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4 — THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHOrfeulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, March 31,2000
Reports From Our Area Correspondents
ARBALA
By Cathy B. Halter
Spring is. here! The weather is
beautiful, the sun and wind is warm.
It is time to fly kites, plant flowers,
mow the lawn and even go camping.
I don't know if Mike and Dillon
.Smith have taken time to plant flow%
ers lately, but they have been camp-
ing. This camping trip for Dillon and
his cub scout troop had the dads brav-
ing the wild woods of southern Okla-
homa. After Lynn took her turn last
year, Mike was due up for the “Lad
and Dad" weekend. Along with the
wild woods, rumor has it that they got
in on some pretty nasty weather.
The Kids Klub met last Wednesday.
The kids are sure proud ol the new
play ground equipment. Each week it
seems like the group grows a little
bigger.
The Rev. Leroy Reaves was at
Arbala UMC this past Sunday lor
worship services. The childrens Sun
day school class sang Amazing Grace
and other beautiful hyms they had
been practicing. Garth Looney also
provided the congregation with a very
inspiring song
Before 1 forget, 1 would like to
encourage you to run over to Brinker
Volunteer Fire Department on March
31 for a fish fry and auction. 1 am told
it will he well worth the trip for the
supper! The auction will be a great
way to finish off the evening. The fish
fry starts around 6 p.m. and the auc-
tion will follow. The fire station at
Brinker is located on FM 69 south of
1-30. Head on over that way and lend
your support. There are many times
that Brinker VFD comes over in our
neck of the woods to hack up our on
VFD when the fires are more than
one department can handle.
Please remember to support all our
local volunteer fire departments.
These fire departments run largely on
the donations'made by citizens in the
area. We also wish the best of luck to
Reilly Springs in their effort to get a
volunteer fire department started.
Hey, don’t forget to move your
clock forward this weekend. Yea!
Longer days! Yes, that’s right, day-
light savings time begins this week
end.
Last week 1 mentioned that there
are a few household items that will be
needed for the upcoming Arbala
UMC vacation bible school. Well,
thanks to L.J. Wilburn (or Lou Jane
Robinson as most folks around here
may know her) we have a great start
on the aluminum pie pans! We will
also need ceral boxes. 1 think the larg-
er the better will work just fine, nut
any size will be appreciated.
If you have children who refuse to
use crayons after (hey are broken or
all but used up. we can use them. too.
They will be used for one of the
many crafts planned for the week
longVBS.
Arbala UMC has several events
coining up in the next lew weeks
starting with a covered dish supper
and "chalk talk" ,\yitlf the congrega-
tion and the Rev. Walter Zimmerman.
The supper will be held on Saturday
night, April 15. beginning at 6:30
p in. at the community center.
Another very special day to mark
you calendar for is “Bring A Friend
Sunday". This has been a special Sun-
day Service throughout the parish for
quite ometime now with the friendly
and good natured competition of
which church can fill the pews with
family and guest. This year Bring A
Friend Sunday is scheduled for April
9. Worship services at Arbala will
begin at 9:30 a.m. There will be
breakfast before the service. This will
probably start around 8:30. Gary
Henderson is rounding up his pan-
cake cooking crew!
Please make plans to come out to
Arbala UMC and share a wonderful
Sunday morning.
On Thursday. April 20, Arbala
UMC will host Maudy Thursday ser-
vices beginning at 6:30 p.m. Good
Friday Services will be held at
Gafford Chapel at 7 p.m. on April 21
Easter Sunrise Services will be h&ld at
Pickton UMC around 6:30 a.nr
In closing, let me say that our
thoughts and prayers are With the
George Durch family al their time of
loss. George Durch passed away on
Friday. George was a very special
person in our community and our
church. He will be greatly missed.
God Bless the family of George
Durch
Take care and may God Bless you
all. See you next week.
REILLY SPRINGS
By Bobby McDonald
The rain over the weekend was
very much appreciated and has helped
to'bring spring into the area. The
month.of March has been one of the
wettest'months in recent memory.
old \C5ves’ tale that seemed to
have drculated around Reilly Springs
in years, past, was that to cure
"thrush'’''Chives of the mouth), a per-
son who had never seen his father
coulfi blow into the child’s mouth and
cure the symptoms. Walter Milner it
seems was called upon many times,
as he was bom after his father died.
Issac W. Milner came to Texas
from Mississippi and settled near
Hearne, in Robertson County, where
he met and married Martha Emmaline
Carter. They and their seven children
moved to Reilly Springs and settle
don a farm, that is now owned by
Vera Harrington on FM 2560. They
had two more children born after they
arrived in Reilly Springs, Walter and
Jim.
Walter was horn a few months after
his father died, and grew to manhood
in the community. He married
Blanche Teague of Reilly springs and
they reared their children on a farm
near the Seymore community. Their
children were Marie. Roy, Laveme,
Sybil and Vernell. Marie married
Audie West, who grew up in Reilly
Springs. Audie and Marie had a dairy
farm in Arbala and were the parents
of JoAnn Henderson, who resides on
her parents farm today.
Legend has it that a Reilly Springs
farmer brought his sick wife into see
the doctor. After an examination, the
farmer asked the doctor how she was.
"I really can t find anything in partic-
ular wrong with her," replied the doc-
tor. "But she doesn’t look too good!"
"I know!" remarked the farmer,
"but she is awful sweet and good to
the kids!”
Several of the dairymen and beef
cattle producers in the area have
reported loosing some of their coastal
Bermuda grass due to the drought
conditions the past two summers. I
noticed that Red and Robert Smith
were plowing up one of their hay
meadow this past week, to revitalize
it. The harsh summer conditions have
also killed many of the oak trees in
the Reilly Springs area.
The mild winter (hat we have had
has been nice for the ones of us that
get out ad feed and take care of cattle.
However, I have noticed that the flies
are already out and bothering cattle.
This is a negative side-effect of the
mild weather.
On Wednesday of last week, I
attended a State Fair Livestock Board
meeting in Dallas. Following the
meeting, I had the opportunity to go
to the Dallas Arboretum.
The flowers were absolutely beau-
tiful. The azaleas, tulips and pansies
were spectacular. If you are in the
Dallas area, if is well worth stopping
by.
A Look At The Accomplishments Of Our Young people
Tops in math
Students at Como-Pickton ISD in kindergarten through sixth grade raised
$5,079.84 in the St. Jude’s Medical Research Hospital Math-a-Thon. The
top three students, pictured from left, are fifth-grader Cody Nixon, $300; first-
grader Kaitlyn Busby, $803.80; and fifth-grader Andrea France, $370.
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Scarlet Thompson, left, of Sulphur Springs poses with her cow Remakes
Tess, which won grand champion female in the Junior Jersey Dairy Show
March 4 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Also pictured is Crys-
tal Vaughn.
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Math-a-Thon
Travis Elementary School students in first through fourth grades raised
$4 188.11 in the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Math-a-Thon. Six
students raised more than $125. Pictured from the left are: (back) Olga Mar-
tinez, Brittani Dillard, Jamal Freeman, (front) Austin Souder and Taylor East-
wood. Not pictured is JacQuese Beachum.
ashion show
articipants in the recent Hopkins County 4-H Fashion Show included, from
ie left: (front) Travis Hicks, Kendall Smith, Anna Lynne Hicks, Jessica
ameron, (middle) Alyssa Cox, Jennifer McDonald, Stephanie Clanton,
ache I Carrington, Hannah Carrington, Crystal Clem, (back) Carley Stew-
1, Megan Stewart, Sam Woody, Elizabeth McDonald and Dustin Huie.
Students of the Month
Miller Grove students of the month for March are: Neal Alexander, left, 10th
grade, son of David and Emily Alexander; Amanda Sims, center, fourth
grade, daughter of Shane and Amy Watson of Brashear and Ronald Sims
of Sulphur Springs; and Brandon Stunkard, right, eighth grade, grandson of
Carolyn and Terry Stjnkard.
Winners
Four students from Como-.
Pickton Elementary
School came away from
the Region VIII Science
Fair in Mount Pleasant
Wednesday with top
awards. In fourth grade,
Rachel Smith placed first
in the physical science
competition, while Mollye
Lay placed second in the
biological science compe-
tition. In fifth grade,
Johnathan Garrett placed
first and Jensen Mabe
placed third in the biologi-
cal science competition.
Pictured from the left are:
(back) Smith, Mabe, (front)
Garrett and Lay
Mrs. Sybil Whitehurst Gafford
gave me a call this past week and
clarified that the house that I men-
tioned last week that was built by her
father, actually cost $1,400. She relat-
ed that he would save up dimes until
he got ten dollars worth and then
would deposit them in the bank. The
carpenters that built the house were
Alex and Bill Bailey.
Morgan Whitehurst still has one
grandson living in the community,
Mickey Ledbetter.
The Reilly Springs Cemetery Asso-
ciation has purchased the pine trees
west of the cemetery for future
expansion. Thanks to Kerry Bailey
for allowing us to purchase the land
to “square up” the cemetery proper-
ty-
Grover H Bailey has plowed up
the old cotton gin lot in Reilly
Springs and planted a garden there. I
also noticed that Joe Moore and his
daughter, Debbie, already had a large
garden planted on their place, down-
town Reilly Springs.
The Reilly Springs Methodist
Youth Group were very busy all day
Saturday, with the help of some of the
adults. They cleaned a 3 1/2 mile strip
of roadway in an effort to clean up
the community. Following their
efforts, supper was served at the
church and Bro. Zimmerman present-
ed a “chalk talk.” He is quite an artist
according to the members of the
church.
The clean up efforts are evidently
“catching.” The board of directors of
the community center sponsored a
clean up effort at the center and Bill
Wingo has volunteered his time to
clean some of the roadways next Sun-
day afternoon.
It is a sad fact that we must clean
the roadways, when motorists could
keep their trash and debris and
deposit it in a trash container. How-
ever, it is extremely “valiant” of the
youth of our community to care
enough about the area to help keep it
clean.
David, Debbie and Rhandi Strib-
ling were in Lufkin over the week-
end at a Registered and Performance
Horse Sale, marketing some of their
quarter horses.
How many of you knew we had a
country and western singer in the
community?
Josh Boatman, son of Tammy and
Junior Hinton is singing nearly every
weekend. He is booked for an
engagement in Lone Oak on Saturday
night, April 1.
Bryant Fisher was in Lancaster
Thursday through Saturday of last
week.
He helped with the dispersal sale of
Holtex Farms. The sale was featured
on Channel 4 News on Saturday
night, as the last dairy farm in Dallas
County, if you were watching.
Elizabeth Attlesey Allison celebrat-
ed her birthday this past week and
enjoyed members of her family com-
ing for a visit.
Among her visitors, were her
granddaughter, Susan Whitson of
Plano, and Shawn and Shared, Shel-
ton, Shandler Whitson, temporarily
from Reilly Springs. Shawn and
Shared had a fire at their home in Sul-
phur Springs a few weeks ago and are
hoping to move back into it this week
or next.
They are staying with Jerry and
Betsy Whittson, until repairs are
made and I’m quite sure that Betsy
has had a fun time with the grand-
children!
Until next week, let’s all remember
the efforts that are being made in
cleaning up the community and join
the effort around our own places to
make Reilly Springs one of the most
beautiful places around.
Pets
online
The Hopkins
County Animal
Protection
League’s Web site
features photos of
animals up for
adoption, as well
as forms for
potential owners.
High-tech adoption:
HCAPL listing its
animals on Internet
By FAITH HUFFMAN_
These days just about anything you
could ever want can be found on the
Internet. Thai includes medicine,
food, alcohol, clothing, cars, sports
equipment, toys... dogs.
If you’re in the market for a new
pet, several animal shelters and rescue
organizations are now use the Internet
to list the animals they have available
for adoption. People planning to
expand their family by adopting a
new pel from a local rescue shelter
can now save themselves an extra trip
to the pound by searching Hopkins
County Animal Protection League’s
Web site at: www.hcaplpaws.org.
The group began construction on
the site a couple of month igo after
finding a new home for a dog by
placing it on Collie Rescue’s Web
site. The dog went to a woman in
Colorado, but luckily for HCAPL,
was noticed by Jeff Post, who designs
Web pages. He contacted the League
and offered to design and update a
site for the group, with the only
charge being the cost of posting the
page, according to HCAPL President
Sheila Phillips.
The site was launched a little less
than a month ago, and so far has gen-
erated a lot of interest.
“We’re really excited about the
Web site,” Phillips said. “We have a
lot of great pets in foster care waiting
for adoption, and this is helping get
the word out. We have tried to include
a host of different resources and fea-
tures within our site, including online
pet adoption forms.
“They can see the pets and infor-
mation on them, download the ques-
tionnaire, then e-mail it and any ques-
tions to me and make an appointment.
!‘It’s going very well. We’ve had sev-
eral people download the questionnaire,
and we may have our first successful
adoption today,” she said Friday.
Post updates the site every week
with the digital photographs Phillips
has taken of the pets, and tags the ani-
mals as they are adopted. The site pic-
tures all animals the League has for
adoption, and an online adoption-con-
tract that potential owners can submit
via e-mail. League volunteers contact
the prospective owners to schedule a
viewing of the pet.
The site also features information
on how to become involved in the
organization, as well as information
on the groups’s low-cost sterilization
program. For more information, con-
tact the HCAPL at 439-2953.
Sweet
Hayley Robinson, 6,
smothers her pan-
cakes with syrup
Saturday morning
at the Kiwanis
International Pan-
cake Day at the
Hopkins County
Regional Civic Cen-
ter. People were
treated to all you-
can-eat pancakes,
sausage, bacon and
beverages for $5.
Proceeds go toward
local scholarships
and other communi-
ty cautes. The pan-
cake day continues
until 7 p.m. Satur-
day.
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