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Thomas Cook, the world's first travel agency in the world, was founded in 1850
And Now You Do
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3:2, For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
My Aunt ‘Giggs’ didn’t believe me when we discussed the fact that I could remember specific details from my early life, when I was one through three years of age, so I had to prove it to her. She thought, like most would, that I just thought I remembered because I had overheard someone telling ‘all’ the stories, and thought they were my memories.
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
During the 1940s the roads out in Elm Flat often became impassable during the winter. Our dirt roads would disintegrate into a progression of ruts and mud holes after a few weeks of rainy weather. This was really no big problem unless you wanted to get off the farm and go somewhere. There weren’t too many places we needed to go, except maybe in to Kerens to replenish our food staples–things like flour, corn meal, sugar, salt, baking powder, and maybe vanilla flavor if the Macness man had not been around lately. One trip into Kerens every couple of weeks would about take care of the usual needs.
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Viola E. young, 94, of Corsicana, Texas passed away Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 at the Heritage Oaks West Nursing Home. She was born July 21st, 1910 in Scotland, Texas.
Visitation was held Thursday, February 3rd, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Paschal Funeral Home.
Services were held Friday, February 4th at 9:00 a.m. at the Paschal Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Dennis Mott officiating. Burial was held at 2:00 p.m. at the Fairview Cemetery in Denison, Texas.
Pallbearers were her loving friends.
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By the time Sunday morning rolls around this weekend, your going to be feeling a bit worn after all the Homecoming People are done with you. Looking around at how many Homecoming people are waiting on you, don’t even think about surviving. You are hopelessly outnumbered.
Early Friday evening when you walk into the School Cafeteria for a burger, the Kiwanis Club is going to surround you leaving no avenue for escape. In fact, you are probably going to end up eating two of those special Kiwanis hamburgers while waiting for an escape route to open up. Here is a tip. Wear something green for camouflage and maybe you can mingle in with the crowd coming in and out of the doors.
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Local News: SEEKING: The Barentine Family/Members...
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Anonymous writes "I'm William Darryl Lynn Barentine, son of Henry (Hank) Acie Barentine, and Claire (Clara) Juanita Baker. My Sister is Cheryl Anne.
I'm trying to find relatives in and about the area. My last contact with my father, he was living in Baycliff Texas, before he passed away in 1990-91?
I have several half brothers and sisters?
Please contact me at one of the following:
williambarentine@msn.com
or
williambarentine1@msn.com"
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
Did you ever know a barefoot boy? Lots of country kids went without shoes in the summertime. Some preferred going barefoot, and others had no shoes. Some had shoes but were saving them for Sunday wear or for other trips into town. This unshod condition was not entirely dictated by poverty, although lack of money probably played somewhat of a role, at least in certain cases!
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Anonymous writes "Did you hear about Malakoff? Well the school burned down so be in prayer for them cause little dribblers and many more events will be happening soon.
Thanks,
A friend of Neil Williams"
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Kenneth Lee Ray, 78, passed away at home in Powell around dawn on Monday, January 24th, 2005. Mr. Ray was born February 6th, 1926, at Phillips Chapel, Navarro County, to Doss and Georgia Ray, the youngest of three children. The Ray family moved to Overton during the East Texas oil boom, but returned to Navarro County where young Kenneth began school at Powell. Mr. Ray enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving in the Pacific theater combat in Guam, Saipan, Okinawa, and the Phillipines; also participating in the occupation of Japan after the surrender in August/September 1945. As a landing craft pilot, Mr. Ray facilitated the beach landings of Marines and, while assigned to the U.S.S. Custer, an attack transport, witnessed the Kamikaze attacks of late World War II.
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Foxtales: A Stroll Down Memory Lane
BUBBA’S BUBBLING BATHTUB
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Column by Sandra Simmons Fox
Don and I took "A Stroll" two years ago this October, through, what I call the Big White House. We were driving by that White House, that October day, when Frances Lee called out to us from her front yard to ask if we were looking for someone. Don answered her by saying, "My wife used to live there". She invited us in to take a stroll through if we wanted. I was excited to get to go into the house, after all these years. Each room I entered set off the triggers for my cascading recall.
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Business: Home Depot To Take Over Kmart Distribution Center
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randallh writes "In the local Corsicana area on South Highway 45, the former Kmart Distribution Center will soon see a new owner. Home Depot, the home improvement company, will renovate the 1.4 millon square foot building and put it to good use. Home Depot chose Corsicana over Arlington, Texas, which is in the DFW metroplex. Home Depot will employ several hundred people at the distribution center. They already have a Home Depot store in Corsicana, Texas on the 132 acre retail site on Highway 287 next to Gander Mountain."
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
There were no paved roads in Elm Flat when my family lived there during the 1940s, just dirt roads. There was no electricity either, but that is another story! You can get by pretty well with dirt roads during the dry season, but let it start raining, and the roads can get bad in a hurry. Ruts begin to form, and in low points of the road, mud holes start to appear.
It took a good deal of skill and a bit of courage as well to be a good dirt road driver during the rainy season. You needed to stay in the ruts, and you had to watch out for the mud holes. With a big mud hole looming ahead, you had to make an important decision. Do I or don’t I try to make it through? To get through a bad mud hole, you would try to speed up as much as possible in order to gain the necessary momentum to get all the way through without getting stuck. If you could gain enough speed, you would likely make it through okay . . . although the experience did not do much for the overall appearance of your car!
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Business: Main Place Cinema At Seven Points
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randallh writes "The Main Place Cinema at Seven Points is getting 4 more new screening rooms which should be ready by the end of May in the Spring of 2005. That is great news for the lake area. Also there should be more seating for the movie going public."
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With sparks twinkling in her eyes, ninety year old Jewell Hutson leaped out of her chair and hurled a wad of paper at Coach James Kelley.
“I’ll get you back!” she said with a tone of voice that caught the attention of all. The people in the crowd look at each other and grew quite for a split second, and then . . .
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Mystery: "No Second Chance"
by Harlan Coben
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Published: 2003; Pages: 338; Rating: Great
Harlan Coben is an author I missed somewhere along the line. A friend of mine (Tinker) recommended one of his books while we were perusing the “Murder By The Book” place in Houston and I picked this one up almost at random from a pile of used books. In fact, after I got home and looked inside the cover, it had a price of $1.00 penciled on the first page. That was certainly not the price I paid for it. After scratching my head for a minute, the answer to the puzzle popped in. This is an independent bookstore owned by local people and run by local people. I suppose if they make all the garage sales and flea markets and pick out some excellent books like this for a buck, then they stand a good chance of putting them back on the shelf and selling them for a pretty profit to people like me. It worked.
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Column by Dr. Ivan R. Vernon
Kerens used to have the best barber shop in the world! It was a real old-fashioned barbershop with a genuine barber pole outside the front door. In the decades of the forties and fifties, the word “barber” was more than just a job description–it was also an honorific title of respect. I can remember three barbers who were graced with that appellation: Barber Johnson, Barber Mills, and Barber Seale. There may have been others, but these were the three that I remember.
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 "I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and
my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes."
-- George Carlin
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