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Cooper Review - Page 2 Thursday, September 2, 2010
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor:
I was saddened to learn of the death of
my aunt Syble Slough McClain. As you
noted in her Obituary 8/26/10 she was
born and died—but what a life in between!
Mainly she was “always a nurse”. She was a
licensed vocational nurse (LVN) and Surgical
Nurse par excellence! She assisted Dr. Dean
Wintermute at the old Reed Hospital on SE 1 st
St. in Cooper and the Wintermute Memorial
in Klondike during the 1960s. I was present in
the operating room with them on July 4, 1963
when the much-anticipated and beloved baby,
Leah, was brought forth to Billie and R.C.
Ewing. (I hope the HIPPA privacy act doesn’t
catch me—I just HAD to tell it.) She continued
her career at the hospital in Commerce, saving
and impacting many lives.
I met Syble when she married my
mother’s brother, Loyd Reed Slough, in 1946
or thereabouts, maybe before The War was
over. They lived in Odessa and Cooper. Some
years after Uncle Loyd’s untimely death, she
married Harry McClain and they enjoyed
golfing at the Delta Country Club. She had no
children but gave good advice to nieces and
nephews.
Her beloved sister and brother-in-law
Christine and Ernest Chapman, cared for her
in her later years following the (tragic to us)
surgical removal of her beautiful caring hands
and her feet, due to an irreversible ischemia
following heart surgery. She maintained a
cheerful and positive outlook to the end.
Respectfully submitted,
Tahlie (Morgan) Carter-Stirling
In Years Gone By
From the files of The Cooper Review
Ten Years Ago
A relatively large number
oflocalbusinessanddowntown
property owners met this past
Tuesday night at the Delta
County Community Center.
The purpose of the meeting
was to bring together these
individuals for the express
purpose of determining if
there was a need and a desire
to try and improve the general
business atmosphere around
the downtown area, as well
as promote the businesses and
Cooper as a whole.
The Delta County
Sheriff’s office confiscated
21 eight-liner style gambling
machines at two businesses in
Cooper Monday. Eighteen of
the machines valued at $1,500
a piece, were confiscated at
the Gold Mine Arcade, 1250
West Dallas Avenue.
Twenty Years Ago
Lance Corporal Jody A.
Beeler was deployed to the
Mid-East crisis zone on the
ship USSI wo Jima from Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina.
Beeler is the son of L.A.
Beeler of Honey Grove and
Gwen Jennings of Sherman;
and is the grandson of
Lawrence and Louis Beeler of
Pecan Gap.
He graduated from Marine
Corps Recruit Depot, San
Diego, California on August
4, 1989. He married Melissa
Acker of Ladonia, June 6,
1990.
Thirty Years Ago
New teachers at CHS are:
Mrs. Karen Cooper, who is
teaching English III, English
I, F.O.M. I, F.O.M. II, and is
a junior class sponsor; Mr.
David Borrer, in addition to
coaching duties, is teaching
American History and Health;
Mr. Sammy Bettes, a Cooper
native, is teaching the General
Ag-Mechanics program.
Charleston News
_By Vicki Vasco_
We are still having lovely
weather in the East End, even
though it is still hot and dry.
Maybe we will soon have a
rain.
I talked with Shirley Walker
of Cooper on day last week.
She is out of the hospital and
doing much better.
Birthdays: Linda Fotte and
Doug Wicks 9/6; Larry Trapp
9/7; Tanner Dean Houchins
9/9; Grover Nabors and David
Boggs 9/10, Don Smith 9/11.
Happy Birthday, folks!
The Charleston United
Methodist Church’s Lord’s
Acre will be Saturday,
September 11. Get ready
for that event. We will be
working on the stew all day.
There will be a garage sale in
front of Highway 24 Lumber
and Feed all day that day. Try
to come and join us for that
great day of fun.
We had a large crowd at
the Methodist Sunday. Five
joined the Church that day.
Hunter and Ashley Preas,
Betty Wiggins and Tracy
France and his daughter
Georgia. Tracy France helped
Gary with the services that
day. He led the singing, the
Responsive Reading and read
the Scripture. Dillion Worden
was our candle lighter; Hunter
Preas and Sammy Long were
ushers. Annell Oats Patterson
and Helen Viser Anderson
sang several songs, “One Day
At A Time,” “What A Day,” “I
Come To The Garden,” “Just
A Closer Walk With Thee,”
“How Great Thou Art,” “He
Touched Me,” and “His Name
Is Wonderful.” Scotty Ingram
joined them on “How Great
Thou Art.” Helen played the
old Aldridge piano. The music
and singing were beautiful.
They really did a great job,
and that piano sounded
great. DeeDee Mason had
the Children’s Sermon. The
Methodist had a sandwich and
salad luncheon after Church
Sunday.
The East Delta Baptist
Church had their Sunday
potluck lunch Sunday. They
had a large crowd also.
Suzanne Walker was the
Nursery Worker. Lindsay
Glossup and Sarah Walker will
be the Nursery Workers next
Sunday. The youth will go to
Paris Saturday, September
4 for Disc Golf, and they
will have a scavenger hunt
and water games Saturday,
September 18.
Dustin Kennemer was in
Wichita Falls last weekend for
a big race. He rode his bicycle
sixty-three miles.
Charlie Lile of Corpus and
Bill Hinton of Cooper visited
Grover Nabors one day last
week.
The Delta County Red
Hatters met at Braums in
Paris Sunday afternoon for
ice cream and fun. Ten ladies
attended that meeting.
There was a big volleyball
game at the slab at the
Square in Charleston Sunday
afternoon.
Charles and Sue Davis of
Omaha, Texas had lunch with
Katie Malone and her family
Sunday.
Have a good week!
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WHISTLING WOMAN AND
CROWING HEN
A dentist office has not been on my agenda
for a great while but I went to one recently. Just
like most other things are changing, this was
an unusual dental clinic. Never before have I
been to a dentist where everything is so open.
In the past they took me in and closed the door
on a windowless room. This one had a huge
picture window and the door was left open.
Down the hall I could hear someone whistling.
After a while the whistler, a woman, came in
to talk to me. I commented to her that I had
not known many women that whistled. How
surprised I was at her answer. She told me she
wondered why I didn’t quote the old saying
about a whistling woman and a crowing hen.
Little did she know I almost had but just didn’t
want to possibly offend a new acquaintance.
For some reason no young person had ever
mentioned the phrase to her. Just an old folks
saying. As we discussed the unusual phrase I
promised her I would do some research and
report back at my next appointment. Was it
Shakespeare, from the Bible, or Benjamin
Franklin?
Well I did do some checking and the
earliest it is found in print was in Scotland
in 1721. There it was “A crooning cow, a
crowing hen, and a whistling maid boded
never luck to a house.” The more recent and
usually used saying is “A whistling woman
and a crowing hen are neither fit for God or
men.” Why the belief that it is not natural for a
woman to whistle? One opinion is that women
don’t like the sound of whistling. Another is it
impairs, or changes, a person’s looks. Athena
gave up the flute because playing it made her
“look peculiar.” In “Little Women” one of
the girls was not allowed to whistle because
“it is unladylike.” Does the Bible give any
indication that women should not whistle?
Not directly but in Proverbs 27-15 we find
“A continual dripping on a very rainy day
and a contentious woman are alike.” Some
people have stretched/twisted that verse to
be similar to a woman’s whistling. At least I
have my homework done and will be able to
report to the whistling woman. Do you have
any whistling women or crowing hens in your
neighborhood?
Years ago Jean and I heard about a ten acre
block of wooded land for sale at Charleston.
We locals called it T Bo’s Woods because it
belonged at one time to T Bo George. (Was
it spelled Tebow?) As we walked over the ten
acres to see if we wanted to buy it, we came
upon a five foot long rattlesnake that was in
the process of swallowing a squirrel. The
squirrel’s tail and back legs were the only
things showing. We did buy the ten acres, sold
our place on Highway 19, and are now living
in a camper trailer on the ten acres beside the
finished slab. Walls go up this week. While the
snake swallowed the squirrel it had a tail at
each end, his own and the squirrels. Somehow
we decided to name the place Two Tails.
Reckon that rates right up there with The
Hermitage, Tara, and Oak Alley? Some very
large snakes, probably rattlesnakes, still live
around Two Tails as indicated by the four inch
wide trails made each night in the sugar sand
near the camper. Y’all come see us at Two
Tails sometime. It’s at the southeast corner of
the South Charleston Loop. And, if you want
to see a picture of the rattlesnake with two
tails, there’s a couple on the wall in Billy Jack
Silman’s barber shop.
I wonder how modern science would
look upon the following story. Can rabies
lie dormant in a person for more than twenty
years and then rise up to kill a person? From
the past: Lee Hazelwood, who was in the
city yesterday from Mt. Joy, Delta County,
reported a young man died from hydrophobia
after being bitten more than twenty years ago.
The name of the unfortunate victim was Arnie
Lamb, 24 or 25 years of age. While living with
his parents near Mt. Joy and only three years
old he was bitten by a little fice with which he
was playing. The fice developed hydrophobia
shortly afterwards and was killed. As years
passed and the boy grew up, the incident of
his being bitten by the dog was forgotten. He
moved to Grayson County, near Collinsville, a
few months ago, and word was received at his
old Delta County that he died of hydrophobia.
(Paris News - March 6, 1896)
Vega, in the constellation Lyra, is one of our
brightest stars and is almost overhead during
September. To give you an idea of distances
in space, Vega is twenty five light years away
which figures out to one hundred fifty trillion
miles. Look in the northeast for the lopsided
W shape of Cassiopeia, the Queen.
Insert your own subject in the following:
What do a smart_and a UFO have in
common? You may hear about them but you
never see one. What did the_say when
he/she opened a box of Cheerios? Oh, look.
Baby doughnuts. Why do_smile during
a thunderstorm? They think someone is taking
their picture. What did the _say when
he/she saw the YMCA sign? Oh look, they
misspelled Macy’s. How do you make a _
_laugh on Saturday? Tell him/her a joke on
Tuesday.
Riddle of the week. Two soldiers were
on guard duty and facing opposite directions.
One asked the other, “Why are you smiling?”
How could one know the other was smiling
if they were facing opposite directions? They
were facing each other and looking past each
other.
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50 years of marriage for Wm.
Preston and Patsy (Bettes) West
Join us as we celebrate 50 years of
marriage for Wm. Preston and Patsy (Bettes)
West. Preston and Patsy were married
on September 24, 1960 in Cooper TX at
First United Methodist Church. They wifi
be honored at a reception from 2-5pm on
September 25, 2010 at Frontier Cowboy
Church, 2791 FM 593, Gilmer TX. They have
been blessed with three children, Bill, Bob,
and Bud West. Four grandchildren, Korey
Perry, Cody, Lauren and Montana West.
They were born and lived in Delta County
until 1988, then relocated to the Gilmer area.
Preston is retired and Patsy is Office Manager
at JO Williams F ord in Glade water TX. They
are both very active and also Charter Members
of the Frontier Cowboy Church. Best
wishes for many more happy years together.
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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/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Delta County Public Library.