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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1930
Page
6
An indictment details seven counts against the defendants. The document references meetings about wholesale credit and various manipulations. Specific parties or locations are not clearly named in the readable fragments. The text shows financial allegations and referenced schemes described as dependent on certain methods.
Local notes from Cayote list residents visiting relatives, church activities, and a Women's Missionary meeting in Clifton. Mentions of a baby birth, a nail-in-foot accident, and a P T A meeting followed by a minstrel program. Texas milk cow totals rise to 47 000 with cattle nationwide at 57 267 000.
Special Correspondent reports a Quarterly Conference to convene on Sunday with a function serving dinner. The Workers Council meets with Mr and Mrs Kirby Cox Saturday evening and will entertain Kipworth League members. Epworth League hosts a Friday evening supper with proceeds from pies. Local residents attend visits and dinners, with several community members and guests noted.
Miss Margaret Grammer of Pittsburg wed Allison Miller of Clifton Texas in Durant Oklahoma. The bride, a former Clifton and Denison teacher, graduated from Southern Methodist University and later taught in Clifton and Denison. The groom is a Clifton businessman of high standing. The engagement and ceremony are reported in the Pittsburg Gazette.
The Senate gears up for renewed fights over the tariff bill with clashes over sugar duties and cement protections. Republicans and independents push to restore high rates on oil, lumber, and glass while Democrats seek to maintain reform lines. Senator Nye opens calls for reconsidering a sugar vote as Connally warns the bill may head to conference as a Mellon Grundy measure.
Connally denounces administration pushback on tariff delay and claims the public is being misled by contradictory statements from Secretary of Labor Davis. He argues the bill is steered to oppress consumers and predicts Congress will pass the conference bill and the President will sign it.
Sunday March 16 service morning hour and supper. Sunday School teachers meet at 7:80 p.m. Norse Ladies meet with Mrs Gast. Special Bible Class Thursday at 7:0 p.m. Confirmation classes Saturday at Yam P.B. Thorson pastor. First Presbyterian preaching at 11 and 7:80 with Sunday School 9:45 Y.P.S. at 6:0 March 26 meeting invited by Rev Hudson.
Rev. Br. W. Call filled the appointment with a large Sunday night crowd and a splendid vermon. Visitors Doris Neill Evelyn Neill and Iva Mae Lacy attended. Local residents and visiting Raines siblings arrived from Abilene Meridian and Coyote area for family gatherings. W J Walker and daughter traveled to Waco for business. Dagley family near Valley Mills visited relatives. Art Richards returned from Fort Worth to stay with son W H Richards. Minnie Robinson Cullen and Mrs Whitney with daughters visited Yaleley Mills. Sympathetic note follows a 10 year old boy Swan’s appendectomy and his father’s same surgery.
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