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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1933
Page
14
The residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chas W Ward was destroyed by fire around 10 o clock Tuesday. Fire spread quickly and neighbors could not save anything. The Wards were picnicking with friends at the time. Other notes mention illness, visits, showers, and social events among local residents.
Coryell Church School principal for two years is noted. Ida Barton and children visited sister A. B. Poston at Lawes Chapel. Waco educator C. W. Hodges, Mosheim principal, was a Saturday caller. Rev and Mrs A B Nichols guests of Mr and Mrs T J Jones. Cris E Pierson and family near Clifton greeted friends. Ollie Richards Coryell City, Will Palmer West Texas, Jerome Grounds Meridian visitors for ill father R S Palmer with pneumonia. Nichols club meeting held at home. Otis Miles injured a finger while harvesting. Threshing underway around Mosheim.
The Home Demonstration County Council met in Meridian Texas on May 29 1933 with four clubs represented. Minutes were read and approved. Plans for a fair exhibit and meat canning talk by Elmo V Cook were discussed plus a month anticipated for meat canning. After adjournment members worked on a mattress for the July club picnic and a county agent report outlined early 1933 activities including field days club work letters farms visited and meetings attended.
The Record publishes a 1933 exchange between Hon O H Cross and Farm Credit Administration head Henry Morgenthau Jr. over farm land appraisal values under the Farm Credit Act. Cross urges using 1905–14 prices as normal value, warning current rates may deny refinancing. Morgenthau replies affirming appraisal guidance and referrals to Farm Loan Commissioner.
President Roosevelt, after Congress adjourned, signs the public works industrial control measure and other banking and railroad reform bills. He departs for a two week sailing trip to Boston, urging whole hearted cooperation from industry, labor, and citizens to revive employment and wages.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson vetoed a bill that would cut Confederate veterans and widow pensions by about 27500 dollars monthly and end pensions for widows born after January 1 1870 while lowering payments to inmates of the Confederate Home. She said economy should not come at the expense of Confederate soldiers and their dependents or schoolchildren.
Citizens are restricted to symphonic works and government talks as a law prohibits broadcasting American popular music, limiting cultural exchange and shaping the radio landscape.
Classified note lists a FOR SALE item a Ford hoopie in good condition priced at 25 dollars cash. The seller is identified as B C Westley with date 16 February in the entry.
There are 771 miles of waterfront in the port of New York a basic reason for the maritime greatness of the western metropolis.
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