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The Dublin Citizen
Thursday, December 11,1997
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(From the pages of The Dublin
Progress)
25 YEARS AGO
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The yoang people of fint Bap-
tiu Qwrcfc were doing a live,
aativity aceae at the chnrck
Sump tales for the finl 12 days
of this moath were ap 30 percent
over the same period kst year,
according to {\Mtoastcr Bill
Cowan
The fire department’s door-to-
door sobcitatioo was delayed by
bad weather. The firemen are col-
lecting funds to purchase a rural
fire track.
Three Dublin Lions football
players were maned to all-district
team. They were Mike Eoft Mike
Jurney and Tom Griffith. Honor-
able meurioa were John Dale
Speer. Darwin Hester. John
Hodges. Randall Joiner. TJL Mal-
one. Robert Martin and Mickey
Kennedy.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 12. 1947
Dublin Rotary Chib welcomed
new members Dr. C.A. Jordan.
Clyde King. Roy Oberlander and
Bill Lee.
Walter Hamilton was elected to
serve on the State Board of Super-
visors of the Soil Conservation
Service.
Dublin Mills had a new lighted
neon sign and people were encour-
aged to drive by to see it.
The telephone company was in-
stalling an additional switchboard
for 60 new city telephones and IS
rural lines.
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Deadlines near for
Goodfellows food,
toy applications
Deadline for Goodfellow food
boxes is Monday, Dec. IS. Food
will be delivered by volunteers on
Thursday and Friday, Dec. 18 and
19. -u
Deadline for applications for
toys is Friday, Dec. 19., „ .
Toys are to be picked up be-
tween 10 a m and 4 p.m.'Monday
and Tuesday, Dec. 22 and 23.
Donations which have been re-
ceived by Goodfellows for the toy
and food program include:
Dorothy Shafer - candy; Estelle
Swindle - toys; Ruby Pratt - toys;
and cash from Mary and Dick
Yantis, Higginbothams, Mr. and
Mrs Jerry Stephens, Elgin Maikell,
the Norton Company and Mr. and
Mrs. Troy Baxter.
To make a donation, contact
Goodfellow president Delbert Sha-
fer at 220 Grade St., 445-3173.
to Dublin Senior Citizens Center
By O.W. Janes
its floors, there could be a pot of gold,
on the somh is the owe mostly need,
in another, you will be excused.
When yoajogffc in the south door and start down the hall.
There is dpffcc on the table, maybe your picture on the wall.
journey to the can, there’s a large thrift store.
It s patted full of goodies, and bargains galore.
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Across the hall from there is a very special place.
The artist there on Monday can paint a portrait of your face.
Up the hull from there is the exercise room. You can walk or ran
util you fall on your boom boom,
it’s crazy to me to do all that running. I could never tell if I was
going or coming.
Next in line up the hall is the slave labor room
Where the ladies sew fabric from a wide spinning loom.
^ On the west wing is our nice dining space.
Joined by a kitchen that’s a neat little place.
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Over on the north 40 is the party room.
Its floors are kept slick with a mop and a broom.
You can sit and play bingo, then eat homemade dessert.
You can two-step and waltz til your little feet hurt.
We have a piano, if you know bow to use it.
The lady named Lucille can really abuse it.
1 kid her all the time; but she doesn't get mad.
She can bring back old songs that I thought were dead.
Now Dublin Senior Citizens is a mouthful to say,
Bid the folks at the Center say it several times a day
When the telephone is answered and the caller on the line
Says "Put me down for lunch. Til be there just in time."
The fellowship at the Center, the concern for each other is so,
I like it at borne; but up there I'd rather go.
Many limes I have gone there during the past year.
The friends I have made there are very special and dear.
Should I be called away, there's no question they would say,
"Old O.W.'s gone and left us. found another place to play."
There is one thing for sure, I have had a barrel of fun,
Oops!! They're calling me now for dominoes - Sony, I gotta run.
Dublin United set
to re-open today
Employees of Dublin United Su-
per said Wednesday they anticipate
opening the store "bright and
early" today.
The E. Blackjack St. grocery
store was closed last Wednesday
following an electrical fire.
The Dublin Citizen of-
fice will be closed the
last week of Decem-
ber. We will print on
Dec. 23 and resume
publishing on Jan. 8.
Lingleville sets hearing
on AEIS report
Interested parents and commu-
nity members are invited to
attend a public hearing on die
AEIS (Academic, Excellence In-
dicator System) during the Lpi-
gleville ISD board meeting at 8
p.m. Monday in the school li-
brary.
The AEIS report is prepared
annually by the Texas Education
Agency for each district in the
state. Lingleville was among the
vast majority of districts in the
state receiving the "academi-
cally acceptable” rating.
Copies of the report are avail-
able at the school, county news-
papers and radio stations, and
the Lingleville Country Store.
Questions may be addressed to
the superintendent at 968-2596.
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First National Bank
ACROSS
1 aerial by Aikman
5 TX Tech women won
*83 championship in
Atlanta's_arena
6 TXism: 'hits the.
52 TXism: 'rules the
De Leon • DUBLIN • Gustine
Presents
The Ominaf
53 TXism: 'don't get your
shorts in a_*
54 TXism: 'catterwall*
55 Stephenville is its seat
DOWN
1 area near Caddo:
State Park
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7 Spurs bench warmers 57 TX actor Wallach
8 Bevo's school 58 TXism: 'guilty as_*
9 TX Tucker won this 59 'tit for_'
group's vocalist of
the year award (’91)
12 Staubach attended
this academy
17 Fort Worth s
_ Field
20 TX Bush appointed this
Garza federal judge
22 ex-Ranger mgr. Kevin
23 TXism: Hot as__
_ mesquite coals'
24 TX-made dog film
28 poker stake
29 you can get__on
Padre Island beach
30 TX bluebonnet
artist Onderdonk
31 early Indian attacks
35 TXism: 'useless as
perfume___*
36 Alamo Live
displays
engines
42 TXism: false alarm
brand* (2 wds.)
44 seat of Jones Co.
46 TX actress Annette
cr_
47 ex-goy. Richards
49 four religious weeks
before Christmas
50 TX‘68 shotputter
Matson (init.)
51 TXism:'_lutin'*
(haughty)
2 participant in
Olneyk one-
armed dove hunt
3 TXism: 'uppity as
a mountain goat*
4 TXism: *_tall
in the saddle'
9 U.S. rep. Edwards
from Waco
10 Galveston's Moody
Gardens has
largest man-_
TEXAS
Copyright 1997 by Orbbon Bros.
11 Miss Texas ('92):
_Parker
12 teachers' assoc.
13 TX Krueger was
_to Mexico
14 U.S. rep. Johnson
was namPOW
15 this Alan starred
with TX Burnett in
The Four Seasons’
16 Albany's mascot
18 Santa _ Bird
Refuge
19 a news channel
21 The eyes _ Texas
are upon you'
24 dinner roll
25 actor Jack of
Texas Wheelers'
26 TXism:'__
in the bud*
27 prison guard
30 in Montague Co.
on 82: Saint _
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34 Paris, TX has Chili
_ Parse Cookoff
36 TX Prentiss TV
P-310
40 TXism: 'he_
barbed wire for
dental floss' (tough)
41 in Chambers Co.:
_Belvieu
43 this 'Lindy' landed
in TX in '23 (init.)
45 ex-Cowboys asst,
coach Norv (init.)
48 SW of San Antonio
in Medina Co.
37 TX electronics firm
32 TX Charley Pride's 38 this Texan married
Then Who _ I?' John Steinbeck
33 TX Tubb hit:'_ 39 TX Bob Strauss
Walking the Floor’ was_to Russia
show: 'He and —* 49 af
TV II.A, 49 8 90K,®n at
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51 the Korman on TX
Burnett's show (init.)
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First National Bank
825 N. Patrick • P.O. Box 440 • Dublin TX 76446 • t254) 445-4400
with branches in Dublin, De Leon and Gustine
Member FDIC
LETTERS
LIBRARY NEWS
Dear Editor,
For the past 15 yens or so 1 have Christmas presents from the li-
beral a subscriber and reader of the brary to all regular and irregular
local Dublin newspaper. During readers: Hoe-Free January. For
that time I always tbongia that it those of yon unfamiliar with the
would be nice if the newspaper had procedure (if anyone is). Fine-Free
a few comic strips. Well, my wish January means that no lines will be
has partially come tine; no comic charged on overdue books during
strips, but, better yet, the goings ou the entire first month of the year. If
at City Hall. your book is only one week over-
The reports in the paper are due, this may not seem like such a
almost unbelievable that so much bonanza, but what if you clean the
could happen in a small town like spare bedroom for GirisUnas and
Dublin. From the firing of the city discover some unsuspecting guest
manager, dismissal of the police has tossed a brand-new library
chief, the mayor and council bick- hook behind the bed and it has lain
cring with each other and a lawyer there for eight-and-a-half months,
who seems to have an axe to grind, or maybe just since Easter? Not to
it has been great reading kbout it. worry. You can return this book.
When we have company visit us, along with others that have met
we try to take them to Granbury to similar fate, in January: no ques-
tbe opera, but we are now consid- lions asked; no fines charged,
ering taking them to a City Council Could be a real bargain,
meeting in Dublin. We would have (I think I got the directions
more laughs than a barrel of mon- straight from Librarian Carolyn
keys and I don't think they charge Holden. If I missed something,
an admission fee yet, so I would slic'll correct me next week.)
save a few dollars. Actually, overdue books are no
I hope for the sake of Dublin real problem for the average
residents that your elected officials reader. An illegal week costs only
grow up and quit acting like a a dime (you certainly can't buy
bunch of spoiled brats and become lime anywhere else, or anything
responsible human beings and do else, for only ten cents) and if you
the right thing. If this should lose a book or lend one to a
happen I'll be happy and sad at the -careless friend, the library does not
same time: liappy for the Dublin charge more than the price of the
resideuls and sad because my book, less age and length of use.
Hie library is a very generous
institution. That's why they call it a
Free Public Library.
Our Free Public Library lias a
comic page is gone.
Jimmy R. Hurt
Fort Worth
new Christmas story on the new
books shelf, written by Julie Sala-
moo and illustrated by Jill Weber.
(Anticipating the argument that
there is only ONE Christmas Story
and that is THE Christmas Story,
may I suggest that all Christmas
Stories point to, illustrate, eluci-
date, or emphasize THE Christmas
Stoiy). This one docs all of the
above.
The Christmas Tree is about a
little orphaned girl who, in her
loneliness, develops a friendship
with a tree. Many yean later, as an
old woman, she decides to sacrifice
her tree and allow it to be cut for
use as a Christmas tree in Rock-
efeller Center, where it becomes an
object of awe and admiration to
iliousands, many of them children.
Delightfully told in a mere 118
pages, litis story would be great for
family oral reading or for a Girist-
mas program. A tear jerker, it's
sentimental but pure. Tree wor-
shippers will go bananas over this
one, but it's still good entertain-
ment for those of us who still think
trees are a renewable resource.
If you're looking for an escape
novel, you can't beat Reality and
Dreams by Muriel Spark. Family
mix-ups, mystery and a surprise
ending are all squeezed into this
160-page novel about a British
movie director and his daughters,
wives and casts. This one is a
mood elevator and could save you
a sleeping pill as well.
EDNA HILL
By Juanita Burleson
Sunday night is singing night at
Edna Hill Baptist Church. We hope
to liave some special guests there.
We will liave a social afterwards.
We always enjoy guests at
church such as Bob Baker, Brandi
Slalhie! and Tornmye and Ed Au-
trey.
Virgil and Dnisilla Stillwell vis-
ited witli Phil and Merle Grozier
Wednesday afternoon.
Frank and Rita Barbee were in
Oakalla Wednesday helping Waller
and Iva Barbee and Dakota move.
Wanda Davidson, Marie Petti-
john, Leldou and 1 were in Temple
Wednesday shopping.
I helped Bud Davidson celebrate
his birthday Sunday by taking him
a pound cake and eating lunch with
him and Wanda. Ann Cole, Patty
and Marvin dropped by that after-
noon. Aim dropped by Tad and
Willa Gilbreath's on her way home.
Virginia Ami Stephen went to
china painting class Monday in
Stephenville.
Hazel Sharp had the misfortune
of falling last week and breaking
her ami.
We extend our deepest sympathy
to the family of Dr. Carl Jordan.
I Ic was loved by many.
Jolui and Lisa Barbee celebrated
their seventh wedding anniversary
Sunday by spending the weekend
with Walter and Iva Barbee aud
Dakota.
Janiece Pettijohn attended the
Clirislmas dinner at the late J.A.
Pettijohn farm Sunday. All nine
living children and spouses were
there as well as some grandchil-
dren.
Several met at Camiia Black's
Thursday and did work on things
for the rest home.
Marvin and Patty Jaggars had a
birthday supper Monday for Bud
Davidson. Wanda, Mr. and Mrs.
Gaylon Jones, Janiece Pettijohn,
Ann Cole, Leldon Barbee and I
attended.
Ann Cole, Lela Wade, Wanda
Davidson and I went shopping in
Fort Worth Monday.
Terry Samuels dropped by to
visit the Rodney Blacks Saturday.
Saijinq. JJumkA
The Dublin Citizen
(USPS 006412)
404 N. Patrick
Dublin TX 76446
(254) 445-2515
FAX (254) 445-4116
Published by Karen Wright at 404
N. Patrick, Dublin TX 76446.
Periodicals Postage paid at
Dublin, Texas
POSTMASTER: Send address
changes to The Dublin Citizen,
404 N. Patrick, Dublin TX 76446.
On Dec. 2, one of our truck
loads of trees had a mishap in
downtown Dublin and it caused
quite a bit of excitement, blocking
traffic in both directions.
We would sincerely like to ex-
press our appreciation for all of
those who helped clear the truck
and trailer from the roadway. We
especially would like to thank the
city employees and the Dublin
police for their help and coopera-
tion.
It is truly a pleasure to live and
do business in a community like
Dublin. We are proud to be a part
of that community.
We are sorry for those that we
inconvenienced and appreciate ev-
eryone's cooperative spirit.
Thank you,
Sid Miller and Mark Miller
Miller Nursery & Tree Co.
*****
December 4th marked a new
beginning for our community. The
Clirislmas Thyme in Dublin 1997
was a true success due to many
hours of volunteer time, energy
and financial support. Dublin and
surrounding areas are known for
tlie spirit of voluuleerisni. It is an
honor and a privilege to be known
as the community tlial shares and
cares.
Clirislmas Thyme in Dublin's
success was also due to mauy who
not only volunteered, but those
those who participated in the fes-
tivities. Thank you, volunteers,
participants, and those wlio went
the extra mile for showing that
Dublin is a community that shares
and cares.
Dublin Chamber of Commerce
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*****
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A special thank you to those who
participated in the 1997 Christmas
lliyine in Dublin Parade.
A special thank you to Santa for
slopping in Dublin and the Leath-
erwood fire truck for his rescue.
Thank you also to Mark Kloster
aud the Dublin Rotary Club for
assisting with the parade. Last, but
not least, to Barbara Holcomb at
Sunset for hosting the parade
judges for dinner.
Parade winners were Cub Scout
Pack 35, first place, Wanda Wade
Dancers, second place, and Dr
Pepper, third place.
Parade judges were Becky Farrar
of Clairelte, Ike Mercer of Mineral
Wells and Pat Rabe of Meridian.
Don Wood
Parade Chairman
./Relieve holiday stress!1
^Enjoy a Dublin Dr Pepper while
shopping at Old Doc s Soda Shop
Open late
Dec. IIth & ISth!!!
Old Doc's
Soda Shop
105 E. Elm,
445-3939'
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Wright, Karen. The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 11, 1997, newspaper, December 11, 1997; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth761917/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dublin Public Library.