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Thursday, July 14, 2005, / The Comanche Chief / Page IB
Food & History
Jeff
Cheek
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Medford, Oregon 97501
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The View from
wm
A look ot Comanche County's
historical roots
By Fredda Jones
The Bulgarian National Anthem
Like the American national
anthem, the Bulgarian nation
hymn was bom in battle. After
five centuries of Moslem
domination as part of the
Ottoman Empire, with the
support Tzarist Russia and
European intellectuals like
Victor Hugo, Charles Darwin
and Oscar Wilde, Bulgaria
declared its’ independence in
1878.
Only seven years later,
Serbia tried to grab Bulgarian
territory while the country was
involved with internal political
problems. A young Bulgarian
student, studying in Vienna,
rushed home to defend his
country. Inspired by the first
sight of his homeland, Tzvetan
Radoslavov quickly wrote a
short poem, “Mila Rodino
(Dear Homeland),” using the
melody from a popular folk
song. When the ship docked
all the passengers were singing
Milo Rodino.
“Proud Star Plania, next to
it the Danube in blue, The sun
shine ofThrace,flaming above
Pirin, Dear homeland, you are
Paradise on Earth, Your
beauty, your wonders, oh they
are endless, Countless soldiers
fell for our beloved people,
Mother, give us strength, to
continue our ways."
The song swept the army.
Soldiers sang it as they
marched into battle. Historians
call it the Serbian-Bulgarian
War of 1885. To Bulgarians it
is The Captain’s War. The
fledgling nation had not had
time to develop a complex
military structure. The short
war ended with a Bulgarian
victory at the Battle of
Slivnitsa. The highest ranking
offices in the victorious
Bulgarian Army were
Captains. Courage and
patriotic fervor had overcome
their lack of traditional
military experience and
training.
1 can not pass judgement on
Radoslavov’s praise of his
beautiful homeland because I
have never visited Bulgaria,
but a relative by marriage in
the State Department toured
the country while serving in
Romania. She raved about the
valleys filled with roses. These
are not just decorations. Roses
are a commercial crop. Oil of
roses is an important export. It
ends up in perfumes and
scented talcum powder.
The Bulgarian Embassy
provided important
information and a web site
where I found a traditional
Bulgarian dish, Lamb Chops
“en papillote.” En papillote is
a French culinary term
meaning “in curlpaper.”
I have not kitchen tested
this dish but is should be
delicious.
Lamb Chops
4 thick lamb chops
4 slices lamb’s liver
4 small onions, chopped
1 clove garlic, crushed
4 tablespoons chopped
parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
4 tablespoons olive oil
4 teaspoons white wine
Put each lamb chop on a
piece of buttered aluminum
foil. Cover each chop with a
slice of liver. Add onion,
garlic, parsley, salt and
pepper. Drizzle each with a
teaspoon of olive oil, then
white wine. Fold the foil
around the chop, twisting the
edges to seal it. Bake in a
preheated 400 degree oven for
45 minutes. Unwrap carefully
as the seam will be hot. Serve
with fluffy white rice or a
baked potato.
Abbey family
reunion held
The descendants of Edgar
and Bernice (Kelly) Abbey held
its annual reunion at Lake Proc-
tor on June 18th & 19th. Those
in attendance were: Wayland
& Shirley Abbey; Ned, Vicki
(Abbey), Derrell, & Wesley
Jennings; Rhonda Creek;
Michael A Cathy Abbey;
Waylon & Twyla (Abbey)
Henry; Gaylon & Mary Abbey;
Carroll, Rhonda, Kassie, &
Allison Abbey; Fannie Abbey;
Jessie & Mary (Abbey) Chan-
cellor; Wayne, Mary Beth,
Josh, Kameron, & Carly
Mazurek; Shy Eisenbauch;
Tim, Tammy, Brandon, &
Dalton Chancellor; Michael,
Crystal, & Jayden Chancellor;
Gene, Pat, & Katherine Ab-
bey; Randall, Shelley (Abbey),
& Racheal Barron; Dorothy
Abbey; Billy John, Loretta
Keith & Deborah Estes;
Bobby & Gail Ferguson;
Dustin Vaughn; Trevor
Harrington; Edith Barron; and
Kay Eaton, William & Lucas
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A Comanche
1858
1858 was also the year that
brought the postal service to
Cora, and the little town con-
tinued to prosper. The mail was
carried by J.H. Chrisman:
(Spelling and grammar corrected
for clarity)
“On the first day of June,
1858,1 started on the four year
job, which I carried out accord-
ing to contract, and which cost
the government $1840.00. I
took the route up Plum Creek
without any trail until I inter-
rupted the old Phantom Hill trail
which led to Cora; after trav-
eling this route for some time
and getting a better knowledge
of the county, I found that it
was several miles out of the
way, which made it near 50
miles, and took me all day ahd
part of the night to make the
trip. I abandoned that route and
took my course without any
trail, all guess work at the start;
sometimes I would lose my
course and go miles out of the
way. The route from the Murrel
place ten miles above
Gatesville on the Leon River to
Cora was then mostly open
prairie and the way I straight-
ened the route was by piling up
rocks on the high places so I
could see from one to the other,
and by moving the rock piles I
got the route straight, or nearly
so. Then I had a log dragged
from one rock pile to the other
a number of times and that is
the way the mail route from
Hamilton BBQ
Cookoff set for
August § and 6
There will be a Lone Star
Barbecue Society sanctioned
barbecue cook-off at the
Jayson Harris Pavilion in
Hamilton on August 5 and 6.
Proceeds from the cook-off will
benefit the Hamilton High
School Band.
More than 40 teams from
around Central Texas, several
of them nationally ranked, are
expected to sign up for the
cook-off, and teams are still
being accepted.
Categories include: Vi
chicken, pork spare ribs, bris-
ket, Dutch oven desserts and
jackpot beans. The entry fee
for one or all meat categories
is $50 and one cooked brisket
turned in Saturday morning.
There is an additional fee of $10
for the jackpot beans and
Dutch oven desserts.
Check-in time is Friday, Aug.
5 from 5-7 p.m. Water and
electricity are available, but lim-
ited. They will be available on
a first-come, first-served basis
or by prepaying $ 10 to reserve
the space.
Meat from the prize-winning
cookers will be used for the
fundraising barbecue meal to be
held Saturday, Aug. 6 from
11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. inside
the pavilion.
Entry forms may be ob-
tained at the Hamilton Herald
News of the Chamber of Com
merce office or by phoning
Mark Blackwell at 254-386-
4332.
Besides the cook-off, there
will be a barbecue meal, soft-
ball tournament and a horse-
shoe and washer tournament.
For more information about
the softball tournament, phone
Mark Nolen at 254-386-3199.
Bruce Boyd is in charge of the
car show and may be contacted
at 254-386-4982.
Comanche Alcoholics
Anonymous meets
Comanche Group AA will
meet every Wednesday,
Friday, and Saturday at 8:00
p.m.
Meeting place is in the Boy
Scouts Headquarters on
Reservoir Hill (Barnes Street
in Comanche.
Contact 915/356-3110
356-3625.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a
fellowship of men and women
who share their experience,
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Gatesville to Cora in Comanche
County was located.” (Chrisman,
J.H. Tht Autobiography of John H.
Chrisman (1121-1922). Gatesville,
Teias, p. 9-10.)
According to J.H.
Chrisman, he did not want the
job of mail carrier, but the gov-
ernment asked him to try to get
the job bid out to someone.
Since no one was interested in
bidding on the job, Chrisman
himself sent in what he felt was
an exorbitant bid; however, he
was awarded the contract.
“...I sent up a bid for four
hundred and sixty dollars a
year, which was nine dollars a
trip once a week, but to my
surprise the government ac-
cepted my bid...I then got a
good horse; the two main things
for ft frontiersman’s safety is a
fast horse and a sharp lookout.
[That way] if the Indians get
after you, you can outrun them
or see them before they see
you...
“...the route from
Gatesville to Cora was an un-
settled howling wilderness, not
a house to be seen or a trail to
govern your footsteps from the
time you leave the suburbs of
Gatesville, until you arrive at
Bud Tatem’s two miles from
Cora. It was the blood thirsty
Indians’ home. They roamed
over the country at
will...but...we were trying to
live in an Indian country, and if
some of us did not risk our lives
in beating the Indians back and
opening up the country to civi-
lization, we would all have to
take the back track and let the
Indians have the country.”
(CbriiMaa, p. 7.)
I might pause here to remind
you that Chrisman’s description
is of 1858, and some of our
early settlers had already been
here for three long years! I will
also remind you that Chrisman
is right; these early settlers
were living on land that had
been Indian land “forever.”
And this is exactly where that
age old argument will have to
end since what was, simply
was, and there is never a way
to change or undo history.
....to be continued...
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