De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 2007 Page: 5 of 16
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Thanks Billie Lightfoot
The family of Irene Easley
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attending and making the event a
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Work cooperatively with board members to ensure
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and friends who helped me cut the ribbon on my new business, “Screens
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breakfast again!
Saturday, May 5. for ‘Breakfast at
the DAC.’
The new Activity Center in
Desdemona is the place to be on other questions will be answered
the first Saturday of every month for me tonight when I attend one of
for a mouth-watering breakfast, the meetings on the issue. We all
need to pay close attention to this
and all matters concerning the
upcoming election.
Carol Pell
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According to Comanche
Livestock Exchange, their receipts
totaled 816 head of cattle on
Saturday. April 28. There were 67
buyers and 111 sellers.
The market had a good
demand for replacement cows.
Steers and heifers steady to $5
higher.
Cows: utility 48-52; few high
dressing 54; cutters 46-54; canners
40-44; old shell 33-38; stackers
55-65.
Bulls: bologna 60-65; few
high dressing 67.5; stockers-
I00O-1500HD; utility 45-53.
Cow & calf pairs: Good
1200-1375; plain 900-980.
Bred cows: Good 850-980;
plain 675-800.
Steen Med & Lg fl: 300-
400#-128-134; 400-500#-125-
133; 500-600#-! 15-121; 600-
700#—110-117; 700# & up-104-
108. ’’ ‘
Med & Lg #2: 300-
4OO#-12O-125; 400-500#-115-
123, 500-600# -110-115; 600-
700#—103-110; 700# & up-98-
104.
Med & Lg #3: 300-
400#-115-120; 400-500# -108-
114; 500-600# -110-108; 600-
700#-95-100; 700# & up-80-90.
Heifers Med & Lg #1: 300-
400*^127-134; 400-500# -120-
128;5OO-6OO#-110-119;600-
700#- 100-106; 700# & up-93-
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Med A Lg #2: 300-
400#-l 18-125; 400-500#-! 10,
118; 500-600#- 100-108; 600-
700#-92-98; 700# A up 85-90.
Med A Lg #3: 300-
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-85-90. 700# A up-75-82.
Goat Market: Kids #35-50
$110-127; Kids #55-75 $110-135;
Nannies #100-150 $52; Billies
•150-200 $68; Boer Cross
Nrnies $604kI.: Lambs #45-50
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Serving begins at 7:00 a.m. and
lasts until 10:00 a.m. See you
there! • -
Have you been followingthe
A “BIG” Thank You
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Scribblin’001 mies and your wife or husband.
The ingredients are few and Unbiased assays emanating from
easy to come by. Once in a while those sources are as rare as uni-
someone will ask me how my sub- coms. The acceptance editor at a
jects for a column are chosen, and publishing business will be your
the follow up query can be ever ultimate decider, much like the
more vexing to answer. “Why do ramrod of the U.S. of A. at present,
you write?" is a real stumper—at Since the publishers of books
least in my opinion. will be obliged to back their selec-
I came down with an incur- tions with their facilities and cash
able “Want To” way back yonder money they will accept or reject
when I was but a sprout out on your creation with an eye on the
Poverty Knob. A hoe-handle cal- cash register. They will seldom
iber lead pencil and a Big Chief draw cards to fill an inside straight,
tablet were my only armament as I If you have tender feelings you
took on the educational apparatus might indulge in vanity publishing,
at Cornyn. That was in 1936, and You back your own book and dis-
my battle regalia ain’t been couraging words are not included
changed since that time. So, I in the vocabulary of those manu-
guess I’m preaching that there are factoring firms. The down side is,
only three ingredients required to of course, your tome will most
any aspirant who has a burning likely not be pushed by Amazon,
desire to manufacture a written These words were prompted
article. by a young woman’s conversation
If, by chance, your standard on the parking lot at IGA just late-
equipment included a dent-proof ly, and I was lugging a plastic sack
ego and a hard head, you’ve been with a king size cardboard tub of
blessed, or cursed. Consider your ice cream as cargo.
words as Lincoln Logs and put Those blasted carrying straps
them together until they suit you. were about to guillotine my fingers
It’s a crap shoot as to whether your and the bag was hemorrhaging
creation will please anybody else, vanilla ice cream, so I apologized
but failure will accrue without for my all fire hurry, and promised
exception to those who don’t give the recipe I’m passing along.
it a shot. There are lots of ways to cook
There are many pitfalls to potatoes, and the recipe is the
bedevil the aspiring author, and the choice of the cook. There ain’t no
first threat rears its ugly head at the truth with a capital “T”, so my way
completion of the initial para- may not work for you. Sometimes
graph. Write it—move on and it don’t work for me.
don’t look back is a strategy that Let me hear from you. My
works for me. All your creative phone number is 254-893-5063.
uiges can be wasted should you My official postal address is: 333
persist in straying back to that W. Ayers Ave. _ DeLeon TX
point of origin and editing, and 76444-2113.
amending that first salvo plumb to Or, you can send an email to
death. Charles@CharlesChupp.com or
In other words—tell the story, check www.CharlesChupp.com.
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and nail it into shape. Stmding,
caulking, wiring and plumbing
will put it into shape for a primer
and finish coat.
If you value a second opinion
on the completed concoction there
are three varieties of proofers who,
in my estimation, should be culled
for such service. They are: your
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Approximately one hundred and accompanied by a variety of
close friends and family members, hor’dourves. Two photo screen
who gathered at the luxurious cakes were cut. One cake was
Rough Creek Lodge, near Glen graced by the image of Irene, at
Rose, surprised the guest of honor, age two, and her puppy "Tiger",
People stood and sang “Happy while the other cake conveyed a
Birthday’’ as she entered the Chalk more recent image of she holding
Mountain Room. The occasion her infant great-grandson, Thomas
was marked with an invocation. Robert. The party concluded as
followed by a thirty-minute tribute everyone visited and took advan-
dedicated to her life's accomplish- tage of photo opportunities. Irene
ments. A family poem was read in enjoyed herself so much that she
her honor and special music was continues to talk about her party
provided by Daryl Hirst. For the for several days later,
duration of the even. Irene’s pho-
tographs of both old and new
flashed across the big screen mon-
itor.
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them to come to. Maybe this and
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Kestner, Laura. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 2007, newspaper, May 3, 2007; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1243827/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.