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50's Dance Results In
Everyone danced to the juke box
Spiral notebooks, 3 packages 12 count
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School Supplies
There was a good turn out last #2 pencils, 2 packages 10 count #2
Saturday night at the Bogata V.F.W. pencils, 4 packages 7 count #2 pen-
Post 8187 50’s dance to benefit the cils,4 packages 3 count #2 pencils, 1
children and teachers of the Bogata package 2 count Husky soft lead
Elementary School, sponsored by the pencils, 1 package 2 count colored
V.F.W. and the Ladies Auxiliary to pencils, 1 package 12 count colored
the V.F.W. pencils, 1 ruler, 1 package 10 count
These school supplies were brought red ball point pens, 3 pair scissors, 6
in by those who attended the dance: 1 boxes Kleenex, 4 boxes jumbo 8 count
pkg. 100 count notebook paper, 9 Crayons, 7 boxes regular 24 count
packages 200 count notebook paper, Crayons, 7 boxes regular 16 count
3 small bottles Elmer's Glue, 6 me- Crayons, 5 boxes regular 8 count
dium bottles Elmer's glue, 2 plastic Crayons, 1 box 12 count white chalk,
school boxes, 1 large roll paper tow- and 2 pink erasers.
els, 4 large Terry towels, 4 wide line Everyone danced to the juke box
practice tablets, 8 leaf folders, 8 70 and enjoyed hot dogs and mini-ham-
count Spiral notebooks, 2 120 count burgers at the close of the evening.
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The Bogata News office will be
closed Monday, September 3 for
Labor Day, but will reopen Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday.
The adult group of the Cuthand 4-
H will meet Saturday, September 1 at
6 p.m. at the Cuthand Community
Center to elect a new leader. Adults
only, please. The regular Cuthand 4-
H meeting will be September 16 at 3
p.m. at the center. New officers will
be elected at this time. New members
arc invited to attend this meeting.
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Talco-Bogata Schools will dismiss
Monday for Labor Day.
The Bogata Lions Club will hold
its regular meeting at the Community
Center on September 6 at 7 p.m.
D-FY-IT will meet at Rivercrest in
the cafeteria on September 4 at 7 p.m.
Everyone is invited to attend. Sup-
port our young people.
Red River Valley Fair runs Au-
gust 30-September 1, along with the
PRCA rodeo.
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WATERM ELONS are big busi-
ness in Rosalie these days.
Froggy Rhodes grows the mel-
ons and markets them to a
number of supermarkets.
Shown in front of a load of hand
picked melons are, left to right,
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Rhodes’ niece Sandra Woodall,
Froggy and his wife, Rosie. (Staff
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were collected.
Jean Stockton, Annie Lee
Moore, Jane Holmes and Betti
Mullin. (Staff Photo by Keye
Lee)
SCHOOL SUPPLIES-a VFW-
Ladies Auxiliary fifties dance
was held recently to earn school
supplies for the Bogata school.
A sizeable number of supplies
guidance from the experienced play-
OR DAY
summer's hottest weather.
There is little evidence that fall is
here, no matter what the calendar
says.
But, appropriate weather or not,
up and here.
TALCO-BOGATA JuniorHigh
football boys and coaches met
Thursday, August 23 at River-
ers, and Coach Green says they look
to returning senior, Russell Ward, for
leadership.
In their first scrimmage of the year
last Friday night, the Rebels failed to
score against a tough Fannindel team.
There were few bright spots to cele-
brate.
Their battle will be uphill all the
way, but the young players are think-
present at the meeting. (Staff
Photo by Nancy Brown)
ing positively, that the hill might not
be that tall.
As their training and conditioning
continues, the Rivercrest Rebels will
be building confidence as well as a
solid foundation for their team, and
they could surprise a lot of people
with their end result
crest to prepare for the coming
season. Twenty-five boys were
It's back to school time once more Armed with packages of paper,
for area youngsters, most of whom pencils and pens, the youngsters from
profess to be shocked that "summer kindergarten to senior high school
went by so fast!". will go back to classes during the
Teachers, school employees and
parents feel much the same way, as
the summer vacation weeks just slid
on by.
Students will go back today
(Thursday) for two days, then have ,u„ r .— -------— —•
the ;Monday Labor Day Holiday ' „ sc^?0, year ,s once more geared
off 77 up and here.
Rebels Hoping For Good Football Season
Though predictors say that the ^e Rivercrest team. There will be
Rivercrest Rebels’ 1990 football team five seniors and nine freshmen play-
will finish in the middle of the pack in ers. The freshmen players will need
ratings, the Rebels are hoping to turn J r v
those predictions into little more than
hot air.
With new coach Tommy Joe
Green, who brings 25 years of coach-
• ing experience to Rivercrest, the
youths are ready to put up a fight for
the District 17-2A title.
It won't be an easy job, but Coach
Green feels the young team has the
attitude and desire to win.
And "young" is the key word for
Back To School
Time Again!
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tale.
He explains that back in the early
1940's Ptesident Roosevelt had had
all the cows killed and all the pigs had
cholera. His family, he says, ate an
awful lot of frog legs.
"When I started to school," he says
"I hopped to school like a frog, and
when I got to school I squatted like a
frog...and when my teacher, Mrs.
Mabel Hale asked me a question, I
replied 'ribbitt'"!
He claims Mrs. Hale will verify
this story. It's hard to decide whether
that's a twinkle in his eye or not when
he spins his story!
This is the busy time of the year for
the Rhodes as load after load of qual-
ity watermelons, filled with juicy red
meat, ship out for various stores
It's a unique way to make a living,
and Froggy and his family love it!
Watermelons, watermelons, as far
as the eye can see! That's the sight
down near Rosalie on "Froggy"
Rhodes' farm!
Where most people are content to
grow a very few of the green- outside-
red- inside melons, Froggy grows and
markets them in a big way.
Froggy, whose real name is Lynn
Ross Rhodes, came home to the
Bogata area four years ago from Okla-
homa, where he had been managing a
cotton gin.
He found no work readily avail-
able, but decided the sandy soil would
lend itself to watermelons and planted
about three acres. The first year he
produced about 4,600 melons on that
three acres! They did so well that he
decided to plant additional acres. Now
it's a full time occupation.
Rhodes says he has always wanted
to grow watermelons, and puts his
skill and success at growing them
down to a green thumb and growing
up on a farm.
He markets the melons to six dif-
ferent Brookshires Food Stores, and
also to eleven other stores. It's truly
big business!
The large melons are hand picked
at the proper ripeness by Rhodes,
his wife Rosie, and niece Sandra
Woodall.
Hand picking them is quite a chore
in the summer sun, of course.
"I just couldn't do this without
their help" he states.
The area must lend itself to water-
melons, for the Rhodes' neighbor,
Steve Stevens, has about 200 acres
of them.
Froggy, when asked where his
nickname came from, tells quite a
Watermelons, Watermelons ...Far As The
Eye Can See..That's The View At Rosalie!
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BOGATA, RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS_______Thursday, August 30,1990
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I must have passed the crest a
L while ago
And down am going down-
Strange to have crossed the
crest and not to know
But the brambles were always
catching the hem of my gown, j
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Ed Bryson dropped us a note the
other day, recalling his very first
airplane ride.
The column on the Steerman
ride sparked his memory, and he
wrote that in about 1928 two barn-
stormers lit in the Westbrook
meadow north of Deport and scared
the pants off adventurers. Appar-
ently there were two pre-requisites
to taking a ride, courage and two
dollars.
Ed recalls them cranking the
hand-propped machines. He and
Doris Shelton paired up for the
ride, and Ed claims that Shelton
was "such a fool for dives and tum-
bvers that I threatened to choke
him if we ever landed".
Ed Brson apparently was not
terribly impressed with flight at
that time!
Which put MY mind into gear.
Just why is it that some people
like to do one thing while another
person loves to do something else?
Why is it that two country boys
like Ed Bryson and Doris Shelton,
both raised pretty much the same
way, and with exactly the same
amount of air time (absolutely
none) would find one of them loved
aerobatics while the other hated
them?
As an example. I feel whole on
the water....the minute I indulge in
my favorite hobby of white water
rafting every wound in my soul
heals.
Yet others absolutely hate it.
Many people find soul-healing
through fishing...others through
gardening, while others can play
baseball all yearlong, losing them-
selves in the dust, the heat and the
pleasurable sound of the bat crack-
ing against the ball.
Hobbies abound in this world,
some as simple as needlecraft,
others as complex as restoring
antique cars or searching world
wide for antiques.
While some people love to run,
or cycle or pursue some strenu-
ous form of exercise, declaring it
clears their minds, others cringe
at the mere thought and find that
losing themselves in a book
accomplishes the same thing.
There never seems to be any
explaining this phenomenon.
People in the same family may
enjoy totally different pursuits.
So far, I've never been able to
leam to like fishing, even though
I've had every opportunity
to...with relatives that took me
and were sweet and patient My
cousin, on the other hand, adores
it, and had virtually the same
influence that I did!
Speculation on this leads me to
believe that it is just bom into us.
There is nothing that can be
done...what we like to relax and
do can't be taught, and we can't
| just decided that we are going to
' leam to enjoy this no matter what
No, the things that satisfy our
souls simply happen...and we
might as well accept the fact.
And, most importantly, leam to
do them as often as we can...and
enjoy doing them. They help us
stay happy and helathy...and it
doesn't matter what pursuit we
choose..the key is just pursuing!
Have A
Nice
Week
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Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas. Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1990, newspaper, August 30, 1990; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1266079/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Red River County Public Library.