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The Monitor Naples, Texas 75568-0039 Thursday, November 29, 2012 Page 4
THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE MONITOR
• 1 962 -
Linda Parker was the 'girl of the week' at Pewitt High School ...
Flossie Bell was back on the job at Lone Star Steel Company's
Morris County plant and about 200 workers had been called back to
work... Directors of the Naples community center were hoping to have
the building complete and in regular use by Christmas ... Gate receipts
at the Pewitt-Daingerfield football game totaled $5,614 and Pewitt's
half set a record for the school... Grapes were 150 a pound at Crump's
Food Store in Omaha ... Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Betts of Cornett were
honored at an open house in observance of their 60th wedding
anniversary.
• 1 067 -
Vernon (Bubby) Towler, Carl Minton and Rosemary Nance were
about to celebrate another birthday ... Margaret Ann Stringer was
home for the holidays ... Charles M. Price, a former county highway
patrolman, announced his candidacy for sheriff of Morris County, to
seek the office held by Joe Starrett... Chester Coker Motor Company
at Naples had sold to Community Ford Sales ... Mr. and Mrs. George
Frost Jr., and Jerry Frost of Corpus Christi visited relatives in Bryans
Mill... Mrs. H. J. Vissering of Naples was honored on her 90th birthday
with a family dinner... Chili was 590 a can at the Netco Store in Naples.
• 1 0 7 2 -
Dan Hampton wanted to sell a 24-inch bicycle that had been
pushed several miles by a 20-inch kid ... Mary Bob Ballard was
honored with a dinner party in Dallas ... The Rev. Don Couch was a
revival speaker at the First Assembly of God Church in Naples ... Bill
Henderson was retained as a member of the board of directors of the
Red River Valley Girl Scout Council and Lou Ann Smith was honored
as a day-camp director... Mrs. John Jameson was featured in the
Cook Book Nook of The Monitor.
• 1 977 -
Brad Fleming, a former Pewitt High football player, was the
recipient of an intramural football award at Kilgore College ...
Nancy Clayton was elected Christmas Queen of the Action with O-N
4-H Club ... Julie Elder was elected as senior high school queen in the
Naples Christmas contest... A certificate of commendation, for her
outstanding work on behalf of mental health, had been awarded to
Mrs. Pat Green of Marietta by the president of the Mental Health
Association of Texas ... A former Naples resident, Larry Parker, had
completed study requirements and was to receive his Doctor of
Philosophy degree from Texas A&M University.
• 1 982 -
Kelley Hicks, Eddy McLeckie, Jon Alexander, Robert Hampton,
Jerry Don Pope and Julie Dale were named to the 'A' honor roll
at Pewitt High ... Morris County treasurer Helene Parsley Thigpen was
calling it quits after serving 18 years at the Morris County courthouse.
Friends and co-workers honored her with a retirement reception ... Six
packages of cornbread mix cost 790 at Foster's Grocery in Naples ...
Four alarms were answered by the Naples fire department within one
week ... "The Guy Who Loved Me" was showing at the Morris Theater
in Daingerfield.
• 1 987 -
Virginia James was elected sweetheart at a meeting of the Beta
Alpha Phi chapter of Beta Sigma Phi ... Amy Harrison, Denise
Craig, Kami Robinson, Dawn Parker, Jennifer Harrison and Craig
Burns won top places in the Morris County 4-H food show ... A five-
pound bag of sugar was $1.49 at Northeast Texas Foods in Omaha ...
A Citizens Opposing Pollution group visited with the Texas governor
to raise objections to a plan by Thermal Kinetics to construct an
experimental waste incinerator at Lone Star.
• 1 992 -
Marlene Hicks was featured in the 'EasTexas' photo of The
Monitor ... Virginia James, an officer of the Morris County
National Bank, was one of 34 bank officers to graduate from the bank
operations institute at East Texas State University in Commerce ...
"The Bodyguard" with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, was
showing at the Morris Theater in Daingerfield ... Pewitt's district-
winning football team, was to take on the Waskom Wildcats at the
Brahma South stadium in Gladewater... H. P. (Paul) Elrod had been
recognized for ten years of service as a National Weather Service
volunteer weather observer.
• 1 997 -
Andi Caraway and George Alvin Caraway's Agri-Serv was host
ing the Joe Scruggs Show for children at Pewitt School... Pewitt
was to meet Commerce in the state regional football playoffs ... Mr.
and Mrs. Mildred Betts of Cornett were to celebrate their golden
wedding anniversary ... Pewitt's Brahmas beat Hooks 20-14 in the bi-
district playoff... A 1996 Chevy S-10 pickup, priced at $9,600, was the
special of the week at John Paul Jones Motors in Naples ... "Bean",
"Anastasia" and "Rainmaker" were showing at Cinema V in Mt.
Pleasant, while "Fairy Tale: A True Story" and "I Know What You Did
Last Summer" were features at the Morris Twin-Cinema in Daingerfield.
• 2002 -
Russ Alexander and Danny Charlton, former Pewitt football
players, were still running up and down the field and serving as
game officials ... Dolly Gray, Vera Fay Hall, Nettie Puckett, Josephine
Richey, Vivian Talley and Patsy Walker were to be honored with 50-
year pins from the Order of the Eastern Star at Omaha ... Pewitt fans
celebrated as the Brahmas beat Troup 30-20 in the state area football
playoffs ... "Santa Clause 2" and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" were
showing at the Morris Twin-Cinema while features at Cinema V
included "Treasure Planet", "8 Mile", "Solaris" and "Die Another Day"
... Local fire departments were to assist the Community Council with
its 'Toys For Tots' Christmas campaign ... Donations of Christmas
presents were made to foster children as part of the Jonquil Garden
Club's holiday program ... Jennifer Griffin Singletary, a former Pewitt
athlete, was named 'coach of the year' for volleyball at a Houston high
school.
• 2007 -
Addison Grace Smith was born to Kristi and Doug Smith at
Lafayette, Indiana - Grannie Ora was tickled pink ... Janet and
John Bryan of Naples were to serve as grand marshals of the
Christmas parade at Omaha ... A Christmas parade was to be staged
by the MCA at Marietta ... Vicki Falls and Nita Traylor were contestants
in a "Kiss the Pig" 4-H contest... "The Game Plan" and "Dan, In Real
Life" were features at the Morris Twin-Cinema and showing at Cinema
V were "Beowulf", "Fred Claus", "Enchanted", "Bee Movie" and "The
Mist"... Shannon Derrick and John Terrell coached the 10-U East
Texas Storm baseball team to a first-place win in a tournament in
McKinney ... Hughes Springs lost to Elysian Fields and Daingerfield
lost to Tatum in the state football playoffs ... It was time to order holiday
gift packages of goodies from the Traylor Peanut Farm ... Ted
Brabham was to present a piano concert as the Christmas open house
hosted by the First National Bank of Omaha.
MEN'S
COMMUNITY BREAKFAST
Meetings are at 6:45 a.m., on Wednesdays
at the fellowship hall of the
First United Methodist Church in Naples.
All area men are invited to attend.
Guest speakers are featured each week.
Groceries, dry goods, shoes and hardware -- it was a store where customers could purchase almost anything needed
for a growing family. Rows and rows of shoe boxes line the shelves on the left, and below those were bolts of material
for making clothes. The grocery section was on the right of the store and the hardware was at the back. The store was
located on Main Street in Naples at the site of the present Charles Smith Insurance Agency. Prior to the Welch family
relocating at the site, the store was operated for many years by Norris Calloway. The man standing at the right was
Wayne Leeves who managed the general store years before he became a rural mail carrier. Leeves was the son of
Walter S. and Annie Mary McMichael Leeves. He married Ruby Peurifoy and they were the parents of Jack Leeves.
by Bartee Haile
Ailing artist recharges batteries in San Antonio
A sick southern artist came to Texas on Nov. 27, 1873 to clear his
lungs and his head.
Restored in body and soul after a long rest in San Antonio, Sidney
Lanier went home to make the most of his talents.
Genius was in the Georgian's genes. Generations of Laniers
entertained the English monarchy as court composers and musicians
before emigrating to America in the early 1700's.
Almost a century and a half later, Sidney inherited the remarkable
family flair for music. At the age of seven he mimicked song birds with
a riverbank reed and easily mastered his first real instrument, a tiny
flute.
Private schooling provided by his well-to-do parents prepared him
for exclusive Oglethorpe University, where he graduated at the top of
his class in 1857. He dreamed of devoting his life to music, but
practicality decreed further study in Europe followed by a sensible
career as a college professor.
Secession suddenly changed his plans, and like most idealistic
young southerners Lanier was carried away by romantic visions of the
coming conflict. He zealously embraced the popular belief that the
Confederacy represented the birth of the finest society in human
history.
Despite enlisting in the initial company of Peach State volunteers
sent to the front, Lanier actually saw very little fighting. He did,
however, spend four terrible months as a prisoner of war and during
that ordeal contracted tuberculosis, the same disease that had cut
short the lives of so many of his ancestors.
Released from a Maryland prison after Appomattox, Lanier walked
all the way back to Georgia. More dead than alive after the exhausting
hike, he was confined to bed for two months before concerned doctors
permitted any activity.
His strength and spirit sapped by the tuberculosis and the devas-
tation of defeated Dixie, Lanier went through the motions of living for
the next eight years. Abandoning a wartime decision to concentrate
on poetry rather than music, he pursued neither interest. Instead, he
became an attorney to please his father, but his heart was never in it.
In 1873 Lanier was a 31 -year old lawyer with a wife and four sons
to support. Weakened by his incurable illness and haunted by
unfulfilled ambitions, he traveled to San Antonio for his mental as well
as physical health.
The Texas town proved to be the perfect tonic. To his amazement,
Lanier felt stronger by the day, a miracle he credited to the wonderful
climate. As he wrote his sister, "Today has been as lovely as any day
can hope to be this side of the Millennium."
The visitor soon realized that the Alamo City offered more than
balmy weather. Captivated by what he called its "striking idiosyncra-
sies and bizarre contrasts," he later extolled the virtues of San Antonio
in an article for a southern magazine.
"Its inhabitants are so varied," Lanier noted, "that the 'go slow'
directions over its bridges are printed in three languages." Impressed
by the citizens' exemplary tolerance, he pointed out that the city had
no "Sunday laws" and the Sabbath "finds its bar-rooms and billiard-
saloons as freely open and as fully attended as its churches."
Having not touched his flute in months, Lanier was reluctant to
accept a friendly invitation from a German band to join them on stage.
But his virtuoso performance brought down the house and bolstered
his confidence in his musical ability.
Lanier left San Antonio in the spring of 1874 with a rock-hard
resolve to dedicate his precious few remaining years to his twin loves
— poetry and music. In response to his father's plea to stick with the
legal profession, he replied, "How can I settle myself down to be a
third-rate struggling lawyer as long as there is a certainty almost
absolute than I can do some other thing so much better?"
There were, in fact, two fields in which Lanier quickly excelled.
Hired by the Baltimore orchestra, he won renown as a first-class flutist.
At the same time, he produced poems by the dozen including "Corn,"
"The Symphony," "Sunrise" and "The Marshes of Glynn," considered
his best.
A reputation as the South's leading poet earned Lanier an appoint-
ment in 1879 as a lecturer in English literature at John Hopkins
University. The well-paying position enabled him to provide for his
family while continuing to write and to play the flute.
For once Lanier enjoyed the best of all his worlds. But the relentless
disease that had stalked him for a decade and a half tragically
intervened. While outlining a new series of poems, he collapsed and
died in September 1881 five months shy of his fortieth birthday.
A sad story but it could have been worse. If Sidney Lanier had
never visited San Antonio, he would have taken his poetry to the grave.
Thanks to the healing power of the Lone Star haven, he shared his
talent with the world.
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