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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1936
Page
6
A compact note lists everyday prices at a local market, noting discounts on groceries and household items. Shoppers glimpse steady cost cuts and steady stock, with emphasis on value and daily savings observed in the small-town commerce section.
Editorial notes Texas as the largest state with six million residents and marks March 2 as Independence Day. Social news highlights Meridian Creek pupils practicing choral singing and a county meet pursuit. Class updates cover exams, notebooks, arithmetic, language, and science topics across grades seven to nine.
In a civics driven program financed by a radio advertiser, Major Bowen discovers talented youths, including an 18 year old printer’s son who traveled to New York with little money and soared by mimicking Lionel Barrymore and Will Rogers. The piece argues many gifted youths are blocked by poverty without chance to prove themselves, urging broader opportunity.
Grammar school students return after illness as Sarah Linville rejoins class. Pupils on injury leave recover. A class picnic attended by the 4th 5th and 6th grades. Sports include Clifton qualifier trials with Roy Kirkland Carroll Schulze M H Hall Grace Fort J B Christenson John Carlson. The girls volleyball team lost 3 2 to Fairy but the grammar school girls beat the high school juniors 14 2.
The Gooper baseball scores show the playground games ending 17-12 for the losers and 11-2 for the winners. The Meridian Creek Literary Society met in March with a debate on Federal control of cotton production. Lloyd Jenson led the affirmative and Clovis Murphree the negative. Hewsomeers were elected for the next meeting.
Moody closed schools and a Baptist revival halted due to an influenza and cold outbreak. Gatesville schools also shut as illness spread through the town, keeping students at home and canceling public events. reopens planned Monday.
Local reports show ninth graders focusing on studies and algebra while preparing for a county tennis tournament with twelve players. The Norse P. A. social included speeches on Texan Centennial history by Mr Orix Pierson, with declamations by juniors and readings by Miss Swenson and Miss Colwick. The group adjourned to cake and chocolate, and an upcoming play titled A Wild Flower of the Hills was announced for March 12.
A fragmentary social column notes visits and travels among residents: Mew MOT Braper at Palrview spent Sunday with her auntie Mr. AS Guthrie. Mr. and Mrs. Will Burney were in Valley Mills and Clifton Friday. I. Erwin J. B. Day and Luther Willlarar attended Whitney Masters Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. CO Rows traveled to Meridian and Walnut Springs Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee of Womack sued Chesley Smith and A. S. Guthrie recently. Chesley Smith and wife went to Valley Springs Tuesday to take their baby to a physician. Ferrell Rams of Stamford spent a night with his uncle W. B. Rama. Miss J. H Draper of Breckenridge visited the Guthrie home recently.
The account describes a 1681 clash in Querétaro where Indians allegedly persuaded invading Spaniards to drop arms and fight. Collier's Weekly recounts dawn troop lines, a 12 hour battle, and Spaniards finally overrunning the city in a manner echoing Charles V.
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