Lone Star Gazette (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 1, 2000 Page: 1 of 8
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in Glen Rose
Bull riding pits man against
Stan Bundy in his new store Legends Specialty Furnishings.
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of stirred up. Hey, no
problem. I have become
almost an expert at riding
imports and ironwork,
European antique furniture,
custom tile and cedar timber
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An office, located in the
back of the store, will also be
used as headquarters for
ssbundy.com a computer
consulting business and
web-page design company.
Bundy, who was recently
elected Hico’s mayor, has
been planning this enterprise
for several months.
“I knew that there was
some rental space available
downtown and I always
thought that a store that
brought the premium,
early ranch,” Harold Bell says.
“Her father, Samuel Shupe,
fought in Sam Houston’s army
at the battle of San Jacinto.
Mr. Shupe was wounded in
the battle.”
Zerilda Ruth was only in
her 30s when her husband and
son were killed — by Indians.
“Her husband, Charles
Wesley Dollahite, a farmer
and school teacher, had been
teaching in a rural school near
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One of the recently placed
markers was for the
great-grandmother of poth
Tom Hale and Harold Bell.
Although she died in 1932,
before Tom Hale was born,
Harold Bell remembers her
well.
The stones are for Anna
Ruth Hale Dixon and baby,
1893-1918; Zerilda Ruth
Shupe Dollahite, 1839-1932;
Anna Lyde Dollahite Bell,
1865-1920 and McDolar Bell,
1862-1917.
“We wanted to record
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5606 formula that nets the rider
sem thousands of dollars in prize
money. No wonder it is one
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C’N Stars Rodeo Co. invites
in his pocket. More than
$8,000 in total prize money
will be paid out.
The event will feature pro
rodeo announcer Andy
Stewart and funnyman
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The tour rides into town
with GMC - the Official
Truck of the Homs and
Hooves Bull Riding
Challenge. GMC — Do one
thing. Do it well. Bud Light.
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you to join in the action as the to supply us with one identity and several partial identities. He believes that the last name of
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to chickens, the Bell family
had some cows, and a little
cotton and grain. It was
established by McDolar Bell
and his second wife, Anna
Dollahite Bell. Numerous
family and friends resided at
the ranch. Harold Bell, the
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Riding Challenge Tour 2000
returns to Glen Rose at the
Somervell County Expo
Center on Saturday, July 8th
at 7:30 p.m. This is the eighth
stop of a 1 O-city tour.
Forty-five cowboys will
match up against top bucking
business closed years ago, but bulls from the state, with the
remnants of the buildings have top eight contestants moving
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was just a youngster when he
began to spend summers at
the ranch.
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and a vineyard,” he says, “and
were self-sustaining out there.
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young man second from the right is Otho Stuckey and the man is Mr. Huffman. If any of our I
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Legends Specialty Furnishings debuts in Hico
By Paul J Ake handmade Mexican products craftsmen for the lowest price •
Contributing Writer such as wool blankets, and bring them back to Hico .
July 1st will mark the grand pottery, and ironwork to the in a trailer,” Bundy continued# • -
opening of Stan Bundy’s new shoppers would do well > said 1 was lucky enough to have
been visible for many years on on to the short round to take store in downtown Hico.
both sides of Highway 377. on one more bull, and a Legends Specialty
Although fewer people chance for the average money Furnishings will open along
remember it, the business had (highest combined score on the esplanade with an eclectic
rather humble beginnings on a two bulls). In the short round, array of premium Mexican
ranch about five miles outside one lucky cowboy will face
the “Bounty Bull” and with a
successful eight-second ride,
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|Perusing the pages of the old . “She was Zerilda Ruth
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|Bell family, often in
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"chicken hatchery. It was the
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handling up to 50,000 eggs.
Herbert Bell, for many
years the proprietor of the
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familiar to folks in Dublin.
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as the larger operation, the
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Mexico myself and find what I the language and culture.”
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watched as granite markers
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i and the memories, are old.
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° 1917, the latest from 1932,
but no markers were erected
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s I summer the cousins decided
that they should mark the final
resting place of some of
Dublin’s early day residents.
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to run off when he figures out
that he’s not wearing a bit or a
saddle and that I have been
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wdi " hours.” They seemed to think
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had been left out and was kind cavalier a manner as I could me their child. As I grabbed a faster. I think that they call it m =
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This Lone Star Gazette column
offers some advice on ranching
to readers — it almost never
reflects the opinions of this paper-
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Kestner, Laura. Lone Star Gazette (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 1, 2000, newspaper, July 1, 2000; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1528125/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Erath County Genealogical Society.