Norse Socials and Travel Highlight Local Frolics
A soaking rain refreshed the area on Monday. Social events included an ice cream supper at Ole G Ringness’s and a baptizing gathering at Jonesboro. Visitors and travelers noted include Miss Olga O Hoel, Miss Effie Duckworth, the Homerstad family, and Miss Mollie McLendon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. E. Maines
Waco
Ole G
Ringness
G. A. Wold
Sweetwater
Cal the
Dahl Bros
John Homerstad Sr
Morris Homerstad
Norway
Harold Hermstad
Magnus Jolstad
Bosque County Cotton Outlook Darkens Over Worms
Clifton reports cotton 50 percent worse than 1908 due to dry weather followed by heavy rains. Worms and rust deplete forms and small bolls. Pick has begun but not general, labor sufficient, plants small, stands poor. Morgan sees 40 percent of 1908 crop with drought and worms. open but scanty, late by thirty days, labor ample, four to twenty five acres needed to make a bole. Redell 75 percent worse with boll and breath worms. picking small and four weeks late. labor surplus, little chance for improvement. Kopper 65 percent below last year as worms strip forms. picking to start in about 30 days. labor plenty. Walnut Springs reports cotton 60 percent short, boll worm damage, picking about a month late, no picker shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton
Morgan
Drouth
Walnut Springs
Boys Corn Club Day Planned at Texas State Fair
The Texas State Fair in Dallas designates Friday October 22 as a special day for Boys Corn Clubs of Texas with prizes for best corn. Clifton expects over 2 000 boys to attend. a special car with banners may be arranged. O B Martin from the U S Department of Agriculture expresses support and offers to send additional bulletins and circulars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Corn Club of
Clifton
O. B. Martin
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Boys Corn Club
Also Mentioned on This Page
C. M. Hoel’s
Olga O. Hoel
Austin
Dr. O. M. Olson
Fort Worth
Turnersville
Lucile Wolf of
Osage
Martin Wolf
Jonesboro
Effie Duckworth
Salome Springs, Ark
C. F. Collins
Do. V. Buster
Joe Jones
Miss Grace
Childress
Rev. K. M. Turner
Mollie McLendon
Iowa Park
The
Clifton Millinery
Bosque County Crop Report
Washington
First National Bank
Home Bank
Montgomery Springs
J. M. Ferguson
Wichita Falls
Cooper School House
Meridian
Norris Clark
Cleburne
Norris
Lafita Fe
Department of Banking
H. H. Baley
T. W. Anderson Fritz Bertrand
C. R. Jameson
J. T. Glass
J. H. Bekken
Tem
C. Parks
J. M. Jenson
the Home Bank
Clifton State Bank
Jon Spec
Ical
John E. Swenson
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