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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1977
THE BANDERA BULLETIN
PAGE FIVE
Mrs. Orville Wier - 589 2515
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
There will be a school board
meeting Oct 17 at 7:30 in the
school building Newly ap-
pointed board member Pam
Thompson will be sworn in at
the meeting replacing former
board member, Charles Johns.
PARENTS' NIGHT
The parents of the Medina
Bobcats are asked to be at the
field by 7:35 Friday night, Oct.
7, as they will be recognized
prior to the Homecoming game
against Johnson City starting at
8 p m The halftime activities
will include the crowning of the
1977-78 Football Sweetheart and
the Pep Squad Beau It will be a
special night for the Bobcats so
everyone is encouraged to at-
tend and support their team
HOMECOMING DANCE
There will be a dance in the
cafeteria following Friday
night's football game It will
include live band, refresh-
ments, and a bake sale. Ad-
mission will be singles, $2;
couples, $3 50
ROYALTY CHOSEN
ThP following are royalty for
the Medina High School year
"1977-78
Seniors, Queen, Gina
Garrison; King, Eddie Pratt.
Junibrs, Princess, Judy
Brown; Prince, Bryan Kinsey.
Sophomores, Duchess, Robin
Hargrove; Duke, Robert
Selement
Freshmen, Duchess, Julie
Dodson, Duke, Clay Carter.
Eighth, Duchess, Denise
Humphries, Duke, Grant
Vannatter
Seventh, Duchess, Lisa Britt;
Duke, Mike Maples
JR HIGH WINS 14-0
Medina beat Johnson City last
Thursday night on the Bobcat
field The halftime score was
set at 0-0 until the Bobcats came
back the second half eager to
win Medina's first touchdown
was made by Kenny Barnett
and Richy Burke ran the second
! touchdown Kenny Barnett also
ran for the extra points giving a
final score of 14-0 as Johnson
City left the field defeated.
Coach Richard Mims was well
pleased with the team's effort.
The team played well and the
j defense also did a good job.
REGULAR
CATTLE
AUCTION
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
UNION
STOCK
YARDS
SAN
ANTONIO
OFFICFRS ELECTED FOR
GOODMAN CEMETERY
ASSOCIATION
A meeting was held Thursday
night, September 29, by mem-
bers of the Goodman Cemetery
Association. Officers elected
were Charles Moore, president,
O.W. Green, vice-president;
Mrs. Elva Keeling, secretary
and Miss Vivian Keese,
treasurer.
Directors elected were Mrs
Ben Adams, Mrs. Thelma Hinds
and Royce Jackson.
Those appointed to sign the
certificate for the perpetual
care fund were Mrs. Ben
Adams, Charles Moore and
O.W. Green
Present for the meeting were
Mrs. Ben Adams, Mrs Leo
Moffett, Mrs. Mary Hillman,
Mrs. Andy Reed, Mrs Thelma
Hinds, Miss Vivian Keese, Mr
and Mrs. Ben Miears of
Kerrville and Charles Moore
The next meeting of the
association will he held
December 15, 1977 at 7 p m at
the home of Miss Vivian Keese.
SCHOFIELD BARRACKS,
HAWAII (AHTNC) Sept 27-
Staff Sergeant Michael L.
Greebon, son of Mrs. A.E.
Greebon, Medina, Texas,
recently reenlisted in the Army
for six years while serving as a
platoon sergeant with the 25th
Infantry Division at Schofield
Barracks, Hawaii.
S. Sgt. Greebon entered the
Army in August 1971.
He attended San Angelo
College, and Howard Paynev
College, Brownwood.
SCHOOL MENU
Oct. 10-14
Monday
Franks a la mode, broccoli 4
rice, Spanish cabbage, rolls 4
butter, fruit, milk.
Tuesday •__
Beef-vegetable casserole,
salad, rolls 4 butter, peanut
butter, cookie, milk
Wednesday
Beans, spinach, corn, corn
bread 4 butter, cobbler, milk.
Thursday
Spanish rice 4 meat, green
beans, carrot 4 raisin salad,
bread 4 butter, peaches, milk.
Friday
Hamburgers, lettuce 4
tomatoes, pickles 4 onions,
French fries, cake, milk.
AIMS CLUB WILL MEET
MONDAY NIGHT
The Medina AIMS Club will
meet Monday night, October 10
at 7:30 at the school.
Mr. Danny Cortez, of the
Narcotics Bureau will be the
guest speaker
A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to everyone to attend.
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Bill Longley And His Wild Career
A TRUE HISTORY OF THE "010 WEST" TO R0H SERIALLY
Written in the 1920's for The Frontier Times by the Frontier Native
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Bill Longley’f*
First Love Affair
Afler killing the Mexican in
Frio county, Longley started
east and stopped awhile in
Madison county, where he met
Bill McKiver, an outlaw. Here
Longley also met a young lady,
with whom he fell in love, and it
is asserted that this was the
first time he had ever been
impressed. The two went black-
berry hunting and while pluck-
ing the blackberries, Longley
attempted to kiss this fair
Madison girl. She became high-
ly incensed and started to walk
home. Longley finally persuad-
ed her to get in the buggy,
because he foresaw that there
would be trouble as soon as her
brother found out that she had
walked home. The brother
afterwards did learn of the
attempted kiss and arrange-
ments were made to have an
old fashioned duel over the
matter. But friends of the
parties prevented it, and
Longley soon left Madison and
went to Fort Ewell, where he
had a row with a gambler by
the name of Dave Clark, whom
he shot, but did not kill. From
Fort Ewell Longley returned to
Madison county, saw his sweet-
heart for the last time and
passed on East.
Kills Negroes in the Tanaha
Longley arrived in the Land
of the Tanaha, which had been
the scene of bloody feuds thirty
years before. At Logansport he
learned that a negro had insult
ed an old white man, and took it
upon himself to avenge the
insult by killing the negro. On
the road west in Angelina
county he came across a negro
and a white man in a violent fist
affray in the road, and he
immediately came to the rescue
of the white man, and shot the
negro. On this trip west he
passed through Lovelady, in
Houston county, where he
became involved in a dispute
with a negro. He hit him on the
head with his six-shooter,
inflicting only temporary injur-
ies. Here Longley found himself
out of money, put up his horse
at a raffle, took two of the first
chances himself, threw first,
and while others were drawing
their lots, he mounted his horse
and rode away to the west.
In Bastrop County
He continued westward to
Bastrop county and secured
employment as a field hand on
the farm of William Baker on
Walnut Creek. He told William
Baker that he was a distant
kinsman and that his name was
Bill Baker. One of his brothers
was working on the same farm
at the same time. While work
ingfor William Baker, he heard
one Saturday afternoon at the
neighborhood store that Jim
Brown, the sheriff of the newly
created Ix*e county, was on his
trail. The next day he had a talk
with Mr. Baker, and said to
him: “Mr. Baker, I am not your
kinsman; I am that hell roaring.
Bill Longley. It’s getting too hot’
for me in this country and I
must leave."
Killing of Wilson Anderson
While on the Baker farm.
Longley heard that a cousin of
his, young Cale Longley, had
been killed by Wilson Anderson
near Evergreen. Old settlers
informed the writer that young
Cale Longley and Wilson
Anderson were riding horse-
back together when the acci
dent occurred. Anderson re-
ported that Cale was riding a
fractious horse and that the
horse threw him and he was
killed by the fall. But the elder
Cale Longley, known as Old
Cale Longley, was evidently
convinced that Wilson Ander t
son had killed Young Cale. Bill
l»ngley quietly returned to the
neighborhood, heard the story
from his uncle Cale. and became
convinced that Wilson Ander
son was responsible. Wilson _
Anderson was plowing on his
farm when on April 1, 1875,
Longley suddenly appeared at
the end of the row with a
double-barrel shotgun in his
hand. Ixmgley fired one barrel
of the shotgun and hit Ander-
son, who exclaimed: “Oh, God,
what did you shoot me for?"
Longley replied, “Just for
luck.”
There were no eye-witnesses
to this tragedy, but one of his
old classmates met him in the
neighborhood the day before.
Longley was mounted on a
mule and was heavily armed.
He demanded of this old school-
mate whether he knew him.
The schoolmate was wise
enough to. deny recognition.
Longley escaped from the
neighborhood, but later he
returned and visited a relative.
A friend by the name of Wash
Harris was at the house and he
said to Harris, "I understand
that you said that you are
afraid of me. I would not hurt a
hair of your head, because you
have never harmed me. I did
kill Wilson Anderson because
he killed my cousin Cale.”
This direct testimony and
statement to Wash Harris
three years later appeared as a
part of the testimony that
hanged Bill Longley. .
Killing of George Thomas
About the first of April, 1875,
Bill Longley was continuously
on the dodge. He secured work
on the farm of Captain
Sedbury, about eight miles
above Waco, on the northeast
side of the Brazos river, about
two miles below Chalk Bluff. On
Saturday nights Longley was in
the habit of going to the store of
Frank Jones on the old Dallas
Waco road, about two miles
from the Sedbury farm. One
Saturday night Bill Longley
and George Thomas got into a
game of cards after Frank
Jones had retired to his rooms
in the second story of the store
_ building. Longley and Thomas
fell out over the game of cards
and hot words were exchanged.
Thomas ran to the store,
banged on the door, and called
to Frank Jones to come down
and either sell him or loan him a
pistol. While he was thus
engaged, I/ongley.'approached
and fired one shot. Thomas fell
dead on the doorstep. A few
minutes later, when Jones
opened the door, he found
Thomas dead on the doorstep.
After the killing of Thomas,
Longley .returned to Captain
Sedbury’s farm, packed his
clothes, gave Mrs. Sedbury his
real name, and left McLennan
county in company with anoth-
er young man.
From Kansas to Texas.
Longley, on his return from
Kansas, made the acquaintance
of a man by the name of
Rodgers, who was a counter-
feiter, and they soon had a
working agreement and were
engaged in passing counterfeit
money. At Boggy Depot, in the
old Indian Territory, they were
captured by a United States
marshal for passing this money.
He started with them for Fort
Smith, but they succeeded in
quieting the marshal. Longley
asserted that they paid him
$2,000 in real money, which left
them broke. The two separ
ated, Longley heading for
Texas, dead broke. In Grayson
county, Texas, he met up with
'0Ah Sawyer, who gave him a
lift in his buggy as far as Bell
county. He informed someone
later that he could have made
money by robbing Mr. Sawyer,
but that Sawyer had treated
him “square" and had helped
him when he was “down and
out," and that he would not
repay his kindness with betray-
al. He remained at his father’s
house several months. While
working on his father’s farm in
Bell county a young man came
one day and warned him that a
posse was coming from Lee
The Moody Foundation of
Galveston, Texas, has approved
a grant of $25,000 and Mr. and
Mrs. H R. Gibson, Sr., of
Dallas, Texas, offer a pledge of
$25,000 to build a Medical and
Counseling Center on the
campus of Medina Home. The
proposed building, equipment,
and furnishings will cost
$150,000. Recently, at the annual
Awards and Appreciation
Dinner at Medina Home, board
members and friends raised
$10,500 in cash and pledges
toward this project. There has
been a total of $60,000 pledged.
Medina Home must raise the
balance of the money required
and construction must begin by
February 15, 1978.
Plans for a Medical and
Counseling Center to be built on
the campus of Medina Home
have been approved by the
Board of Directors.
This building will allow the
Home to take boys and girls
from group living to prevent the
spread--of contagious diseases.
Two nurses are available; one
living on campus and the other
living nearby in the community.
There will be offices for
examinations, testing, and
counseling. The Home has part
of the necessary equipment
available. Medical, dental,
otology, and optometry ser
vices, including periodic check-
ups, have already been
volunteered by specialists who
county to arrest him and get a
reward of $1,000. On hearing
this’, Longley immediately took
to the woods and stayed there
until he could send into Belton
and get one of the latest models
of the Colt six-shooter. As soon
as he got his six-shooter, he
mounted a good horse and left
for Comanche county.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
are members of the Board of
Directors, Public Relations
Board, friends and supporters
of Medina Home.
A full time counselor has been
hired. Children come here with
varied backgrounds which
makes counseling a very
essential part of the pogram.
An office will be provided in this
building for a full-time coun-
selor.
Living quarters provided in
this building include a three
bedroom area for permanent
personnel who are responsible
for the building This building
will offer an opportunity for the
intake of new students and a
place for them to live until
proper placement can be made
in the group-care cottages.
Medina Home is a home
licensed to care for 132
adolescent boys and girls. The
Home, located in the beautiful
hill country between Kerrville
and Medina, Texas, is sup-
ported by the Churches of Christ
and other interested in-
dividuals. It was founded in
September of 1958, after the
community of Medina pur-
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chased a 326.1 acre ranch to be
used as a children's home The
idea of beginning this Home
originated in the Medina Rotary
Club and then spread
throughout the entire com-
munity: After the property was
purchased it was turned over to
the elders of the Kerrville
Church of Christ, who then
appointed a Board of Directors,
obtained a license from the
State Department of Public
Welfare, and opened the
Lome’s doors to boys and girls.
Dempsey Simpson is
superintendent of the Home ^nd
has been since 1964 The rrjen
serving on the Board of
’ Directors of Medina Home are
E Doyle Thomas, president,
A.L. Frazier and A. Leroy
Baker of Abilene; Stuart
Bergman, secretary, Dr. E.K
Halbert, and James Winters,
assistant secretary-treasurer,
of San Antonio; A.L. Burden of
Victoria; Leslie Huff of Salado;
Lynn Low and Carter Compton
of Seagoville; James Long,
vice-president, of Florence,
Alabama; Dr. Ken Kennamer
of Hearne, Charles Hudson of
Winters; Harlow Price of
Dallas; and AC. Stone of
Grapevine.
Many valuable uses are
forseen for a Medical and
Counseling Center at Medina
Children's Home.
WORDS OF FREEDOM
The name of American which
belongs to you in your national
capacity, must always exalt the
just pride of patriotism more
than any appellation derived
from local discriminations. . .
you have in a common cause
fought and triumphed together.
The independence and liberty
you possess are the work of
joint councils and joint efforts,
of common dangers, sufferings,
and successes.
George Washington
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The Bandera Bulletin (Bandera, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, October 7, 1977, newspaper, October 7, 1977; Bandera, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1124353/m1/5/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bandera Public Library.