The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1986 Page: 2 of 30
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Once Upon A Time
THE CLIFTON RECORD, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1986, PAGE 2A
80 Years Ago In Clifton
By Elizabeth Torrence
Bosque County Collection
From the October 19,1906, is-
sue of The Clifton Record:
• “Emil Thorwald Colwick who
• breathed his last on Oct. 2,
• 1906, was born Sept. 14, 1882,
• a little over 24 years of age at
'• the time of his lamented death.
His remains were interred in
• the Norse Cemetery on October
• 3, Rev. J.K. Rystad officiating at
the last sad rites.
Deceased was bom and reared,
in this vicinity on Neils Creek.
He leaves a widow and young
child to mourn his untimely
loss, besides several sisters and
■ brothers.
He was a good man, physical-
ly robust and healthy until re-
cently but was compelled to
succomb to the dread destroyer,
typhoid.”
• **********
“Supt. Davidson has been
here this week from Waco in the
interest of the Independent Tel-
ephone Company. They are im-
proving the service all the
time.”
* * * * * * * * * *
* “M.G. Whitney of near Cayote
was in Clifton Monday. Mr.
Whitney has long since learned
where the best town in the
county is.”
**********
". “The Ladies Magazine Club
gave its third annual reception
last Thursday evening at the
home of the president, Mrs.
Townsend. After nine exciting
games of forty-two, dainty fruit
salad with whipped cream,
wafers, and salted nuts were
served.
Among those present were
Misses Jenson, Snell, Bettie
Helm, Lewis, Scott, McSpadden,
King, Peterson, and Willie
Helm. Messrs. Orbeck, Geo.
Peterson, Grimland, Dr.
[Gillespie, and Dr. Scott. Mes-
dames Shelton, Tanner, Nichol,
and Snider. Mr. and Mrs. P.E.
Schow, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Mr.
and Mrs. Brooks, Mr. and Mrs.
Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Connolly,
Mr. and Mrs. C.F. Collins, and
Mr. and Mrs. Baldridge.”
**********
Several weeks ago, I included
in this column an item concern-
ing little Wright Butler’s acci-
dent in which he seriously
injured his eye. Recently I
received a letter from his sister, |Rachel Aguilar
Mrs. Mary Butler Ramsey, a Christy Atkinson
part of which I thought you
might enjoy reading. “Thank
you so much for the copy of
Jim’s accident. I did not have
any record of the date in my
files. The knife was the correct
implement. We were playing
with shoe boxes and he was cut-
ting a string to tie the boxes
together as a freight train. He
was very ill with whooping
cough at the time. Three or four
weeks after Jim was taken to
Temple, he was carried to Fort
Worth and the doctors removed
the eyeball because of infection
.and fear of infection in the good
eye. There was a long healing
period and the difficult period of
finding an artificial eye small
enough of fit. He was just four
years old, born on August 1,
1902.”
If, at any time, you, the read-
ers of this column, have any
follow-up on the items included,
I would be very happy to hear
from you. Added information
will be filed with the columns
which are being preserved here
in the Bosque County Collec-
tion. I do appreciate hearing
from readers of The Clifton
Record that you enjoy this
column.
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Letters To The Editor
By The Outraged, The Contented, The Concerned
Dear Mr. Embry,
We, the eighth grade class,
would like to thank you for your
column on our football team. We
are so proud of our team, and
each of us feels that he is a part
of the team’s success. Our spirit
is fantastic, our attitude is
great, and we have been lucky
to have had two great coaches in
Hank Laywell and Derik Short.
Thanks again for the recogni-
tion. We hope to continue to
make Clifton proud of us—in
many ways.
Sincerely,
Brittany Massey
Chad Elston
Stephen Bryant
Leslie Ringo
Monty Belvin
Lance Alsohrook
Natalie Warford
Missy Outlaw
Tony Anderson
Amy Turner
Barbi Spitzer
Beth Gentry
Amy Gray
Rena Forbess
Christy Hubbard
Robbie Kessler
Ole Finstad
Suree Merchant
Kelly Bronstad
Kacie Pool
Juli Powers
Brent Finney
Denise Fields
Angie Houston
Shenita Willis
John Jones
Jason Stanley
Lea Gentry
Brian Tyree
Brent Belcher
Alex Montes
Jeremy Dennehy
Angie Ratliff Ronnie Necessary
Kasandra Willis Lon Prescher
April Walker
Melanie Martin
Rhonda Turner
Chris Hampe
Brian Tippett
Misty Gregory
Jenny Harmon
Stacy Ratliff
Doug Ratliff
Thomas Oliver
Bias Decora
John Ratliff
t Jeff Longoria
Juan Quiroz
Lorrie Grumbine
Danny Patterson
Amy Wall
Tracey Spicer
Scott Harmon
Kristi Stanberry
Lee Brennand
Eric Knustrom
Beth Aguirre
David Broyles
Charles Miller
Michael Odom
Michael Holt
Dennis Locklear
Jamie McGuine
Shawn Dickens
Willie Sedberry
Tina Baker
Walter Grubbs
Wayne Gordon
Tell The Bosque County Public
That YOU WANT THEIR BUSINESS.
Sav So In The Clifton Record
EVERY WEEK!
To The Editor:
I write this as a concerned
citizen, taxpayer, and voter. I
am concerned about the voting
record of State Representative
Bob Melton who is up for re-
election, (Bosque, Coryell, and
Hill Counties).
Is Bob Melton a liberal? Why
does he vote the way he does? I
have done some checking on his
voting record and herewith are
some just a few that concerns—
our taxes being raised and a lax-
ity for strict criminal laws.
Melton voted for the Indigent
Health Care Law. It makes ille-
gal aliens eligible to receive up
to $30,000 of free health care, of
course paid with our county
property taxes. It forces the
counties to set aside 10 percent
of their General Tax levy for In-
digent Health Care. Hill County
expects to set aside $170,000,
Coryell County $80,000, and
Bosque County, $60,000. This
makes for higher property tax.
(HB 1843) Why does Melton
vote for bills to raise our taxes?
He also voted against the Taint-
ed Evidence Bill. It would have
allowed evidence gained
through a search warrant to be
used in court if the search was
done in good faith and did not
violate civil rights. (HB 632)
Vote March 21, 1985. Fewer
criminals would get off due to
technicalities if this bill had
passed. Who is Melton
representing?
Melton also voted against re-
quiring state district judges to
have felony probationers per
form work as a condition of their
probation. (HB 1569) Vote 15
April, 1985. I could write more
about what I believe has been a
very questionable voting record
of State Representative Bob
Melton.
From A Concerned Citizen
Stevie Phillips
Bosque County Resident
Dear Editor:
On behalf of the Clifton Band
Backers, I would like to say a
Big Thank You to all the mer-
chants and backers of the
Clifton Band for their help and
support. I would especially like
to thank all who contributed to
the recent “Millionaire Game”
project.
A big thanks also goes to
Shayne Embry and The Clifton
Record for all their help and
cooperation.
I am proud to live in a commu-
nity that is so supportive of
their youth and their programs.
It gives one a warm feeling to be
surrounded by people who care.
To express the cliche a little
differently: “Those who live in
Clifton are TRULY GREAT!”
Sincerely,
Jan Zuehlke
President
Clifton Cub Band Backers
To The Editor.
Congratulations are in order
to Mary Lou Crawford of Clifton
who won the Melvin Warren
print “Remnants of the Herd”
at the Arts & Crafts Show Oct
18. We wish to thank all who
bought chances. The Civic Soci
ety will be using monies collect
ed for some worthy cause.
Also I wish to thank Ruth Bet
ty, Nell Jenson, Dorothy Man
ley, Gloria Moseley, Elizabeth
Torrence, and Betty Willman
for helping me sell the chances.
—Mrs. Robert Taylor
People Look For Bargains All The Time.
One Of The First Places They Look
Is THE CLIFTON RECORD Classifieds.
A Review
Dinner Theatre Tribute To Those Involved
CLIFTON — Bosque County Conserva-
tory of Fine Arts Theatre’s first dinner
theater production, The Matchmaker, loose-
ly a four-act play version of Hello Dolly,
should be considered a resounding success
and would receive three and one-half to
four bags of popcorn on my five bag scale.
The evening began with dinner prepared
by local residents, which, as a whole,
provided the diner with a combination of
home-cooked meal and a touch of the
elegant.
The salad was fresh and seasoned well
with the bread sticks apparently a favorite
among most (I had two myself). And, while
the glazed Cornish hens prepared by J.B.
Darden and Don Knustrom were barely
generous enough for this carnivorous appe-
tite, they were both tender and tasty.
The wild rice, green beans, and rolls com-
plemented the fowl well and the rich Texas
chocolate cake at intermission wras a perfect
dessert. Although this writer did not par-
take in the golden pecan coffee, compli-
ments of Clifton Mercantile, others at my
table had more than one cup.
The table settings were simple yet effec-
tive and the servers were both efficient and
courteous (some professionals in area cities
could and should take lessons).
As for the play itself, Act I opens in
Horace Vandergelder’s house in Yonkers,
NY in the early 1880’s. Vandergelder (War-
ren Garland) is admonishing a young artist,
Ambrose Kemper (Don Bland), who wants
to marry Vandergelder’s niece, Ermen-
garde (Krist Heid). Vandergelder, a 60ish
and apparently wealthy widower, it is
learned, has hired Dolly Levi (Cindy Parks),
a busybody matchmaker, to find himself a
wife. Garland’s portrayal of the gruff tycoon
clearly steals the first act as he plays his
part—which has passages of almost soldo-
quous proportions—in a most convincing
manner. While the first act almost dragged
on at times as the various characters were
introduced, comic relief from Cornelius
Hack] (Shayne Embry), Barnaby Tucker
(Will Penner), and Malachi Stack (Jim Heid),
broke the monotony as Dolly began to spin
her elaborate and all inclusive web.
The second act, the funniest of the four by
far, thanks to the antics of Cornelius (Em-
bry) and Barnaby (Penner), takes place in
the hat shop of Irene Molloy (Cheryll
Robertson). In this act, Cornelius and Bar-
naby, employees of Horace Vandergelder,
have sneaked away from work to find ad-
venture for a day only to discover their boss
headed for the same hat shop where they
are trying to meet girls.
At the dinner theatre performance,
Robertson stumbled on her lines a few times
but it should be known that she—as well as
Rosalyn White as Flora Van Huysen in the
fourth act—assumed their roles only a week
before the first performance when other ac-
tresses left the cast. In light of that revela-
tion, Robertson and White should be
commended for placing themselves in the
public eye in circumstances that left them
particularly vulnerable. Both, however, per-
formed admirably, always recovering nice-
ly from a forgotten line or two.
The third act, which takes place in a fan-
cy New York restaurant, clearly belongs to
Malachi Stack (Jim Heid). Stack walks
among the audience and in his booming
voice speaks quite eloquently on vice, sin,
religion, and politics.
The fourth act reveals all the facets of
Dolly’s web, and concludes the play in a
satisfying manner suitable for a production
of this nature.
For the most part, the actors had their
lines down pat although their timing occa-
sionally seemed to be a half-step out of
synch. The leading female and male actors,
Garland and Parks, had tough roles with
lots of cueless lines. They both rose to the
occasion as true veterans and should be
commended as such.
Supporting roles by Embry, Penner, and
Robertson were well cast with Embry's mut-
tonchops appearing much better on stage
than in the reality of the newspaper office.
Heid’s costuming and makeup made him
almost unrecognizable at first and it did
much to enhance his performance.
The lesser supporting roles were solid for
the most part with Heather Knustrom play-
ing Minnie Fay, Kathy Austin in a dual role
as an old woman in Act 1 and a young cook
in Act IV, Jack Bruton as a cabman, Eric
Knustrom as August, and Harlos Bohannan
as Joe Scanlon and Rudolf. Bohannon
deserves special praise for his dual role. In
Act I he appears as Vandergelder's barber
and in Act III as a snobbish French waiter.
Both parts he plays to perfection. Larger
roles in the future should certainly be in
order for this Walnut Springs actor. Also,
the roles of Krist Heid and Don Bland,
found in Acts I and IV , as Ermengarde and
Ambrose, proved to be of high quality if not
abundant quantity.
Set in the 1880’s, the costuming (by Cheryll
Robertson) was particularly good and the
lighting (Joe White), props (John Austin),
and sound (Doyle Crews) helped set mood
for the play.
Darlene Arnold and Shirley Josey master-
fully applied makeup and constructed hair-
styles that lent authenticity to the
production.
Veteran director Rebecca Strange and as-
sistant director Joanne Woods pulled the
whole thing together nicely to give the 100
plus in attendance (a complete sellout) a
pleasurable evening of local entertainment.
The entire cast and crew of this volunteer
group deserve more than a pat on the back
for the hours upon hours poured into this
and other productions.
Those interested in seeing The Matchmak-
er will have the opportunity to do so this
weekend, sans dinner, as the play will be
presented Saturday, Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. and
Sunday, Oct. 26, at 2 p.m. Admission is well
worth the $6 for adults and $4 for students
and is payable at the door.
—Lyndell Smith
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