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Page 2—CHEROKEEAN/HERALD of Rusk, Texas—Thursday, July 20, 2000
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July 20, 2000
Texas' oldest continuously
published weekly newspaper.
Established as the Cherokee
Sentinel Feb. 27,1850
Jim Hogg State Historical
Park, Rusk
Caddoan Mounds State
Historical Site, Alto
Texas State Railroad State
Historical Park, Rusk
Scene in Passing
Marie Whitehead
editor @ mediactr.com
What a joy to have soon,
once again, the blue
bells dancing in the
fields and along side the road-
way in Walker County! This
lovely, purple/lavender/blue, bell
shaped (lower grows wild.
TxI)OT folks may help them out
with extra seed scattered, I'm
not sure. The soil around
Huntsville is uniquely suited to
this special plant. It flowers in
July. The flower and the month
bring special, but sad, memories
for me. Still, the sad can be
reflected on with gratitude,
turning to glad for all that was, and is. It was July
1946 that my almost 10-year old brother, Gene,
died of polio. Some of this chapter in my life has
been documented in our Granddaughter Sandy's
first book, "Marigolds for Me." Anyway, we had
a wonderful 55th high school class reunion last
weekend. The Huntsville Hornet "hive" spirit
was alive in the hearts of 23 exes. Much more
subdued that in the beginning which was 1955.
We have continued to meet each five years since
the first biggie. For example, the first one in '55
was a three day event. This year we met for dinner
on Friday and about half of us managed to recon-
vene for breakfast. Didn't I say subdued? But a
grand time was had by all. And I could fill this i
entire page with the memories, but they would
probably read much like your own.
Travel continues, along with extremely hot
weather. lint not too hot to keep folks at home.
Sara Welch and Kay Jordan escaped all the way
to Europe recently. Hopefully, one of them will
share more details of the trip. Another pair of
trtppers'is Betty Hardin, now in Oklahoma, and
h«g¡ longtime friend from Alto, Edith Vogel of
upstate New York. They enjoyed an 18-day trip
abroad which Betty narrated
in a letter, plus a photo. More
of that report in the near
future.
Here's a report on the
handsome young son of Pizza
Hut owner, Jackie Ardi, and
his wife, Kathy. Joshua was
chosen first runner up in the
2000 Pee Wee contestants at
the Parade of Beauties, 4-6
years. He certainly is "star"
material, especially in the
eyes of his mom, dad and
younger brother Joseph!
Another handsome young
man visited Husk last week.
He is Kay Baby and Dr. Jim
Hunter's special houseguest,
Zaek. The younger son of
Deborah, Kay's daughter in
Houston.
So many of you have re-
cently expressed kind words regarding this publi
cation. Some of you have even put these words in
writing! How about these:
"Dear Editor, we do look forward to your paper
each week...do love the Grass Roots cartoon, very
clever, Always read Scene and HI Camino Keal.
Real estate ads, with the hope of moving back to
Rusk some day." This is from R. L. Jarvis at
Cleveland. And our hope is "Let the dream come
true."
Another epistle comes from Babe Tidrow
Jiminez.
"It is time to renew Randy Con and my long
letter from home each week. It means so
much to keep up with whut is going on at
home. It was with great interest that I read
the June 29th issue. First, there was the
picture of Charles and Helen Cornelius about
to celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniver-
sary. How that took me hack in time, as
Helen graduated with my sister, the late
Clara Burns Brewer in the class of 1950, and
too, there was the page and pictures of you
and Kmmett. I remember the day the two of
you took over the paper. A bunch of us were
at the coffee shop (this would be the Rusk
Hotel, later the Thomas J. Rusk Hotel) and
Mrs. Main introduced you. After you left the
older folks said you were too shy and timid
and not aggressive enough to run the paper.
Fifty years later you are still running it, so
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maybe they were wrong!
"My son and I were in Rusk
on June 9-10. Friday we
signed the deed work for the
Tidrow homeplace on
Wightman Lane to be sold, •
and on Saturday we attended
the funeral of Aunt Pearl
Tidrow at Walker's Chapel
and came back to our White
family reunion. It had been a
year since I had been to Rusk
as my health has not been too
good the last year. Several
years ago I had a five bypass
on my heart and the last six
months I have had four stints and a balloon
procedure done. My doctor said he could put
a stint in my heart every two weeks if I
heeded it. There is still hope and I take one
day at a time. I hope to be in Rusk in Septem-
ber for a long visit so I can "gad about" and
see every one. The paper is great, so keep up
the good work."
Babe resides in Charlotte, Texas. Her early
memories are nice to know. I have always
wondered, but only a few are willing to say,
what folks thought of us in our beginning
here. And my early memories of Babe have to
do with the hardwood floor! She gave new
meaning to basketball, new dimensions...she
was great!
Another note, short, but equally appreciated,
came I'roin Shirley Germany. She says, "Thanks
for a good paper all these many years."
All these many years...well, it has been a few.
But it doesn't really seem like it. Thanks to all of
you who continue to comment. Continue to write
letters. See the one elsewhere this issue from a
longtime friend, Donnis Baggett, now at Bryan-
College Station. Now Editor/Publisher. We
met while pursuing degrees at
SFASU hack in the early 70s.
He is from Livingston and I
thought about him while
visiting there Saturday. Our
mentor, the late Dr.
Francine Hoffman, would be
quite pleased with her accom-
plishments, as reflected in the
career of Donnis. If today I
could hand her a compliment
and say, "You taught him
well," she would immediately
respond, "He was a good
student." And he was.
A letter from the Jackson-
ville Daily Progress General
Manager, Chris Bradford,
was not enough. He sent it
with a huge bouquet of exotic
roses, imported from South
America. And a request for an
interview to be published in
their Lifestyle Section. This is so much fun, I may
have to do it again (celebrate 50 years service
here.) And I kind of wish I could.
One of the salutatory comments reached me via
King Robinson from his longtime friend Joe
Samuels of Houston. Mr. and Mrs. Samuels were
at t he TPA convention when some of us received
50 year recognition. We met them and had a nice
chat. But it didn't occur to him until later that our
home town is also the home town of good friend
King. Their friendship predates World War II. He
is t he publisher of a weekly in Houston and a
former radio personality...like King...except King
was a pioneer in the development of the radió/
elect runic indust ry.
Since last week. I have not heard of any new,
serious healt h developments. Many of our good
people contiiuie to seek the road to better health,
however Two of t hese are Janet Gates and
Phyllis Farrow Wells. Both nre Rusk grads,
class of '71. Janet lives in Alto, Phyllis in Palestine
and both are receiving chemo. And yes, both are
doing very well And please remember Mike and
Mary Walley and her dad, Jake Conway.
For closing humor, here's the start of a smile.
Courtesy of e-mail from unknown source. Teacher
hands out first port ion of well known proverb with
the young st udent to complete. Youngster is given,
"Strike while the... "andhe writes, "bug is close!"
Keep smiling.
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Joshua Jacob Ardi
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High Points From El Camino Real
The heat is getting just
about unbearable along El
Camino Real and we
haven't even gotten to the
hottest part of the summer yet,
but I don't figure you want to
pay a quarter for what you can
open the door and find out, The
heat hasn't slowed things down
any and people are busy as bees
making news.
Longtime Alto resident
Floyd Lindsey passed away
this week. Floyd was about 85
years old and died suddenly last
week of a heart attack. Please
keep his family in your prayers this week as they
mourn his passing.
The new Texaco Food Mart has finally
opened and people are beginning to try it out. I
talked to a cashier in there the other day and she
said they would be getting a Church's Fried
Chicken in there before long. That ought to go
over real big, but I was kind of hoping for a Luby's
or an Outback Steak House. Before long Alto is
going to he the Convenience store capital of Texas.
Go by and see what you think of the new place
when you get a chance.
Billy Cates is finally home from the hospital
after his terrible cur accident. A tree fell across
highway 21 in front of Billy several months ago.
A huge limb came through the window and did
extensive damage to Billy's face and breaking it up
terribly. I talked to Billy on Sunday and he
wanted me to be sure and thank all the people that
kept him in their prayers. Billy's accident hap-
pened in Houston County, I think, between Alto
and Weches. A bit of a mystery surrounds what
happened to Billy before the ambulance got to the
scene. Due to the severity of Billy's wounds he was
unable to breathe through his mouth. A lady who
stopped to help performed an emergency trache-
otomy on Billy before the ambulance arrived. A
man who was also on the scene visited Billy later
and said that the lady disappeared when the
ambulance arrived. Billy might surely have died if
not for the heroic actions of this unknown lady.
Billy is a great guy and all of us who know him are
sure proud to have him back home and on the
mend.
While hunting for Billy's number in the book I
accidently called Vivian Cates, so I ended up with
another little piece of news. Vivian works at
Angelina College in Lufkin. She said that on July
27 thru the 29 the Fourth Annual Angelina
College Genealogy Conference is going to be going
on. Civil War reenactors are going to be coming
from all over the country to display life as it was in
the Civil War. The group will begin setting up on
Friday so all the folks that come out on Saturday
can see their stuff. The event will be held on the
south parking lot of Angelina College. Anybody
that can stand to wear a wool shirt in this heat is
worth going to see. I don't know about digging too
deep in this genealogy stuff. What if you dig up
something you didn't want to know?
A big bunch of folks from Alto came back from a
trip to Colorado last week. Marcia and Summers
Hassell, Dick and Virginia Low, Paulu and
Randy Low, Freddy and Sandy Wallace, Steve
and Amy Clugston, along with numerous kids
and a bunch of mules made the trip to the Lizard
Head Wilderness Area in Southwestern Colorado.
Some members of the group enjoyed fishing and
some did not. Aaron Low was trying to get his bait
tied on when brother Lance drew back for a long
cast hanging brother Aaron in the lip with a
purple worm. Thank goodness the barb on the
hook didn't go all the way in, so the hook was
removed without too much pain. They said he did
look funny with that purple worm hanging out of
his mouth. Several other incidents plagued the
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campers such as Sandy rummag-
ing around in her motor home
and getting on the air horn and
waking the entire camp up
before seven in the morning,
accidently. We had one mayor
that rode a bicycle, and some
that needed to be rode out of
•town on a rail, but I guess Sandy
Wallace is the first mule riding
mayor we've had in Alto. If you
are planning a trip to this part of
Colorado anytime soon, I
wouldn't tell anyone I was from
Alto, just to be on the safe side.
I guess we had a late bloomer
in the class of 197H at Alto High School. I went by
the I'ic-N-Go and Bird(not a little bird told, the
girl's nickname is bird) told me that her mother,
Polly Smith is having her fortieth birthday on
July 2.'(. All of the rest of us turned forty sometime
back. I certainly hope she knows how old she is for
sure. I know 1 look younger than she does and I'm
just forty. Happy Birthday, Polly and welcome to
the other side of the hill!
I think Patsy Dean has a shorter calendar than
the rest of' us. It seems like just the other day that
she had me wishing her daughter, Caroline
Muggins, a happy birthday. Caroline is going tp
be 35 on July 19. Patsy said she loves her and
wants to wish her a happy birthday.
Cherokee County Republican Chairman, Jerry
Rix was attacked by several bumble bees in his
yard on Friday. Jerry blames everything on the
liberals and Democrats and since they did sting
him very liberally on his head, 1 figure they were
Democrat bumble bees. Jerry wasn't able to
attend Friday night's performance of the Jackson-
ville rodeo and hand out Republican fans because
the stings made him pretty sick. If you got hot at
the rodeo, blame it on the Democratic bees that
stung Jerry.
1 got a call from Allison Threadgill the other
afternoon and she was complaining about mice in
the house they were moving into. I told her I
would lie over after supper. I met her and her
pretty little one-year old daughter Madison at the
house. Allison pointed to a light fixture over the
sink and said that about seven mice had a nest in
it. The fixture was hanging down and some balls
of insulation were in the top of it. I grabbed the
light fixture and poured the insulation into the
sink. Allison began screaming and nearly scared
the poor baby half to death and made it start
screaming. All the time 1 am trying to tell her that
it is insulation and not mice. After all the commo-
tion was over, 1 finally convinced her that she
didn't have any mice in her house. The baby,
Madison is still afraid of me after the incident.
Sometimes I think I ought to put in for hazardous
duty pay dealing with some of these housewives.
I was visiting with my neighbor the kind
hearted Virgil Schochler on Sunday afternoon
and asked him what he planned to do this week4.
He said he was going to take up where he left off
last week doing nothing. I told him the heat was
terrible and I worried about people who were
traveling and broke down on the road. He said he
wasn't worried about them and that they should
have had sense enough to stay at home like him.
It is a shame Virgil wasn't born in another time,
lie could probably have been elected mayor of a big
city like Sodom or (¡omorrah.
I better rap this thing up before folks start
saying I'm long winded. Try and stay cool and for
Goodness sakes check on your old folks and others
less fortunate who might not have air conditioning.
Watch your animals and make sure everything
gets plenty of water. I'll see ya next, week! And
remember, It is the person who has never
done anything who is sure nothing can he
done.
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