The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1945 Page: 3 of 8
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NEWS FROM MOSHEIM
coMMUNnr
opportunity and we are all glad to
see them.
Ur. and Mrs. R. P. Williams from
Turnersville visited Mr. and Mr.
Thomas Martin Sunday, also two
grandsons, Mr. Milton Editings of
US TOUR EGGS, CHICKENS,
CREAM, PECANS.
Bro. Stone filled his regular ap-
pointment'Sunday. There was Sun-
day School at both churches. Every-
one should go and try to help keep an
interest in the Lord’s work.
Mrs. Lee Travis, who is in Valley
Mills with her mother, visited rela-
tives in Mosheim last week. She says
she hears from Lee regularly and he’s
getting along all right.
Carl Henry had a letter today from
Every Day
HUUNGS
Clmr Fam Stan
Roossevelt P. Edding, from overseas.
He is still okeh.
Mosheim basketball team, played
Meridian Monday night. Mosheim
boys won by ten points, the girls U
points.
Mr. John Fields’ sister and husband.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Terry of Cbrtes,
Colorado, are visiting in the John
■■■■ HOUSE
. Usually, we think of poets as!
dreamers—but they can be men of
action, too. Rupert Brooke antici-
pated his own death in battle on a
foreign field in World War I and,
writing of his grave, penned, "Think
only this of me... that there’s a spot
GET OUR PRICES
On Laying Mash, Cow
Feed, Flour and Meal.
t^arl uenry had a letter today from
Bo Clements Jones written several
days ago. He was all right.
Mosheim boys and girls won the
ball game Friday night played with
Valley Mills.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brock and Claud
and Oscar Simmons came down frim
Fort Worth for the week-end. Joe
and Oscar installed an electric pump
going in the poem that begins, “I have J°es place occupied by Mr. and
a rendezvous with death.” ! Mrs- Jess Simmons. They went back
And the stirring lyric, “In Flanders to Fort Worth Sunday evening. Oceal
Field," was written by Col. McCrae Simmons went home with them for a
of the Canadian Army only a short risit.
time before he fell in battle. Mrs- Jim Foller of Abilene is here
WAR PRISONER WRITES
CLEBURNE, Jan. 25—I. E. Os-
borne of Kopperl has received a card
from his brother, J. D. Osborne, who
has been a prisoner of the Japanese
since 1942. The card said he had re-
ceived a letter from his brother.
A SHAKE OF YOUR BUSINESS
APPRECIATED.
GREATLY
BURRELL F. WORD
ATTORNET-AT-LAW
MERIDIAN. TEXAS
PRODUCE
COWEN
C. L. Douglas, news editor of the
■y Fort Worth Press, is the author of
several excellent books, among them
» “Cattle Kings of Texas” and “James
I11K It was many years ago when we
first met. A committee of ministers
was waging a campaign to clean up
[ 3flS conditions in Fort Worth and I was
** v assigned to cover a meeting of the
committee, having joined the news
linese be- staff of the Star-Telegram only a
1 the na- short time before. The session was
ince and not public but I arrived early and
pointed out that the hall outside was
to be on wide open to the bitterly cold north
r absurd wind, so the ministers agreed to allow
icploiteFS. me to “sit in” on the meeting.
, who is . Soon after the conference began,
veterans- Douglas, then a reporter for the Press,
fully all arrived but, having already been told
m. There it was a closed meeting, he remained
dee and outside tat an hour. (I recognized
te’s own him from his daily “column,” which
carried his picture.)
I volunteered to act as typist, when
. a set of resolutions was to be pre-
pared and then took a copy out to the
waiting journalist. In a very respect-
d Satur- tone, he gsked, “Will that be all?”
he coun- an<* * realized he did not know I was
orthwest a r’va* rePorter but thought I was
, natjon. one of the preachers! The temptation
illumina- was irresistible. In the most solemn
PB’s ac- v°ice at ™y command, I replied, “No,
Mr. and Mrs. Baker of China
Springs brought a sick child here to
see Dr. Blankenshhip. They stayed
several days, with Mis. Baker’s par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Helm, to be near
the doctor. The child, was able to be
carried back home Sunday.
Bill Armstrong is home on thirty
days’ leave from New Guinea to see
his wife. She was Claudine Vickrey.
Charley Johnson and family of Gre-
ford were visiting his brother, Hob, at
Stephenville recently. He took real
sick with a heart attack Saturday!
night. Hob brought him to Dr.
Blankenship. They are now at Mr.
John Vickrey’s where Charley is im-
proving.
Raymond Barton writes home folks
he’s getting a furlough and hopes to
be home by Fdb. 5.
Perry Mathews and family visited
his brother, Leonard, at McGregor
Sunday.
Marvin Travis was in Mosheim
■Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith went to
their farm at Ater Monday to prune
their fruit trees.
Elvis Callen and wife of Camp
Claiborne, Louisiana, came Saturday
for a short visit with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Graden Callen and Mr.
and Mrs. Dewey Henry.
Mrs. Pat Jones was out from Waco
Friday night for the ball game. Ken-
neth and Camilla can’t quite give up
their little friends1 at Mosheim. They
like to come out to see them every
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FROM BROWNOUT ORDER
JJ3 Ponltiy Cniitinei
Brother Douglas, that will be all.”
It was not until the next day that
he learned the difference.
NEW BAPTIST PASTOR
WELCOME CITIZEN
(Rosebud News)
Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Baskin, for-
mer citizens of Olifton, Texas, have
moved to Rosebud to become citizens.
He will be pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Rosebud, but the communi-
ty as a whole welcomes this new fam-
ily as citizens. Rosebud now has three
full time pastors as citizens. Heir
influence is most certainly helpful.
If you will accept their invitations,
church attendance will increase, and
the blessings that come from the
Christian activities in all its branches
Pep Op APPETITES
tsy-irsis?itiSSi
ia killing huge muthmas, re-
will be multiplied.
Shag-Rugs
Brooms
Water and Oil Mops
5-foot Step Ladders
Kitchen Stools
2-Foot Stepladders
Clothes Hampers
Bedroom Suites
Wheel Barrows
Ax Handles
Post Hole Augers
Com Shelters
Oil Cans
Hot-Water Heaters
Pyrex New “Flour Saver1
Pie Plates
Fire King Pie Plates
Fire King Casseroles
Pyrex Casseroles
Flame Ware Sets
Cookie Jars
Bean Pots
Water Pitchers
Water Glasses
Silex Coffee Makers
Mohawk Grills
Need a LAX
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Baldridge, Robert L. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1945, newspaper, February 2, 1945; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth797946/m1/3/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.