Cranfills Gap News Highlights Local Happenings
Readable items show weather, farm reports, visits, and church events around Cranfills Gap. Notable notes include crop prospects, ordination at the Bt church, school term faculty selections, a local mail digger commission, and community updates from Clifton and nearby towns.
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Red Cross
Seymour Brasher
Panola County
Sam Nystel
Melvin
Oscar Nystel
Jefferson
Clifton
Guy Ellis
Coral
Nannie Taylor
Live Oak
Miss Chaffin
Walnut Springs
H. Sorenson
Mexia
M. T. Sorenson
DeWitt Royal
Camp Morgan
Ala
Iredell
Clark
Gap
John Brasher
Waco
T. H. Bra
N. M. Swenson
Rodney Cox
Perry
Alf Jones
Minnie Cox
Fort Worth
Will Freeman
Ireland
Giese
L. W. Dean
Ire
Dell
C. M. Goar
Clarence
County Line
Hico
Hugh Blair
John Murphree
Herman Potsie
C. G. Goar
Dallas
Ethel Pollock
Oklahoma
E. T. Stubbs
Stanford Valley
Camp Travis
France
Joe Nystel
Mattie Bingham
Mae Draper
Meridian
Nora Rogstad
Martin Bertelson
Cranfills Gap
Ifton
Jim Jones
J. B
Ole J. Olson
War taxes on luxuries proposed at hearing
At a House Ways and Means hearing Professor O M W Sprague of Harvard outlined a broad war revenue plan including 80 percent on war profits, high taxes on coffee tea tobacco beer flour hotel bills autos gasoline jewelry and other luxuries, plus a 10 percent income supertax tied to bond investments.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
O. M. W. Sprague
Harvard
Sprague
War Times
Draft resisters in Arkansas captured near Saline county
Federal and state officers at noon today arrested eight of a sixteen person group accused of resisting the draft in a remote Saline county area. Dr J S Burgess of Owensville, a physician and former postmaster, is charged with abetting slackers. Pettus D Garland, Owensville lawyer, is jailed as a conspirator.
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Little Rock
Ark
Saline County
Here
J. S. Burgess
Owensville
Pettus D. Garland
Dallas German Clubs to Close for War Period
Twenty German clubs in Dallas agreed to suspend all club and social activities for the war, with the Sons of Herman ritual to be conducted in English and several German church services to switch to English. The meeting involved club representatives and the Dallas county council of defense.
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Austin
Texas
University
A. and
M. College
Seasion
County Councils of Defense
Organization of
Community Councils of Defense
State Council
National Council
Dallas
Dallas County Council of Defense
Herman
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