Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 1989 Page: 6 of 18
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Well the rain missed us
last week. It has turned
a little cooler in the
last day ' or so. I love
cool weather, when it
gets hot I stay under the
fans. We had the window
up last night I nearly
froze, but I never let
that window down. The
night before I didn't
sleep to good because it
was so hot that night.
The fans were on but they
didn't help much.
We went to Canton
Saturday and spent a few
hours walking and having
fun with all of the other
people that came to shop.
The corney dogs are the
best in the world. When
you get tired qo get a
Giant Corney Dog. Then
you will be ready to
climb the hills over
there, that is so hard to
do when you are tired.
We were going to Dallas,
but never got to go.
Seems like it wasn't our
day. Hope to go some time
soon.
Don't forget there will
be a working at the
Simpkins Cemetery
Saturday May 6th. The men
are going to start
fencing the cemetery
that day. Bring a sack
lunch and come help us.
Paul and Caroll Foster
visited us Saturday,
night.
Jerry and Joann Owen
were over in Dallas this
weekend visiting with
their children.
Lucy Magee and Mae
Miller went to visit Mrs.
Vera Hayes Tuesday and
took her some poke salad
greens and corn bread. I
sure do hope you liked
them Vera.
We went by to see Velma
Strebeck that day^
Artemus and I were down
to see Velma Thursday
and took her to cafe and
to shop some. Had a call
from her today at lunch
hour.
Our evening services
tonight will be at
Daugherty Baptist Church
with other area churches.
There will be an all
church fellowship
Saturday night, May 6th,
6:30 p.m. in the
fellowship hall here.
Lucy Magee and I went
over to the Pilgrim Rest
Cemetery one afternoon to
visit in the cemetery. I
have a great grand mother
buried there Margarett
Ray. I can't find the
grave.
Lucille Martin, Mary
Cross and Dale attended
the Willow Springs school
reunion Saturday at
Green's Lake.
Paul Cross came over
after he got off of the
mail route.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Henderson and Mrs. Jettie
Henderson visited Lucille
Martin and Paul, Mary
Cross and Dale Saturday
evening
We visited Pat and
Francis Horne Friday
night on the farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Franklin were honored
a birthday supper in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Franklin Saturday night
April 29th. Those present
were Ray and Linda
Franklin, Pam Perry,
Sandra Franklin of
Frisco, James and Janice
and son Jesse Martin.
They all enjoyed the
supper and fellowship
together. Happy birthday
to yoUj Mr. Clyde. Hope
you have many more.
Don and Shirley McAree
visited with Oval and
Opal McAree Saturday
afternoon.
Well we got a nice rain
last night. Don't know
how much. It started
early in the morning. I
was up at 4:00 a.m.
It was coming down.
On our prayer list this
week ; Jesse Galyean,
Susie Skelton, Lane and
Paula, Rose and Dave
Owen, Johnnie Cunningham,
Clyde and Maudie
Franklin, Bernice
Galyean, the lost, our
church, Misty Steed, Paul
Cross, Maruim Mosely.
Our church sure did
enjoy the preaching and
singing at Daugherty
last night. We had
fellowship later at the
fellowship hail. Sure did
enjoy the nice food.
Everything was so good.
Was good to hear you sing
again bandy Hargroves.
Thanks Lucy for the nice
cookies. I will never
lose weight looking in
that sack of cookies.
Go see a friend take
them a flower of love.'*
There are a lot of lonely
people out there. Call
and tell them you love
them. Will go for this
time.
Have a real good week
God Bless everyone, See
you again real soon.
Renews Leader
Mrs. Mettie Kearney
renewed the subscription
to the Rains County
Leader for her brother,
Speed Malone, Emory.
Mrs. Raymond Spencer,
Point, was a visitor here
Thursday.
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■Where your Dollar
Makes More Cents"
Ms. Diane Kadmas has been
making Rains County her
home for the past few months
so that she can raise a new
batch of queen bees. She, and
other bee keepers up north,
found that our East Texas
weather is much more suited to
raising bees than the severe
cold weather they experience
in her home town of Richard-
ton, N. Dakota. It stays so cold
for such a long time in N.
Dakota, that they have found
that the bees will either freeze,
or they will starve. She said it’s
stili in the 30's there now, but
it can become very hot in the
summer.
Literally hundreds of people
come down from the north
each year to split their hives, to
be able to make up for their
dead ones and be able to in-
crease their number of hives. If
a hive loses its queen, the bees
themselves are able to raise a
new queen. A worker egg can
be turned into a queen. Some-
times the bee keeper will make
a hiv • queenless on purpose, so
that they can increase their
number of queen bees. The
keeper is able to graft eggs into
cell cups, and after 10 days
they are put into little boxes,
You leave them for 15-days
until they've mated and then
they are caught and sold. This
is another way a bee keeper
earns money, besides the
honey that is sold.
Diane says she was raised in
a briar patch in N. Dakota, but
has worked in many places
while in the business of raising
bees, such as Hawaii, Califor-
nia, Zavalla (which is in
Texas), and even Nacodoches.
She arrived in our beautiful
part of East Texas in Decem-
ber, and immediately found a
perfect place for ‘bee raising’
-right in the midst of a big
patch of clover. Bee keepers
always locate their stand of
hives in alfaifa or clover, and
then wait for the honey to
come. And as for her neigh-
bors living close by, she’s so
appreciative of their tolerance.
They’ve been very kind in put-
ting up with her bees.
After visiting with Diane for
awhile. I learned more about
bees than I had ever known
before, and she says there are
two very important things you
learn right away:
1. ”Scratch” the stingers out
-do not pull them out.
2. When the bee’s “sound”
changes - you know they’re go-
ing to sting you. Then you
pinch them to kill them. She
was telling me these things as
we were standing in the middle
of the hives, as bees were
swarming all around us and
landing in my hair. She also
explained that her swollen lip
was due to a bee sting earlier
that morning. I told her this
was not a good time to be tell-
ing me such things, as I’m not
usually afraid of bees or
expecting to be stung, but now
perhaps I should(?).
Diane is proud to be in bus-
iness for herself, and being her
own boss is great! It’s just she
and her best friend
‘Collateral,’ (a very talented
and loveable pup), and she
likes it that way. But, the part
of bee keeping she doesn’t look
forward to has arrived, and
she’ll soon be getting her bees
ready to be moved back to N.
Dakota. She’ll be calling the
trucking company that usually
moves her, and they’ll load all
the bee hives together and
cover them with a huge net.
Once they start on their long
trip, with the bees all covered,
they aren't able to stop or the
bees would smother. They
need the wind to keep them
cooled off. But I’m also sure
Diane is looking forward to be-
ing back in her home town and
seeing all her family once
again. And thanks, Diane, for
our lesson in bees (and the fact
that I didn’t get stung!).
By Linda Hass
RAINS COUNTY
LEADER
Emory, Texas Thursday,
May 4,1989 Pago 6
Ms. Diane Kadmas came to Rains County to be able to
raise her queen bees in a much warmer climate than N.
Dakota has to offer, but she’ll be packing them all up and
moving up north once again ... all too soon.
Staff photo by Linda Hass
Henrietta's
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It looks like the
Dougherty Community is
finally in full bloom.
Ihe green grass and
beautiful flowers around
are really a welcome
sight. Even some of the
fruit trees that had a
hard time with late frost
are trying to bloom.
This has really been a
wonderful week for County
Line Baptist Church. I
forgot to mention last
week that this past week
would be the youth
revival. Everyone
enjoyed a lot. of good
preaching and gospel
singing. The young folks
had a really good time.
They went out visiting a
couple of times and then
finished off the revival
Saturday aftqrnoon with a
pizza party and a full
house Saturday night.
Once again we had a good
crowd Sunday Morning with
Bro. Crumpton delivering
the message and then a
wonderful baptism Sunday
afternoon. We had four of
our members to be
baptized.
Sunday evening church
services were dismissed
so that we could all go
to the Woosely Church and
join them in a great
evening of gospel
singing. There was really
a lot of good talent
there and we all enjoyed
visiting the Woosley
Church. The hospitality
there was really great.
And we see where Jim and
Gayle Dean Burchett
spent several days at the
farm on highway 19 North.
While there they had
several visitors
including the following:
Myself, Robert and Amanda
Welch; Mr. and Mrs,
Robert Burchett of Lake
Livingston, Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Burchett of
Greenville, Mr. and Mrs.
Lony Burchett of Caddo
Mills, Susie Dougherty,
Veda Dougherty, Junell
Blanton, Rick Davis,
Doug, Carol and Beth
Burchett and numerous
children including Jamey,
Jana, Jodi, Jake, Joel,
Sharon, Jeff, and Debbie.
It really sounds like
Jim and Gayle Dean had a
fun week. They had a yard
sale which she said was
real success. Friday
evening Jim and his
brother Robert Burchett
hosted a fish fry with
Louis and Peggy Potts and
Erve Potts joining in. I
am sure they had good
time.
Also, Travis Potts took
his dogs over to Jim's
house one night and all
the men and dogs went
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had a good time.
William had a classmate
of his, Kenny Warren of
Point to spend the
weekend with us. William
took him to church two
nights and also Sunday
School. I bet they must
have ridden their bike 50
miles over the weekend.
When it came time for
Kenny to go home Sunday,
it was little Amanda that
really got upset. She
really has lot of fun
when William has a lot of
fun when William has his
friends over. William had
said that ail the bike
riding really got him
down.
Oh yes I forgot to
mention ealier that Danny
and Jeanette Beasley and
Sara dropped by to visit
Gayle and Jim Burchett,
theyhad been to the doctor
and I hear they are
expecting a "bundle of
joy" from the stork any
day now. Also Rick Danis
and Jamey Burchett fished
on Lake Fork Saturday and
reported great results.
Mrs. Deanne Cooke was
honored with a baby
shower Saturday afternoon
at the home of Mrs.
Elaine Jenkins. She
recieved several nice and
useful gifts.
Edward Toles was an
early Monday morning
visitor of Aunt Frances.
Veda Dougherty went to
Waco to visit her sister
Omega Oler. They then
went to Fort Worth to
visit their Aunts Essie
McClung and Reba Henshaw.
Saturday, C.F. and
Georgia Vititow drove to
Lake Grandbury where they
spent the dav with Jackie
and Jim Tanton at their
beautiful ranch. Jims
mother Mrs. Vester
Rhodes, Theo Rae and her
husband, Clovis Mitchell,
were there also. Jim and
Jackie showed them around
their ranch and they all
had a good time talking
about the old days.
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DEAR EDITOR:
I am a concerned business-
man and citizen of Emory and
Rains County. I am very
muchly concerned with the
attitudes and directions with
which the citizens of this area
are taking. I have lived in
Rains County only 6 years, yet
I feel as though I have lived
here much longer.
The entire state of Texas is
having problems and each of us
as citizens are having to learn
new tricks per se, because of
changes in the economy and
lifestyles.
I have some information
which came from East Texas
Council of Governments (ET-
COG) and is a direct result of
Perryman Report done on the
region which I want to share.
Rains County has a popula-
tion of about 6,223 as of 1988
and had a 21.6% increase in
population from 1980 to 1986,
and 29% increase from 1970 to
1980, which indicates growth.
The average age is 39 years.
Nearly 14% of the families
are living below poverty level
and the unemployment rate is
about 6%.
The population of Emory is
about 1013 as of 1986 while
East Tawakoni has 539 and
Point has 493, which is about
33% of the population of the
county.
The City of East Tawakoni
is the only town which adopted
planning controls, etc., a plan-
ning & zoning commission,
and adopted ordinances to in-
sure the quality of life of its
citizens. As a result, the popu-
lation increase from 1980-1986
in East Tawakoni was 33.4%
while Point had 5.3% and
Emory had an increase during
the same time period of
24.6%.
East Tawakoni and Point
each have police departments
to serve their citizens while
Emory has none and depends
solely on the county sheriff to
protect its citizens.
The agricultural community
dominates the county with 2/3
of the population and about 15
million dollars income annual-
ly-
These facts and figures both
alarm and entice me. An in-
crease in population to a busi-
ness man serving the public
means growth and prosperity.
But 14% living below poverty
level and unemployment of 6%
is appalling! _
Lakes Fork & Tawakoni
bring hundreds, maybe thou-
sands of strangers through the
county every week and the
largest town doesn’t have a
police department nor any
planning controls for future
growth.
A platform for one of the
candidates for local office
recently was to try changing
the state laws at the city level
and asked the question of why
strangers moved here because
it interfered with their lifestyle.
Economic development
should be and must be every-
one’s business and we all must
work together to achieve suc-
cess with it.
That does not mean just
Emory or Point or East Tawak-
oni-that means every one of us
working together.
I would like to see goods and
services available here in our
county instead of driving 30 or
more miles to buy these things.
An economic foundation is
here on the local level, but it
requires teamwork to gain suc-
cess and friendliness. What is
it that makes so many friendly
people unfriendly towards
newcomers and why is it the
goods and services we need
aren’t being bought and sold
here instead of Mineola, Quit-
man, Sulphur Springs, Green-
ville, Tyler and Dallas?
If we spent our dollars here
instead of these other places
and worked together to obtain
them, we wouldn’t have 14%
poverty level or below, or 6%
unemployment. Why not look
around and see what you can
do to help change things and
don’t mind your neighbor if he
has a different opinion than
you. Find out the facts for
yourself.
It is each one of our civic
and moral responsibility to
take an interest in our com-
munity and be proud of it, and
we all deserve the quality of
life we want and we should
help each other achieve it.
Recently I read where San
Antonio advertised “Buy San
Antonio.” This did not mean
the article said “San Antonio
was for sale, it simply meant
buy locally.” Why not “buy
Rains County”?
MIKE DUNLAP
Rt. 1
Emory, Texas 75440
Editor's Note: Point no
longer has a police depart-
ment.__
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honored at a ceremony at Camp Wisdom Training Lodge in Dun-
canville on Sunday, April 30th, on his attainment of Scouting’s
highest honor, “The Eagle Scout Award.” He is the son of Mr.
& Mrs. Guy Nigh of Mesquite and grandson of Mrs. Mildred
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Becknell, Kathleen Hill. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 4, 1989, newspaper, May 4, 1989; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765088/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rains County Library.