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Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor: ner tor, but 1 can tell you 10
I am 80 pleased to hear of the sure Elvira and I knew how
beautiful restoration work that many she had had because al
has been done on the Let* ter dinner she stacked her
County Courthouse. To many dishes in a pan of warm watt !
of us the name Giddings is not and left them for us to wash al
just the name of another town ter school. (We were too small
on down the road - it is the to do outside work like chop
hometown of our "Roots." ping wood, filling the wood
My earliest memories upon boxes with the night s supply ol
entering Giddings was seeing wood, putting out the stocks
the courthouse standing regal (the milk cow and the horses)
and tall. The striking of the night feeding, etc
courthouse clock mon* or less After dinner, Mama sewed or
regulated the lives of the ironed the school and Sunday
people. When the clock struck clothes. She made all the girls'
9 o'clock that meant school be- dresses and the boys’ shirts and
gan, and when it struck 12 pants until it was time to
o'clock that meant "dinner cook supper. Just about sun
time." down Papa came home and
I would like to share this inci- "did up" his night work
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his family: a banker who began his bank,
"Mama never knew how ing career around the turn of
many she would have for din the century anil continued tin
ner because when that town til his death on June 1 1934
clock struck 12 o’clock regard At which time he was Presi
less of whether he was in the dent of ( itizens State Bank of
midst of a business transaction Giddings Mama was Annie
or whatever. Papa would say, "I (Miss Annie, as she was allot
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Preuss, L. M., III & True, David G. Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1999, newspaper, May 6, 1999; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1611908/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.