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Cooper Review - Page 2
Thursday, October 16, 2008
To the Editor:
I attended the Talley Reunion in Cooper,
October 4 at the Civic Center.
It is good to share a visit with kinfolk you
haven’t seen since the last year reunion. I
look forward to the Reunion each year.
I left Cooper 62 years ago, I have lived
across the state, yet Cooper is home. There
is a tug the heart on each return visit to the
hometown.
Most of the people I grew up with are at
the Cemetery. I drove through the Cemetery
to see so many names of people I once knew.
The doctor we loved. Dr. Westerman is there.
He was our family doctor for many years.
The large monuments of Mrs. Blackwell, I
remember living in the Pink Palace.
I stood on the square to remember what
Cooper was like in 1920-1945, a bustling
town. They are only memories.
I went to Miller’s Pharmacy, which took
me back to childhood memories. My sister,
Mabel Wheat has worked there for 57 years.
Cooper will always be home. I shall return
for another visit soon.
Truly yours,
Dorothy Poole, Lone Oak Texas
In Years Gone By
By Kimberly Palmer
Ten Years Ago
The Delta County
Chigger Festival after five
years has now become a
recognized event in the
Northeast Texas area. Visitors
came from the Metroplex,
Longview, McKinney, and
many other area towns, and
even from Australia.
Army Pvt. Donald
M. Bartlett has entered
basic military training at
Fort Benning, Columbus
Georgia.
first session of Kindergarten
at Cooper Elementary. They
are: Cade Alley, David
Alsobrook, Misty Armstrong,
Norris Click, Cindy
Clements, Jodie Douglas,
Stacy Everett, Lance Ewing,
Carmen George, Charles
Goldsmith, Shannon Hinton,
Sonja Irvin, Mark Johnson,
Charles Enal, Donyell
Oats, David Pyle, Robert
Reynolds, Michael Robnett,
Titus Wiley, Washington
Wilkins, Kertina Williams
and Bradley Wyrick.
Twenty Years Ago Forty Years Ago
Air National Guard
Airman Carmen A. Runnels,
whose father and stepmother
are Mr. and Mrs. Jesse M.
Runnels of Pecan Gap, has
graduated from Air Force
basic training at Lackland
Air Force Base. She was a
basic training honor graduate
and was a 1988 graduate of
Fannindel High School.
Thirty Years Ago
Gary Kensing, band
director of Cooper High
School, played trombone for
the Longview symphony on
October 14.
Twenty-two five year old
students have enrolled for the
Members of the Cooper
Volunteer Firemen Pumper
team, David Phillips, team
captains, Terry Kelser, Ronald
Gillean, Dean Harrison, Jearl
Ham, and Johnny Poteet
and Fire Chief Paul Cates
won second place trophy at
the recent North East Texas
Firemen and Fire Marshal
Association fall meeting in
Rusk.
Miss Deborah Huie was
crowned the 1968 Cooper
High School Homecoming
Queen at the game Friday
night. The senior queen
nominee was escorted by
Royce Slough. She is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gordan Huie of Cooper.
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Fifty Years Ago
A benefit dance will be
held by the Cooper Veterans
of Foreign Wars chapter
at the Delta Country Club
Saturday night. Music will be
furnished by E.J. Cates and
master of ceremonies will
be Manton Miller and Hiram
Clark, Jr. A special feature of
the dance will be a contest
of Charleston and Rock and
Roll dancers.
The annual Homecoming
game will be played Friday
night with the bulldogs
hosting the Pilot Point
Bearcats.
Sixty Years Ago
Seven Sulphur
River Conservation and
Reclamation District
directors have been approved
by Governor Beauford Jester.
The directors appointed were
Grover Pickering, of Cooper;
J.F. Chapman of Sulphur
Springs; Grover Bishop of
Ladonia;A.G. MayseofParis;
Jess B. Alford of Paris ; C.D.
Lennox Jr. of Clarksville; and
W.C. Rochelle of Texarkana.
Seventy Years Ago
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Fulton told their parents here
that they were deer hunting
in the mountains near Clovis,
New Mexico, but they were
stopped on account of 20
inches of snow which fell
during the night.
Eighty Years Ago
Changes have been made
in two Cooper restaurants.
Jimmy Craig, of McKinney,
purchased the New Cafe and
M.I. Whitten of Greenville,
has purchased the cafe of
John Henson.
The Cooper girls
basketball team will play
Roxton Friday night. The
line-up includes Joyce
Bartley, Leona Carrington,
Ita Skeen, Lucille Cregg,
Lois Carrington, and Lillian
Clark. Members of the
squad are Thelma Jordan,
Jennie Jenkins, Mary Ruth
Chapman, and Ina Hargrove.
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On The River
With ET
MAUVE-A LITTLE CULTURE
This week let’s get out of the woods and
off the river for a while and absorb some
culture. In elementary my box of colors (we
never said crayons) consisted of basic red,
blue, green, yellow, orange and such. At about
age forty I started hearing of a color called
mauve and wondered. Surely we had enough
colors already without inventing another. Jean
kept saying she was gonna show me something
mauve but never could find it. A few weeks
ago in one of these articles I mentioned my
concern about the mystery color. Cousin Don
Hargroves in Tennessee emailed me the names
of five websites that would tell more about
mauve than anyone ever needed to know.
Jean, and other women I’ve heard, always
pronounced mauve so that it rhymes with
“off.” The experts and the dictionary give it a
long O sound, making it rhyme with “grove.”
Following is a smattering of information
gathered from the websites that you may need
to know sometime on a game show or at a
tea party: In one place you could order some
sweet peas with mauve colored flowers.”
Blackcurrant Mousse variety of sweet pea
is a prolific bloomer. It is medium mauve
color with some white.” Another stated that
the Elizabeth Taylor sweet pea has clear
mauve flowers. Wow! Things are worse than I
thought. Now I not only have to worry about
mauve but clear mauve, medium mauve, and
such.
To my uncultured eye the pictures of the
pea flowers looked pink. Color expert Jean
said the pictures didn’t look mauve to her
so I tried another site. Old standby website
Wikipedia knows everything and straightened
things out. Mauve was invented in 1856 and
named after Dutch painter Anton Mauve. It is
a pale lavender-lilac color, one of the many
ranges of purple. Most “blue” wildflowers are
actually mauve.
Other varieties of mauve are light mauve,
opera mauve, and mauve taupe. (Now I got
to go research taupe.) The 1890’s were called
the mauve decade since the color was very
fashionable then. Mauve is commonly used
in stage productions to represent sunsets.
Artist James Whistler probably said it best
with, “Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.”
There now. Don’t you feel better about the
whole mauve situation? Thanks, Don. Now
maybe I’m ready to go to an opera. And, yall
don’t forget; it rhymes with grove.
Saturday night we visited with Mark,
Pam, and Dylan Owen who were camped at
Cooper Lake. Somehow we talked about dog
food and Mark mentioned back when he was
growing up not many people bought dog food,
just fed them table scraps. He cracked me up
with, “Our old dog did real good on coffee
grounds, egg shells, and potato peelings.”
Parking suggestion: Many wrecks
happen as people back out of parking spots
into traffic. They don’t have the right of way
while backing out. It’s impossible to see when
a big SUV is beside you. That situation can
be solved by backing into the parking space.
When you stop to back in, you have the right
of way. Then, when you get ready to leave you
can see a car coming a lot quicker (the hood is
shorter than the back of your vehicle) and stop
before getting out far enough to be hit. If you
can back out of a parking spot you should be
able to back into one—and, you won’t have as
many wrecks.
When I am king department: One, there
will be handles on all mattresses so when
you help somebody move you can lift better.
Two, to make football even more exciting
and give a glimmer of hope to a team that is
losing, four points will be awarded when the
kicker hits an upright or crossbar on a field
goal attempt. Two points will be awarded if
the posts or crossbar is hit on an extra point
attempt. It really seems impossible for kickers
to hit the bar and posts the way they have been
doing recently.
A few days ago we visited Dan and
Jennie Pickering in Guthrie and traveled on
to Lubbock where we visited the expensive
Coyote Candle Company. Really nice things.
$5800 round table and $475 chairs to mention
a couple. I should have made Jean stay in the
pickup. Lots of cute signs and many of them
written from a woman’s point of view. No
man has ever been shot while doing dishes.
Well behaved women rarely make history.
Love grows in little houses. (Whoever wrote
that one hasn’t been cooped up long in a small
house, camper trailer, or storm cellar with a
wife and lots of kids.) The most important
things in life aren’t things. This mess is a
place.
Around here normal is just a setting on
the dryer. All men are idiots and I married
the king. Lettin’ the cat out of the bag is a
lot easier than putting it back in. Trust your
neighbor but brand your cattle. I cook with
wine; sometimes I even put it in the food.
Life’s short; eat dessert first. Motherhood-
-it ain’t for sissies. This house isn’t under
construction; kids live here.
We smile cause you’re our parents; we
laugh cause it’s your fault. Don’t make me
get the monkeys-the Wicked Witch. All
guests bring joy; some when they come, some
when they go. Home is where hair sticks to
everything except the dog. You will always
be my friend; you know too much. The next
three were on XXXL tee shirts: We don’t
skinny dip; we chunky dunk. I beat anorexia.
Fat people are hard to kidnap.
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That Wonderful Year 1951
According to the Friday, October 19,1951
issue of the Cooper Review.
J.D. Hendricks, Cooper Postmaster, was
installed as vice president of the Postmasters
Association of Texas in the first district at a
meeting held in Mt. Pleasant Tuesday night.
Tom J. Agnor of Mt. Pleasant was installed as
president and Halbert McGuinn of Jefferson,
secretary-treasurer. Members of the association
in the first district include 105 postmasters.
Prof. C.J. Graves has announced that the
Booker T. Washington school will resume
classes Wednesday, October 24 at 8 a.m.
following a recess for several weeks so that
students could pick cotton.
Cooper Parent-Teacher Association
cleared $85 for sundry expenses at a benefit
picture show Monday afternoon and night at
the Grand Theatre, Mrs. Fred Newman, P-TA
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finance chairman reports. The film “Mother
was a Freshman,” a comedy, starring Loretta
Young and Van Johnson, was shown through
courtesy of Henry Sparks, local theatre owner.
Handling ticket sales was a committee named
by Mrs. Newman, including Mrs. Russell
Tucker, Mrs. Bill Lyons, Mrs. S.T. Garrison,
Miss Annie Lee Drummond, Mrs. C.E.
McClanahan and Mrs. Clara Slough.
A concert by the Cooper High School
Band Friday night on the bandstand of the
city square drew a crowd which thronged
the entire square. Many families sat in
parked cars and head the program of popular
numbers, while others stood in groups on
the square and in front of the stores. Bobby
Wickersham, whose instrument classes the 50
student musicians attend daily, directed and
the boys and girls wore their showy maroon
and gray uniforms. Wade T. Bledsoe, Cooper
public school superintendent, believe that the
school band should be one of the city’s major
civic projects, and it was at his suggestion
that the concert was arranged in cooperation
with the Band Mother’s Club. The band helps
put the Cooper Bulldog football team in the
limelight at local and out-of-town games and
is available for other civic events, including
the annual Christmas parade.
A president, vice-president and secretary
as well as six directors will be installed at the
annual Delta County Chamber of Commerce
dinner to be held at the Delta Country Club.
Troy Brewer is handling general arrangements
for the event which is expected to draw a large
group of members and guests.
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