According to Bosque County: Land and People book, copyright 1985, page 21: "Now well into its 89th year of continuous publication, The Clifton Record has outlived all other business institutions which were operating in this city at the time the first issue was published in 1895. W.C. O'Brian, with an appoximate initial investment of $1,500.00 established The Clifton Record in that year and was its first editor and publisher. He used small hand presses and set all of the type by hand. Mr. O'Brian continued to operate the newspaper for about 5 years before selling it to William Baldridge and O. E. Covey, a brother and cousin, respectively, of Robert L. Baldridge, Sr. (my grandfather). In 1901, when he (R.L. Baldridge, Sr.) was 21 years of age, purchased The Clifton Record. He continued as its sole owner, editor, and publisher until his death on January 25, 1946. also on page 21, paragraph 11: "At one time in the early 1900's another newspaper, the Clifton Enterprise, also operated for a short while in Clifton." also in the same book, page 72 under Meridian: Newspapers in Meridian: Bosque County Herald was published by J. G. Woods and J. A. Gillette from about 1875 to 1879 (as mentioned in the Commissioners Court Records.) The Bosque Citizen, published June 26, 1886-May, 1891 by James W. Vincent, has copies in the University of Texas newspaper files. The Bosque County Blade, G. W. Geers, editor, was about December, 1887. The Bosque Eagle, Sam Harris, editor, was in existence a few years before and after 1898. In 1902 Harris bought out Valley Mills Courier and moved there. A paper called the Sun was begun in Meridian in 1898 but was later moved to Valley Mills. The People's Tribune was established by James Day at Walnut Springs in 1896, but later was moved to Meridian. Within a few years, it was run by Levi A. Dunlap, editor, and Edwin D. Dunlap, business manager, and the name was changed to Meridian Tribune. Mr. Dunlap operated this paper for over fifty years. submitted by Rebecca D. Radde Kay Kincheloe Warren granddaughter of Robert Lee Baldridge, Sr. Clifton, TX