas and a New Year filled with the best things. May joy, health, and prosperity accompany the reader through the coming season and beyond.
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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1924
Page
3
A festive greeting expresses wishes for a bright Christmas and a New Year filled with the best things. May joy, health, and prosperity accompany the reader through the coming season and beyond.
A wedding took place at 2:00 PM in the home of D. M. Byrum uniting Velma Pettiet and Myrtie Byrum with Roy Minix and BRA Pettiet in the bonds of matrimony officiated by Elder J. E. Mullins. The notice appeared in The Clifton Record and the Dallas News.
A garbled OCR note describes a bottle labeled Herbioe on a store shelf and mentions a doctor in the house. The legible parts hint at effects or warnings but are incomplete and unclear. The text references druggists and general selling context.
The community report lists visits and family events from Childress to Temple and Waco. It records marriages, a birthday celebration for Ruth Cooksey, and a baby girl arrival for Roy and wife. It notes deaths of Mrs. Millard Sadler and a bank closure at Clifton National Bank with payment claims. Also includes Clifton bid invitations for power plant equipment and hosiery employment ad.
Auction notice for January 1 selling ten head of road work mules at the seller's home miles east of Clifton. Also notice offering higher market price for cotton seed. Signed Clifton Gie Ca Setberg, Mer. 40.9.
Clifton High School defeated Morgan 14 to 11 in a brisk basketball game. Auro Odie pivoted for Clifton and controlled the boards while Pearl Mae Cowen and Hattie Mae Gray led the attack. Guards Travis and Irene stymied Morgan, with Clifton’s defense holding the visitors to five field goals as Valley Mills loomed as the county’s other strong team.
Landowners Ben Harrie F G Orwald Mrs John Orwald Art Vorsere and White Pencils post all lands eastman Kedals and fresh Films at Prether Studie for hunting trespass. No one may enter or hunt these properties without permission or legal authorization.
Mexia Texas Dec 22 The Santa Clausie windfall from Wortham oil development brings Christmas money to workers and farmers. The boom started Thanksgiving day and drew laborers from Arkansas California Louisiana and many Texas towns. Extra clerks in Wortham and Mexia post offices handle money orders as wages are sent home to families amid the harvest of oil profits.
The large home of Mr and Mrs Ed 8 Nichols burned Saturday night while Mr Nichols was at his son's and Mrs Nichols and her daughter Mrs D J Curbitta were at church. Total loss valued at about 4000 for the house and 2000 for furniture. Insurance coverage 3500. Fire believed to have started from the open dryplace or the flue upstairs. This house was a Morgan landmark, built in 1881 by Col 8 S Nichols father of Nichols who was a Confederate colonel.
A brief notice directs readers to contact the Record Office regarding adding machine paper needs. The item appears as a concise public notice in the local pages.
Brownwood December 2 hundreds of cedar trees appeared for Christmas sale. Trees brought from distant hills priced between 2 and 4.50 dollars. The business is developing into a considerable industry with almost every tree sold by Christmas Eve.
Fragmentary OCR notes warn about fatal diseases in children tied to worms and tinea. Mentions Vermifuge product used by White’s Cream and a claim of disease destruction. Text is garbled but indicates a medical or patent remedy advertisement or warning from a period newspaper.
The advertisement lists 170 rooms with baths priced at $1.60 per day and up, noting CHAS HODGES as proprietor.
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