The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945 Page: 413
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name of the town as Jonesboro. Mr. A. W. Neville, editor of
the Paris News and author of the History of Lamar County,
writes to say that in The University of Texas Archives in the
original court papers of Miller County, Arkansas, four spellings
of the name of the town, all done by men who lived there or
in the vicinity, are given: Jonesborough, Jonesboro, Jones
Borough, and Jones Boro.
D. Tudor Harrell, P. 0. Box 501, Silver Spring, Maryland,
calls attention to an interesting article, "Over Sunday in New
Sharon," in Scribner's Magazine for March, 1880. A typescript
copy of the article accompanied Mr. Harrell's communication.
New Sharon was a booming cattle town on the Kansas plains,
"at the end of the long, bleak Chisholm trail," in 1880. To
New Sharon came the Texas "cow-boys."
Once arrived in New Sharon, the herder, or "cow-boy," dominates the
town. He is no longer the easy-going, mild demeanored type of native
Texas languor and the anomalous self-repression of the trail; he "turns
loose," as he calls it, and appears to change his disposition in the act of
shifting his garments, so rapidly does he challenge every restraint of
society. ...
And everywhere, also, stared and shone the Lone Star of Texas-for
the cow-boy, wherever he may wander, and however he may change, never
forgets to be a Texan, and never spends his money or lends his presence
to a concern that does not in some way recognize the emblem of his native
State: so you will see in towns like New Sharon a general pandering to
this sentiment, and lone stars abound of all sizes and hues, from the big
disfiguring white one painted on the hotel-front down to the little pink
one stitched in silk on the cow-boy's shilling handkerchief.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Ray, 2130 Fannin Street, Vernon,
Texas, have sent to the Association a highly attractive and
informative little booklet entitled: This Hoe. The booklet grew
out of the Rays researches in archaeology and anthropology in
Wilbarger County. This Hoe is an interesting sidelight on a
seven-inch Indian hoe of stone, one of ten thousand artifacts
collected by the Rays for scientific and educational purposes.
An attractive well-illustrated bulletin, entitled Fredericks-
burg: In the Texas Hill Country, which combines the history
of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County with present-day rec-413
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/457/: accessed May 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.