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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1933
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR text shows advertising rates and notices, with garbled pricing and placeholders. Names and exact figures are unclear, but references to advertising sections and rate cards suggest a local paper listing services and costs. The readable bits indicate pricing lines and a plea to place timely notices.
A clipping reports Baltinger offering a payment of twelve cents to the purchaser and promising more if the sutler is blocked, noting the context of a ferry market and local conditions. It mentions Charlie Leck as a driver and references a death involving thirteen surviving children in Clifton Becklons.
The record columns reflect community affairs in Clifton and surrounding towns. A note highlights the Lutheran church and district committees preparing to start a prime employment drive, with local families and friends gathering for celebrations and support of town improvements.
Geo Diahre pastor at St Olap Lutheran Conflemante will not meet this Saturday. Sunday School and Bible Class each Sunday at 9 30. Young People Society meets next Sunday at 7 30. North Ladies Society meets Wednesday afternoon. Mrs Rathke Jorgenson hosts at J A times. Trinity Lutheran Church service details and dates listed. Immanuel Lutheran Church notes Sunday November 19 9 00 am Sunday School 10 30 am preaching German then English. Baptists announce Sunday School 9 45 am Morning Worship 10 45 am Junior Endeavor 1 30 pm Evening Worship 7 pm. Buckner Orphans Home offering in county this month. Church welcomes all. Frank Nixon.
Mildred and Hane Hill were visited by their mother Nannie B. Will in Fort Worth last weekend. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Raley of Wooel swore here on Sunday to spend the weekend at the home of Mrs. Raley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Tennison, and other relatives.
Mrs Sam R Curry and kin visited the L B Tennison home on the first Saturday. Mrs Annie Womack learned of her niece Lily Col lle being badly hurt in a Hillsboro car wreck. Albert Williams and Mrs TJ Ford of Morgan and Josephine King of Houston joined Knox relatives for a Keller area visit. The Clifton lumber firm plans a one room residence near Ed Jackson, for personal use by Mr and Mrs Boetchmer. Services at Church of Christ and a G E McCaleb visit closed the day as lifelong friends shared a pleasant affair.
A fashion piece argues curves revive in style despite health warnings. It cites past pressure on women to slim and notes public figures and doctors acknowledge the curve comeback, with praise for fuller figures and the social ease of dieting abstinence seen in media and contests.
A report notes that one fifth of Texas, about 20 million acres, is held under oil leases. It states that oil from the state since discovery has yielded over four billion dollars in revenue.
Senator Thomas D. Schall faced boos from University of Minnesota students as he attacked New Deal NRA activities and warned that Lincoln and Washington would turn in their graves if government control over newspapers, radio, and movies continued.
Civic Society members are asked to attend City Hall next week to decorate and support the Carnival. Miss Mathilda Conrad, living outside Clifton, sent in her annual remittance for another year, noted by the Reporter in a terse civic brief.
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