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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1927
Page
8
A quirky old ad promotes a close out sale at Tucker's Variety Store in Texas. It touts a “best bargain” counter event for one Saturday featuring general household items and stockings with bold, jumbled phrasing typical of OCR text from a vintage classified or window ad.
Raney School cancels Thursday and Friday classes due to Boaque County Teachers Institute. Three days of institute work shift to regular schooling. term extends three days longer. A. Marks of Hellywood addresses students on movie careers and education. Football team suffers 0-13 loss. Armistice Day matchups with rival Valley Mill will be hard fought. report cards will be issued.
The Presbyterian Church schedules Sunday 9:45 a.m. Sunday School and 11:00 a.m. morning worship with The New Reformation. Evening service at 7:15 features A Noble Servant Eleanor. Midweek study includes Home Mission talk on Texas. Pastor Maledon Purcell and Olaf Colwich of Craig Colorado welcome visitors.
The Beague County Bankers Association held a regular quarterly meeting in Clifton with active bank employees and their spouses attending. A six o'clock dinner opened the event, followed by jokes and an enjoyable entertainment by Mr. and Mrs. BC Oller, director of Waco, Texas, ending with praise for the Civic Ladies of Clifton.
Special correspondent reports a well attended revival in Cayote as Brother LeFevre’s sermons inspire the crowd. Community laborers helped J. W. Standefer after a broken leg, while Evelyn Bryan’s funeral drew many locals. Local fires destroyed Otto Gohlke’s barn and landgraf’s farm barn. other notes mention PTA, visitors, and residents traveling to Waco and Cory City.
Local real estate transfers appear alongside notices of meetings and obituaries. Transactions include W. D. Mackey to J. E. Cogsburn and others in Meridian with deed values listed, plus multiple farm and block sales in Walnut Springs and nearby areas. Also noted are a public school lecture on moving pictures, a death of Willie Word in Georgia, and community updates on local residents and upcoming events.
The Clifton College football team clashed with Trinity reserves, trading scores into the fourth quarter before Trinity pulled ahead. Clifton aims for a victory in Saturday’s home game against Thorpe Springs Christian College, seeking to rebound from last season’s narrow losses.
Mr and Mrs Tom Cummings of Yhasce visited relatives Sunday afternoon. Families gathered for a social at Me and Mire Ott and others, including Mr Henry Cit sod friend Mrs Bert Wernly. Children and relatives from Dallas and other towns attended.
Minn M. Sears of Valley Mills married Mr. Ringmens of this city in a Sunday afternoon ceremony at First Latteran Church in Waco officiated by Rev. M. B. Quill. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. B. Lear, is a Valley Mills High School graduate and former employee of the Texas Leviathan Power Company.
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