The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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that your neighbors are talking about. But while our Ranges are high in quality-- .
THEY ARE NOT HIGH IN PRICE
We chisel the profit down, that's why we do business. A good cook wants a good Range. A good store
can only afford to sell only the. best. You will get goods at a fair price in our store. If you don't believe
it, come and see, and get our prices.
BUY YOUR WIFE A WASCO OR QUICK MEAL RANGE
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DOMO CREAM SEPERATORS
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Clifton Mercantile Company
Clifton Record
■v DOST L BALDRIDGE
ENTERED AT POSTOFTICE, CLIFTON,
TEXAS. AS SECOND CLASS MATTER
you anything? Of course, you
tnafy reply heatedly that you dis-
like his ‘'methods,” that you op
pose his ways] his manners, his
words. All right. If you do,
don't pro to hear him. Stay
away from his meetings. Curl
A FEW SUGGESTIONS
Sometime the shortness of' every night, they don't in our! have. They do not realize how
Thomas A. Edison has asked
the great American public to
suggest things for him to invent.
Being an integral part of the
forementioned public, and having
a highly developed of dissemi
nating information on the slight-
est provocation, we beg to sub-
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_ • I yourself in your outraged shell
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING i and djSKi-untie to your heart's
r "Li"..........-:=^=r^= ^ contenti But if other people mil the following list, says
subscription one do li. a r a year j ]; him, if other people are
~ ’ 7"" ~~~ ! benetited by him. if other people
Friday, August 20. 1913 |choose to reward him, what’s it
human life comes to one with alo^ce'- (as if that settled it for! sohomoric if net positively id
shock, just as it came to me to- j tfae m3t o{ the world)
day as I read an item in a State!
paper which said that an aged j
man had just died. The aged
man was 62 years of age. while I
approaching forty-eight. If f
live as long as this man. I have
just fourteen years more upon
She Shonld See my Mei'
The column for young girls in
need of advice she fairly sniffed
at. “Imagine any one actually
; natured it all sounds until they
I meet some one else with the
same habit, and perhaps even
they criticize instead of recogni/.
ing the fault.
I said “girls of a certain age.
B. Sunday
the
Mineral Wells Index: A self-j this earth. What shall I do if
buttoning dress for women; a' they are granted me* Shall I
Palm Beach suit that won't soil j struggle to lay aside a lot of
to you? Its a free country, and J or wrinkle; a process to take the money for my children to spend
if you don’t want to hear Billy' squeak out of shoes; an income or my relatives to quarrel over
Sunday's gospel-keep out of ear that will meet all expenses; an : or shall I devote the money I
writing in and telling such mtl-,but the faolt Js far more common
mate things as these girls do.
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, , than that. We are all liable to >
dont doubt tnfey makeupthe|ittanT0f usmaydrift inU) jt if
t»he should, we do not watch and listen to
letters in the office'
see my mail).
purselves.
In the housekeeping depart- j Be ready t0 catch v0ur3ei{
p
Sm
The only bad thing about the■#faQt AUa if you have a better* excuse that will be believed at 3 make to educating my family,
fact that Billy Sunday is coming ^08poi than his how would it do | a. in ; something a woman can't and to give them comforts and
to Dallas next year is that a lot' for you to set up in opposition to open with a hairpin,; a razor that pleasures while I am here to en
of people, not expected to con j him across the street and draw! can't be used for sharpening' joy-it with them? Shall I quar-
tribute anything, have already bis audience away from him?— pencils or paring corns, and aj rel and fuss about fate, or shall
begun to worry about the money ! State Press, Dallas News. j line of argument that will con- l encourage an equitable tem-
• that Dallas people will give the ---------------------1— j vi'nce a woman she's wrong. If: perament, patient in al! things.
Rev, Billy.—Texas Mesquiter. | lf you sit in the game you ^lQ above inventions were per-j and try to make it pleasanter
it the truth’ Not a single' Kotta know one of two things— j fected and put on the market at j thereby for those with whom I
dopation one of the numerous j how to lose or when to quit. | a nominal price we believe they i associate? Shall 1 devote my
would materially increase the"whole time to wordly things or
ment she ridiculed the color iwhen you tiad critici9ms comicg
scheme suggested for the Uving: ^ readil? to''voor ^ngae. and
room with all the cynical super-1 havin|J cau(tht yoarself, put that
iorty of a girl who once studied j unruly memher on pttrole and
ar^ °f on® y®fr- j put the probation officer of your
On the fashion page she picked , seif restraint in charge of him to
out one rather unattractive hat! see that he does not repeat the
and held up the whole page to :c^ense-
ridicule on tjie strength of that. •
Yet There Was so Much Good la It!
After she had laid the maga ;
zine down I picked it up, and oh,
there was so much good in it!
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tliroughout the whole country.
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thousand dollars supposed to ..., wUU lneir l0t,u, probab|y bit 0„
held in store lor Hilly j „,ore ,bey „„ cbew.
has been, asked or will be asked j . m— i.....■ _..
expected to contribute a; Billy Sunday and the National ! wha7dlfft'r”t''from7he accepted
Missouri will clebrate Sept. 1
the contemplation of the future! was nothing to criticize. ‘ Far
life and my relations to God ar.d from it. But there certainly
or is
“fried chicken” day. Some-
j humanity? In view of the very
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f solitary nickle to whatever sum Democratic convention are the
| the evangelist will receive for1 p.^,-Dallas wants to “draw to”
i hia services. As a matter of [ next year. Great combination,
fact, a fact which many of Billy's sure
detractors conceal in their com
ms
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inents, Billy Sunday has made
no bargain whatever for his
•work in Dallas. He will get
what is voluntarily given to him,
and be would refuse a single
penny that came to him kgainst
the owner’s will. Why not be
fair? Why not accord to this
“September morn.”
It is to laugh to think that Says the Cleburne Enterprise.
Mexico imagines she could
short time one has to live at
best, what would be your coure
under similar circumstances*”—
tear I
It is possible for a man to for-
1 get the he loaned to a straps
ger, but lu* never forgets the
dime change he has coming
i when he gives.his wife two bits
j to buy 13 cents worth of some Carranza,
thing.
border and
off a bit of the Texas
get away withiL^^
We might make one more try
So Easy to Criticize
(By Ruth Cameron)
wasn’t everything to laugh at
and criticize a n d nothing to!
praise and appreciate. I am!
, not foolish enough to say that ■
|you shouldn't criticize a thing.
: unless you yourself are capablef
jof doing better. As the criticize
The
Right
Price
For
Clothes
critic say, “One does not have to Quality cost money, but the
! If it were as easy to construct j be be to lay an eg* in order to lack of Quality cost more.
! as it is to criticize, Rome would b® capable of detecting a Pad Cheap clothes i3 the wildest
for peace with Mexico by send- havebeenbuiltina,)a]faday 0Qe.» Nevertheless, 1 thinrkind of extravagance for
mg Mr. Bryan as a peace bird to) were as eagy tQ do souie. j haphazard scornful criticism
tiding worth while as it is to poke often arouses a feeling of antag-,'™'
fun at something worth while, onism in the listener, which | Better let US
man the simple justice he, as a out of town aed see how long it
mam, is entitled to? Is it a crime will take the town to reach the
_____ It is worth much to have good
Let everybody in the town buy neighbors. Some of us do not) we shouldn't have to wait long
fully appreciate our accommoda- j for the millenium.
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to succeed in one’s chosen call- f commercial graveyard, says the
ing? Has Billy Sunday wronged Pittsburg Gazette. The fate of
you, intemperate critic, b y . such a place is as certain as that
preaching the Scriptural Gospel night follows day. The buy-at-
aabe understands it? Has he
injured you by bringing drunk-
to notoriety, gamblers to
renpectability, thieves to hon-^ put it to s eep quicker than the
eety? Has the money that grate-
ful congregations gave him cost
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home policy is absolutely es-
sential to the commercial life
of any town,, and nothing will
pernicious knocaout drops of the
trade-away from ho -e habit.
ting neighbors. It would be
worth while to think of these
good men and women who live
near us and who rind pleasure in
being agreeable and accommo-
dating. If we would do this we
would rind, doubtless, that we
fall short of our dutv in being
Exchange.
The girl who thinks it is clever
to criticize was turning over the
pages of a magazine, ‘‘Not a
story here that isn’t common-
place," she snapped.
An article on the girl in the
office came in for her disdain
next "Never read anything so
agreeable and obliging to those silly in my life. 8uch overstate-
who are so kind to us.—-Says ac mentor No girl would dream of
i any one.
take your
makes him want to say, “Of; measure for a suit. We have
course you are much wiser and a varied line of samples to
better than these you criticize.’’ select from and the quality
A.4 Ere. Tto. Ttoy Probably Critid* ^ ^ them
Girls of a certain age some-
time get into the habit of saying
sharp critical things about every-
thihg and everybody that that
they come in contact with. It is
so easy, it gives one such a feel-
tof
ing of superiority, and it is such
a relief to any feeling of temper .
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 20, 1915, newspaper, August 20, 1915; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth775073/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.