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Page 4 The Little Elm Journal. Wednesday, September 14,1994
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Live Band
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The play will run Sept. 23,24
Jim Martin
Skipper
We Have Good Times At Our Cowboys Games!
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SECOND PRIZE. Wes Morrow accepts a cordless telephone
which he won in the Lakeside Lions Club’s raffle June 2. Photo courtesy
of the Lakeside Lion’s Club.
The Greenhouse
Nursery
Hwy. 380 West
McKinney, TX
HOURS:
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9:30-7:00
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Wieweck, who died in July while
awaiting a lung transplant.
Tickets are $5 and reserva-
tions can be made by calling
(214) 335-3449.
Frisco Theatre will present
the comedy "No Sex Please,
We're British" beginning Sept.
23.
The show is directed by Joel
Decker, with Danny Edwards
as assistant director and Terry
Cox as stage manager. The cast
includes Debby Yates, Hank
Henry, Nichelle Metcalf, Rich-
ard Smith, Stephen Gillis, Judy
McCoy, Jon Washburn, Aileen
Did your club have a
meeting? If so, let us
know so we can help you
spread the news!
Call 292-1704
932 W. UNIVERSITY DR.
(IN DENTON CENTER NEXT TO PLITT THEATRE)
wilderness. When Amariah was Indians, all 13 of them, camped
86 years old he sat down and close to the place his cow was
documented the exploits of his grazing. A coincidence I am sure.
Call For Class Times & Info
625-9156 or 625-9988
Tricia Smith - Owner, Instructor
Representatives from all class
years are asked to help. Those
wantingto do so may contact Terri
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Announces
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Martin’s Landing wants to thank each of our members for
their participation in our club the past 3 years and trust you
will continue to enjoy our hospitality for years to come!
Thank You Again!!
Skipper Mr. Jim • 1st. Mate Miss Anne
Crew - Lotie, Jess & Joanne
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Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. benefitting
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Association Inc. to help with the
medical expenses of Jim
FALL EVENTS
Compost Happens”
Saturday, September 17 at 11:00 a.m.
Rabbit Hill Farms owner Jay Mertz
• Preparing and maintaining your planting beds organically.
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BIG WINNER. Mike Bowen of The Colony receives a television
won in a fund-raising raffle June 2 sponsored by the Little Elm
Lakeside Lions Club. Photo courtesy of the Lakeside Lions Club.
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Amariah told of his travels 13-to-one odds were not terribly
across the country and difficul- good for a fight, and after decid-
ties he encountered along the ing he could always get another
way. In perusing his writings, I shirt, he made the decision that
discovered a story that some- discretion really might be the
how touched me in an unusual better part of valor. He sug-
way, perhaps because it shows gested a trade to the Indians,
the human spirit as it was, and and returned to the wagon with
largely as it remains. In pre- his cow, but bare-chested as he
senting this story it should be sheepishly related to his quiet,
understood that this is the true soft-spoken wife that he had
story of a man who lived from been seriously outnumbered.
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encouraged to take part in home- (©
coming activities this year on Fri- a"
day, Oct. 7, at the high school. § “u
It has been 20 years since the §
first LEHS class graduated and §
the homecoming committee is
hoping to see representatives from §
all the years.
A reception will be held prior to §
the Little Elm-Pottsboro game $
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. $
the late 1700s through most of She was glad that he had
the 1800s. changed his mind and had re-
One of the most annoying turned unharmed. Only a few
things Amariah confronted in hours earlier she had feared that
his travels was a small group of he would lose his life in a foolish
Indians that repeatedly stole his exhibition of his masculinity,
cow. Time after time, the Indi- It was a day or two after this
ans would sneak into his camp- event that the Indians returned
site under the cover of dark- to the wagon, this time to at-
ness, and tying a cloth over the tempt to pilfer the supplies,
cow's mouth, lead her away si- While moving a barrel of flour
lently. Upon the arrival of dawn, from the back of the wagon, they
Amariah would discover his cow made the unfortunate mistake
missing, and shortly thereafter of encountering Sarah Wilson,
the Indians would arrive on the Amariah, who had been out
scene and offer to find the cow hunting, rushed back to the
for the price of a shirt and some wagon upon hearing a tremen-
powder and shot for their rifles, dous commotion. There he found
Time after time, it would his peaceful, quiet natured wife,
seem, Amariah handed over a beating the stuffings out of 13
shirt and the requested powder Indians with a gunstock. Need-
and shot. Shortly afterward the less to say, the Indians did not
Indians would return leading return to the wagon again,
his cow in tow. Finally, Amariah A little over a century later, I
was down to his last shirt, the married Sarah Wilson's great,
one he was wearing. When he great, great-granddaughter. I
saw that the Indians had made found her to be a quiet and good-
off with the cow a final time, he natured woman, but I promise
felt that his manhood had been you that once riled there is more
challenged as much as he could than a little of Sarah in her. I
tolerate and he proceeded to load consider myself to be forceful,
and being a large fellow, many
people find me to be intimidat-
Let not thy will roar, when ing. But m warn you, I‘m not
thy power can but whisper. the one in my family you should
—Thomas Fuller worry about.
Little Elm's curfew, which went local supermarket, said the cur-
into effect July 18 for people un- few is "a mighty good thing. This
der the age of 17, has had some teaches kids responsibility, and
positive effect but may have re- they shouldn't be running the
suited in transferring the prob- streets. They should be with re-
lem to another area. sponsible parties. Their parents
"Rocky Point has just inher- should make sure that their kids
ited the problems of Little Elm are with a responsible party at all
with the new curfew," observed times."
resident Marshal Roberts. Still another resident thinks
parents are more at ease know-
"Now the kids come in carloads ing their children are supposed to
with their beer and hang out in be off the streets between mid-
Rocky Point at the shoreline and night and 6 a.m.
party. The curfew has driven them Little Elm Police Sgt. Jerry
out of Little Elm, but the problem Jones said there seems to be less
is they end up out here outside trouble now. 'The curfew and
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