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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1970
Page
5
Crossroads News reports a steady parade of visitors over Christmas week. Families from Clifton, Seguin, Denison, Fort Worth and beyond joined local residents for meals, church services, and gifts at multiple homes. Birthday observances and holiday hospitality are noted among Lunds Farrs Amundsons and others.
Readable lists show prize winners in Clifton's Pre-Christmas Bonanza Coupons promotion. Winners include Wayne Prescher for a Chinaware set from Calvert's Prescription Pharmacy and Mrs. Irene Westley winning $10 in merchandise from Fenn's Fashion. Additional prizes cover gas, auto parts, radios, cameras, and more with numerous Clifton and nearby-area recipients listed. Continuous drawings from 12-15-70 to 12-22-70 identify many individuals across Clifton, Meridian, Valley Mills, McGregor, Crawford, and surrounding towns.
Truman E. Roberts of Hamilton will join Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as a presiding judge and new member on Saturday January 2 1971 at 10 a m in Austin. Also sworn in will be John F Onion Jr Wendell A Odom and other officials with remarks by Bar president Morris Harrell.
Sunday dinner guests at the home of Orville Olson Route 8 Hico included Mr and Mrs Ray and Mary Jo Clifton Mr and Mrs Ralph Ray and Mary Jo from Clifton Mr and Mrs B T Hamby Crawfills Gap along with supper guests Mr and Mrs Charles Olson Chris and Dana Mineral Wells Mr and Mrs Porter Grimes and children Stephenville
Mrs Frances B Hatter of Clifton tops pecan judging at the Eighth Annual Coryell Pecan Show in Gatesville with five prize entries. Her pecans Comanche first place and Choc taw Delmar Success and Western Schley earned honors among 126 entries across 25 varieties.
Thomas Hardie of Kalamazoo Michigan visited Mr and Mrs Chris Strand during the Christmas holidays. He is a teacher at Western Michigan University and led a choir that completed a 28 day European tour including Vienna Rome St Peter's Cathedral Chartres and other stops in Austria Italy Switzerland and France.
The Mid-Texas Hereford Show and Sale will be held in Stephenville on January 11, 1971 at the Erath County Livestock Association Show Barn. Fifty-eight head, including 34 bulls and 24 females, will be sold after cattle are certified dwarfism free by the American Hereford Association. Colonel Walter Britten of Bryan will auctioneer, Bill Dalton of Rocking Chair Ranch will judge, and the Erath County Home Demonstration Clubs will serve a barbecue lunch. Richard B. Gary is the catalog writer and secretary.
The Cranfills Gap Garden Club met December 16 at Mrs. T. V. Compton's home in Waco. Co hostesses were Mrs. Ben Rhodes and others. Members named Christmas decorations, read poems, and admired dried arrangements by Mrs. Guy Finstad and Mrs. Marvin Ottmers. Guests included Miss Catherine Tindall.
Patients admitted to the Goodall-Witcher Hospital Foundation in Clifton include Avis W. Jones Valley Mills Willard B Mayo Clifton Mrs Carl E Braune Clifton Helmer C Dahl Clifton Alfred Nelson Crawfills Gap Mrs J A Richardson McGregor Mrs Brad Zufelt Waco along with Mrs Simon Bekkeland Clifton and Mrs Kenneth Berryhill Moody on 12 17 70 and 12 18 70.
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