Lone Star Gazette (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 2000 Page: 4 of 6
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254-796-2690 (shop)
254-796-2145 (home)
newspaper publicity had
generated an enormous
amount of interest in the
people,” Kerry says that both
of her parents were big sports
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JessLea Johnson
them,” Hooks says, “they
became very popular.” On
both the 40th and 50th
anniversaries Kerry rolled
back the prices to reflect what
Sugar alone will sustain life
for a considerable time.
Polly Frederick
(254-796-4269)
Hico, TX. 76457
Kerry and Dorothy celebrating at the 49th anniversary of
cafe. Courtesy photo
memorable occasion, during
the mid 50s when an area
flood caused some
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The one-millionth United
States patent will be issued
next summer, just about 121
years after the first one was
issued, in July 1790.
Nineteen years old and but
nineteen inches tall and
weighing but seven and a half
pounds, a Pennsylvania girl is
believed to be the smallest
specimen of adult humanity in
the world today.
Bob and Joy Bates
Rt. 3 Box E408
Hico, Tx.
would have loved the football
here (Stephenville) these last
10 years,” she says.
Although Kerry has
devoted much of her life to
the cafe, she has had other
interests. “I started running
track when I was about six or
seven years old,” she says,
“and I ran track until I was
23.” Kerry was an excellent
runner and competitions took
her “all over the country” for
national competitions.
She also attended Tarleton
in pursuit of a pre-pharmacy
leave, people had to go out
through the kitchen because
they couldn’t get through the
crowd to go back out the
front door. We had a live
radio remote that day and they
were interviewing people
about their memories of Jake
and Dorothy’s Cafe. We had
people who talked about
coming here on their
graduation nights, their
anniversaries, birthdays and all
occasions.”
But amid the crowds and
the chicken fried steaks, the
waffle fries, and
congratulatory messages,
single red roses lay atop the
two bar stools nearest the
Clothes proclaim the man —
and with some men, they even
shriek aloud.
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too. You get quicker and smoother con-
trol of when and how you move than
you have ever felt before.
It’s the engine of tomorrow ... on the
road for you today . . . and your Chrysler
dealer invites you now to try it, in the
all-around most astonishing new car you
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called her back.
“It’s all I really know,” she
says. “I get notes on napkins
sometimes, from customers
who write, T remember you
when you little’ — I don’t
remember them, I was too
young, but they remember me
being here.”
The Jake and Dorothy
50th anniversary celebration
was a bittersweet one for
Kerry and the cafe staff —
their first celebration without
Chrysler’s new FirePower engine has
rocked the automobile business right
down to its roots.
Quietly, behind all the laboratory talk
of “engines of tomorrow” . . . Chrysler
has built a revolutionary engine for you
to drive today!
It can give you 180 horsepower, to sur-
pass any other engine in any other car.
It develops its power in its own new
kind of way!
But you don’t have to “baby” it . . .
or give it fancy quality gasoline to get
that 180 horsepower performance!
FirePower takes any regular grade gaso-
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own new “mechanical octanes” to the
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has demanded a sur- Hamilton, a Negro of Belton,
otherwiset th?C garri- age 90, believes he has a
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sword, if the fort is . _ E
taken. I have an- the Texas Centennial
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and our flag still 1936 and backs his argument
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the walls. I shall nev- With the following: He says
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Ybertin, th parotism group of slaves once owned
and everything dear to by General Sam Houston, was
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inforcements daily and being with “Marse Sam” at
will no doubt increase .
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days, ’if ftis °anfis Huntsville, July 26, 1863.
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cafe including the time when a Dorothy also supported area
truck driver dropped in for a school athletics, a tradition
. | -visit — truck and all. “A truck that Kerry continues “Daddy
through the wall and right
on into the kitchen,” he says.
. It was winter, and the cafe
workers wondered, briefly,
iwhat to do. “Jake got a tarp
and putitupoverthe holein
jAe wall,” he says, “and we
. never even missed an order.”
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of Stephenville was national competitions, celebration — statewide.
'underwater, and they were She also attended Tarleton “We had people here lined
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boats, and tie up out front.”
The Roach family sold the
cafe in the early 1970s.
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June of 1977,” Kerry says.
Jake, Dorothy and Kerry
picked up where they left off
— and business flourished.
soldier who never for-
sge "Commandancy of the Alamo, . “Fellow Citizens, and Compatriots; I am be- gets what is due to his honor and that of his
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The most popular item on
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hand, with a gadget that Jake
invented. “When he first
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talking about her parents.
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celebration The radio station
crews and the flowers are
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spirit of Jake, Dorothy and
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Kestner, Laura. Lone Star Gazette (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 2000, newspaper, February 19, 2000; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1528116/m1/4/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Erath County Genealogical Society.