Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 36, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1971 Page: 3 of 6
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Three Decades of Quilting
Jacksboro (T«) Gustts-News Page 3 Monday, February 1,1971
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Last week when members of
Cooper Community Quilting
Club tookcovereddlshes to the
home of Mrs. Maggie LeeMld-
dlebrooks some ten miles
northwest of Jacksboro and
spent the day quilting and
visiting they were partially
re-enacting a scene from
nearly thirty years ago.
A short time before then,
Mrs. Mlddlebrooks’ mother,
Mrs. Ricie Harper had moved
to Kress. Back visiting her
daughter, she wanted to see
all her former neighbors so
she persuaded Maggie Lee to
have a quilting.
,, The neighbors had a won-
rful time and promised Mrs.
arper if she would prolong
her visit they’d have another
quilting.
She did and they did.
Though Mr - Harper even-
By WYNELLE CATLIN
tually returned home, ttu
Cooper Community Quilting
Club is still meeting twice
a month.
Mrs. -Harper is deceased
but Maggie’s sisters, Mrs.
Polly So Relle and Mrs. Win-
nie Boyd came from Plain-
view for the anniversary. Mrs.
SoRelle presented each as a
favor, a thimble holding a
miniature arrangement of ar-
tificial flowers, centered with
a tiny toadstool and a little
red ladybug.
Daughter, Barbara, now
Mrs. Tom Gaston of Irving
was also present. She laugh-
ingly said she’d attended hun-
dreds of quiltings as a child
but had never quilted a stitch
in her life. Her daughter,
Ronda, 5, showed more in-
terest—she tried to quilt but
the needle "punched” her.
TWO ARE ON THE CHARTER—(1, left to right) Mrs. Mary
Boyd, Mrs. Ruthie Brisco Collier, charter member of Cooper
Community Quilting Club, and Mrs. Dovie Smith all like to
talk as well as anyone but were caught concentrating by photo-
grapher; (2) as was Mrs. Dessie Jamison, another charter
member, while Mrs. Marie Mlddlebrooks and Mrs. Mable
Campsey exchange a few words of gossip.—Photos by Wynelle
Catlin
C & W Supply Co.
New aid Used
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Ph. Day 567-3194
Night 567-2723
Jacksboro, Texas
Sewell Bldg. - South Main
Mrs. Mlddlebrooks has not
been able to attend quiltings
regularly in recent years
because erf a fulltime Job at
City Cash, nor has her sister-
in-law Marie Mlddlebrooks,
who was a special guest.
Visiting was Mrs. Helena
Davidson whose mother, the
late Mrs. Roy Boyd, attended
the first quilting and was an
active member until ill health
confined her to her home. Even
then she participated in special
activities with gifts or money.
Mrs. Rosa Campbell
dropped by during the after-
noon and Eva Mlddlebrooks,
Marie’s daughter, came after
school.
Mrs. Middlebrook’s hus-
band, Att, and I acted as
photographers for the spe-
cial event.
Three of the original quitt-
ers have attended faithfully
during the intervening years,
only the direst of emergen-
cies keeping them away. Mrs.
Georgette Myers had an
emergency last weekbutMrs.
Ruthie Brisco Collier and
Mrs. Dessie Jamison were
there.
Also Mmes. Mattie Horton,
Mary Boyd, Mabel Campsey,
Vivie Smith, Florence Camp-
bell, Dovie Smith, Necia
Riggs, Marie Farris and Miss
Irene Horton.
Mrs. Edna Riggs was unable
to attend but sent Mrs. Middle-
rooks a special gift, a ham-
mer she’d borrowed many
years ago. She had gold-
plated it for remembrance.
Other members unable to
attend were Mmes. Esther
Young, Mattie Epps, Ada
Whisitt.
Once the Quilting Club was
an exclusive Cooper enter-
prise. When some of the mem-
bers moved to town, other
Jacksboro residents joined
until now more members live
in Jacksboro than at Cooper,
which was never more than a
wideflung group of houses
named for the nearby school
long ago incorporated with
Jacksboro schools.
Each member takes her
turn being hostess. On that
day she has a quilt top ready
to quilt.
As others arrive they take
’heir place around the quilt
vhich is stretched tightly on
luilting frames and the need-
es fly.
The Club estimates they’ve
(uilted over 500 quilts for
nembersand another 50 have
jeen pieced, quilted and given
away.
Though most have gone to
county residents who’ve lost
their homes to fires, one was
a gift to an elderly bachelor
who was exceedingly proud of
the small home he’d just pur-
chaser
Two quilts were sent b.
Girls’ Town at Whiteface,
three to an orphanage in
Vaxahachie, one given to the
ocal convalescent home.
In the beginning, a quilt was
promised to the first member
to have a baby. Marie Mid-
Awnstrong-Fox
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gene
Armstrong are at home in Sea-
go villi, after their wedding
rites read in First Presby-
terian Church here on the
evening of Jan. 29 with the
Rev. Harold Black officiat-
ing.
The bride was formerly
Cherry Jones Fox. She is the
daughter erf Mr. and Mrs. Pey-
ton S. Jones.
Larry is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. G. Armstrong of
Newport. He is a graduate erf
Texas Tech and is presently
a sub-contractor for South-
western Bell Telephone Co.
Post Oak
starts
pgf foes.
6 p.m.
Underground Prices
on
Women's & Children's
Wear
Everything in the Store
's Dress
WHERE IT ALL STARfED—Mrs. Maggie Mlddlebrooks (center), with granddaughter Ronda
Gaston and sisters, Mrs. Polly SoRelle and Mrs. Winnie Boyd, in Mlddlebrooks home where
Quilting Club started 30 years ago.—Staff Photo
dlebrooks took that one. Five homemade. One gift, made by
have been given as wedding Dovie Smith, was an old-fash-
gifts. ioned slatted sunbonnet that
One was sent to Mrs. SoRelle unbuttoned to become an apron,
last spring when a tornado des- A small piggy bank is kept several members of theCe-
troyed her home, injured her and members occasionally juetery Association gathered
husband and sent her to the drop change in it. Money Wednesday at the Baptist
hospital for a long stay. from this is used for a re- Church in their first meet_
Two quilts were donated to membrance when there is ing ot tte year
Jack County Historical Society death in a member’s family. Mrs. Tina Conner has re-
during fund-raising drives to Sometimes money is taken turned from a visit to the Pat
restore Fort Richardson be- from the ‘pig’ to buy lining Pattersons in Albiy
fore the 1957 Jack County and batting for the quilts which Tina Leek visited her sister
Centennial. are given away. Mrs. Bill Culverhouse in
Many members have made The club has declined all Bowie last week end.
quilts for their children and offers of money to quilt for The Cecil Sparkman home
grandchildren but Vivie others. They stick totheori- was robbed of a television set
Smith has been the most in- ginal purpose, getting together and sorae jewelry last Tuesday
dustrious with two each for six to help each other quilt.
children, a baby quiltfor each And at the end of each quilt- while were away working,
of 12 grandchildren and one day they feel a sense of Riley Scarber visited Cecil
great grandson. Now, as the pride ^ they take from the Rhoades in Bowie Thursday,
grandchildren grow up she’s quilting frames a work of art- Junior high students of
making each a quilt as a high a beautiful handmade quilt. Midway were in a Basketball
school graduation gift. tournament at Prarie Valley
Mrs. Necia Riggs, after de- over the weekend,
daring many years ago she The Bob Nichols family
didn’t intend to ever make i rlllIIlaIllI.10h visited Wichita Falls last week
another quilt, joined three 6p|.;p& DrmKI^rl end-
years ago and is now finishing iCB i/uuulcu Diane and Vickie Scarber
her 30th top, seventeen of The National Humanities and Robert Haley visited Sheila
which have been quilted. She Series, a program designed Davis Saturday night.
has made quilts for her three to take humanities presenta-
children, 9 grandchildren, 5 tions to small communities, Nathan Scarber oi Dallas
great grandchildren, a niece has begun its second year of visited Mr. and Mrs. Riley
and a nephew. Besides that, operation with the number of Scarber. The Junior Davis
she’s sold three. presentations nearly doubled, family were also dinner guests
The quilts are as colorful The National Endowment Sunday,
and varied as the members for Humanities underwrites Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Cooper
who make them. the cost of the series, and of IlUnois, Mr. andMrts.$>ur-
Many are used as bed- the Woodrow Wilson Na- 8on Cooper of Antelope visited
spreads. Mable Campsey has a tional Fellowship Founda-Mlss Buelah Brothers re-
Red Poppy appliqued quilt in tion pian8 and administers cen^7‘
her red-carpeted bedroom, a the programs Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Bell of
Tree of Life in the green bed- The aeries will reach ap- Axie, Brenda a^d Amy Bell of
r0°rn- proximately 55 communities For Worth visitedMrs-
Mary Boyd has a quilt of jn 32 states and present three Spangler and Mrs. Foncine
g°\d,aH ”i?latcd themes, "Justice — Rodgers Wednesday.
**£ venl mmbers ^ h a v e Trial and Error’" a study of
“ man’s quest for an orderly ber and children, the Sidney
the Bittern is created by the community; “Stop, Look and Matlocks, Robert Haley, David
the pittern is created _by the Listen ..an expIoration of the and Cindy Nichols, Brian
Georgette Myws.wJmted hjimaniUes through the me- Owens. Mrs. Junior Daivs,
her own pattern dia of music, films, television,
Many membe'rs still piece drama’ arttand ^rature; Sheila ^d Mitchel attended
the simple Nine-Patch or Quilt and “Face to Face,” an in- a basketball game at Midway
of a Thousand Prints with dUiry into h°w and why mer Tuesday night. Midway de-
‘heir mixtures of colors and create. feated Forestburg in both
prints. The series, according to a eames.
Or Oddfellows, Lon# Star, spokesman, encourages in-__
Friendship, Drunkard’s Trail, formality, interaction, dia-
Flower Garden, Windmill- logue and a shared experi-
the patterns ar# endless. ence between the presents-
Quilting day is also eating jtion team and the audience,
day with the hostess providing
the meat course, bread and
drinks. Others bring home
grown home canned vege-
tables.
One of the favorites is
hominy made by Mattie and
Irene Horton.
Florence Campbell has a
specialty, fish, she catches
herself.
Is it any wonder relatives,
friends and neighbors use
every means to wangle an
invitation to lunch on quilting
day? Or that Marie Farris’
children beg to be allowed tc
come from school to eat with
the quilters? Or that there are
sometimes 25 people being
served buffet style that day? . _____________
At the quilting closest to ion wonld it be for or against
a members’ birthday she is the subject mentioned?”
honored with gifts, many _
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Tuesday- Wednesday-Thursday
February 2-3-4
Mflk Shakes
ft Matts
FAMILY DEAL
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or Shakes, 1 order of
French Fries ... $2.75
Dairy Queen
Wichita Falls Hwy
For Faster Service-Ph. 567-9409
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O Earnings Are Paid At The End Of Each
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DENTIST
Practice limited to extration
and construction of artificial
dentures.
Telephene 5*7-3322
John C. Wilson, D. D. S.
DENTIST
Phone 547-5711
Jacksboro
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McGee, Mabel Claire. Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 36, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1971, newspaper, February 1, 1971; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth735045/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.