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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
9
Garden Hose Promise of Lasting Garden Service
Our Garden Hose is par excellence and will give long service for many seasons. Poor hose rots or bursts and costs more over time. Buy with care to avoid short lived products.
Saddlery and Harness Sale Prices For New Gear
We offer a complete line of saddlery harness and related items and can set prices sure to interest buyers. Whether purchasing a saddle bridle harness halter or laprobe you will find value in our quotes and options.
Meridian Newsbriefs Highlight Local Travel and Tax Actions
Regular Meridian correspondent reports visits and movements including Rev W V Jones and others in Meri dian, Miss Mattie Sue Lomax visiting Burleson, and B D Whilden from Dallas establishing Texas Life Insurance Co. headquarters. Tax votes pass 12 yes with tax levies and boundary corrections, plus notes on land deeds, a Norse picnic with speakers on penitentiary reform and Prohibition, and a Crantills Gap vs Norse baseball game ending 13 to 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Sue Lomax
Burleson
B. D. Whilden
Dallas
Texas Life Insurance Co
Waco
Meridian
R. N. Hayes
Dallas News
Frank Robinson
L. C. Robinson
Neal W. Turner
Copperas Cove
Joel S. Graves
Clifton
Tom Grimiland
W. P. Lane
Norse
Crantills Gap
Lutheran College
Harmony Boys
Cheap Paint Fraud Warns on Value and Reckoning
A reader warns that cheap paint misleads buyers, noting Devoe costs well per gallon and that 10 gallons of Devoe equal 15 of cheap paint. The letter urges prompt action for property upkeep, arguing paint value shifts yearly and many buyers miscalculate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devoe
Fireman Killed as Engine Overturns Near Lometa
Temple May 15 Fireman John Gillum was killed and Engineer Mont Swain was slightly injured when an Atchison Topeka Santa Fe engine on a work train overturned near Lometa. Gillum was a nephew of Neal Nelson and Miss Julia Nelson of Temple. The latter came to attend the funeral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple
John Gillum
Mont Swain
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Lometa
Gillum
Neal Nelson
Julia Nelson
Euterpean Club Holds Open Meeting at Black Home
The Magazine Euterpean Club hosted a pleasant open gathering for many friends at the hospitable home of Mr and Mrs W H Black last Monday night. Guests sat along the lawn for a program of papers classics and popular numbers followed by punch and marguerites served in the dining room by club ladies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euterpean Club
W. H. Black
State Treasury Warns Depositories on Revenue Shortfall
Austin May 16. State funds are running low in the general revenue and the state treasury has notified depositories that it may be necessary to call upon award terms or draw upon available holdings to meet obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Essary
Valley Mills Notes Tells of Local Visitors and School Commencement
Albert Sears returned from Arlington where he attended Carlisle Military Academy before it went into receivership. Various locals visit, trade, or travel through Valley Mills including Hinton Tubbs Scratchfield Hackney Wheeler Kilgore Robertson and McGregor visitors. The V M H School Junior and Senior classes held gatherings and a Bosque picnic. Commencement week details list performances Recital Play Valley Farm The Silent Detective and the Baccalaureate Sermon by Dr Cockrell of T C U Fort Worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Sears
Arlington
Carlisle Military Academy
Geo. Scratchfield
Clifton
W.H. Hackney
Buffalo Pitts Co
W. H. Wheeler
Waco
Valley Mills
Crawford School
Charlie Kilgore
Ned Robertson
McGregor
Kilgore
Overland
Fannie Sears
Switzer
Female College of
Itasca
T. A. Sears
Valley Farm
Cockrell
T. C. U. Fortorth
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Oscar J. Rea
W. V. Jones
Bob Furgerson
John Harvey
Little Rock
Randal
P. G. Johnson
Union Hill
Rankin
Home and State of
Meridian College Sun
Eula Rizer
Commissioners’ Court
Sid Thomas
Ezell
W E Sheppard
J W Maberry
Carpenter
Isabella Sanger
Juana Diaz
Roy Olson
Norway
Benjamin Anderson
Penney Rogstad
Joe Hinton
Chas. Tubbs of Patton
J. W. Williams
Patton
J. W. Stringfellow
Wallace Goodall
Georgia Walker
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