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THE SCHULENBURG STICKER
THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2020
Brookshire Brothers program assists food pantries
Brookshire Brothers is joining to help neighbors facing food do hunger relief.
with its customers to get food to insecurity.
With school out, tens of thou-
Through a program that started sands of children miss meals daily
May 14, Brookshire Brothers due to lack of resources. Families 100-percent employee-owned,
AUSTIN - Gov. Greg Abbott avoidable travel expenditures and
rescheduled for Sunday, July 18,
B. B. WILKINB.
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i their part to protect public health.
If we all unite in our resolve, we continuing to rage across Texas,
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at gov.texas.gov/opentexas.
Candelaria. “The pandemic has
kill you.”
his right, cocked and leveled at named Tom Tansel [or Tansley], for fear of retaliation.
ties to increase testing, maintain
For More Information: 979-743-6566
CCAMgals
drive to benefit the county’s food set up at the front of the Fayette
as follows:
throughout June.
donation can be mailed to Fayette
This includes delivery to the time last year. Meanwhile, food
donations are down at a time when
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Extension Office holding
county-wide food drive
The Texas A&M AgriLife Ex- demand has exploded because of
homebound, and those who usu-
ally eat at the Center are having
the meals delivered to them.
Anyone interested is asked to
call Mary Ann Firasek at 743-
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or cancelled a week in advance.
The order goes in on Monday for
the next week. A donation of $2
per meal is requested.
Volunteers are welcome to
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on Tuesday and/or Wednesday
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surges in COVID-19 cases will Texas’254counties and more than
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II delayed until May 29. Those yesterday. Fourteen people died
Amarillo-area counties where a of COVID-19 in Dallas County
footprints of Janette
A Historical Column From The Fayette County
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Due to the CO VID-19 pandem- County A&M AgriLife Extension
ic, Texas food banks are serving Office, 255 Svoboda Lane, Suite
88 percent more clients than this 134, La Grange, TX 78945.
Wilkins Bros.,
will overcome this challenge,”
“With the COVID-19 pandemic
“Good Deeds” where they live
and work!
Brookshire Brothers is a
ings and relevant dates is available ity,” said TSTA President Noel
Youens &
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FAMILY MEDICINE
BOARD CERTIFIED
food pantries assist those in need, byjob loss or furloughs, are finding gional grocery chain operates more
Brookshire Brothers will match it even more difficult to put food on than 115 locations that stretch
every dollar its customers donate the table. Local food pantries help westtothe Texas Hill Country and on May 18 allowed restaurants to administrative expenses that are
up to $100,000. respondtothoseimmediateneeds. east to Lake Charles, La. Though increase occupancy to 50% and not mission critical, and keeping
SCHOENER The money customers give Together Brookshire Brothers its focus remains on traditional re|axedhisearlierexecutiveorders unfilledanyopenpositionsthatare
The Schoener family reunion, in each Brookshire Brothers and its shoppers can lend a hand groceryandpharmacy.Brookshire that limited certain other public notessentialtoTexas’COVID-19
scheduled for Sunday, June 7, has or David’s store, as well as the for hunger relief. It’s part of the Brothers has complimentary for- activities over the last two months response.
been cancelled. company’s matching funds, will employee-owned company’s matsthatincludefuelandtobacco toreducethespreadofCOVID-19. According to the letter, certain
KRISCHKE be distributed in that town to purpose of being “Good People” operations. Formore, visit https:// Reopenings, Abbott said, must agenciesandactivitiesareexempt-
The 44th Krischke reunion nonprofits or food pantries that selling “Good Food” and doing www.brookshirebrothers.com. adhere to restricted occupancy ed from the directive “given the
levels and minimum standard importance of the state’s response
health protocols laid out by the to COVID-19 and the continuity
Texas Department of State Health of critical government functions.”
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not come too close. I obeyed by emptying a load of buckshot incident stated that a “Texas that COVID-19 is contained and and strong enforcement. "Half-
him. He then ordered the three into his head. [At this point in cowboy had killed Cochran, mitigated. hearted enforcement will endanger
citizens [French’s hostages] to the story, other accounts say the Wilkins and his brother, Bush- Cumulative figures posted on students and educators, and our
pick up Irvine and place him on citizens were too afraid to enter rod, had been brought up raising May 21 by the Texas Department members will not stand for it on
the bed, and to bring in Cochran in the darkness and waited until stock, so that was probably a fair of State Health Services showed their campuses,” said Candelaria,
and lay him on the floor. He morning, when they found that description, that some 52,268 people in Texas Child care funding is cut
then wanted to know if I killed French’s legs had fallen into the In 1899, the brothers bought had been diagnosed with CO- The Texas Workforce Commis-
his friend. I told him I did not, fire and that his feet had been a lot on Washington Street, just VID-19 and 1,440deaths resulting sion on May 19 announced the
and he seeing the shotgun on burned off.] south of the La Grange square, from the virus pandemic had been phase-out of a $200 million emer-
the floor where Irvine was lying, “I [stayed] with my friend and erected a livery stable, confirmed. gency program to subsidize child
must have believed me, else he Irvine until he died, and his re- Shirley Wilkins married Virgie Budget cuts ordered care for Texas: essential workers,
would have killed me at once, mains were taken to Vinita and Moore here in 1901. Gov. Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Pat- Subsidies were put in place to
He then ordered one of the citi- buriedrand I then accompanied However, they would not en- rick and House Speaker Dennis assist both essential workers and
zens to take off Irvine s watch U.S. Deputy Marshal Taylor, joy a long marriage. In Decem- D NX o +, .... ] . . ..
. ..1: . . ... . . 1 . en ., , .18 , . . . . , Bonnen on May 20 sent a letter to child care centers during limited
and put it in his pocket, which who took charge of French s re- ber 1905, tuberculosis claimed .. . . . r , .. „r . m S
. .. 1 .. T e, . , ’r... . 1 1 state agencies and institutions of enrollment. With Texas reopen-
was done; all the time I was mains, to Fort Smith, where they Shirley Wilkins at age 39. He . . . . r .. r , . ,
hands-up and the pistol pointing were fully identified as those of now rests in the Old La Grange higher education directing each of mg, essential workers who are
at my head. He then ordered me Jim French, the noted murderer City Cemetery them to submit a plan identifying already on the subsidized plan will
to take off my watch which I did and robber, for whose arrest, Sources: The Cherokee Advocate, savings to reduce general revenue- continue to receive child care for
and gave it to him and he put it dead or alive, large rewards are Claremore, Indian Territory, Feb. 6,1895 related appropriations by 5% for the three-month period they were
in his pocket. He then demanded said to have been offered. I ar- Cleveland County Leader, Fort Smith, the 2020-2021 two-year budget initially approved for under the
my money, of which I had a dol- rived back here Monday, having Arkansas, Feb. 16,1895 cycle. program.
lar and some small change in my been absent a week, lacking a La Grange Journal, La Grange, Tex- The three highest-ranking state Effective June 1, the Texas
pocket, which he got. few hours. “I can say that I never as, Feb, 14,1895 and Dec. 21,1905 official surge agencies and institu- Workforce Commission will rein-
“About this time Irvine had want to pass through another “James Kell “Jim” French, Sr., 8 Jun tionsofhigher education to pursue state the requirement for parents
revived enough to get hold of such scene or anything similar 1872 - 6 Feb 1895,” entry in the Citi- cost-saving strategies that will not receiving financial assistance to
his pistol, which was under the to It.” zens Cemetery, Fort Gibson, Muskogee affect the state’s response to CO- pay for a portion of their costs,
pillow, and fired, the ball strik- Now, we might wonder County, Oklahoma on www.findagrave. -
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cabin of a full-
blood Indian, who
was living alone
for those age 60 and older. As of tension Office of Fayette County lost jobs and income.
Monday, May 18, the procedure is is organizing a county-level food Food donation boxes will be
Services. TSTA: It’s too early
Notably, public schools have The Texas State Teachers
the option to provide in-person Association, in a May 20 news
summer school so long as they release, said June 1 is too early to
follow social distancing practices reopen school buildings for sum-
and health protocols laid out by the mer school classes and demanded
state health department. that the state and local school
Classes may begin as soon as districts agree to enforce a detailed
June 1. list of safety requirements for
“I ask all Texans to continue school campuses before reopening
heeding the guidance of our state buildings to students and school
and federal medical experts and do employees.
“I told him I was coming, short time a crowd gathered and “Shirley Wilkins of Abilene, spike in cases has been confirmed alone, a daily high for Dallas.”
which I did very promptly. As I went to the house where French who killed young Cochran,” include El Paso, Randall, Potter, Candelaria said TSTA is de-
appeared he stood near the en- was, and as they approached and Tansley had arrived at Fort Moore and Deaf Smith. Gover- manding adequate supplies of
trance with his winchester in his him he made some kind of a Smith with French’s body, but nor’s Surge Response Teams are protective gear for everyone in
left hand and his .46 revolver in demonstration and a young man they would not return to Catoosa at work in those Panhandle conn- every school workplace, steps that
ing French in the neck just front whether Wilkins had actually com
of the left ear and ranging for- participated in this episode. William Bird Interview. Western His-
ward came out below his right Several accounts referred to the tory Collections, University of Oklahoma,
eye. Irvine fired a second shot store manager, Irvine, as Sam Ir- Norman, Oklahoma, https://digital.librar-
which took effect, and French, win and one reported that Irwin’s ies.ou.edu/utils/getfile/collection/indi-
in the meantime, fired a shot at store clerk, Tommy Watson, was anpp/id/3600/filename/4234.pdf
him, but it struck the bed rail- the person who unloaded his The Spell of The West: Bill Cook
ing, doing no damage. French shotgun on Jess Cochran. Gang, http://www.jcs-group.com/old-
then retreated to the hotel, got on One account named Wilkins, west/outlaws/cook.html
his horse, which was hitched in but describes him as the store’s The Cook Gang: Plaguing Indian Ter-
front of it and rode off. watchman. The Fort Smith, Ar- ritory, https://www.historynet.com/the-
“He went about a mile to the kansas newspaper reported that cook-gang-plaguing-indian-territory.htm
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Last week, we left Shirley with his little
G. Wilkins of La Grange in the child; ordered
small detached office of a store him to make up a
in Catoosa, Indian Territory on fire, make a pallet
the night of Feb. 7, 1895. His for him, hitch his
friend, Sam Irvine, had just been horse, then pull off
shot in an attempted robbery by his boots. This all
Jess Cochran. Wilkins had re- being done, the In-
turned fire and killed Cochran, di an took his child
Out of ammunition, he slid his and slipped out and
shotgun on the floor next to Ir- went to a neigh-
vine and hid behind a bureau as bor’s and told him
Cochran’s partner, Jim French, about French being
one of the last members of the at his house.
Bill Cook gang, entered the “This Indian at
building and said, “Come out once repaired to
with your hands up and I will not town and told the
me. He ordered me to stand and from Tennessee, finished him Finally, one account of the hospital capacity and ensure
State of Texas enters second VID-19, such as foregoing capital
phase of reopening plan expenditures that can be deferred,
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