The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1934 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CLIFTON RECORD, CLIFTON, TEXAS, APRIL 20, 1934
NUMBER 8.
* Free Barbecue and Formal Opening
Of State Park In Clifton On Saturday
Hunter Will Open Race
For Governor; Meat
Prepared by Experts
Clifton and Bosque county are all
set to be hosts to a record crowd ex-
pected here on Saturday, San Jacinto
Day, for the opening of Clifton’s new
state park. Tom F. Hunter of Wich-
ita Falls, will make the opening
speech of his campaign for governor
immediately preceding the free bar-
becue which is to be served to the
guests.
“Pumper” Parks will have general
charge of the barbecue. Pits have al-
ready been prepared, and wood has
been brought in to keep the fires
burning a sufficient length of time to
properly barbecue the meat. Clifton
business men have bought 4,000
pounds of choice meat in order that
all the people in Bosque County and
other visitors might not go away
hungry.
Ed Hauke and an imported barbe-
cuer will have immediate charge of
cooking the meat.
Reports from Hunter supporters in
Fort Worth, Dallas, Brownwocd, Co-
manche and Dublin state that they
are bringing bands to Clifton to take
part in the parade which will inaug-
urate the opening of the park. Large
delegation are also expected from
Wichita Falls, Waco, Austin, Temple
and other points where Hunter lead-
. ers have been rallying his supporters
for attendance at the opening.
In his address, Hunter will outline
the details of his program “for a
Texas recovery” as he terms it. Elim-
ination of the greater portion of the
ad valorem tax on real estate and
substitution therefor of a blended tax
system “aimed to require those not
now paying their just share to pay in
proportion to their ability.”
In preparation for the opening of
Hunter’s campaign, his publicity di-
rector, A. W. Von Struve, of Waco,
has been in Clifton during the last
week assisting in advertising the cel-
ebration. Von Struve was formerly
managing editor of the Waco Times
Herald and later employed by the
Federal Emergency Relief Adminis-
tration at Washington, D. C. He re-
signed his Washington position in or-
der to return to Texas and work in
-.......... Hunter’s support. ............................
Our “First Lady of the Air” Honored
Mrs. Ann Morrow Lindbergh became the first woman to receive the Hub-
bard gold medal of honor of the National Geographic society when that honor
was conferred on her by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, president of the society. Mrs.
Lindbergh was awarded the coveted honor for exploits in the air as radio oper-
ator and navigator for her husband In 40,000 miles of exploratory flights.
Two Fugitives From
Gatesville Recaptured
Goldthwaite, April 17.—Two youths
who escaped from the Gatesville re-
formatory this morning were recap-
tured by officers east of Goldthwaite
this afternoon, one of them being
shot in the hand and hip when he
refused to surrender a rifle.
The wounded man was Bill Satter-
white of Whitney. His confederate in
the break for liberty was John
Buchanan of Mexia.
After leaving the reformatory, they
held up a man at Blue Ridge, in Ham-
ilton county, and took his car. Later
they abandoned this car for another.
Satterwhite and Buchanan were
armed with rifles.
The fugitives were surrounded by
Sheriff Bledsoe and deputies in shin-
nery east of Goldthwaite. Officers
from Gatesville came for them late
today.
Mass Meeting at City
Hall Sunday Night
There will be held a very unique
and helpful service at the City Hall,
Sunday night, 7:30. The service is to
be a mass meeting of the churches
in general of Cranftlls Gap, Norse,
Clifton, and Womack. The meeting is
to be in the interest of civic right-
eousness. This is a matter in which
all Christian people should be vastly
interested. This service was planned
for a previous date, but had to be
postponed. The Clifton College Choral
Club will render several special num-
4^ bers in song. Dr. Arthur Stout of
' Waco is to make the principal ad-
dress. This is a service in the inter-
est of the whole community, and
everyone is most cordially invited to
attend. Remember the date and time,
Sunday, April 22, 7:30 p. m.
—Committee.
Kinnard Golden stopped for a short
visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. K. Golden, the early part of the
week.
MERIDIAN COURT
AND LOCAL NEWS
(By Special Correspondent)
Marriage License
Ben Edward Whitson and Fayrene
Yarbrough.
Frank Law and Imogene Qdam.
Cecil de Cordova and Ola Pritch-
ard.
Local Dots
Misses Faye Young, Belle Stock-
ard and Aleene Robertson were Waco
visitors Sunday.
Miss Eilzabeth Shaffer, a student
in John Tarleton College in Stephen-
ville, spent this past week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix
Shafffcr.
Miss Lila Smith has returned home
from a visit with her sister, Mrs.
William A. Walk of San Antonio, and
also her uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil Odle of Austin, Texas.
Hon. Robert F. Cherry and Will
Manske of Clifton were welcome vis-
itors in the District Clerk’s office
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Dunlap who
are now located in Waco spent the
past week-end in the home of their
parents, Editor L. A. Dunlap and
family.
Mrs. Frank Gandy who has been
spending the winter months in San
Antonio with relatives has returned
home to be with her children for an
indefinite length of time.
Miss Minnie Ruth Russell of Blum,
is visiting in the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Mero Heager; Miss Russell and
Mrs. Heager being sister.
Miss Theresa Benson and Mrs. Har-
vey Harwell were Waco visitors
Wednesday.
Charles K. Word, Mmes. Bertis and
Layton Dorman and Herman Gillas-
pie motored to Sanatorium, Texas,
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INTERESTING NEWS
AT CRANFILLS GAP
By Mrs. Wm._B. Bertelsen
Mr. Joel Grimland came over from
Priddy, / Sunday, where he is teach-
ing, to see the game between the Gap
and Clifton and to enroll with the
Cranfills Gap team. Mr. Grimland is
well knowrf for his athletic achieve-
ments.
The game with Clifton last Sunday
was a failure, speaking from a Cran-
fills Gap viewpoint, but we attribute
our brand of ball playing to lack of
practice. Our next game will be with
Fairy at Fairy next Sunday and we
expect to show a great deal of im-
provement by that time.
The play given in the high school
auditorium last Friday night by some
of the high school students was a
howling success, if we are to judge by
the gales of laughter issuing from
the spectators during the perform-
ance. The characters played to a full
house. The proceeds went to help pay
for sweaters for the Bosque county
senior girls’ championship basketball
team. Our girls well deserve the
sweaters. The play was under the
able direction of Mrs. Charles Ro-
mine.
Two short plays were staged in the
high school auditorium Monday night
by the Spring Creek school. The first
was a play in two acts, titled, “Mrs.
Deacon Sprigs,” with female charac-
ters only. The second was a one-act
play with twenty-two negro charac-
ters (all men.) The crowd attending
was small.
Mr. H. J. Sieber, a fine old gentle-
man of German descent of the Mt.
View community, passed away last
Saturday in the Hamilton Hospital.
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist Church last Sunday after-
RUUNG ON COTTON
POOL BYCO. AGENT
Desire to Eliminate All
Confusion of Farmers
On Cotton Contracts
Due to the misinterpretation of
news articles regarding the Cotton
Option Contracts which were placed
in the Government Pool, much con-
fusion and misunderstanding has re-
sulted and Bosque County farmers
are questioning their status in regard
to the sales of their cotton.
“If you have pooled your cotton
with the manager of the Government
Pool and have received your twenty
.dollars advance per bale, you have
nothing to worry about with regard to
the sale of your cotton,” says C. L.
Wilson, County Agent, Bosque Coun-
ty.
The ruling of disposing of the cot-
ton on or by May 1 does not refer
to the farmers who have placed their
cotton in the Pool but it applies to
those individuals who have neither
pooled nor sold their cotton direct
through the Government, he states.
If the farmers did not enter into
the Pool and have not sold their Cot-
ton Option Contract, they will begin
paying storage and insurance fees to
the Government after May 1. They
may sell their Option Contracts by
properly executing Form 2 of the Op-
tion Contract and mailing it to the
AAA, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.
When Bosque County farmers
pooled their cotton and received the
4c per pound advance payment on the
bales pooled, they forfeited. to the
leaders of the Pool their rights to
sell their cotton; however, when the
cotton is finally sold each contract
signer will receive his pro rata part
of the net returns of the Pool.
Miss Millie Bronstad has been un-
able to meet her classes during the
past two weeks as she has been con-
fined to her bed with pneumonia. We
are happy to report that she is now
convalescing nicely. Mr. R. J. Wil-
liams has filled Miss Bronstad’s place
in the class room during her absence.
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Walther Leaguers Go
To Meet In Dallas
To Speak Saturday
HI SCHOOL SENIORS
GUESTSOF BAYLOR
Clifton Boys and Girls
Are Represented By
All 43 in Class
TOM HUNTER
Candidate for Governor
CLIFTON PLEASED
TO HAVE R. R. MEN
Laying of new track for the Santa
Fe centered around Clifton during
the last few days and the workers
will continue to work out of here for
at least two more weeks.
One gang of workers, consisting of
100 men, is located in the yards of
Clifton now. Three other gangs are a
few miles north of Clifton, consist-
ing of more than 50 men to the crew.
After completing the line north of
Clifton the work will continue right
on through town and ten miles south.
At this point the work will connect
where like track was laid a year ago.
When the gap in Bosque county is
completed the Santa Fe will have all
their track between Temple and Cle-
burne of the 120-pound type.
Representatives of the Walther
League from the Immanuel Lutheran
Church attended the Metropolitan
Zone Rally in Dallas Sunday.
Members to go from Clifton were
Misses Hildegarde and Velma Man-
ske, Clara Wiede, Olga Landgraf,
Clara Fehler, Anita Obenhaus, Wal-
ter Wiede, Rudie Gohlke, Ervin and
Walter Wiederaenders and W. T.
Tunstall.
Miss Landgraf won the oratorical
contest and will represent the league
at the state meet in June. Her oration
was entitled, “The Second Mile.”
Miss Hildegarde Manske lectured
during the business session on junior
work.
All reported a splendid meeting and
a fine time. However, Mr. Tunstall,
Ervin and Walter Wiederaenders had
the misfortune to slip off in a ditch
during the heavy rain and were
forced to wait several hours during
the downpour.
Mrs. Tom C. Parks and Mrs. E. N.
Scarlett are in Fort Worth this week
as delegates to the Annual Confer-
ence of the Woman’s Missionary So-
ciety of the Central Texas Confer-
ence.
Clifton Scouts Plan
Part In Jamboree
Boy Scouts of Clifton are planning
to attend a district meeting of the
Scouts in Meridian this coming Sat-
urday night. Then the following week
the troop, 26 strong, intends to go to
the Heart O’ Texas Jamboree at Tem-
ple.
The meeting at Meridian is to be
on the order of a pep meeting to get
the boys interested in the contests
and to give experience in the various
events such as knot typing, fire mak-
ing, semaphore and morse code sig-
naling, first aid, scout pace, etc.
At the Temple jamboree tenderfoot
pins will be presented to over 150
new Scouts; also first, second, star,
life and eagle Scouts will receive their
badges.
A silver statuette will be presented
to the troop having the largest per-
centage of guests at the court of hon-
or. Heart O’ Texas takes in the fol-
lowing counties: McLennan, Falls,
Milam, Bell, Coryell, Hamilton, Lime-
stone, Freestone, Bosque, and Robert-
Saturday was a red-letter day for
the Senior class of Clifton high
school. With senior classes of other
high schools of Bosque and adjoining
counties, the class spent the day as
guests of Baylor University at Waco.
At nine-thirty the program began
with music, welcome addresses, and
enrollment in Waco Hall. The time
from then until luncheon was spent
in visiting the library, museum,
Browning Room, Texas History Room
and the different departments of the
arts and sciences.
President Neff, Dean Allen, mem-
bers of the faculty, and officers of the
W. M. U. spared no effort to make
everyone feel at home.
The barbecue luncheon was deli-
cious and well served. Indeed, it is no
small task to serve two thousand
hungry boys and girls.
After luncheon the time was spent
in various ways. However, most of
the visitors attended the Baylor-
T. C. U. ball game, as a compliment
from Baylor.
Clifton was one of the schools to
have a hundred per cent present—
forty-three enrolled, forty-three pres-
ent. Clifton is one school that usually
has as many or more in the graduat-
ing class as it has in the first grade.
All in all, it was a most enjoyable
day for the Clifton Seniors.
CWA Work Waiting
Approval of Projects
Notice was received this week that
the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Cureton of Meridian,' had been elected
to the honorary law fraternity at the
University of Texas as a result of
their high average in the law school.
Mrs. Ray Wiess of Beaumont spent
the first part of the week with her
mother and grandmother, Mrs. Inez
Larson and Mrs. G. Shefstead.
Buster Hall, who is with the CCC
camp at Belton, came in Friday for
a week-end visit with his uncle and
aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Schow.
Clifton Opens Season Here Sunday; League Schedule
Win Opening Game At
Cranfills Gap
7 to 1
Clifton’s first league game at home
will be Sunday afternoon at 3:30,
City Park, with the strong Fairy team
as an opponent.
The Clifton Colts defeated Cran-
fills Gap, 7 to I on the Gap diamond
Sunday, April 15, 1934, in the opening
tilt of the season. By collecting 15
hits off Brummett, the Colts had no
trouble in forcing the runs. C. Kline
allowed the Gap players only 5 hits.
A goodly number of Clifton fans
accompanied their team and enthus-
iastically boosted the Colts while they
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THE
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Cr. Gap
Fairy
Whitney
Clifton
Meridian
fREDELL
TRI
May 20
July 22
June 10
Aug. 12
April 15
June 24
April 29
July 4
May 27
July 29
OR. GAP
May 6
July 8
COUNTY
June 17
Aug. 19
May 27
July 29
April 15
June 24
April 29
July 4
FAIRY
June 3
Aug. 5
May 13
July 15
BASE
April 29
July 4
May 27
July 29
April 15
June 24
WHITNEY
May 13
July 15
April 22
July 1
May 6
July 8
BALL
June 10
Aug 12
June 3
Aug. 5 t
CLIFTON
June 17
Aug. 19
June 3
Aug. 5
April 22
July 1
May 20
July 22
LEAGUE
May 13
July 15
MERIDIAN ,
April 22
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June 10
Aug. 12
May 20
July 22
June 17
Aug. io
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SCHEDULE
—
CWA work in Bosque County has
not been placed in motion at this
time under the new set-up of federal
relief. Projects were supposd to have
been resumed last Monday. However,
the main hold-up at this time is that
not one project has been approved
in Bosque County.
Reason for this delay seemingly is
that many of those connected with
the federal relief felt it better if
some shake-up in the administration
of funds was made after the investi-
gations of the past few weeks by Fed-
eral agents.
Naturally those who have paying
jobs under the relief administration
do not care to give up their present
work. Until this matter is ironed
out, the final acceptance of projects
wiij be held up. Until the CWA re-
sumes its functions the needy will
continue to be aided by direct relief.
Shower Given In Honor
Of Mrs. Alex Anderson
On Saturday afternoon, April 14th,
at the home of Mrs. Clara Grimland
a miscellaneous shower was given in
honor of Mrs. Alex Anderson.
Pink streamers suspended from a
projecting wall ornament were ar-
tistically fastened to a chair on the
stiarway platform for the bride.
Nature in all its glory in the form
of blooming pot plants and cut flow-
ers completed the setting for the
scene of this occasion.
As the guests arrived they were
served at the entrance with punch by
Mrs. C. L. Perry. Miss Wilma Parks
presided over the Bride’s Book.
As guests conversed the atmos-
phere which was charged with a feel-
ing of expectancy was climaxed by
the arrival of the honoree with Mrs.
Milford Hoff who escorted her to the
decorated chair.
A short program of readings was
given by Frankie Bradstreet and Mar-
celle Moore, and the bringing in of
a basket trimmed with pink crepe
paper by Joyce Maxine and Frances
Hoff. As the basket could not hold all
the gifts the little maids, with some
help, flitted back and forth with the
rest in their arms. As Mrs. Anderson
admired the gifts she passed them
around to be viewed by those pres-
ent. In her unassuming and charm-
ing manner she expressed her appre-
ciation for this token of love and
friendship bestowed upon her.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have taken
up their residence in Edgewood Addi-
tion and we welcome them as great
assets to our community.
Mrs. J. T. Torson returned home
Sunday after several weeks stay in
Waco. Mrs. Forson underwent a seri-
ous operation while there, and is
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 20, 1934, newspaper, April 20, 1934; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth774989/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.