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Crowds to salute our veterans
By AMANDA KIMBLE
Staff Writer
Initially called Armistice Day,
history tells us that Veterans Day has
been celebrated by the United States
as a whole and by most of the
individual states of the nation since
die end of World War I.
Still today, the holiday is
celebrated on November ll since
the major battles of World War 1
were formally ended on the 11th
hour of the 11th day of die 11th
month of 1918(11 amonNov. 11,
1918) when Germany signed an
armistice, or truce, with the Allied
forces.
The intention of Veterans Day is
to thank living veterans for their
service and contributions. The
holiday gives us an opportunity to
recognize that all of the men and
women amongst us who have
served this great nation have
sacrificed for our freedoms and
Legends of Dublin
answered the call of duty. It is
important that we as a nation and
free people remember that all who
serve, not only those who have died
during their service, deserve a hero's
recognition.
The celebration will begin at 3
pm. on Sunday, Nov. 11.
This Veterans Day, Dublin will
celebrate in the grandest style as we
gather as a community and welcome
people from all directions to join us
in the dedication of our new
Veterans Memorial. The memorial
is located on the lawn of the Dublin
Public Library on Hwy. 6.
The ceremony will begin as a
parade makes its way through
downtown Dublin and heads toward
the memorial grounds.
Members from the Patriot Guard
Riders are expected to turn out and
join the procession as it heads to the
memorial and the group will stand
and form a boundary of about 200
United States flags around the
ceremony, participants and
attendees.
Mayor Red Seigars will welcome
all attendees and participants to the
ceremony. Dublin Citizen Publisher
and American Legion Chaplin Mac
McKinnon will give the invocation;
the American Legion Powell-
Davidson Post 219 will proudly
raise the flag. Representatives of the
Boys Scouts of America will lead
the Pledge of Allegiance and Susan
Keith will sing the National Anthem.
Introduction of dignitaries will be
led by Post Commander David
Carrothers. Jeanette Ward, Director
see VETS, page All
HALLOWEEN HAUNT - Littlejohrm’s Produce has been all decorated
fra- Halloween and Fall and was toured by Dublin Elementary Students last
week The tour was complete with scarecrows.
Brown pivotal to the development of Dublin
Early voting ends Friday
Early voting for the 16 state constitutional amendments continues from 8
am. and ending at 5 pm. today and tomorrow.
The election will start on Tuesday, Nov. 6. with polls in Dublin and
Stephenville open from 7 am. to 7 pm. Mating in Dublin will be at the
courthouse annex. If you would like to vote in Stephenville, go to the Erath
County Courthouse.
Everyone is encouraged to get out and vote!
Search for new City
Manager continues
By H^C B. McKINNON Public . Works Director Cory
Citizen TNdjilisher James was directed to proceed with
plans for tire lift station, to see who
The search toNtcity manager for is willing to be annexed and develop
Dublin is continiuhe as the city the plan for financing the lift station
council Monday nightoecided to re-- to the city council. He is also to
advertise-for applicationsX see CITY, page B5
A number were selected, to be
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choice.
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Following file council meeting,
the council's finance committee met,
discussed repairs to the swimming
pool, fee structures and a lift station
to serve potentially annexed
property on the north side of town
along Highway 377.
Members of that committee
headed by Dan Burlison include Jeff
Timmons, Jeff Weaver and Becky
Norris.
It was noted that the lift station
could cost about $350,000 but that
cost could be quickly offset by sales
tax revenue that would be generated
by businesses in that area in addition
to property tax and sale of water and
sewer services.
Donna Rickels, 57, of
Comanche, was killed when the
pickup she vfras driving was
broadsided by a milk truck about 6
pm. Sunday on Hwy. 377 near
Hasse.
She was going north, pulling a
load of hay when she attempted to
make a left turn into her driveway as
the milk truck was going around
her.
Her husband, Mac, received a
broken arm and their grandson, 5,
received minor injuries. Both were
taken to Comanche County
Medical Center.
The truck driver was not injured.
ByD'LEESAKEYS
StaffWriter
In every small town or city in
America there is that one business
that was so important that the town
or city wouldrtt be where it is today
without it For Dublin, that business
was J.T. "Jake" or "Brownie"
Brown's blacksmith and welding
shop.
Bom in Highland on Aug. 29,
1913, Brown moved to Dublin at the
age of 12 where his father set up his
blacksmith shop.
"My father was a third generation
blacksmith and began woridng in his
father's shop at a young age," Tanya
Brown, J.T. Brown's daughter, said
"He didn't finish high schobl or
continue on to college; as a matter of
fact he never left Dublin."
The shop was located at the
comer of Post Oak and Hwy 6
across from where the Embarq
telephone office is located today.
According to Travis Brown,
Brown's son, his father was a "self-
taught welder" who worked long
hours seven days a week
"In the mid '40s and '50s people
were at the shop by the dozens
waiting for parts to get fixed My
father would fix bicycles for kids
and never charge them. The money
wasn't important to him as long as
the job was done perfectly," Travis
said. "If something needed fixing,
he'd fix it"
Tanya Brown added that the
shop, "made a lot of horseshoes and
farm equipment and the farmers said
that they wouldn't be able to harvest
their crops without him there. Back
then all the work was done by horses
and plows instead of machines so if
a farmer’s plow got dull he'd take it
to the blacksmith to get it
sharpened" Tanya also said that
during World War II fanners in the
area sent letters of petition to
Washington asking that her father
not be drafted but in reality he had
suffered from arthritis since he was
in his 20’s and that was why he
wasn't drafted
According to Pinkie Swindle,
owner of Swindle's Jewelers, Brown
used to help out Bill Kloster at the
Dr. Pepper Bottling Plant
Jake Brown
"Brown kept the plant from
moving because he was tiie only one
who could fix it when it broke
down," Swindle said
Travis said that his father was
very good at doing intricate welding
work
"My dad could re-weld the firing
pin of a rifle and not mess it up,"
Travis said "There are probably still
parts on the Dr Pepper bottling
equipment line that my dad welded
and the people there were so grateful
that there was never a time we didn't
have Dr Pepper on our back porch."
Tanya Brown added that one
time her father worked all night at
the bottling plant just to make sure
they could bottle the next morning.
"One time when I was a child he
worked all day on Christmas, which
I was not vety pleased about," Tanya
said "He had a very odd but strong
work ethic."
According to both of Brown's
children, their father’s hard work
didn't go unappreciated.
"Fanners always wanted to do
favors for him," Travis said "They
brought him cases of their fruit and
let Dad and I hunt and fish on their
land A lot of people depended on
him and respected him."
Tanya Brown added that she
believed that there were a lot of
successful families in farming that
wouldn't survive without her father’s
blacksmith and welding shop.
Brown also worked for a time on
the equipment at the Waldrip Peanut
Mill.
"The mill was close to the.
Elementary School and I can
remember seeing stacks and stacks
of huge peanut sacks by there when
I was a kid" Travis said "Dad's
working at the mill didn't really
further the community of Dublin
only in the fact that they depended
on him to fix tilings when they broke
down."
Brown also yielded his welding
expertise to equipment and wells at
the Lightning C Ranch, the train
station and the Dublin water tower.
see BROWN, page B8
ByD'LEESAKEYS
StaffWriter
The Simmons name in the
Dublin area has been synonymous
with construction for years. Today
brothers Randy and Dueaine
Simmons carry on their father's
tradition of high quality construction
of homes and businesses for nearly
40 years, and Dueaine now has his
sons Kris and Kacey involved in the
business.
' "We work with remodeling,
additions and new work," Randy
Simmons said. "We recently
finished the office building for Truck
Ag & Auto in Stephenville and the
majority of out wok is specialty and
not subbed out"
The Simmons brothers'
construction experience began early
Mien they worked with their father
in North Texas.
"We were working around a feed
mill and there was a pile of lumber
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there and Dad got us to pull the nails
out of each piece of lumber,"
Dueaine Simmons said. "We
always worked together, it was just a
family tradition.”
According to Randy Simmons,
their father William bought some
land in Dublin in I958andhadafew
cows.
"In 1968 we moved to Crowell
and then to Dublin and Dad planned
on farming," Randy said. "However
we weren't there long until someone
found out he was a contractor and
people wouldn't leave him alone.
We did both farming and building
for a long time and now we just
build."
During this time, the Simmons
brothers worked part time with their
father and attended college. Dueaine
attended Ranger Junior College
from 1966-67 and Tarleton State
University in 1968. Randy also
attended Ranger Junior College
from 1967-68.
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"After that we had had all the
college we could stand and went to
work fall time in 1969," Randy said.
The Simmons' first fall time job
was in 1970 when they built a new
house in DeLeon. That first job
turned out to be a harsh lesson about
trust.
"What happened was the work
drat we did was above the original
contract and we ended up loosing
$10,000. That's the most we've ever
lost on a job," Randy said. "Our
father was such a trusting man and a
Church of Christ minister, he didn't
think that people would cheat him.
From that we learned how to protect
ourselves from that kind of
situation."
Over the years, the Simmons
brothers have remodeled such
homes and businesses as the Harrell
Funeral home, historic homes in
Dublin and woiked on projects with
the Economic Development Cotp.
see SIMMONS, page A6
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100 YEARS AGO
NOV 8,1907
Both the Dublin banks were
piling up larger and larger sums of
money each day and expected a
shipment of gold from Liverpool, a
portion of the many millions arriving
in New York by steamer, reported
cashier Jno.G Harris.
Dr. Henry C. Eafgle of Proctor,
physician and surgeon, arrived in
Dublin and set up offices with Dr.
Fanner over the Citizens Bank Dr.
Eargle’s residence was one block
northeast of the Baptist Church.
Miss Ruby Jordan, teacher of the
ninth grade in the Dublin public
school and eighth grade teacher Miss
Eugenia Richmond both resigned on
account of the extremely severe
service required to the extraordinary
crowded condition of the school.
F. H. Bulls, who represented a
wholesale bottling works company
in Chicago, was in Dublin visiting
his boyhood friend and companion
S. H. Prim.
J. N. Brown, Dublin agent,
advertised the Victor butter separator,
the best chum on the market and the
only chum that could handle sweet
milk and get the work done in ten
minutes with no spattering on the
floor.
75 YEARS AGO
NOV 11,1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt, governor
of New York, was elected President
of the United State by the largest
majority in history.
Uncle Marion Cline, who was 93,
was in town to cast his vote for
Roosevelt He remarked he had cast
his vote for 19 presidents, including
the vote he cast to elect Jefferson
Davis, president of the Confederacy.
Blue ribbon honor roll winners in
the Dublin Grammar School
included: Ben Wilson, Louise
McKinney first grade; Tynes Sparks,
Helen Bryan, Nina Ruth Easley,
Dorothy Martin, Elaine Marek
second grade; Margie Fewell, Ben
Denny, Mae Powell, Elaine Licett,
third grade. Fifth grade winners were
June Easley, and Vera Onstott.
50 YEARS AGO
NOV 8,1957
Officers for the Erath County
Dairy Herd Improvement
Association included Holladay,
Hico; Boren, Stephenville; Gerhart,
Dublin; Directors Ed Leatherwood,
W. D. Jumey and E. S. Bradley of
Dublin.
Albert Jackson, editor of the
Progress, was presented a transistor
radio by D. F. Allison, local agent for
the Humble Oil and Refining
Company. Jackson won the radio in
Humble’s Football Season Contest
The newest store in Dublin was
Winn's. Miss Catherine Baldwin was
store manager.
Members of the Future
Homemakers of American in the
Dublin High school were in
Hamilton attending a district
meeting. Attending were Jackie
Jordan, Jo Ann Woods, Gayle
Baxter, Janella Branded Juliarme
Hazlewood, Joy Johnson, Caro!
Robbins, Jamie Compton, Mmes.
E.C. Johnson,' Calvin Hazlewood
and Boyd Greenway.
25 YEARS AGO
NOV 17,1982
Lee Meek Janyce Bradbeny, Lila
Utterback and Betty Culpepper were
photographed planting bluebonnets
at the WM. Wright Historical Park
as a project for the Bosque River
Chapter DAR of Texas.
The Dublin High School Band
Beau and Sweetheart were Bobby
Cox and Dee Shackelford
Outstanding Dandylion, Amy
Chambers, was honored as the
Dandylion of Sie year at the award
program.
Larry’s Texaco and BradberrVs
offered free coffee to deer hunters.
A fire in Mike Haley's dairy
destroyed 8000 bales of hay.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mitchell
celebrated their 57th anniversary at
the Dublin Nursing Home.
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