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The Goldthwaite Eagle-Mullin Enterprise
May 25,1995
Historical Commission Meets; Plans Readied
For Booth at Central Texas Country Fare
Goldthwaite Postal Employees Recently
Honored With Surprise Breakfast
The Mills County Historical County - The Way It Was by Lula Mae Casbeer, Verba Lee
Commission met Monday, May Hartal Blackwell, and Mills Auldridge, LaRaye Kelly, Ra-
22, 1995 to make plans for the County Memories. mona Corona, Peggy Nowell, Fay
Country Fare. The Mills County Historical Leonhard, Nan Pesch, Pat
The group will be selling the Commission will be raffling off a Karnes, Annie Keeler, May
three Mills County History framed picture of the Regency Jones, Clara Cravy, Hallie
Books - No Man ‘s Land Becomes Swinging Bridge taken by Leon Wilkison, and Shirley Reed.
A County by Mrs. Bowles, Mills Sutherland and donated to the —---
group by R. C. and Della
Edmondson. Tickets are on sale IVASS lodges
and will be on sale during the
Country Fare and the drawing D an A
will be at 5:00 Saturday in the COCA ▼
Park. m
Also, on sale are tickets for a Kecognition
quilt which will be on display in o
the Park. This drawing will be The United States Achieve-
held during the Arts and Crafts ment Academy announced re-
Holiday
Notice
There will be no mail
deer onles el per
once Monday, May 29, in
observance of Memorial
Day. Mail will departfrom
the local office Saturday,
May 27 at 4:15 p.m. There
will be no mail pickup
Monday, May 29.
Show in the fall. Ladies from cently that Melinda Hodges has
Mullin, Star, Priddy and Gold- been named a United States
Mills County
State Bank
648-2216 -- Goldthwaite, Texas
Will be closed
Monday, May 29, 1995
in obsservance of the
Memorial Day Holiday
Member FDIC -- Equal Housing Lender
Mills County
Medical Clinic
648-2263
1501 West Front St. • Goldthwaite
th waite who have quilted on this National Award winner in Band.
Tumbling Star design by This award is a prestigious
Margueritte Cox are: Billy Webb, honor very few students can ever
June Reeves, Betty Griffin, hope to attain. In fact, the Acad-
Evelyn Smith, Grace May, Jim emy recognizes less than 10% of
Hosea, Lydia Niemann, all American high school stu-
Waunitta Geeslin, Caroline dents.
Schwartz, Margueritte Cox, Melinda, who attends Gold-
thwaite High School, was nomi-
b^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m - nated for this national award by
Tim Riley, the band director at
the school.
Melinda Hodges will appear
in the United States Achieve-
ment Academy Official Colle-
giate Yearbook, which is pub-
lished nationally.
"Recognizing and supporting
our youth is more important
than ever before in American's
history. Certainly, United States
Achievement Academy winners
should be congratulated and
appreciated for their dedication
.to excellence and achievement,"
said Dr. George Stevens, Execu-
tive Director ofthe United States
Achievement Academy.
The Academy selects USAA
winners upon the exclusive rec-
ommendation of teachers,
coaches, counselors, and other
qualified sponsors and upon the
Standards of Selection set forth
by the Academy. The criteria for
selection are a student's aca-
demic performance, interest and
aptitude, leadership qualities,
Pictured, left to right, are Doug Doggett,
Alvis Lee, and Torn Watson
Pictured, left to right, are Kay Brister, Max
Shepherd, and Lynn Franke
Goldthwaite Post Office em-
ployees were recently honored
with a surprise breakfast to com-
memorate five years of service
without a vehicle or industrial
accident.
Postmaster Marla Tollett ex-
pressed her appreciation for an
accident-free operation during
her tenure here.
"This record is remarkable
when you consider the following
facts," said Marla Tollett. "Tom
Watson, rural route 3 carrier
drives approximately 29,000
miles per year; Doug Doggett,
rural route 2 carrier, drives ap-
proximately 22,500 miles er
year; and Alvis Lee, HC 64 car-
rier, travels close to 30,000 miles
per year. These three carriers
encounter dirt roads, high wa-
ter, blind corners, and heavy
traffic throughout the year.
"Debbie Watson and Felton
Wright, rural carrier subs, also
maintain an accident-free
record.
"Clerks Max Shepherd, Lynn
Franke and Kay Brister unload
the truck manually six days per
week, transport heavy packages
and mail sacks and stand up to
eight hours per day on a con-
crete floor, and continue to func-
tion without lost work-day acci-
dents.
"This kind of dedicated ser-
vice and task-oriented attentive- (
ness insures the prompt and safe
delivery of the mail to all resi-
dents of the Goldthwaite area, " ,
said Mrs. Tollett.
Hayseed and Horsesense...
Grain 'Threshing' Time
John A. Seth RNC, Family Nurse Practitioner
Mills County Medical Clinic
By: Howard Campbell
At this time of the year there
came a very busy tight schedule
at our house and community,
responsibility, enthusiasm, mo- The papas had a hard time wait-
tivation to learn and improve, ing for school to dismiss because
citizenship, attitude and coop- of the many necessary chores
erative spirit, dependability, and that needed to be done by his
recommendation from a teacher
or director.
Melinda is the daughter of
David and Sherry Hodges. The
grandparents are Lorene and
Floyd Hodges of Cleburne, Texas
and Florence and C. D. Gilbert
of Granbury, Texas.
Thank You!
Hours: Monday-Friday,
9:00 to 12:00, 2:00 to 5:00
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MILLS COUNTY
MEDICAL CLINIC
OPERATED BY CORYELL MEMORIALHOSPITAL
AN AFFILIATE OF SCOTT & WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Scott Ward
Receives Degree
From ASU
Christopher Scott Ward, son
of Mr. and Mrs, Darryl Ward of
Goldthwaite, received a Bach-
elor of Business Administration
degree, with a major in account-
ing, from Angelo State Univer-
sity during the fall commence-
ment.
There were 505 students that
children. There were berries to
pick and preserves to make.
There was corn to be hoed and
most pressing chore of all was
the grain, oats, barley and wheat
that needed cutting, shocking
and threshing.
It usually went like this at our
house: while the dew was still
on the field crops, we could pick
the blackberries; by eight or nine
o'clock we could start cutting
grain. It was tough to cut, bundle
or handle if it was wet or even
damp.
During my growing up years,
I saw many improvements in
the way grain was harvested.
First was the horse drawn broad-
cast binders or reapers with the
6, 7 or 8 foot platforms. Some
reapers in the big wheat states
had 10 foot platforms and re-
quired six or eight horses or
mules to pull. Four good horses
received degrees during the fall or mules were usually sufficient
commencement at the univer- to pull the binders in this coun-
sity try. Sometime six head were
used if one planned on cutting or thresher and was powered by
12 to 14 hours in heavy grain. a block steam engine which was
It took at least two to man the fired with oak wood. It was quite
teams and binder and two or a chore getting the separator
three to do the shocking. There and engine all set and lined up
was some skill required to build- (belt wise). The boiler man or
ing a shock to shed the water, engine operator had to start be-
stand the wind, and be easy to fore daylight in order to build
load onto a wagon on threshing the fire and have a head of steam
day. Cby threshing time.
Whoever was on the shocking This operation was followed
crew needed to be fast footed by a Fordson tractor for furnish-
and fleet, because it was also ing the belt power. This early
expected ofthem to catch all the Fordson was worthless for any-
half grown rabbits for eating thing except belt work and sure
purposes. caused many a man to say bad
At this time of the year the words trying to start one. The
streams were still to cold and separator or thresher still had
too much water to seine for fish, to be moved by teams as before.
The squirrels were nesting so The Fordson could hardly move
we couldn't hunt them. The meat itself.
box was about empty except for As time progressed, so did the
jowl or sow belly boiling meat, machinery. International, Case,
There were no calves large Massey and many more began
enough or fat enough for butch- building bigger and better
ering, so if we had fresh meat it threshers with tractors to pull
was young rabbits. And I know them from field to field and fur-
of nothing better for breakfast nish the belt power upon ar-
than a large platter of fried rab- rival. The size was determined
bit, biscuits and cream gravy. If by the size of the cylinder. First
you haven't tried it, don't knock 24 inch and then 27 or 28 inch
it. and later 30 inch or 32 inch and
My first recollection of a grain in the wheat country separators
thresher was when I was six or with 36 inch cylinders. Not only
seven years old. My grandfather the size could be greater as more
had a small Rumley separator powerful tractors were available,
but it eliminated the three men
HER SYSTEM:
THE BIRTHDATES
AND AGES OF
FRIENDS AND
RELATIVES
COMBINED WITH
"UNLUCKY”13
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AFTER YEARS OF WAITING TABLES,
IT WAS LAVERNE HICKS’ turn to
SAY,"CHECK, PLEASE.”
ONE DAY, LAVERNE HICKS WAS BRINGING THE DAILY SPECIAL
TO THE REGULARS AT HER HOMETOWN DINER. THE NEXT DAY,
SHE WAS PICKING UP THE CHECK - A $7.7 MILLION CHECK
FROM LOTTO TEXAS. THESE DAYS, LAVERNE HAS HUNG UP HER
APRON SO SHE CAN JUST CONCENTRATE ON BEING ONE OF
OVER 150 MILLIONAIRES AND STILL COUNTING.
WINNING NUMBERS:
13 17 19 22 39 44
FIRST Thing
SHE DID: TRIED
TO FIND A
SAFE PLACE TO
KEEP HER
WINNING TICKET
PRIZE: $7.7 MILLION
that it took to cut the twine and
feed the older models. Automatic
scales weighed and dumped the
cleaned grain down a long chute
for sacking.
About this time along came
the binder or reaper with power
take-offs, powered by the trac-
tor, pulled by the tractor, and
thus eliminating the horses or
bull wheel and chain drive of the
older models. The platforms
went from seven feet to 10,12, or
14 feet and two men could easily
cut 50 acres per day.
Now just as it seemed to be
perfected, along came a com-
bine or separator powered by
power take-off from tractor that
eliminated the bundling, shock-
ing, wagons and some 20 men
that it had taken previously to
operate the harvesting the old
way. Next step we eliminated
the tractor and made the com-
bine self-propelled.
If you have followed me this
far, you must be totally confused
by now, so watch next week's
Eagle for a typical threshing day
that I had planned on in the first
place. That is, a day before the
self-propelled combine when the
thresher moved into your field
for the purpose of threshing all
your grain, such as wheat, bar-
ley, and oats.
Tobe continued....
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Bridges, G. Frank & Bridges, Georgie. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 25, 1995, newspaper, May 25, 1995; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1658586/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.