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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1941
Page
6
A mixed local page notes a funeral attendance in Meridian with relatives from Waco and San Antonio and mentions Thanksgiving day verses by Joanne Glasoner. It references defense bonds and stamps, and adds scattered names such as O B Moguemors Jr and P H Manson alongside community figures.
In Waco Texas on November 28 the Methodist Home will dedicate two new campus buildings as part of a project to raise a $120,000 budget for next year. Bishops A Frank Smith and Ivan Lee Holt will participate while more than 2,000 out of town visitors from six Texas New Mexico conferences attend. The event begins with a barbecue at noon followed by a 1 30 dedicatory service. Four residences will replace dormitories with individual home life spaces. a fifth building is an infirmary. Donors include Mr and Mrs J J Barking Wichita Falls and Mr and Mrs J S Bridwell Wichita Falls. A reception will follow and district superintendents will meet to discuss the budget campaign. The home has operated for over half a century without endowment and relies on donations.
Congressman V Ropoage speaks from Washington on Thanksgiving noting recent law fixing last Thursday in November as the official date. He urges gratitude for freedom and religious liberty, warns against material focus, and emphasizes the framers work on the Declaration and Constitution guiding free citizens.
Mr and Mrs W D White and two friends from Growley visited here Wednesday. Mr White a former schools superintendent. Mr and Mrs Herman Bullman of Abilene visited relatives here last weekend. Miss Vera Gladis Jones visiting Denton while staying with parents Mr and Mrs Harold Loper of Fort Worth visited his parents last weekend. Mrs Rosa Simms of Valley Mills visiting her mother and relatives. The PTA met in the school auditorium Thursday night and a program was presented. Protect America buy defense be.
A wartime style cafeteria listing shows daily menus for the week from November 28 to December 4. It includes cereals, pies, meats, vegetables, breads, fruits, cookies, and drinks with options such as cereal pie, ground meat, buttered squash, okra, tomato soup, mashed carrots, salmon salad, escalloped potatoes, greens, grits, oatmeal cookies, grapefruit juice, and grape drink.
A fragment reports Samuel M Care Te joining cadet training at Kelly Field as part of the Air Corps Replacement program with cadets from Clifton Texas and others. It notes education at Clifton Jr College and progress toward flight training and military preparation. A second fragment mentions a Broadus Montana scene where alfalfa straw and weed sales are discussed and a buyer offering $1000 for weed.
A new soybean variety named Magnolia has been developed by the Louisiana Extension Service after eight years of experiments.
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