Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1990 Page: 6 of 16
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PAGE 6, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, DEC. 21, 1990
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Sierra Blanca
LORY TO THE NEWBORN KING
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
SIERRA BLANCA
GUERRA 8
CO.
AA MEETINGS
AA AND ALANON MEETINGS
WED. EVENINGS - 7:00 PM MST
STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT
Sierra Blanca
For information call 369-4169 or 986-2407
SLIM'S GARAGE &
COMM. PCT. I
"Thanks Sierra Blanca
for your support"
. ADLEON & DARLENE
I SNYDER
Olan George and daughter
Gwen Wilbanks spent the week-
end after Thanksgiving in their
old home town of Fort Stockton.
Olan says they had a wonderful
time. Olan has had a most
painful back for some time.
The pain has let up and he is
very happy about it.
***
Blanche Baylor fell in her
home and cracked her pelvis.
She has been in Vista Hills Hospital, and is to come home Dec. 14,
we hear. Both of Blanche’s daughters are nurses, so we feel she
will be seeing one of them, and perhaps spending some time near
Dallas or in Louisiana.
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Pearl Eileen Ellison gave a
"purse party" at the home of
Dorothy Jones,, Thursday
evening, December 13. A nice
mix of lower priced items, as
well as the more experience
bags were offered. Also offered
was a line of luggage, closet
accessories, and versatile
double- knits of cotton.
Dorothy served cookies, spiced
tea and coffee. One delicious
cookie had the sugar removed.
Lucky old Bernice won the
door prize, and chose a black
patent clutch from several other
colors.
While parties are nice, you
need not wait for one - Pearl
Eileen will show you her line,
if you drop by her home.
***
We talked to Olan George,
he had been to Fort Stockton
and his back is hurting so much
that he is in bed. He does have
his new electric 3 wheeler and
we hope he only has to use it
occasionally.
***
Linda King visited her mother,
her father and grandmother
Friday Dec. 14. She and Bernice
took Nana out to lunch before
Linda had to return to Allamoore
School to collect young Keesey.
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It is good to see Mike Byrnes out of the house some. Mike is on
a high fiber diet and will have to take it easy until after the
first of the year.
***
Roger Ellison and family were here for the second week end of
hunting. His father Tom tells us that Roger killed an 8 pt. deer.
***
Clint Elder 14, killed a 13 pt. buck the last day of the season -
a beautiful rack, but not a large deer.
***
About 14 members and guests were present for the Hudspeth
County Retired Teachers meeting and lunch at O. J. ‘s Restaurant,
Dec. 8, 1990.
Mr. Hilley, former president of the Socorro School Board
happened to be lunching in the cafe, and was introduced. . . Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Wilson and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Grounds were also
introduced. Mr. Wilson is our District President, Mr. Grounds
former superintendent at Fabens, is now involved in helping at
schools that need his help, with the new laws and problems many
schools seem to be having.
Mrs. Adams opened up the Baptist Church across the street from
O. J. ‘s. Mr. Wilson entertained the group on the piano, then we
had a "sing". The church was so pretty and decorated with
potted poinsettias. The next meeting will be at Hilltop Cafe,
Jan. 12, 1991.
***
A mother and two daughters met in El Paso, drove to Ft. Hancock
and visited Cowboy and Freda Stubbs and others, then to Sierra
Blanca where several people called to see them at the home
of Elizabeth Elliott.
Mother Janet (Mann) Bradshaw, lives in Amarillo, and works in
insurance.
Jeri (Mann) Vines, lives in Santee, Ca. Her husband is in the
Border Patrol. Jeri works for an optometrist.
Julia (Mann) Powers, lives in Houston. She is a paralegal, and
her husband an accountant. . . We are sorry we did not get to
see them. They did not stay over. , . Jim Mann was in the
Border Patrol when they lived here. He was killed in a freak
accident trying to save a Border Patrol vehicle - it went over
a cliff, taking Jim to his death.
***
It was good to sit by Arlien Irby at O. J. ’s Restaurant, and have
a nice visit. Husband Travis had a garage in McNary. He died
years ago. They had four sons and a daughter. Arlien will
spend Christmas in Colorado with Emily Ann.
Youngest son James is a career Marine, is in the Mid-East, and
she is greatly worried.
Mrs. Irby has a music class in Fabens. She was touched when
the children wanted to write letters to James - which she forward-
ed on to him. We know that he appreciated hearing from the
young ones.
21-+ David Vance
The Earl Goatcher’s
22- Ginger Elliott
Merry James
Dora West
Matthew Lawson
Michelle Peace
23-Barbara Fulton
Pilar & Dalton West
24-Joseph Lee Armstrong
Sarah Vance
Wayne & Laura West
Iva Mae Williams
Shaana Swieven
Alta & Tom Neely
Junius Montgomery
Gregg & Virginia Mo
Morales
25-Baylus Tom Love
Jason Sherson
26- David Willis
Lupe Bustamante
27- Mary Booth
Michael Byrnes
28-Jennifer Urbina
Clark Lewis
Joe Ed Tammen
+ Mary L. (Grandma)
Neely 1989
zPete Bustamante
+ Ed L. Love
The Fort Hancock folks told
us that their team was in com-
petition that Saturday, and that
many of the townspeople had
gone along to cheer the boys
on. We later heard that they
had won. Congratulations,
young people!
***
Irma Gonzalez attended the
Chamber of Commerce dinner-
meeting at Desert Outpost Wed.
night, Dec. 12. She said that
members of her family wished
to thank all friends and neigh-
bors and family for their thought-
fulness and caring when mother
and grandmother Marta Yglecias
passed away.
***
About 20 members and guests
enjoyed a delicious meal at
the Desert Outpost, followed
by the monthly meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce, Dec.
12, 1990 at 6 P. M.
After the president - Darlene-
took care of old and new business
Rhonda Willis played Santa
handing out gifts people wanted.
Treasurer Melton made number-
ed pieces of paper. Gifts were
selected from the tree in order
unless someone liked your gift,
they could request it and you
chose another from the tree.
Some Santa mugs and a tin of
fudge made several rounds before
the tree was bare.
Next meeting will be at the
Best Cafe, Jan. 9, 1991, at
6 P. M.
We found kiwi fruit at the
local store for a good price and
got only one. While we like
it, we think about a fruit that
was ever so much better - the
fruit of several types of cacti.
As children we only knew the
common names, but we knew
where to find the single, the
mound and pincushi on types in
the flats and the mounds, devil’s
head and fishook in the more
rugged areas. We always
watched to try to beat the rabbits,
rats, birds and ants to these
delicious fruits. When they
were ready to eat, the light
coating of thorns needed only
a brush to clear the fruit so
one could peel and eat.
Some have compared them to
strawberries, for the taste is
very tart, but sweet. Most of
the fruits - depending on the
variety are either white with
tiny black edible seeds or some
are a pinkish color inside.
These are the "pitayas".
The pincushion, fishook and
devil’s head cactus have unre-
markable white or pinkish small
flowers, and tiny red pointed
fruit that is sweet and tasty, but
not to compare with the pitaya.
Roses are beautiful, but some-
how I am partial to the many
different colored blossoms of
the cacti. There are yellow,
scarlet, fuchsia, white and pink
and even a peach color on a
type of plant resembling a
prickly pear, but seen only in
a few places.
Cousin Isobel makes very good
jam or jelly from the wine
colored fruit of the prickly pear.
It seems she adds pineapple to
it. We tried to make some
before she grew up - and ours
was a gooey mess! We have not
asked her about her method,
but feel we boiled it too long.
The agarita (algerita- anglic-
ized) has a tasty red berry, but
the berries must only be boiled
for a short time and seeds re-
moved, as they are bitter.
This shrub has be autiful holly-
shaped leaves with sharp thorns.
The yellow root makes a beaut-
iful dye.
We have found very few night
blooming cactus on the ranch,
they must hide in bushes for
protection - such as the all-thorn
bush. The few earth colored
stalks are slow-growing and un-
remarkable. Since none grew
near the ranch house we have
never seen the blooms.
Cactus-hunters and sellers are
de-nuding our country of these
precious plants that should be
left where they are. Arizona
protects her cacti by law and
imposes stiff fines. They will
sell Texas cactus, if they can
get them. Please think about
it.
SIERRA BLANCA
BERNICE ELDER
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