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\\ t* It4 iv.iil ' 111 1putting her teaching talents to work this summer.CANNONBALL Cafe here inCaldwell was featured recentlyin Frank X. Tolbert’s columnTolbert's Texas, in the Dallas Morning News. His observations follow: “Caldwell, in Burleson County west of Bryan, is a town with something of a military history. It was named foi a famous Indian fighter, sign or of the Texas Declaration ol Independence, and frontier eccentric, Matthew (Old l’aint) Caldwell. And it is near the site of a Mexican fort of the early 1830’s, Termxtitlan.In Caldwell nowadays about the only people trying to keep up the military motif are Bill and Rose Zawatsky. I he Za watskys operate a cafe andtruck stop and beer tavern called The Cannonball.They don't have any cannon-* *balls but they do have some artillery shells. These are for at least a cousin to a real cannon, a .‘{-inch piece of Navy artillery which i parked on it carriage outside the Cannonball Cafe.A plaque on the big weaponsays that it was built in IP Idby Pullman Standard and that it is a 3-inch Navy rifle. Mr. Zawatsky aid that it is obsolete but in good working order and was purchased from t lie government for $102.Above the Navy rifle, the Za-watskvs have erected a huge,a ing neon likeness of a I .S. flag which really lights up the Caldwell area at night.”
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Caldwell Burleson County Citizen and Caldwell News
Caldwell, Texas, US
Thu, Aug 03, 1967
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