The overland trip from Allen’s Creek takes one through Waynesboro, the county seat of Wayne County. This is a town of about eight hundred people. Its newest acquisition is a splendid court house, recently finished at an expense of $25,000. Waynesboro is also situated in the midst of a great iron region and its best days are yet to come.
Clifton has a population of 1,200 souls; for unlike some places, every man, woman and child in Clifton has a soul of rare quality. In all the essentials that go to make good citizenship Clifton is in the front ranks. The people are earnest and conscientious, have a firm grip on life, and live it with unvarying fidelity to high ideals.
WHARF SCENE AT CLIFTON, TENNESSEE
Clifton is the only town on the Tennessee river between Florence and Paducah that has an electric light and ice plant. To go further than this, it has the best equipped and most luxuriously appointed hotel within the same limits. It was built four years ago by Mr. I. G. Russ at a cost of $25,000, and is known far and wide for its comfort and hospitality.
Three other things the town is noted for—its newspaper, its bank building and its college. The Clifton Mirror is a co-operative institution, owned by the business men of the town. It is edited by one of the stockholders—H. M. Jackson. As a consequence the Clifton Mirror scintillates with both original and reflected brightness, and is doing a great work in pushing this section to the front.
The People’s Bank of Clifton is steam heated and lighted by electricity and possesses every modern convenience.
Probably the greatest institution in Clifton is the Frank Hughes College. The college was only completed last summer and the first term is now being taught. Rev. J. Thompson Baker, B.L., Ph.M., is the principal of the college and he has gathered about him a faculty of earnest, ambitious educators. The school has met with phenomenal success. The enrollment for the first term is over two hundred.
The building is a splendid structure. It was erected at a cost of $15,000. It is steam-heated and lighted by electricity, and possesses every modern convenience. The money to build it was raised by private subscription, and it is a grand monument to the generosity and faith and love of a noble people.