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Newspaper

Clifton Record

Location

Clifton, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 07, 1918

Page

11

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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