Cleburne
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Texas, the It is on the of what B owes A, and that A and City and Brazos Valley, and the Missouri, stand off; that B owes nothing to A, and owes $500 to C; and that C owes nothing to A, and is owed $500 by B. That is, that A owes B $500 , and B owes C $500. Then if pay $500, $4,000 of mutual debts is settled for $ 500. When this settlement is worked out, the clearing-house clerks report back to their banks, and before 1 o'clock sums of money are sent from each bank to the clearing-house in settlement of balances, and the checks drawn on each bank are returned to it, to be charged against the different individual depositors. The following table shows the amount of exchanges at the various clearinghouses of the United States for two years, each ending Sept. 30 : Kansas and Texas railroads. Its industries include cotton compresses, flour mills, foundry and machine shops, and railroad shops, and it has a large trade in grain, live products, public library, and a high school. Pop. (1910) 10,364; (1920 ) 12,820. live stock, hides, agricultural ucts, etc. There is a court house, a ginning of a stave, to show the elevation of that particular stave in the general claviary or system , and to determine the names of the notes according to their Clefs; the G Clef, generally known as positions on the stave. There are three the treble Clef, which is placed on the second line of the treble stave; the C
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's counted 12,820 people in 1920, Cleburne was a railroad town: its listed industries were cotton compresses, flour mills, foundries and, above all, the railroad shops. Those shops, run by the Santa Fe, were the city's economic backbone until the line wound them down in the 1980s, and cotton compressing has likewise gone. Cleburne now has roughly 30,000 residents and functions largely as a southern exurb of Fort Worth, a role cemented by Barnett Shale gas drilling in the 2000s and by the Chisholm Trail Parkway toll road opened in 2014. (The 1921 text as reprinted here has been scrambled in scanning, with passages on bank clearing-houses and musical clefs spliced into the middle of the Cleburne article.)
Written for this edition, 2026.