The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Page: 5 of 20
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Has anyone tried the
Dinty Moore>s «Corned
Beef and Cabbage» rec-
ipe that Lee King shared
with us?
I remember seeing a
monument at Fair view
Cemetery with the en-
graved message «To live
in the hearts of those
left behind is not to die».
I think it was on one of
the Sanders> grave.
Good advice: Compli-
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and always keep your
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MEXICAN RESTAURANT
When I worked at
Bridges Drug, right af-
ter I graduated from
Center High School and
The Depression hit us
all, I went to clerking at
Perry Brothers. After
that I worked at the drug
store on the corner.
There were 4 drug
stores on the square
in the 1930>s and they
were popular gathering
places for people espe-
cially around the soda
fountains.
Mr. Mangurms nick
name was “Bud” and ev-
ery one called him that.
He came in the drug
store every day and the
I asked recently if any-
one knew what became
of Pinkie Atkison after
she retired from school
teaching and coaching
girls sport games.
Janet Ellison of Center
Health Food Store wrote
and said Pinkie was
alive and well and doing
wonderful. She trades
at the health food store
which indicates she is
doing her part in staying
healthy.
Janet is the one who
told me who Chumley
is on the TV Pawn Shop
show. Now, I wonder
where does Chumley
live? Does he live with
the “Old man” or with
the old man’s son?
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after 4:00 pm
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men around the foun-
tain would say “Come
on Bud, I’ll buy you
a Coke”.
His reply always was
«No, thanks, but I’ll take
the nickel.” When some-
one asked Mr. Emmett
Jenkins how he was, his
reply was “Well, I’m here
and a lot of ‘em ain’t”.
Mr. Jenkims wife,
Ella, was a sister to Mrs.
Booty Ross, Asa Rich-
ardson and Mrs. Duke
Taylor. Emmett and Ella
had 2 children, Charles
and Winnie Mae.
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I was looking through
a box of keepsakes of
my brother Maurice Mc-
Lendon and found a lit-
tle program folder of his
1941 senior class gradu-
ation banquet.
The typed program
gave Betty Matthews as
Toast Mistress; Brand
March, Ruth Elma Bra-
den, Welcome Address,
Betty Matthews Junior
Class President, Re-
sponse, Fred Daugherty,
Senior Class President.
Tap Dances, Maxie De-
lores Brown, Address,
Principal A.E. Day. Read-
ing, Maggie and Jiggs at
the Golden Gate, Marjo-
rie Hughes (later Kim
Dawson), song, Lilacs
In the Rain, Kelsie Hop-
kins, address Supt. EL.
Moffett.
The program con-
cluded with Joy Booth
reading the Senior Class
Prophecy and Ila Fay
Downer reading the Ju-
nior Class will.
Then the classmates
departed with the sing-
ing of Auld Lang Syne.
Many of the members
of this 1941 class are
dead. Wonder if there
are any of the 1941 class
still living in Center or
elsewhere.
on Sunday evenings and
the roads were good,
there were several land
marks which we liked to
see. One was the tall silo
at the Ben Pearce home
on 7 east where Paradise
Villa is now.
Another land mark to
us was the odd shaped
big barn at the Oscar
Fleming Ranch on the
Arcadia Road. It was built
in 1915 by carpenter John
Beasley, a grandfather of
James Paul Wilson.
At Shelbyville were the
old Masonic Hall and the
Methodist Church with
the steep roof. My father
would always point the
church out to tell us that
he helped put the shin-
gles on the roof.
Of course, the J. Lee
Crawford was our favor-
ite land mark for a stop to
get refreshed with a large
bottle of strawberry soda
pop and a 5 cent box of
pop corn with a prize.
The long wooden
bridge on Tenaha Creek
in Shelbyville was lots of
fun as the bridge planks
would sound like plink,
plank, plunk. It was a nar-
row one- way bridge. Be-
fore driving up the steep
hill to enter Shelbyville,
we made a stop by the
Tenaha Creek. Papa
used a lard bucket to dip
water out of the creek
and pour in the thirsty
radiator that used lots of
water. An empty bucket
was standard equipment
for cars.
Write me, Mattie,
Box 744, Center, TX
75935.
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CMS Police Officer Shad Sparks recently held his first color design contest. Judges had a difficult time choosing winners. Officer Sparks will have the drawings on display in his office. Winners are as follows: 6th Grade - Lisandra Santos - 7th Grade - Thu Paw - 8th Grade -
Monica Sandiego. Winners received a large pizza and a “I Got Caught Showing My Rider Pride” t'-shirt. Due to several designs being so close, four consolation prizes were awarded to 6th Grader Ana Espinosa, 7th Grader Kalin Jones, 8th Graders J a Mori Gardner and Hayleigh
Smith. Those students were given Subway Coupons. Also a special award was given to McKenzie Jones, 6th grader, for showing the most Rider Pride in the contest. Students pictured from left: Monica Sandiego, Lisandra Santos and Thu Paw.
Courtesy photo/The Light and Champion
Sometimes I think
that we historians can-
not come up with any-
thing that hasmt already
been told or written
about Shelby County.
We have so many
published books on the
county and area history
including the books of
J.B. Sanders, Mildred
Pinkstoms taken from
copies of The Champion,
Charles Taturms books,
printed booklets writ-
ten by men who were
members of the Regula-
tor, Moderator War, and
many books on geneal-
ogy of Shelby County
people.
The local library and
museum has most of
these books.
I <m trying to think
of something that hasmt
been written before and
it is hard to do, but I>11
keep trying.
top of L.Y. Rogers Drug
Store, next to the Dad and
Lad’s building.
According to an old
newspaper account, it was
moved from the Rogers
building in June 1931 and
stationed atop the Center
Hotel that was a 2 story
brick building located be-
tween Bridges Drug Store
and First Baptist Church.
The last time that I asked
City Hall about the old
siren, I was told that it is
stored in one of the City’s
warehouses.
We had a simple way
when I was a child to find
out where the fire was.
Our fire siren was the ice
plant>s mournful whistle.
All we had to do to find
out the location of the fire
after hearing the fire whis-
tle was to ring the phone
office and say «Central,
please tell me where the
fire is», and she>d tell us
because they got the mes-
sage first and it was the
Central girls then who
called the light plant to
blow the whistle.
The planer plants also
blew their whistle.
We also could call and
ask Central the time of day
and the Central girls fur-
nished us with any infor-
mation that was available
to them.
The first telephone
that I can remember
was in my grandparents
home. It was a wooden
box that was fastened to
the wall. To get a num-
ber, we removed the
black phone receiver that
was hanging on the side,
cranked the handle and
rang the telephone office.
She answered, “Opera-
tor”, then you’d give her
the number. Often, she
would say “that number
is busy, try again”.
The phones then used
two large telephone bat-
teries and as they wore
out, the audio of voices
faded out, and the phone
was no longer usable.
My grandparents
phone was on a straight
line and many were on
party lines.
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Fountain, Steve. The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 140, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 15, 2017, newspaper, March 15, 2017; Center, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1279125/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Library.