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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1940
Page
2
A garbled excerpt blends talk of the American flag, moralities, and a vague rail and rubber development discussion. It references baseball, a seven year span, experiments with night games, and mentions of locomotives, trains, and crossborder plans. The text touches on population growth, territorial debates, and political planning with unclear attribution.
Whitewright Sun reports on World War I era army rejections due to physical unfitness. Chief causes include hay fever, faulty hearing, masks, bunions, ingrown toenails, tonsil issues, ruptures, chronic appendicitis, and high blood pressure. The piece notes 7,000,000 rejections among 20,000,000 men and explains why only the fittest survived to serve.
College Station Texas June 5 Roy W Snyder chairman in charge of Arrangements said this year's short course at Texas A and M College will attract 3000 boys and girls and 2600 men and women who will come to review and learn more about farm living conditions The course is scheduled for June 9 to July 12 More than 750 AAA secretaries and county conservation committeemen will attend.
Local notices list a June gathering with entertainment by Bertelsen and UeRop Troll, and a meeting of the Sabha on Thursday June 20. Attendees include Mrs Span Kinadon and Sten, Chine, Alaba, with Nowwh Aid to be entertained by Mew. O. 6. and Kknuceon.
Sunday services and choir practices outlined for Pirst Presbyterian Church with Monday and Thursday events. Clifton Baptist Church reports large Vacation Bible School enrollment, upcoming Sunday School and Training Union times, and invites visitors to worship. admonition to remember the Sabbath and remain faithful.
Hayden Edwards, pastor, invites all fathers and families to Sunday worship and Bible study. Sunday School starts at ten. Women’s Society meets Monday at four. Choir rehearsal Thursday at eight. Summer Assembly starts the 17th, Intermediate Camp the 24th, and Senior Camp July 29. Visitors welcome and appreciated.
The snippet lists worship details for Prinity and Goor's Lutheran churches with dates, service times, and notes on Sunday School and Norwegian language service. It also mentions a Bible school session, a general invitation to all, and a business notice about oil and gas pipeline mileage claims and a local trade ad by J. W. Whitey.
Sunday June 36 features Sunday School and Bible classes at 10 a m Divine services at 10 80 a m Norwegian language service at 1 00 p m Class instruction at 9 4 m Friday visitors welcome to services and other events led by Pastor Thorson
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy during illness and death. Special thanks to doctor and nurse, and Mrs Grady Hollingsworth. Texas produced nearly 20,000,000 dollars worth of natural gasoline last year.
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