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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
13
Clifton merchants advertise bread from the ton Bakery and Show Brothers. Oscar J. Rea & Co. promotes Incubators, seeds, candy, and rubber goods. Carpenter Brothers and Clifton Mercantile Co. push seed potatoes, garden seed, and farm supplies while offering services at Clifton Garage and local car sales.
Local newspaper items show Clifton Mercantile Co and other merchants offering sale prices on wheat straw garden seeds coal and stock powders. Notices urge fur buyers and housework help and mention Ford car delivery promises for February and March. Residents visit, trade, and reserve seeds by phone.
Miss Mabel Layne returns to Dallas after visiting Prof J B Layne and relatives. Mr and Mrs E T Johl return to Brownwood after visiting here. Shoe shop offers restoration of old shoes. Voy G Fort Clifton Garage invites car service. Ford Motor Co raises wages 20 percent. N E Lovelady seeks eye specialist in Temple. Ben Theile donates to county paper. Seed advice from Farmers Gin Co promotes using quality seed at ten cents per acre.
G F Boone and E S Wallace of Turnersville returned from West Texas to Clifton area. Clifton Rubber Co. promotes Gates Half ole Tires and wallowing in mud relief. Mabray Randal of Walnut Springs visits Clifton. notes of local business ties and planting time readiness.
Former Governor Jas E Ferguson of Temple stopped in Clifton last Tuesday while traveling from his ranch above town where he had stayed for several days on business.
Come in or write for measure blanks to order handmade boots or shoes from Show Brothers in Clifton Texas. Dr E C Brannon resumes Eye Ear Nose and Throat practice at 1111 Ami Cable Building Waco after a year in military Medical Corps. Arne Orbeck visited from the Norse community and had his record dates moved up a year.
Mrs. William Harris and her daughter-in-law Mrs. Harris traveled from Valley Mills to Clifton last Sunday afternoon to visit Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Price and other local friends.
Rev H W Estrem of Crawfills Gap departs for Chicago Sunday to attend the National Conference of State Chairmen which will oversee the National Lutheran Reconstruction Campaign in February. Local ads urge shoppers to visit Carpenter Brothers for candy. Clifton Rubber Co touts 850 tires sold in six months due to service and protection. A W Price reports Amarillo oil business is strong. FE Johnson reopens blacksmith shop offering plumbing and general work. O D White of Morgan visits the city and is praised for honesty. Curtis Publishing Co authorized to take new subscriptions for Ladies Home Journal Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentleman. inquiries to Mrs Ralph Helm.
C. B. McCoy and family moved back to Clifton from a Coryell county farm near Hurst. McCoy plans to sow most of the farm in grain this year and will stay in town to take advantage of local schools while spending time at the farm.
Local ad notes Clifton Rubber Co guarantees work and invites customers to give them a chance to fix any issues. The snippet also reports residents like Mrs Jim Thurmond and family returning from visits, Homer Russell moving paper subscriptions, and community events and moves of local residents. The piece mentions January 31 designated as The School as a Social Center Day and notes attorney W D Avra relocating to Clifton with a new office, plus visits by Mr and Mrs A K Bass Jr from Nashville.
Q O Loggins and family moved from Fort Worth to Clifton early this week. They rented the E C Driskell farm above town for the year. J W Golston from Quanah visits family and notes Texas prosperity driven by new oil fields attracting eastern capitalists. Homah Forson, recently discharged from the U S Navy, returns home and will join his father J T Forson in the barber shop business hereafter.
Messrs A G Gilliam Clarence Carpenter and Joe McSpadden show smiles as their interest oil well in the Ranger field begins flowing oil. The note ends with a friendly nudge about finding a good place to negotiate a loan.
Mr V C Karnes of Pearl is in Clifton for a two week stay to teach a school for the Masonic Chapter. The Record invites all Chapter members to attend and notes visitors from other Chapters are welcome, praising the instructor as among the order’s best.
Jim McSpadden of Wichita county is visiting relatives this week to see his ailing father T H Mc Spadden who is past eighty five and has been ill for several days.
The White Swan Restaurant opened at its new Main Street stand last Saturday morning under popular owner and manager J. T. Torrence. Locals and Texas visitors praise the high-class service and anticipate fresh improvements with each change.
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