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Page 2A—CHEROKEEAN/HERALD of Rusk, Texas—Thursday, December 7,2000
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December 7,2000
Emmett H. Whitehead
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Marie Whitehead
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o you think "It's begin
. ning to feel a lot like
Christmas?" Of course,
you do. It's in the air. Special
events, services proclaim the
Good News. This present week
is the one traditionally marked
for the Official Beginning. The
Lighting Ceremony Tuesday
night promised to be the best
yet. Our downtown Square has
never been more beautiful. The
stage has been properly set for
the big event, the Christmas
Parade, Thursday evening. In
keeping with tradition, the Rusk Kiwanis Club
hosts its Pancake Supper right aftet- the parade.
And the happy, happy holiday arrives.
Coming next week we maintain tradition here,
too. The paper will be filled with letters to Santa
from the Little People. Take the time to review
these. Their requests of Santa likewise maintain
tradition. Of course, like me, you may not recog-
nize some of the stuff on their wish-lists. They are
so excited. Ask any teacher.
And, in the days to come, churches will have
special services, musicals, cantatas, the school will
have programs including concerts. These will be
> duly reported. Another major project is the Dream
1 Tree, designed to provide the less fortunate
•I .youngsters with gifts this year. It is a project of the
> Rusk Chamber, but major credit goes to Wayne
> and Toni Guinn for their personal attention to
\ choosing and wrapping gifts for which money was
* given.. And the Good Samaritan continues to
* seek foods, also money, for making Christmases
brighter. In all of this, you have many choices for
* participating, sharing the joy of giving.
We may not have them much longer, but the past
Í two weeks have been a blessing in beauty via the
2 Fall Foliage. Have you ever seen a more
spectular display of color? And we all felt the
drought might have cut the color short.
:*■ Congratulations to the highly successful produc-
* tion of "Home for Christmas" by the Cherokee
* Civic Theatre over the weekend. Steve Slover
•* and Company, lots of them, put together some of
> the best known, most loved music and words to
'Z reflect the spirit of the season. He was ably
i; assisted by Jill Swink who stands in a class unto
'* herself for sheer talent. And without naming more
v names, let those who gave so unselfishly of their
•; time and talent for this, be joyfully thanked.
£ We were privileged to trip in to Dallas Saturday
y for an early family gathering in keeping with our
y late Mom's expectations. There's nothing like
coming "home for the holidays," wherever you call
'* "home." For us, "home" is any family gathering.
* Any where. This one was held in the new home of
* the youngest sister, Shirley and Dave Roberts.
> It was as well attended as could be expected in
* these days of too many obligations. The house, you
need to hear about this, has a lot of glass. Whole
'Z walls. One entire wall of mirror glass. Now, would
Z you expect to see rocks anywhere near such an
architectural wonder? Wrong. The yard has no
grass, just rocks. I haven't figured that out, yet. In
" its center is an outdoor atrium, which translates
r "to a house with a hole in the roof." Like a football
field with a giant hole above. But the structure
I withstood all of the joy and laughter mixed with
t food, fun and fellowship. Quite an age range now
•! too from eight to 80 plus. And talk about the small
world experience. We have had this man in our
Z; family, my brother-in-law's brother-in-law (you got
* the picture?) since 19fil. We were delighted to
Z learn that he is kinfolks to the late Charlene
' Long and her sister, Rona Long. These two
sisters married brothers, V. J.
and Robert Long. Not sure
where our in-law relative fits in,
but his name is Dexter Hill and
he is, like his Cherokee County
relatives, one super person.
Judy Faye Garner, the daugh-
ter of the late Charlene, and I
can finally understand why •
we've had such a "familial
feeling" for so long. Ditto for Lila
Jean Murray, her sister. The
drive up was one landscape
painting after another. A living
feast for the eyes. Freeways, I-
highways, expressways, goodness gracious. It was
too mind-boggling to handle. Home never looked so
good. You might say I've already had Christmas.
As if we don't have enough action around here,
my cousin in Magnolia near Conroe called to see if
we could stir up a little interest in the "Friends of
the San Francisco de Las Tejas Mission Inn"
between Alto and Crockett. There is a gathering
there from 9-3 Saturday, Dec. 9. They want all
who can to attend, tour the facilities and join in
support of this quite historic facility. It is worthy of
all the help you can give, a truly priceless link in
the heritage chain which binds all of us together.
Those who are in recent touch with Libbie
Freeman in Kentucky say she is doing very well,
thank you. She had some "scares of the heart" but
is now, happily, recuperating with her children in
Kentucky. If you wish her address or phone
number, here it is: 846 Arrowhead Drive,
Madisonville, Ky. 42431; phone 270-821-8896.
OK, send her a card.
Maybe the best news of recent months came
Sunday in the form of Leahmon and Mary B.
Hassell at church. After a few months spent
recovering from a heart attack/heart surgery,
Leahmon is now back to his normal self, which
means he was looking great and Mary, just
beautiful, as usual. It has been a tough time,
though, and we're glad that every thing is looking
up for these two.
That brings us to a review of others who like the
Hassells have had serious times. Our hearts «
continue to ache for the loss of Judge J. W.
Summers and his surviving wife, Inez. Among
the many who were present for his final rites are
folks with Rusk ties: the former FUMC pastor,
Rev. Everett McCollum, Marshall Dear of New
Boston, Mrs. Charles Decker and daughter
Sally Kay of Tyler, Carole Lee Cartlidge
Hardeman and spouse of Waco. These are only a
few, but mentioned because I, too, remember these
former folks who came to pay their respects.
You don't need me to tell you how many of our
folks are being moved on in this life. The
community's sympathy is extended to the family of
Cordia Mae Landrum, one of the Creator's
beloved Children. She had more ways to forecast
the weather. If there are persimmon trees in
Heaven, which I have every confidence is where
she is, she can help them translate the seed signs.
Condolences are also offered to the families of
Velma (Mrs. Shelby) Hood and Oma Grace
Ross Brown, wife of Dr. Dan Brown.
Watch for Virgil at the parade Thursday. Chris
Davis is going to "try" to get him here as an entry
in the event. What he didn't tell me is whether or
not he is going to label Mr. Schochler 'The
Grinch." The way he writes about poor ole' Virgil,
it wouldn't surprise me. (Don't you love this
neighborly relationship, they share?)
Let's continue to enjoy all that is Life, to the best
of our ability. See you next week?
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High Points From El Camino Real
i hings have turned off a
little cool along El Camino
Real and it is beginning to
feel a whole lot more like the
Christmas season is supposed to.
Santa's lap is beginning to feel
the weight of all the wants of the
good little boys and girls plumb
through to his wallet. For all
you kids that are writing letters
to Santa; be sure you don't color
any of the stripes on the North
Pole blue. You're liable to
confuse the people at the post
office and they might deliver ————
your Santa letters to the City
Barber Shop. While you're roaming around
humming "Jingle Bells" this week, make sure
you've got a quarter jingling in your pocket qp you
won't be without your quarter's worth of news.
The beautiful leaves, that were adorning the
trees last week, are just something that need
raking or chopping now. We had one of the most
spectacular Falls this year than I can remember
having in a long time. If we could get a little shot
of snow for the Winter, we would be fixed up with
our seasons for this year.
Jerry Felder was in town visiting from
Colorado last week. He was also here to help his
mother Lurline Felder celebrate her birthday.
Happy Birthday Lurline!
The roundtable gang was back at the
Townhouse Café in full force on Friday morning to
get Harold Parker off on a good start in his new
endeavor in the restaurant business. Olan Black
seemed pretty excited about the reopening of the
café. He was getting tired of hanging out in the
Barber Shop. Every time he would open his mouth
to tell a tale, a hair would fall in it.
Bancorp South is having its annual Christmas
open house on December 14. Make sure to drop by
and have some refreshments and say hello to
David Middleton and all the friendly Bancorp staff.
The Stella Hill Memorial Library is getting
in the Christmas spirit since its moved downtown.
A nice Christmas tree in the front window is just
what the town needed for a little Christmas
sprucing up. If you have some decorations that
you think the library might could use give Mary
Nell Danheim or Marjorie Warner a call. Every-
body keeps calling me and asking if I know any-
thing about a Christmas parade for Alto. I haven't
heard a word, but it sounds like to me if anybody
wants to get one together this year, they might
better get after it. Everybody says, "Call Chris,
he'll know". I don't know anything, I just make up
answers real fast.
The Christmas parade in Rusk is going to be
December 7 at 5:30, which according to my calcula-
tions is today. The best part of the Rusk Christ-
mas parade is the annual Kiwanis Club Pan-
cake Supper that follows it every year at the
Chris Davis
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Rusk Junior High School
Cafetorium. You can't beat the
meal for five dollars.
Severa\ folks in our area have
already put up their Christmas
lights up and have them on. I
was talking to Virgil about it the
other day and he said that he
wasn't going to put any lights up
this year. He said that he used
to be the only one lit up in the
neighborhood. I told him that he
was getting too old for stunts
like that, but he said he was
—————— talking about lights on his
house. I remember when he
would write "Merry Christmas" in lights on his
roof and put a star on the antenna pole. Joan and
Charlie Felder have piled the lights on their new
house out on Highway 294. Country living has
sure gotten them in the Christmas spirit. Some
people have more luck showing off than others.
G.W. "Dad" Parker even got a picture of his
Christmas lights in Texas Monthly Magazine
several years ago when a well known photographer
came through taking pictures in the Weeping
Mary community. I could have live angels sitting
on top of my house and no one would come by and
take a picture. Virgil would probably think they
were some kind of birds out to raid the garden and
take shots at them with his shotgun.
I spent the first part of the week with 147 other
Justices of the Peace from across Texas in our
annual judge's school in Tyler. We are all required
to attend twenty hours of training every year and
Tyler was our closest school. Thank Goodness, the
legislature only meets every other year or we never
would be able to keep up with all the new laws
they come up with. There are judges in that school
that would make Judge Judy seem like a nice kind
little old lady. You can learn a lot of things about
the courts being around all of those other judges,
but mainly you just listen to their war stories. I'd
like to take Virgil up there and have him tried by
the whole lot of them. -
The wife and sister-in-law carried the mother-
in-law on a little trip to the hill country over the
weekend, but they brought her back. My wife
saved me so much money at that big outlet mall in
San Marcos that I may have to open up another
bank account in order to have a place to put all the
money I saved. I'm glad men aren't as dumb as
our wives think we are.
Things are going to be running wide open
between now and Christmas, so you better keep
your ears open and your eyes peeled to this column
if you don't want to miss anything. Be sure and
keep me posted on any holiday happenings going
on with your bunch. I'll see ya next week! And
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