The Cherokeean. (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 138, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 14, 1986 Page: 2 of 34
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PAGE TWO—THE CHEROKEEAN OF RUSK, TEXA8—THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, UN
( Point of ViW... Opinton/EdBtttoli )
Register To Vote!
Persons who vote in any election in
Texas, must be officially registered to
vote 30 days prior to that election. Sun-
day, Oct. 5 is officially the last day to sign
up for voting rights in the Nov. 4 General
Election. The Cherokee County Cour-
thouse most likely will be closed on both
Saturday, Oct. 4, and Sunday, Oct. 5.
Those who are not registered should do so
before Friday, Oct. 3.
Most folks will say October is a long
time away. It's not that .long. The May
and June Democratic and Republican
primaries seem as if they were yester-
day.
Most of the voting age folks in Cherokee
County are already registered. However,
there are people out there who have
never gotten around to registering.
Others did not receive their voter
registration cards in the January mailing
from the Tax Assessor-Collector Linda
Beard. If they voted in either of the
primaries, they are still eligible to vote in
the General Election. If not, these people
should contact Mrs. Beard's office.
In 1964, Texas had a massive voter,
registration. This brought in more than 2'
million new registered voters. This
spring the secretary of state's office
sponsored another campaign. There are
still others that should be registered.
Folks who are not registered or who
have changed their address should get
their registrations in order prior to the
last minute. The tax office is open week-
days from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (even through
the noon hour). This election, as all elec-
tions, is important. Your vote could be
the deciding ballot!
gloria jennings
No Place Like Texas
Back in May the Texas Legislature of-
ficially adopted "No Place But Texas" by
Alex Harvey as the official Texas
Sesquicentennial Song of the 69th
Legislature.
The song was recently recorded by
Texas' favorite "outlaw" Willie Nelson.
The resolution says the Sesquicenten-
nial provides an unrivaled opportunity to
remember the people and events that
have made Texas great and to pay tribute
to the spirit that characterizes the Lone
Star State.
We thought it fitting to share it with our
readers.
"God painted the blue bonnets in the field
By a tough little scrub oak on an East Texas Hill
Then he plucked a star from a Lone Star sky
And he put it in the twinkle of a Cowboy's eye
The wide open spaces he made wild and free
Texas as far as any eye could see
And he made her sons grow tough and stroog
But they still ery when they hear a sad old song
Chorus:
No Place But Texas
Would 1 Ever Own
No Place But Texas
My Home Sweet Home
No Place But Texas
My Home Sweet Home
When 1 die I hope they bury me
On the Pedernales River 'neath a live oak tree
Where I ean see a Longhora grue
And a cactus flower bloomin* in the morning haie
No Place But Texas
Would I Ever Own
No Place Bat Texas
My Home Sweet Home—"
A^ev£
By LEROY HASSLER,
Pastor Eastside Baptist Church
A friend once commented, "When
I was a boy and they sang the song,
"I Surrender All" I always thought
that if I ever did give my life com-
pletely to God, He would make me
marry the ugliest girl around and
send me to the deepest and darkest
part of Africa." That may seem a
little humorous, but that is how
many people feel that God will treat
them if they ever completely give
their lives to Him. If we do
surrender to the Lord we need to be
willing to do what He says or go
where He directs us to go. We can
always trust the Lord because He
knows what is best for our lives in-
the long run.
My friend finally did make that
decision to surrender all of his life
to the Lord. He now has a lovely
wife and two fine children and lives
in Texas and not Africa. We can
trust the Lord to do what is right
and proper in our lives if we
surrender to Him fully. It is only in
full surrender that real peace
comes into our hearts. It is in full
surrender that God can direct our
lives into His perfect will. It is only
in full surrender that we can ex-
perience God's power within our
lives. I suspect that Satan is the one
who tries to make us feel that we
cannot trust God. God is the only
one who will never fail us. It is only
through Jesus Christ that we can
know God.
Beating Around
the Busk
by Milton Bullock
"Wisdom is divided into two parts:
■) having a great deal to say, and
b) not saying it" Anonymous
Texas has one big bunch of
strange annual festivals. I've been
to a few, but afta* browsing through
the book Annually in Texas by Rick
Roseman and Bill Sanderson, I
realize that I haven't even scrat-
ched the surface; not yet anyway.
I've got to check out some of those
bizarre bazaars with wierd names
and outlandish events, with the
possible exception of the annual
Rattlesnake Roundup held on the
fourth weekend of March out
around Big Spring. My hair stands
on end at the sight of a purple
worm. Show me a grass snake and
I'll show you a fat middle-aged
track star. A rattlesnake? I'm
afraid my ticker would flicker.
Now they have a Spam-O-Rama
over in Austin very year which is
held on the Sunday nearest April
Fool's Day. It's a Spam cook-off,
featuring such delectable entrees
as "huevos S pane he ros, moo-goo-
gai-Spam, Spam-apple turnovers,
Spam-on-the-half-shell, and the
Cajun dish Spam-balaya." Fae and
I hold a private Spam-O-Rama
quite regularly in the suburbs of
Maydelle, so I guess I'll skip the one
in Austin.
I'm marking my calendar to visit
my mother on the first weekend in
April. She lives near Grand Prarie
where they hold the "Práirie Dog
Chili Cook-Off and World Cham-
pionship of Pickled Quail Egg
Eating." I won't enter their
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Texas' Oldest Weekly Newspaper.
Established as the Cherokee Sentinel. Feb. 27.1850
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES I \Y \BI.K IN \l>\ \M K
Cherokee County, 111 per Year
Outside Cherokee County, I3 Per Year
Outside SUte, |1S Per Year/Overseas, 120 Per Year
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
"graceful anvil toss contest," but
perhaps I'll consider the "sublime
lemon roll."
The San Angelo Lamblast holds a
lamb-off in April, complete with
such "sheep-ish" events as mixed
washer pitching, egg toss, and blin-
dman wheelbarrow race. Sounds
like as much fun as the Goat Bur-
nin' over at Sonora in May.
Fae said I could go to the Original
Terlingua International Frank X.
Tolbert-Wick Fowler Memorial
Championship Chili Cook-Off in
November. If I can steal her chili
recipe, I'll stand a good chance of
winning, providing I can come up
with a catchy name. I recall that
about five years ago, the winning
chili entry was called "Buzzard's
Breath."
Closer to home, they have the
Texas Fiddlers Contest and
Reunion at Athens on the last
Friday in May. Athens is also home
of the Black-Eyed Pea Jamboree on
the third weekend in July.
Canton has a bluegrass festival
on the third weekend in August.
Corsicana has "Derrick Days" in
April and Ennis has the famous
National Polka Festival in May.
Crockett really goes for annual
festivals. The Houston County Bir-
thday Party is held in June. The
Annual World Champion Fiddlers
Festival is also in June. Then, in
October they have the "Pilgrimage
to the Birthplace of Christianity in
East Texas."
The East Texas Yamboree at
Gilmer in October pounds in-
teresting. They have lots of music,
a carnival, an arts and craft show,
and tons of yams.
I could go on and on with East
Texas festivals, but my Spam-in
Yam and black-eyed peas are get-
ting cold. Besides, after supper I'm
going out on the front porch to prac-
tice my fire ant calling. The East
Texas Fireant Festival and Market
Fest at Marshall is only two months
away.
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LION'S DEN
S-:<&
By E. B. MUSICK JR.
In a kindergarten class one mor-
ning, an excited youngster announ-
ced: "I have some real big news.
My dog was shoveled yesterday."
Lion President George Dodd
recognized Dewayne King and Trey
Bowling as our guests last Thur-
sday. We are looking forward to
Dewayne becoming a Lion right
away and Trey in a few years.
Of all things after the Lions and
everybody in the Rusk area worked
so hard to get the Rusk Lions
{swimming Pool opened-there was
a,break-in a few days ago. Snacks
were missing, a calculator and a
bicycle ruined, the Little League
also received the same treatment.
This one Lion's opinion: do not
know how anybody could be this
sorry to do a thing like this!
Lion Charles Horton asked all
Lions to please turn in their money
for light bulbs. If you have not pur-
chased your package, please call
Lion Horton and he will see that
they are delivered to you.
All who have old eye glasses
please give them to a Lion within
the next few days and the Lions
bring them to the meeting Aug. 21.
Lion Elmer Beckworth presented
Bobby Townley, Chief Probation
Officer for Cherokee County as our
program. Bobby has held this
position since 1969 and prior to that
was a deputy sheriff.
Townley said that Prosecutors
make recommendations to the
Judges in most cases. So does the
Probation Department in many in-
stances. then he appointed all the
Lions as Judges and showed a film
and then at the end would ask the
Lions how they would have ruled if
they had been the Judge. The film
was about a young man just 18
years of age. A plea was made by
his.attorney for probation and the
District Attorney pleaded that the
book should be thrown at him.
Then the background for all of
this. He jumps into a pickup, turns
up the radio whereby it can be
heard for seven blocks, burns rub-
ber and takes off. He gets home and
his mother tries to get him to stay
for dinner because his brother and
wife will be visiting. The answer
was "no." He changed clothes,
jumped back into the pickup and
took off. Next, a can of beer. Then,
he stops and talks to two young men
and one girl; asks them to meet him
at a certain place in a short time
and maybe will give them some
beer. Later, he picks up another
young man and they continue
drinking beer. They start playing
around with the radio, trying to
select a station and run into a guard
rail, doing some damage to one side
of the pickup but not enough to stop
them. They go to pick up the others
they talked to earlier and there
were others there, too. All got into
the pickup, the cab and the back,
and the driver floorboarded it. All
drinking beer. Hit a wet road, lost
control of the pickup, turned it over
and eight were killed.
The Judge is shown talking to the
driver and in the end he points his
finger at the young man and asked
"What would you do if you were the
judge?" Then the Lions were asked
what they would do-send him to
the penitentiary or give him
probation? Eleven voted to send
him to the penitentiary and four
voted to give him probation.
Townley said that he had shown
this film to the eighth grade and
their decision was about 50/50 on
penitentiary or probation.
Did you know that 24 teenagers
die every 24 hours in an alcohol
related accident? Do you know
where your child is when he is away
from home? Do you know who he is
running around with?
Townley said also that there were
906 on probation in Cherokee Coun-
ty at this time and only 135 back in
1969. There are 279,000 on probation
in the Great State of Texas. We ap-
preciate Bobby visiting us and
bringing us this outstanding
program.
They were discussing reincar-
nation and the husband said, "You
mean if I die I come back as
something else?" The wife said that
was right.
"Do I get a choice?" the husband
asked. "I mean is it possible for a
big man like me to come back as a
skunk?"
"Don't worry, dear-you're never
the same thing twice "
See You Thursday Noon Southern
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Rapides Parish, Louisiana was
the mother parish of several other
parishes in Louisiana. The cour-
thouse was burned in 1S64 by
federal troops during the Civil War
and no local, civil or church records
were salvaged.
A new book has been published
using records from Spain- The 1773
census, the 17S8 census,,¿he 178p
militia roil,'new setters of 1789. the
1792 census, and a 179^jjfiiition of
Catahoula Lake settlers are collec-
ted in a new book which has been
published recently by Smith Books
This work offers extensive
documentation on the founding of
Rapides Post, whose jurisdiction
reached from Oauchita and Con-
cordia to Natchitoches, and to
Avoyelles and Opelousas Rapides
Parish was the crossroads of
Louisiana. Anglo families from
Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia.
Appalachia and from Alabama and
Mississippi moved into Rapides
Parish during the Spanish regime.
Some of the Anglo names which
appear in the 1789 record include:
James Brown, Thomas Thompson.
John McDaniel, William Dunnegan,
John Hay, John Amons, and John
Rains.
A petition, dated 1794. from
American inhabitants of Rapides
Post to Governor Carondelet,
reveal the following names: Ben-
jamin Grubb, George Paul, Peter
Fogerty, Isaack Frazar, John
Fowlar, Samuel Gray, Reuben
White, Robert Willson, Mark
Powel, Jacob Hooter, Joseph
Hooter, Phillip Hooter, James
White, William Brown, Richard
Earl and Samuel Morris
The 1799 census contains the
following names: Richard Smith.
James Montgomery, Thomas John-
son, John Wicks, Charles Sherry.
James Brester, Hugh Coyle,
Stephen Lynch, Edmund Norris,
Henry Stephen, Jeremiah Green-
well, William Powers, Widow
Coleman, John Back, Nicolas
Grubb, William Brown, Emanuel
Rice, Alexander Fulton, Hugh
Baily, James White, Jean
Holloway, Rubin White, Benjamin
Grubb, Uriah Wiggins, Adam Hof-
fman, Thomas Nugent, Edmond
Nugent, and Benjamin Miller.
Winston DeVille. noted author
and lecturer, has translated these
records and compiled them into this
valuable book He has given us
records that prove your ancestor
was in the region, even though local
records were destroyed by fire
Cost of this book is 110 and may be
ffttfli—' from Smith Books. Route
One, Box 2*5; Ville Platte,
70586 Tell topi you want
Rapides Post on Red River.
Would like to correspond with
anyone working on the Castillo
(Castee. Castie) family Need help
on Arganacion (Anganacion)
Castillo, bom 25 March 1836 It
seems the old man came from
Nacogdoches shortly after the Civil
War-and does not appear in the
census records of 1860 Oral history
has it that the old man served the
duration of the War and saw service
at Shiloh He mustered out around
Mansfield and followed some of the
locals home, to marry into the
Ebarb <Y' Barbo > community lam
led to believe that he enlisted near
or in Nacogdoches, but cannot find
any records to prove this
We cannot find a marriage record
of Arganacion Castillo and Mrs
Ellen Procella Could they have
returned to his home for the oc-
casion"' This would have been after
1865 but before 1879 (the birth year
of my great-grandfather Fellis
Castillo)
Arganacion Castee (Castillo) was
buried at St Joseph's Catholic
Cemetery 20 December 1918 in
Zwolle, Louisiana There is not
headstone for his wife, Ellen
Any help on this family will be
appreciated Tommy W. Bolton, Rt.
1. Box 165, Pleasant Hill. La 71065.
Would like to exchange family
notes with anyone researching
Refugio & Colorado counties for:
Stockton, Gilbert. Vineyard, Hatch,
Byrne, and Montgomery. Also
By CAROLYN ERICS0N
1614 Radfcud St.
Nacogdoches, T . 75761
Grayson County for Cole, Hash,
Martin and Franks
JoAn McCreary, 1143 Monticello,
Granbury, Texas 76048
Need information on Dufner
family Jim Dufner married Nancy
Steel Know of six children Bill,
Ellen. Emma, Gid, Frances Ber-
nard, and Lizzie They lived in and
around Lavaca County, Texas
Will be glad to share information.
Kathyren Ryle, Route 1, Box 86.
Reklaw, Texas 75784
Would like to contact anyone
working on the Swift and Dickinson
families or any descendant who
might have information to share
A son of Franklin Noah Dickinson
(also named Wiley P Dickinson
married Emma Blanch Sherrard
somewhere in Texas about 1894 We
need to find their marriage record
Emma died soon after 1895 in Texas
and I would like to locate an
obituary or tombstone to prove
w hen and where she died We think
they lived at Wylie in Collin County,
Texas
James A Watson, 1750 Tower
Drive, Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401.
Work will begin this fall on ad-
ditional data to include in a revised
edition of \Bci>gdnchn, (iatewmy To
Texas. If your family was m the
Nacogdoches District or old
Nacogdoches County prior to 1850,
please send me any information. If
you have corrections that should be
made in the data included in
Volume I, please let me know. I
have several hundred names that I
located in land records after the
original manuscript was sent to the
printers. He refused to include
them-even in an appendix; so I
want to be sure to include them this
time.
Send corrections and additions to
Gateway Revision, 1614 Redbud
Street, Nacogdoches, Texas 75961.
Your help will be appreciated.
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Memorial Library
Uv PEGGY McAHTHIJP.
WOW!
The summer reading
program concludes this week.
It has been a fun summer full
of books, movies, and stories.
A total of 159 youngsters were
enrolled. Eighty-eight of them
read 10 or more books. Four
hundred sixty-five attended the
Wednesday afternoon activity
time with an average of 51 at
each program.
Each reader kept a reading
log and reported to us the
number of hooks read They
are to be congratulated for
having read 3.M7 books,
AMAZING! TERRIFIC!
BEAUTIFUL!
The reading club came to a
conclusion for this year with
certificates and awards being
presented Wednesday, Aug. 13.
Watch the paper next week for
pictures.
I am impressed with the
children of Rusk. I hope that
you are too.
A special thanks goes to the
Rainbow Do-Nut Shop of Rusk
for awarding readers with free
don-nuts and to the Burger
King of Jacksonville for coke,
fries, and hamburger coupons
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