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Page 2—CHEROKEEAN/HERALD of Rusk, Texas—Thursday, August 31,
2000
Cfyerokeeaif/Herald
August 31,2000
Emmett H. Whitehead
publisher
Marie Whitehead
editor
Texas' oldest continuously
published weekly newspaper.
Established as the Cherokee
Sentinel Feb. 27,1850
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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
Happiness is a stock that
doubles in a year. The
author is unknown,
unfortunately. In today's ever-
changing stock market, one has
to wonder why more people
haven't learned the VALUE of
HAPPY? Buy HAPPY now while
its price is cheap; sell when the
price goes up. This is about the
way the game gets played in real
life, although these opening
thoughts are purely "tongue in
cheek," facetious.
Have you enjoyed a walk lately?
Or, just a few short dashes. Seems
the months of June, July and August have provided
fine opportunities for many of us to take walks down
memory lane. With your writer, many of us have
enjoyed family gatherings, class reunions and annual
professional conventions. All of these tend to stir up
the "dust of time," where memories lie hidden until
stirred again for new viewing.
One of the most beloved places, where memories
were tucked into every nook and cranny, went up in
smoke last week. The laments have been heard
around Texas and beyond. Drug stores have always
attracted teenagers like bees to a hive. More than 100
years of kids' growing up burned to the ground. Their
moans and groans are real. It is painful. It is the spot
of spots to be remembered by today's adults,
yesterday's kids. Older folks have a spot in the
shadow of memories, too. Millions of prescriptions
filled since the beginning. And in that beginning,
recalls Dovie Curtis, you could visit Dr. Cobble (T. H.)
in the upstairs back, and if you needed medicine, he
would hand you a prescription and the total fee
charged for his service was $1. Things do change.
The Rusk Volunteer Firemen are now qualified
for the "Fire Fighters Hall of Fame," if there is
din'. If not. there should be. Every where, every one,
sfiys wonderful words on behalf of Rusk's heroes,
members/volunteers of the Rusk Fire Department.
We add ours also. They did an unbelievable job of
holding the fire, containing the damage to an area as
small as it proved to be. The burn damage was bad,
sad. Don't misunderstand. But...it could have been
much, much worse, maybe the entire West Side or
more. Thanks to all of you, the ETMC ambulance
paramedics and other helping hands who managed to
contribute, if only ice water.
The good news is that restoration has begun, new
plans are being made. And, therefore, new ground
can be broken for the sowing of new dreams?
One determined to help, after the fact, citizen is
Susan Freeman Simon. She suggests that hun-
dreds of folks would like to have a brick or two for
their private museum. And—bricks could be sold at
say. a dollar per, which would help Larry Mozingo
defray a bit of his loss. But this seems to be a project
that only Mr. Mozingo,
the owner, could launch.
Not a bad idea?
Gracious goodness, as
we move on here, let me
tell you that all of the
folks who offered help
with identification of
property bounded by
Henderson and Lone Oak
Streets, also 6th and 7th
Streets, was a big
surprise. This evolved
from another photo of a
Rusk school building,
later destroyed by fire.
Roland Rawls shared
some of his recollections
and now a lot of you have
helped fill in the spaces.
Opal Fitts says the
church unremembored by
your writer, was the
Christian Church. She
says that no longer
needed barracks (Army)
provided the bricks for
the construction of a new
church at its present location. While they were
without the services of a church and constructing a
new one, the congregation held services on the second
floor of the Courthouse. We guesstimated that the
year must have been around 1945, more or less. DA
Jim Cromwell said the car dealership on that block
was known as Trible-Bixter. Opal suggested that
Herndon Trible was the dealer. And Lillie Bobbitt
from Ponta says she and her spouse bought their first
new Dodge pickup, a 1951, from Herndon Trible. She
is the niece of some favorite people, Mr. and Mrs.
Clyde Phillips. Frances Murdoch left a message
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indicating that she can fill in the
blanks. Before 1 could call her,
however, here comes a living,
breathing historian, Morris
Elliott with everything that I ever
wanted to know about the tract of
land bounded by 6th, 7th, Lone
Oak and Henderson Streets. He
even drew a plat and placed the
various entities in their respective
plots. He is going to compose a few
memories to accompany the
drawing in a later issue. Goodness,
how thankful we are to have all of
you readers and such helpful ones,
————too.
Bobby Chapman was kind
enough to provide a photo of two special birthday
girls. They are lifetime friends, Mattie Curry and
Fanie Mae Chapman. They noted their 90th
birthdays on Aug. 19. How blessed they are to have
shared a 90-year long friendship. They are bound to
have some guides for staying on good terms. Wouldn't
it be nice if all the countries around the world knew
and understood them.
Another pair of unbelievable girls are Chloe
Waddell and her sister Fay Graham in Fulton,
Miss. Chloe will note her 92nd birthday Aug. 31 and
her sister observed her 96th birthday Aug. 7. Isn't
that amazing. Many will remember another of their
sisters, the late Rae Vick.
Our community was truly saddened last week with
the death of Jake Conway Monday, Aug. 21.
Another of our neighbors, Wallace Gard, recently
lamented to the Better Half that not too many of our
original bunch are still with us. The departed friends
more recently included Ed Cumpbell and before that
we lost Guy Chapman. We're talking about a group
of folks who have shared the same space under the
sky, on the planet Earth, in the North Bonner Street
neighborhood, for 40 years or more, Time waits for no
one..." __' , , . . , ;
Some of the people we need to continue to remem-
ber include Lenhmon Hassell, scheduled for more
testing soon: Estelle Wood convalesing from cancer;
Fred Lunsford waiting on one new leg and a trip to
the golf course; Charley Christopher and wife
Nora and he is better per son Danny. Our sincere
wishes for their better days—soon.
Kids. Don't you love them? Tommy Rogers wants
his parents to get a photo of him, to us, for publica-
tion with a story of where and how he is. Well, for
starters, he's in the Navy now and soon we'll have
more info plus a pic.
In the meantime, one of our recent student interns,
Shane Tullos, finally found time in his new role of
soldier, to "pen" his former boss a few words. Read
what it's like to be 19 and "in the Army."
"Well, it's me, Shane. I'm doing great here in basic.
I've done so much. I've learned first aide. I've
marched. I've rapelled walls, learned hand to hand
combat and bayonet
combat. My platoon are
real great guys and right
now we're 63 strong. It is
very strict around here
but I handle that with
no problem. They're not
half as easy to work for
as you, though. Tell the
boys working for you
how easy they've got it.
I'd love to show them the
real world but this Army
life seems to fit me.
Graduation is on Sept.
28 so I'm getting close to
finishing. I stay fired up,
motivated and do what
they tell me and I don't
have any problems. I
also learned my rifle
maneuvers like present
arms and port arms. You
were right about
everything, like learning
how to fight and wanting
to use it, but can't hope
to qualify with my M1G
in the next two weeks. I want to be éxpert. Well, gotta
go. It's lights out. See ya'll first chance I get home.
Tell everyone at the office hello and make the boys
take care of the cows." Five days later, we received
another letter. Equally interesting and it was
addressed to the Mr. and me. Shane is a special to all
of us young man.
Another epistle, with lots of humor, came from
Finis Harris of Jacksonville. Here's one of the gems:
"I'm too young to retire...nnd too old for a paper
route." Life is a tight rope act of balance. Thanks to
all of you for your help. Until next week?
Mattie Curry and Fanie Mae Chapman
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Our little stretch of El
Camino Real continues
to bake through the dog
days of summer. 1 can't remember
when we've had even enough rain
to settle the dust in downtown
Alto. A little news has been
floating into the Hall of Justice,
but things have been pretty slow
most of the week. Sometimes no
news is good news but if you're
writing for a paper no news means
no quarter.
Alto's premiere off road park,
Shiloh Ridge is getting geared up
for a spectacular Labor Day
Weekend, Sept. 1-4. The main
attraction is going to be a four-wheel drive truck
Rodeo on Sept 2-3. Four wheelers will be flying and
families will be camping out for a big weekend of fun.
Shiloh Ridge was featured in the off road magazine 4
Wheeler Parts and Adventures. The article
contained some great photos of the park and some big
praises for Alto's four wheeling fun park. If you like
jacked up trucks, four- wheelers, and camping, then
Shiloh Ridge ought to be a regular Redneck
Disneyland this weekend.
Sometimes I have to wonder whether or not news is
reported to me for the good of society or just to see
how far I can go. On Monday I received several calls
and visits by different people concerning an accident
that had befallen a mutual friend. I couldn't tell
whether their intent was to embarrass the victim or
publicize if legitimate safety issue. I chose to believe
the latter so here is the story. This story is guaran-
teed to put cold chills down the back of any man who
roads it. Tony Johnson was cleaning his backyard
swimming pool last Sunday clad in a pair of loose
legged gray gym shorts. Sometime during the
cleaning process a large red wasp became agitated
and flew up his shorts. The wasp then unleashed his
stinger and made a vicious attack on a sensitive area.
1 have heard of people being stung on the end of their
nose, but this wasn't the end of his nose. Tony
stumbled to the house writhing in pain. His wife
Judy didn't know whether to shoot the poor boy and
put him out of his misery or call an ambulance. After
a quick survey of the situation the age-old home
remedy for stings, meat tenderizer was applied. Tony
has since recovered from his terrible ordeal and only
the painful memory remains. This should be a
valuable lesson to all of us about pool safety. I don't
know what the lesson is but I'm sure there is a lesson
in here somewhere.
Virgil's niece, Glenda Jane Bryant told me that
her son Steven Zane Bryant was playing the part of
a Pinkerton man in the movie, "Blazing Guns" that
they are filming at the Texas State Railroad in
Palestine. Steven is a Civil War reenactor and also
does some acting at the Lamplight Theater in
Nacogdoches. I guess they have acting in their blood.
You ought to see how his Uncle Virgil acts sometimes.
I can't wait to see the movie. They just don't make
enough westerns anymore.
My friend Wyzo Griffin Jr. came by the other day
and brought me some of the prettiest sweet potatoes
you ever saw. One of the potatoes was a real dandy
and it weighed nearly five pounds. If a man can
grow something that nice in this drought, I'd sure like
to talk to him about a gardening partnership next
Spring. I carried the potatoes straight over and
showed them to Virgil. This was a big mistake
because he started acting pitiful and I ended up
having to give him three of the potatoes. The next
day Wyzo's wife gave Virgil some potatoes and now he
won't give mine back. It'll be a cold day in Alto before
I give Virgil anything else. Years ago I was working
in Alabama and I went to a trades day they had at
Tannehill State Park. An old man was boiling sweet
potatoes in pine rosin and I stopped to watch. He was
giving free samples, so I gave it a try. When he
pulled the potatoes out of the boiling rosin, he would
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quickly wrap them in a piece of
brown paper sack. The rosin
would stick to the paper and
harden as it cooled. When he
sliced the potato open, it was
cooked just as evenly as you could
ask for and didn't taste a thing
like pine rosin. I ended up buying
ten pounds of hard pine rosin and
a cast iron pot to keep it in. You
just get the stuff boiling and it
melts, when you get through
cooking, it cools off and gets hard
again in the pot. I don't know who
came up with this idea of cooking
potatoes in pine rosin, but they
cook a lot faster than they do in
the oven and all the moisture stays locked in. Just
don't try boiling pine rosin in the house, it's strictly
an outside project. I intend to have some of Wyzo's
sweet potatoes in my pot just as soon as it cools off a
little bit.
I wish I had a little more news to pass on to you,
but this just about winds it up. Dove hunting season
starts this weekend and I am sure a good many men
will be out in the heat blazing away at the elusive
balls of feathers. I can all most dream me up a big
plate of fried doves, biscuits and gravy. I want to
wish everyone a safe and happy hunting season. I'll
see ya next week! And remember, A happy home is
not one without problems, but one that handles
them with understanding and love.
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18-month old Morgan Lindsay, daughter o Andy
and Jill Llndsey, enjoys a luau hosted by the
Home Builders Sunday school class of A. Frank
Smith United Methodist Church.
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