The Giddings Times (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1967 Page: 23 of 24
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The Giddings, Texas, Times — Thursday, April 6, 1967 — Page 23
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(FROM PAGE ONE)
it, though, this would be no
more exaggerated than some
of those Fairy tales mothers
and fathers read to their
children.
breeze come through, since
there was no air conditioning.
One day Mr. Nerger was
standing in the lobby talking
with a customer when a cow
came running in the back door,
went right past the two gentle-
men and ran out the front door.
Mr. Nerger, who didn’t seem
to be too disturbed by the oc-
currance, jokingly told the other
fellow, “I don’t mind cows com-
ing into our bank, but I’m glad
she didn’t leave a deposit.”
Getting back to that loose
cow the other day, it continued
on it’s running spree for three
or four blocks into the residen-
tial section. A woman was out in
her garden planting. When she
turned around she was almost
frightened out of her wits when
she saw that calf standing right
behind her.
I understand the owner even-
tually caught up with it, which
is another “tail” to tell.
SALOONS — Speaking of the
old days around Giddings, the
old Bull Frog saloon used to be
a pretty lively place when the
cattle drives came through and
the drovers were in town to
wetten their whistle.
It was told that once some
of these drovers shot all the
lights out in the Bull Frog Bar
one night and then stole several
hundred dollars worth of
whiskey.
Weeks, later, though, after
they had gotten the cattle to
market, they returned and plop-
ped down $300 in cash on the-
counter of the saloon to pay for
what they had stolen.
Trail drivers were usually
pretty broke toward the end of
a trail drive. But once they
got the cattle to market they
were “loaded” — in more ways
than one.
to keep cattle in one section
of a pasture without having to
dig post holes and string barbed
wire.
But you know how rumors
spread around small towns. By
the time I heard about it, some-
one was telling that an electric
fence had set a cow on fire.
If that were the case, and
if they had had electric fences
back in the days when nursery
rhymes were written, I could
see why “the cow jumped over
the moon.” You would too if
your tail was on fire.
It’s a good thing they don’t
let me write nursery rhymes,
because I’d probably be telling
kids that once upon a time there
were two moons and no sun.
That is, until an electric fence
caught a cow on fire, the cow
jumped over the moon, set it
on fire and now we’ve got a sun
and moon.
When you come to think about
PIRATING — Publisher W.H.
Cooke, in his column in the
Rockdale Reporter last week,
reported that Virginia’s
newely-seated Senator William
B. Spong Jr. is concerning him-
self with some legislation to
stop piracy of American music
in Hong Kong.
He wants support of two sen-
ators in particular, Sen. Kiram
Fong of Hawaii and Sen. Russel
Long of Louisiana.
Then he will seek passage
of a Long-Fong-Spong Hong
Kong Song bill.
Also in his column, Mr. Cooke
wrote about the fellow who walk-
ed into the Milam County Court-
house the other day and wanted
to find out when his marriage
license expired.
WEDDING INVITATIONS
EXPERTLY PRINTED AT
THE GIDDINGS TIMES.
Signup
(FROM PAGE ONE)
Operators have signed up a
total of 502 feed grain farms
indicatfng their desire to par-
ticipate in the program by
diverting acreage from the pro-
duction of corn and grain
sorghum.
Operators of 357 cotton farms
with acreage allotments of 6379
acres have signed up to divert
2167 acres from production of
cotton under the 1967 program.
The agreed diversion re-
presents 34 percent of the al-
lotment acreage on these farms.
HELP PREVENT FIRES
Major causes of wildfires
are careless burning of trash
around the home, using fire in
land clearing or land prepara-
tion for plowing, and acare-
lessly tossed match or
cigarette. Fires not only de-
prive stockmen of much needed
forage at the present time, but
also destroys organic material
and grass seedlings for future
years. Be alert - help prevent
these fires.
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STEER LOT — Since our
viewpoint last week about Nick
Wolfe’s stables in Giddings, it
was brought to our attention
that this particular lot used to
be used for a steer pen by the
County of Lee.
The commissioners used the
steers to maintain the roads.
Now the lot has been con-
verted to horse stabling. And
the commissioners have con-
verted their steer investments
into “horse power” too, you
might say.
FIRE TRAIN - Instead of a •
fire truck to fight grass fires
along railroad right-of-way,
Giddings firement would pro-
bably like to have a “fire train”
or at least a fire truck which
can be converted into a vehicle
to run on the rails.
At least that was the feeling
Thursday of last week when they
answered an alarm to a grass
fire along the railroad and got
the fire truck stuck.
When it was finally pulled
out, the firemen had to rush
to another grass fire which
had just been reported.
PAIGE OVERPASS -- It’s
been rumored that the busy
Paige intersection of U.S. 290
and State 21 will soon be changed
to an overpass.
The overpass may be another
phase in the highway depart-
ment’s project to widen and im-
prove U.S. 290 between Bren-
ham and Austin.
FENCE SPARK -- Dfd you
ever hear of a fence setting
a pasture on fire? Well, I
hadn’t either until last Thurs-
day when firemen blamed a
grass fire on a spark from
an electric fence. It is used
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Preuss, L. M., III. The Giddings Times (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 6, 1967, newspaper, April 6, 1967; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1634209/m1/23/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.