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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1918
Page
10
96 Young Men of Glass 1 Examined at Meridian
Bosque County draft board sent 485 men to Meridian for the physical exam. 396 were examined and assigned to General Service or Limited Service lists, with several found physically deficient. Many were unavailable due to transfers, enlistments, or illness, and the exact call date remains uncertain. Names listed include Auldridge, Amundson, Anderson, Aars, Abbott, Ackerman, Allen, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avid
Ace DU Dmr
Youngen
Bosque County
Bosque
Auldridge
Iredel
Antone Amundson
Clifton
James H. Anderson
Tredell
Leonard Aars
Meridian
Olive Aars
Imar Aars
Norse
Frank Abbott
Morgan
L. Ackerman
Kopper
Claude ©. Allen
Almey
Ma Gap
Colorado to Gulf Highway party visits Clifton
Last Monday afternoon Clifton welcomed a Colorado to Gulf Highway logging party led by D. J. Tally of Wichita Falls as president and J. D. Parnell of Vernon as vice president. They praised Bosque County roads and materials for permanent construction and discussed routing to the Gulf via Bosque County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton_ngple
Aisit
Colorado
Gulf Highway
H. C. Ole
Merrian
D. J. Tally
Wichita Falls
The
Assation
J. D. Parnell
Vernon
Association
W. G. Gross
Quannab
Messrs
Bosque County
J. N. Fallis
Ft. Worth
Waco
Gulf
Valley Mills
Messrs. J. Golston
H. H. Baley
Tom Pool
H. C. Odle
Boy Scout Anniversary Week Events Noted in Clifton
The Troop No. 1 of Clifton Texas plans events for Anniversary Week and Father and Son Week. Sunday at 10 45 Assistant Scoutmaster Ernest S Sansom will preach a sermon at First Presbyterian Church titled A Bible Scout. Monday features a hike supper with fathers and friends at a feast and entertainment along the route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scout Movement
America
Clifton
Texas
First Presbyterian Church
Ernest S. Sansom
J. W. Butler
German Arrested on Funny Charge
Amsterdam reports a German artist who designed paper money is arrested at Niederlahnstein for ridiculing the fatherland. The marginal bills reportedly show food items like ham and turnips with captions mocking German life, described as ornaments on circulating currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Prussia
Niederlahnstein
Maaschode
Rotterdam
Red Cross Donations Acknowledged By Local Groups
Norse Horse Protective Association donor Peder Dahl gives 15 dollars to the Red Cross. Magazine-Europ Ean Club contributes 10 dollars. Lutheran Ladies Aid gives 4.95 dollars. Dr Burton R Carpenter donates 16 dollars as examining physician compensation. Mrs Bettis signs as Treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Norse Horse Protective Association
Peder Dahl
Magazine
Euterpean Club
Lutheran Ladies Aid
Burton R. Carpenter
Community Boy Scouts urged to seize wartime opportunity
A message encourages boys to meet peers in the community and connect with their own group. Woodrow Wilson quotes that any act or gift increasing War Efficiency of the Boy Scouts of America contributes to the nation and helps win the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow Wilson
Boy Scouts of America
Food War Time Saving Plan Urges National Rationing
A wartime notice from Fred M. Huggins, Federal Food Administrator for Bosque County, calls for strict meat and sugar savings. It urges wheatless days, meatless days, porkless days on multiple weeknights, plus daily fat and sugar reductions, to keep food flowing to Allied forces and civilians abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Food Administration
Fred M. Huggins
Bosque County
Goode Indicted for Abusive Language and Draft Evasion Conspiracy
John Goode a Van Zandt county merchant was indicted for using abusive language toward President Wilson and twenty nine Rains county citizens were charged with conspiracy against the government and evading the draft law. Bonds were set at 1000 for Goode and 2000 for each of the twenty nine with trial in April in Tyler Texas. Authorities link the Rains county cases to prior Farmers and Laborers Protective association and Working Class union trials in Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyler
Tex
John Goode
van Zandt County
Wilson
Rains County
Goode
Eastern District of Texas
Farmers and Laborers Protective Association
Texas
Oklahoma
Sugar Curtailment Shocks New Baden Merchant
Paul Schultz of New Baden Texas became the first retail grocer in the state to have staples restricted by the Food Administration under Peden after authorities found he sold sugar in 100 and 200 pound lots during January. The law limits in town sales to five pounds per customer and ten pounds per country customer. Wholesale grocers were instructed not to supply Schultz and Schultz was told not to procure goods elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Schultz
New Baden
Texas
Peden
Schultz
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