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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1968
Page
8
Extension plant pathologist Dr Wen dell Horne notes about 2000 plant species are susceptible to cotton root rot including many ornamentals. Infected plants must be removed and replaced with disease tolerant varieties as county agents maintain resistance lists for common Texas plants.
Biographical sketches mention Bosque County figures like George B. Erath and Jacob de Cordova and note Bosque as home to the heaviest Norwegian concentration in Texas. The Texas Institute of Cultures exhibition features Bosque items such as Ringness’s disc plow model and a handmade loom, with stories of Pastor J K Rystad and the Old Rock Church near Cranfills Gap.
A reader recalls a display featuring Cleeng Peerson, the so called Father of Norwegian Immigration to America, and his handmade rocking chair. The note praises Peerson for aiding Norwegians from New York in 1824 to his Bosque County death in 1865 and ends with a farewell to Norway.
The Mosheim Methodist and Baptist Churches held a Sunday covered dish luncheon in the School Lunch Room. Dallas guest Herman Bulman and his daughter Mrs. Dave Poirier of Vermont visited the Gaskamps last Wednesday with other guests Mrs. Buster Vick rey and Mrs. Marshal Mitchell.
Poetic lament on fading landscapes as mountains fade from view and the coast dissolves into mist. The speaker compares the fall of nature to a mother being laid to rest, noting no sight of peaks and only a lone sail on a boundless sea.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Knox of Palestine visited in the home of his sister Mrs. Howard Tipton last weekend. Bill Bryan of Edna and his party stayed briefly. Mrs. Hattie Moseley of Victoria spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Bryan. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Loper and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Henry visited the Barnetts and their boys of Waco on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Miles spent Sunday in Desoto with their daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Hicks and Gary.
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