The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1977 Page: 1 of 10
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The Cowboys And The Trail Drives
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Under the direction of Jo-
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will feature David Riggins
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JAMES B. FRANKLIN
Evangelist
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about the show, see adver-
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gredient and most important
part of a cowboy’s life was
his horse. A cowboy was
somewhat allergic to walk-
ing a distance farther than
from the bunk-house to the
horse lot and his horse was
never far away, yet he looked
on him as a working tool -
and work him he did.
The second most import-
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Abbott as the lost-in-another-
world Snoopy, Joan Jenkins
as the know it all Lucy,
Chapman Locke as the lov-
able, blanket-toting Linus,
Marty Van Kleeck as the
utterly innocent Patty, and
Ricky Pratt as the didicated
musician Schroeder.
Musical and dance num-
bers accompany the scenes
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For All
That figure is the amount
of cash receipts and govern-
ment payments in 1975? the
most recent figures pub-
lished by the Texas Crop
and Livestock Reporting Ser-
vice.
“Though 1977 may prove
to be one of lower prof-
cost will be between $5000
and $6000.
The Commissioners dis-
cussed recent legislation
proposals to change the dis-
trict court which now serves
Mills County. Mills County,
if the proposition passes,
will enter the 35th District
Court of Brown and Coleman
Counties. Presently, Mills
County is in the 27th Dis-
trict, which stretches from
Bell County to Mills County.
except for killing a deer
for camp or a rattlesnake,
and were most often carried
in the saddlebag because they
were big, heavy and bundle-
some, and a bother to carry
around the waist on long
drives.
During the pre-settlement
days, cattle were driven
through the present area of
Mills County going to mar-
sessions was his rope. A
rope, if properly thrown,
could bring down a good
sized yearling - drag fire-
wood to camp or pull a
cow from a bog-hole.
Cowboys were proud of
their pistols and often prac-
ticed their quick-draw tech-
niques, which might some
day save their lives. How-
ever, they were seldom used,
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Happiness is going to the
Goldthwaite High School
Auditorium to see the hit
Broadway musical comedy
“You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown”, based on the popu-
lar Charles Schulz comic
strip “Peanuts”, on Thurs-
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fessional drama company,
(Monday, May 16).
For more information con-
tact any United Methodist
Youth, Mrs. * Lucy Saylor,
youth sponsor, the United
Methodist Church office
(648-2629), or Ben T. Welch,
Pastor.
“Fine Arts Patron” tick-
ets, good for all three events
are $10.00 with individual
performances being $3.50
each.
ped around his waist and pro-
tected his legs from brush,
cat-claw and thorns. The
most important part of his
wardrobe was the wide brim-
med hat he wore, for it
protected him from sun,
wind, hail and rain. It could
be used to fan coals into
a fire or be thrown in front
of a cow to change her path.
Of course, the basic in-
ceipts during this year
should be substan t i a 1,”
White stated.
“Production costs have
doubled for many regions
in the state in the past two
years, but several commodi-
ties have been able to stay
even with these costs.”
as Charlie Brown, Jerry
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The Mills County Unit of
the American Cancer Soci-
ety welcomed two new offi-
cers to its board of di-
rectors at an organizational
meeting held Mar. 7. Col.
M.A. Campbell was elected
president upon the resigna-
tion of Mr. L.B. Burnham
who had served in the ca-
pacity for several years.
Marj Head was elected to
serve as secretary. Other
officers who were re-elected
include Jeanie Ratliff, treas-
urer and memorial chair-
man; Jewel Yeager, ser-
vices chairman; Opal Will-
iams, public information
chairman; and Jeanette
Carothers, publicity chair-
man. Other board members
are Dorothea Schrader of
Priddy and Beth Miles.
April is Cancer Crusade
month and plans are being
formulated for drives
throughout the county. The
local crusade enables Mills
County cancer patients to
be eligible for services such
as beds, wheelchairs, dres-
sings, etc. Anyone in need
of any of these services
should contact Mrs. Jewel
Yeager at her residence or
at the treasurer’s office in
the courthouse.
Those who wish to make
a memorial gift to the Ameri-
can Cancer Society should
call Mrs. Jeanie Ratliff at
Mills County State Bank.
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The Mills County Com-
missioners Court met in
regular session on Monday.
The court voted to re-
move the county’s portion
of the government trapper
program. The county was
contributing $415 per month
for their share of the sal-
ary of a county trapper.
The trapper hired by the
Mills County Program Build-
ing Committee has not been
affected by this move.
In other court matters, a
salary grievance committee
was appointed for a one-
year term. On the commit-
tee are the county sheriff,
county treasurer, county
clerk, county attorney, and
five members of the last
active Mills County grand
jury. This committee, one
of a type authorized by the
Texas State Legislature, can
recommend salary changes
through the Commissioners
Court and the changes must
be implemented.
The court voted to take
applications for the position
of Justice of the Peace, Pre-
cinct 6, the area surround-
ing Priddy. The death of
JP Troy Williams prompted
this action. Interested per-
sons should contact the
County Judges’ office. The
court set the salary at the
same $315 per month level.
In an effort to protect
county records from damage
by fire or other elements,
the court approved the
microfilming of many of the
county’s permanent records.
This microfilm will be
stored in the bank. Total
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The court passed a reso-
lution approving a Council
of Governments Cooperative
effort with Childress Clinic
and Hospital concerning
emergency medical service
radio equipment.
In other routine matters,
the court voted to take work-
man’s compensation in-
surance bids at the June
meeting and voted to buy
a new water cooler for the
Courthouse.
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Austin - March 21 is Agri-
culture Day in Texas, and
Mills County farmers and
ranchers can be proud of the
$11,857,000 contribut ion
they make to the economy
of their area and the state,
according to Agriculture
Commissioner, John C.
Ten Goldthwaite busi-
nesses suffered damaged
plate glass store windows
Saturday night from an ap-
parent Co2 type pistol or
rifle.
/ Sheriff H. G. Brooks in-
vestigated and reported that
JRB Supermarket, Oliver’s
Station, Saylor Hotel, Nathan
Carothers, McLeans Cafe,
Hudson Drug, D Bar T,
Yarborough’s, Western Auto
and DeWitt house at the
South ‛Y‛, had damages.
At press time some juve-
nile suspects had been
questioned about the in-
cident.
An estimate of the dam-
ages ranged to around
$6,000.
the Goldthwaite Lions Club.
Proceeds from the sale of
tickets will benefit various
charitable community activi-
ties.
Wally Fowler, veteran
performer and the star of
the ‘Benefit Show’, who was
crowned “Mister Gospel Mu-
sic” in Nashville in 1964,
will give his command per-
formanc and include in his
repertoire songs from his
LP album, Pure Country
Gospel ....accompanied by
his sounds of Nashville band
and quartet.
Advance tickets may be
purchased from Sheriff H.G.
Brooks or G. Frank Bridges,
president of the Lions Club.
For additional information
see advertisement in this
The span of the existence
of the American trail-driving
cowboy lasted a bare gene-
ration - from the end of the
Civil War until about 1890,
\ when wire fences, poor cat-
tle prices and farming forced
them into history. But never
has one occupation been so
well remembered or appeal-
ing to the generations as
the cowboys of long ago.
They were men of a certain
time and age and once their
time had passed, it could
never return.
The exciting, quick-draw,
hard - fisted, fight - prone
image we have today of the
k trail-driving cowboys - the
vision of bawling herds of
stamping cattle moving slow-
ly along in their own dust-
the rip-roaring, fast living
times at the end of the trail
may not be true.
There has probably never
been a harder, more pun-
ishing job than the life the
cowboys lived on the trail
drives. In all probability, a
letter written to the home
folks by one of them, if
that had been possible in
those early days, would have
gone something like this:
“Dear Ma and Pa:
I was on my horse
all night and it rained hard
here. We had Indians all
around us the other night
and they got one man. My
backside is blistered raw
and another man in our out-
fit has sores all over him.
Our chuck wagon turned over
the other day crossing a
creek and all the grub got
wet, but it didn’t make
much difference because
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$5.9 billion with livestock :
bringing in $3,060,908,000
and crops $2,785,683,000. <
Total cash receipts for 1976 3
are estimated to be more
than $6 billion.
Livestock and products in"
Mills County were valued
in 1975 at $10,549,000.
Crops totaled $1,171,000. {
which are moments in the
lives of Charlie Brown and
his friends including Valen-
tine’s Day, the chaotic events
of the Very Little League’s
baseball game, and others.
Musicians for the show
are Mo Todd (piano), and
Drenda Lewis (bass
clarinet).
“You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown” is the first
of three cultural events spon-
sored by the youth of the
First United Methodist
Church, Goldthwaite.
Other events in this spring
Fine Arts Festival will be
“The Extraordinaires”, a
singing group from South-
western University, George-
town (Saturday, April 16),
tie were driven to Mills
County and from whatever
direction they came, they
were all headed for one
place - Williams Ranch.
There they were sold, gath-
ered into large herds and
the traildrives began to
Denver, Abilene, Kansas and
Kansas City. Many Mills
County boys were hired there
to ride the long trails.
Meets Tonight
The Goldthwaite Athletic
Booster Club will have a
special called meeting,
Thursday, March 17, at 7:00
P.M., at the Goldthwaite High
School.
At this meeting a special
fund-raising project will be
considered, and we urge all
club members to be present.
The International Gospel
Music Festival of Nashville,
Tenn, is scheduled to be at
the Goldthwaite High School
Auditorium March 22, 1977
at 8:00 p.m. Scheduled to
appear in person, and per-
form, is all of the Fowler
family (8) members includ-
ing the band. They are
acclaimed as sensational and
the only singing family in
the USA to exceed the per-
formance and excitement of
the ‘Happy Goodmans’.
Also appearing is the
“Tall Texas Gal” from
N a c o g doches, Jeanette
Lunsford, titled the ‘Kate
Smith of Gospel Music’. She
will be singing her songs
from her hit LP album pro-
duced in Nashville, Tenn.
Sponsoring the event is
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Goldthwaite, will hold re-
vival services March 20 -
25. The Sunday serviceswill
be at 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM.
The services Monday
through Friday will be at
7:00 PM.
Rev. Jim Franklin, Vice-
President for Development
at Howard Payne University
will be the evangelist. Rev.
Franklin was born in 1928
in Ft. Worth, and gradu-
ated from Greenville High
School. He is also a gradu-
ate of Howard Payne and
Southwestern Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary. He has
pa stored churches in Sadler,
Rogers, Edna and Kingsville,
Texas. He also served as
Vice President of the Uni-
versity of Corpus Christi
in 1970 - 1971. Rev. Frank-
lin is married to the former
Alice Wesson of Beeville,
and they have three daugh-
ters - Gayle, age 25; Debbie
age 23; and Lisa, age 13.
Rev. Franklin is an out-
standing preacher of the
Word.
Rev. Gene Talbot, Jr.,
Minister of Music and Ac-
tivities of First Baptist
Church, Goldthwaite, will
direct the music for the
services. Gene came to us
from the Parkview Baptist
Church in Arlington, in
January of this year. He
has also served on the staff
of Calvary Baptist Church,
May and Live Oak Baptist
Church, Gatesville. Gene
will be presenting inspiring
music in each service.
In each of the services
one of the members of First
Baptist Church will share
Living Proof of God’s love
in their lives. The people
of Mills County are invited
to share in these Living
Proof services. If you need
transportation to the ser-
vices, please call 648-3369.
Yet there had to be some
compensation for all the
hardships. There was the
feel of the strength of good
horses under them - the
companionship of comrades
of the trail with the same
problems as their own, no
money and many without
homes. Not many had much
education.
There were many types
of cowboys on the trail.
Some drifters, some were
on the run from the law,
and there was always the
boys called “saddle bums”
who took advantage of the
hospitality of western cus-
toms and went from ranch
to ranch taking food and a
night’s free lodging. A com-
mon rule of etiquette was
to never, never ask a
stranger his name. “Smith
is the name” would have pro-
bably been the answer to "
a question so rude. But the
majority of cowboys were
ordinary country boys, not
very old, trying to make a
little money and maybe have
a little adventure along with
this hardest of all work.
Those Texas cowboys
drove thousands of cattle
to market on long drives
to Kansas and Colorado, us-
ually during the summer
months. The average cowboy
burned himself out in six or
seven years following those
thick - headed, panic -prone
creatures they called cows,
and preempted a little land,
married and settled down.
Everything a cowboy wore
or carried on the trail
played an important part of
his everyday life. The ban-
danna handkerchief served
it’s purpose. It kept the back
of the cowboy’s neck from
becoming a sea of blisters
from the hot sun and served
as a bandage in case of
cuts or snakebite. The spurs
on the back of his boots
helped to speed his horse
in case of stampede; his
vest pocket served as a con-
venient pouch for Bull Dur-
ham or Brown Mule tobacco.
Almost all the worldly pos-
sessions of a cowboy were
stored in his saddlebag, and
his bedroll was sometimes
tied across the back of his
saddle, however, on some
drives a wagon carried the
bedrolls. Just before mount-
ing each morning, the cow-
boy put on a pair of lea-
ther chaps, which were seat-
less leg coverings that strap-
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ket in the western states.
There were no exact cattle
trails, as a good trail boss
“drift-drove” his herd along
a general route with land-
marks, such as the San
Saba Peak, for direction -
keeping water holes and
flowing springs in mind along
the way.
During the 1870’s and
1880’s, large herds of cat-
First Baptist Church of
Goldthwaite is joining efforts
with the other 3,935 South-
ern Baptist Churches in
Texas in a program to pre-
sent the Good News of Christ
to every person living in
F Texas during 1977. This ef-
fort involves the Living
Proof testimonies on T.V.
and radio as well as local
revivals in each Baptist
Church.
First Baptist Church in
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there was weevils in the
flour anyway. Mosquitoes
terrible here at night with
* all this rain and I wish
it would stop. We pulled
cows out of bog holes yes-
terday and I’m sore all over.
Flies the worst I ever
remember and heel-flies giv-
ing us and them cows plenty
of trouble. Everybody in our
bunch been mad, and two
fights broke out last night.
Face itching something aw-
ful with all this heat and
• sweat. I’m not homesick,
but wish I was home.
Jim
And so it went day after
long day for the boys driv-
ing th herds to market.
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