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Page 2 - The Goldthwaite Eagle-Mullin Enterprise - Thursday, July 29,1999
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
http://www.cowpokes.com
10 YEARS AGO
(Taken from the Eagle files of
July 27,1989)
The cheerleaders from Priddy
Junior High recently participated
in a National Cheerleaders Asso-
ciation Camp held on the campus
of Tarleton State University in
© AcE Tei
7 /25/99
"Jake, it's only a bad case of sunburn, but it's
gonna get worse if you don't quit looking for
rain clouds."
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Fashion show participants
4-Hers Markie Grantham, left and Jaclyn Summy, competed at the
District 7 4-H Fashion Show held recently in San Angelo. One
hundred young men and women exhibited their skills during the
show. Markie won the wool award in the Junior division in construc-
tion and Jaclyn competed in the consumer Buying division.
This boy got real smart
in the third grade...
the second time!
Happy 50th,
Ol’Friend!
By the way ...
Doesn’t he look like he
could eat grapes
through a picket
fence?
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and the Mullin Enterprise
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When The Old Bird
Was Younger
A Look Back Through The Files of
The Goldthwaite Eagle
MHS classes
of 1950’s plan
reunion July 31
Stephenville. Attending the camp
were Jamie DelBosque, Janet
Davidson, Misty Partin, Christi
Seider, Jackie DelBosque, Sandy
House and JoAnn House.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Green will
celebrate their 50th Wedding
Anniversary with a reception at
the Leisure Lodge in Hamilton
• on Saturday, August 5,1989from
2 to 4 o'clock. Floyd and Florina
were married in Goldthwaite on
August 5,1939.
Members of the Goldthwaite
High School class of 1964 posed
for a snapshot at their recent
reunion. Those attending were
DeWayne McCasland, Clyde
Cockrum, Delton Ripley, Gene
Auldridge, Harlan Jernigan,
discovered, except $4.00 from the andthree great-grandsons.
cash register. Roi-Ann Burnham was born in
20 YEARS AGO Wilford Hall Hospital, Lackland
(Taken from the Eagle files of AFB, San Antonio, on Wednes-
July 26,1979) day, July 16> 1969 at 2:45 a.m.
Yvonne Humphries, 19, daugh- She weighed seven pounds and
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Hammon nine ounces, and has a sister,
Humphries, was crowned 1979 Tana Kaye, to welcome her home.
Mills County Farm Bureau Queen Her mother is the former Donna
Saturday night, July 21, at the Kaye Cobb of Goldthwaite.
Steve Ratliff, Bobby Morgan,
Wendell Jackson, Donna Doggett peaches and plums and the or-
Benningfield, Saundra Lengefeld, chards are prolific.
Cecil Campbell, Lynn Elliott, - Old Bird Column, July 28,
Deanna Archer Crenshaw, x1939
Dianna Wright Baird, Wanda
Warlick Cooksey, Darleen Sher-
wood McCoy, Linda Geeslin Miles
and Darlain Sherwood Perkins.
Old Bird Column, July 23,
1959
Rev. Glenn D. Weimer is the
new pastor of Star Circuit Meth-
odist Church. He serves churches
at Star, Center City and Pleasant
.: Senior Citizen Center. Yvonne is Mr- and Mrs. Alton Jones of
employed as a bookkeeper for Regency are due credit for the
Geeslin Motors. Runner-up was part they played in the early cap-
Beverly Carothers, daughter of ture of two jail escapees from
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Carothers Brownwood on Sunday, July 20.
of Goldthwaite. While Mrs. Jones waited on the
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Robert men at the gas pump Alton
Weatherby, II of San Saba are phoned Sheriff Brooks who sent
now the proud parents of a baby out a radio alarm and officers
boy, Marvin Robert III, born July from Mills, Brown and San Saba
24 at 12:36 a.m. and weighing Counties headed for Regency cov-
seven pounds, six and one-fourth ering all highways. The two were
ounces. captured as they were leaving
• Old Bird Column, July 26, the intersection of highways 574
1929 - and 45.
There has never been a finer Randy Leonhard, Goldthwaite
■ fruit crop in Mills County than FFA member, is attending the
that now being gathered. The Youth Range Camp in Junction
weather has been just right for this week. Heis sponsored by the
Brown-Mills Soil and Water Con-
servation District.
Old Bird Column, July 30,
1959
Mills County farmers have pro- Arvai Adams this week an-
duced a bumper feed crop and nounced the purchase of Eli s
many trench silos are being filled.: Texas Station in Mullin from Eli
Some new silos were reported by Edmondson.
H. Ohlenbusch, Roy Simpson, Old Bird Column, August 4,
Edgar Jones, Frank Kerby, Lee 1944
Parker and M. T. Cook. 011 July 27, 1944, Miss Leola
Old Bird Column, July 24, Kelso and Lt. Walter W. Will-
1909 . iams were united in marriage at
Grove.
Three hundred and seventy the family home, Wednesday af-
persons registered last Friday ternoon; he was bruised about
during the grand opening and the face, but no serious or perma-
open house of Johnson Maytag nent injuries.
Laundry in the former Steam . 30 YEARS AGO
Laundry Building in Goldthwaite. (Taken from the Eagle files of
ts Old Bird Column, July 22, July 31, 1969) 00
1949too ne amigpe 53r Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jarrett of
An eight pound, two ounce 1502 Fisher Street, Goldthwaite,
daughter was born to Mr. and will be honored with open house
Mrs. Hawley Jernigan, July 11. in observance of their 60th Wed-
She has been name Brenda Lou. ding Anniversary, this Sunday,
Old Bird Column, July 20, August3, from 2:00 until 5:00
1934 p.m. at the Baptist Youth Center.
Sunday night burglars entered Hostesses will be their daughter,
R. E. Clements' drugstore by Mrs. M. C. Partridge, and his
breaking a glass in the front door sister, Mrs.Dewitt Fuller of Potts-
through which they could reach ville. The Jarretts were married
and turn the lock. Nothing was August 4, 1909 in Goldthwaite.
taken from the store as far as They have two granddaughters
J. V. Cockrum's little 4-year- the Base Chapel Army Air Field,
old son fell from the Surry, near Pecos, Texas.
The Mullin High School
classes of the 1950's will have a
reunion on Saturday, July 31,
1999 from about noon until
whenever, at the Mullin
Community Center, Mullin,
Texas.
This event promises a
wonderful afternoon of seeing
old friends and renewing past
acquaintances and catching up
on the latest news. Bring
pictures ofyour kids, grandkids,
your home, etc., so all can enjoy.
After all the hugging,
laughing, remembering and a
short business meeting, the
group will enjoy good barbeque
and all the trimmings prepared
by the Mills County Pros, Bill,
Bob, and Joe. Dinner will be
around 5 p.m. Please bring your
favorite salad or desert to
complete this meal.
Friends, family and teachers
are invited.
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RABIES CLINIC
and FLEA DIP
It’s A Girl
Michael and Joylyn Rainey of
Comanche are proud to
announce the birth of their first
child, a daughter, Micah
Michelle Rainey. Micah was born
Thursday, June 22,1999 at 3:07
p.m. at Harris Hospital in
Stephenville, Texas. She tipped
the scales at seven pounds, 14
ounces and was 20-1/2 inches
long. /
Maternal grandparents are
Lloyd and Kathie Auvenshine of
Comanche. Maternal great
grandparents are Trudie Butler
and Viola Auvenshine, also of
Comanche.
Paternal grandparents are
Jim and Sue Rainey of
Comanche. Paternal great
grandparents are Garland and
Joyce Collins of Comanche and
Shirley Rainey of Ocean Springs,
Mississippi.
Michael and his wife, Joylyn,
are both teachers at Goldthwaite
High School.
NOTICE
D. W. McNiel has sold
his hauling business to
Brent Youell of Zephyr.
Brent will continue the
hauling business.
When you need
hauling, please call
915/739-2209,
residence at Zephyr, or
915/642-6420 Mobile
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Saturday, July 31,1999
from 8:00 a.m. until Noon
at the Mills County Vet Clinic
San Saba Highway
Goldthwaite, Texas
Rabies Vaccination - $7.00 (cost only)
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'Land of Enchant-
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in other men the
conviction and the
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words, had.home-,,.
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stud on doors
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44in baseball, abbr.
for double play
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dwarfed by
special cultivation
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3 command
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N.W. France
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25 mythical
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31abbr. collateral
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Jackson's first name
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Bridges, G. Frank & Bridges, Georgie. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 29, 1999, newspaper, July 29, 1999; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1658752/m1/2/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.