Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 2010 Page: 1 of 6
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Issue 136 Volume 33
Delta County's Hometown Newspaper
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Stadium smokin'
Local businesses close to
Photo by Roger Palmer
Nope! It wasn't the Bulldogs smokin up The stadium last Wednesday. A grass fire came
close to the back of the stadium last week before Delta County Firefighters put the blaze out.
honor Labor Day
Amber Rylant
Staff Writer
Cooper Schools, the Coo-
per Post Office, The Cooper
Review, First National Bank,
Enloe State Bank The City of
Cooper and all Delta County
offices will be closed on La-
bor Day, Monday, September
6, 2010. The Cooper Review’s
deadline for all news and ad-
vertising will be Thursday,
September 2, 2010 by 4 p.m.
Labor day is celebrated na-
tionally on the first Monday in
September and for most peo-
ple consists of a long weekend
celebrated with summer activ-
ities such as camping, cook-
outs, and picnics as an unoffi-
cial end to summer and mark-
ing the beginning of fall and
football. Unfortunately, the or-
igins of Labor Day are often
overlooked and its root defini-
tion has somewhat diminished
over the years. Labor Day is
dedicated to the social and eco-
nomic achievements of Ameri-
can workers. The holiday trib-
utes the working class contri-
butions to the strength, pros-
perity and well being of our
country. Technically, Labor
Day was to be a day in which
to honor the working class for
the hard-fought achievements
in their socio-economic status
as well as their general contri-
butions to society.
There are several differ-
ent versions of who the actual
founder of Labor Day was and
how the holiday came about.
According to the U.S. Depart-
ment of Labor, the first Labor
Day holiday was celebrated on
Tuesday, September 5, 1882 in
New York City, in accordance
with the plans of the Central La-
bor Union with the assistance
of organizers from the Knights
of Labor, which was initially a
secret organization of a small
group of tailors from the Phil-
adelphia area who went on to
form one of the first unions to
accept blacks and women. Or-
egon was the very first state to
legislate Labor Day in 1887.
In late 1894, The House
Committee on Labor acknowl-
edged that twenty-three states
already celebrated Labor Day
and decided to pass an act
making Labor Day a nationally
observed holiday. The commit-
tee reasoned, “The use of a na-
tional holiday is to emphasize
some great event or principle
in the minds of the people by
giving them a day of rest and
recreation, a day of enjoyment,
in commemoration of it.”
Friends of Doctors Creek Park
fish fry big success
The Friends of Doctors Creek Park would
like to say a big THANK YOU to all of
our friends that bought tickets from Edwin
Slough and also to the ones that came
and paid at the door. With your generous
donations and help the fish fry this year was
a huge success. Thanks to the ladies that
so willingly made cakes for the auction and
thanks to Danny Lile for auctioning them
off. The cakes sold real well and added a
good sum to the fish fry donations. Thanks
to the Parks and Wildlife crew that helped
with the serving and thanks to the cooks
that braved the heat cooking outside in the
100 degree plus weather. And don’t forget
the ones that worked hard in the kitchen
getting the food ready for the crowd that
stood in line patiently waiting to get inside.
The Gym at the First Baptist Church was
full of our friends that came for a good meal
and to support the Friends of Doctors Creek
Park and waiting around for the numerous
door prizes that Mary Wicks collected from
the businesses in the Cooper, Commerce
and Sulphur Springs areas. Last but sure
not least, we want to thank our sponsors
that donated cash and the Cooper ISD that
donated some of the fish, Rick Murray that
donated hush puppies, Burgers and Beans
donating the coleslaw dressing, Scotty
Stegall for the potatoes and the Delta Super
Market for a number of items including the
coleslaw mix. The Cooper Dairy Queen
donated to go plates. Saying all of this,
the Friends of Doctor Creek Park held the
cost of the fish fry to a minimum and are
proud to say that with everyone’s help and
support, a sizeable sum was made for the
Fishing Pier at Doctors Creek Park. Again,
we appreciate all the volunteers, all our
friends support and everyone that helped
make this years annual fish fry a big, big
success. If anyone that helped has been
omitted, please accept our apology.
Donations will be appreciated and
everyone is encouraged to join the Friends
as members by paying annual dues in
the amount of Family $25, Individuals
$10, Businesses $50 and Non-Profit
Organizations $25. Doctors Creek Park still
needs the support of the Friends of Doctors
Creek Park and they need all of us so that
our beautiful park will not be endangered of
ever being closed again.
We have a supply of Friends T-Shirts for
Sale at $13.00 if you would like to buy one.
Iif you have questions, please call Gracie
Young at 903-395-4314.
Edwin Slough recived a flag from Mark Homer’s Office for his work in Delta County helping
all organizations sell tickets for all events. County Judge Ted Carrington presented the flag
to Slough.
Lots of prizes were awarded during the drawings at the fish fry including this There was lots to eat and prizes during the annual fish fry sponsored by the Friends of Doctors
guitar donated by the Cooper Outlet. Creek.
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Weather
Partly cloudy with isolated thunder-
storms possible. High 94F. Winds S at |
10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%
Bulldogs win first
game of season
see pg 4 & 5
Cooper Lake Dam Report
August 31, 2010
Normal Elevation 440.00
Current Elevation 435.80
Release 4 CFS
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Palmer, Roger. Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 2010, newspaper, September 2, 2010; Cooper, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth805120/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Delta County Public Library.