The Town Tattler (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 33, Ed. 1 Monday, August 11, 1997 Page: 3 of 4
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GRAPHIC—Texas
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By Jack Maguire
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In middle age your glasses
and waist get thicker.
And your hair and wallet get
thinner;
When you don’t give much
thought to exercise....
And entirely too much to
dinner.
used to teach in the public *
schools and with good reason.
When a fourth grade science
text was being considered for
adoption a few years ago, it
was discovered that it -
’’ I
had
Fort Houston declined and the aaybody—man or’.d®®_^ho
new town slowly developed.
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JEERING SECTION—State
and local textbook committees
have learned to be watchful
“Looking, back, I think I was
too young to appreciate
Hombre fully. He was a better
dog than I deserved back then. y°urs» .hut from what I’ve
Hombre and I were partners
for 17 years. I still miss him. 1
catch myself looking around
for him when I’m saddling up
and getting ready to work.”
If your blessing in life is to
have one good dog, maybe
remembering that one good
dog of yesterday is also your
curse.
All of Pardner’s dogs since __ _
was opened and the'site was
designated the county, seat.
on what was intended as the
square and the place
-------j as Fort
Wedding Cake - Five
pounds sugar, 50 eggs, 5 lbs.
flour, 5 lbs! butter, 15 lbs.
raisins, 10 lbs. currants, 3.
lbs. citron, 1 pint brandy, 4
ounces nutmeg, 4 ounces
mace 1 ounce cinnamon, 1/4. '
ounce cloves; this will make
43 or 44 pounds, is
unequaled and will keep 20
years.
Hombre have been measured
against him. Every time the
subject of working dogs comes
up, Hombre comes into the
conversation: “Hombre had
"my
heard him
my own
Magfced Passage
by Sally Rogers
Empirical Evidence?
The problem with treating
your pets as though they were
just funny-looking people is
that before long, the little
suckers start believing it.
Animals or not, they quickly
adapt to democracy - at least
for awhile*.
I say "for awhile," because it
takes only one smallJedp from
floor to couch to catapult them
out of equality and into
ascendancy.
Ready to watch "X-Files" the
other night, I found myself
standing in the middle of the
room awkwardly juggling a
cold drink and a bowl of
popcorn with nowhere to sit..
One of them was in my spot.
"You’re going to have to.
move over," I told him. "I need
iosif^own,^
He pojntedly ignored .ip^,
"Move over."
Nary a twitch of ear nor tail.
I sat down the bowl and glass
and shoved aside 12 pounds of
fur-bearing arrogance.
He growled.
"How dare you growl at me?
e who do you think you are
anyway?"
I immediately realized that
was a foolish question to ask a r
Pekinese whose lineage
probably pre-dates Moses.
He realized it, too. His verbal
skills may not match mine, but
that doesn’t- mean . he can’t
communicate effectively.
Stretched beside me on his
stomach, rigid with resentment,
his feelings were obvious.
"Who am I indeed," I heard
him thinking. "While your
ancestors were still killing their
clothes, mine were living in the
Forbidden City, lolling on silk
pillows in the Emperor’s own
sleeping quarters - a far cry
from being pushed around by
a suspected Democrat.”
"Well," I answered,
family may not be as old as
LIKE TO
out of four
didn’t do things right. “I’ve
always worked cattle without a
lo,t of whippin’ on them,”
Pardner said. “I guess Hombre
shared my low opinion of hot
abput the published material and heavy-handed cattle
haulers.
“Once we were loading a
truckload of packer cows out of
the sale bam. The track driver
was one of those cocky know-it-
alls who’s inlovewithhis hot
depicted Texas and Oklahoma' shot. He msi&teiLon straddling*
the loading chute and zapping
every cow as she went up the
ramp, even though Hombre
was sending them up real nice.
L told the driver to get off the
chute and Hombre would put
them up for him.
Well, the driver ignored me
and kept right on a-straddlin'
and a-zappin’. I could tell he
was making Hombre mad too.
Hombre ran up the ramp and
made a flying jump at the
truck driver straddling the
chute above him. Hombre bit
the trucker hard—right where
his straddle came together. The
track driver was pretty mad
and wanted to kill Hombre. I
told him that if he thought he
was tough enough, he could go
ahead and try. Ol’ Hombre
just stared at him and curled
up his lip a little bit. All three
of us kinda crouched down a
£ little and ‘gave eye,’ and then
the tracker put’ aiway his hot
shot. ’
as a single state. It also made
Arkansas and Mississippi one
and did the same for
Maryland, Delaware and New
Jersey,
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AUTO
across Texas and seven other Vcense<* automobiles for the M
Surely his little flop-doodle
ears had failed him.
Resentment became wounded
outrage, tie moved' further
away, curled up and covered
his face with his tail.
To his way of thinking, I was
guilty of lese-majeste’ of*; the
worst sort. And until some
right-thinking soul came along
and restored proper 'order to.
the world and the noble
Pekinese to his rightful place, .
he couldn't even have me
beheaded. ,
But flappy ears
notwithstanding, he is awfully
cute - handsome even. And
except for an occasional
dispute over seating
arrangements, he's really sweet
and even-tempered.
"Look?" I said, "I shouldn't
have insulted you. You don't
actually grovel, just get a - bit
J over-excited. And to tell the
truth, I think your ears are
quite attractive. I'm sorry,
okay?"
My apology accepted, he ■
crawled into my lap.
"Want some cheese?" I asked.
He straggled manfully to retain
his dignity.
"Yes, I would like that very
much, thank you."
"You’re welcome."
. "Of course,
muse, "if 1
couch?"
heard, we slept with a crowned
head or two in our day, too."
"How common? common,
typically bourgeois, and no
more than I would expect."
"Don't get uppity with me.
I've seen you grovel for a piece
of cheese. Besides?you snore
and your ears look like flaps."
He raised his head and fixed
his one remaining eye on me in
____ disbelief (he lost the other years
ago defending
personage
unimpressed
I unschooled
genealogy).
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FISCAL FITNESS—Of the 50
largest landowners in the
United States, 20 are Texans.
According to a survey by
Worth Magazine, owners of the
King Ranch, with 860,000
acres in Kleberg County,
gt Florida and Kentucky, are the name<^ Palestine
P fifth largest nation-wide.
Former
Gov. Dolph Briscoe, with
P 600,000 South Texas acres.
* ranked tenth. Their 525,000
acres in North Central Texas
H put the Waggoner Ranch heirs
f in 12 th place. The East family
of Zapata, with 500,000 acres,
fewas 13th. Victoria's O'Connor
|1 family, with 375,000 acres in
Texas
and elsewhere, was 15th.
Clarence Scharbauer, Jr. of
»’ Midland was close behind with
355,000 acres. Ranking 17th
ft was Anne Burnett Marion of
| Fort Worth whose 350,000
acres
include the legendary 6666
II Ranch in the Panhandle! Fort
Worth's Bass family' was 19th
with 300,000 acres spread
lots of ‘cow’ in him,” Pardher
said. “He came to the work
naturally, especially in the
pens.” (That’s lucky, because
Pardner was a typical cowboy
ek once said,
since cowboys don’t need much
schooling to be a cowboy, they
reckon it shouldn’t Jake much
to be a cowdog either.)
S^lf-trained or not, Hombre
i .a ' .
had no . patience with
first time in 1917 when 194,720
vehicles were registered.
8 ©1997 Jack Maguire. All
Rights.
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Hombre
by Linda Mussehl
They say that if you’re a good
person, your blessing is to have
at least one good dog in your
lifetime. Hombre was
Pardner’s one good cowdog.
Hombre, an Australian
shepherd/Scotch collie cross,
was given to Pardner because
Hombre was the only one of
the litter that didn’t spot—the
pup didn’t look “punchy-
enough to make a good
cowdog. (You know how style
conscious cowboys are. It’s bad
enough to wear the wrong
brand of jeans, or chinks where
shotgun leggins are
fashionable, but working a dog
that doesn’t look “punchy” is a
cowpuncher’s faux pas akin to
dally roping in tie-hard-and-
fast country.) Pardner
reckoned that since Hombre
was being given away, he might
as well take him because “free”
is at least as attractive as
-'punchy looking.”
states, followed by the
Reynolds family of Fort Davis.
Also ranking in the top 25 was
the Sugg family of San Angelo
with 295,000 acres and the
Cogdell family of Tulia and
|| Floydada with 285,000 acres.
Texans in the bottom 25 hold
anywhere from 170,000 to
[1280,000 acres.
1 In 50th place with
170,000 acres was the Williams
| family of St. Louis, the only
|non-Texas residents on the list
who own Texas property,
i .Topping of list in first place is
JlTed Turner, the CNN executive
*of Atlanta, Ga., who owns
1,300,000 acres
| Texas, however, is not among
i them.
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g YOU MIGHT
| KNOW—One
practicing attorneys in Texas is
_a woman and ttie number is
|| increasing. According to the
™ State Bar Association of Texas,
more than 40 per cent of Texas
||law school students also are
H women,
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M WHAT’S IN A NAME?—
H Palestine, Anderson County, “
was first named Houston and
was a fort before it became a
g| town. In 1835, a townsite
«named Houston was platted
two miles west of the present
Palestine. Later a blockade was
built by the Republic of Texas
town r
became known
Houston.
A decade later, '^the _______
Legislature created > Arider§ow | ahd, ds Baxter Black
County but there' was no
settlement at the stipulated
center of the new county. To
correct this, a post office
ib'va/rvrui,
This wedding cake, said to
last 20 years, is mentioned in
one of Mark Twain's stories.
At the present divorce rate,
you could get married 3 times
on the same cake.
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The Town Tattler (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 33, Ed. 1 Monday, August 11, 1997, newspaper, August 11, 1997; Electra, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1242775/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Electra Public Library.