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Ups and Downs in Collingsworth County Hints at Community Efforts
Retiree Jim Sikes humorously lists his postwork philosophy at West Texas Utilities. The Collingsworth County Endowment gains two anonymous 250 gifts, totaling 1,500, a modest start toward a new library amid wary economics. Dr. Carter Holcomb praises Estelle Tinkler’s book Archibald John Writes The Rocking Chair Rancho Letters for humor and history with quotes about county days. A 1880s note recalls a courthouse contract of 30,000 mocked as a robbery, contrasting with simpler timber costs and rising taxes blamed on the county court’s actions.
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Collingsworth County
Carter Holcomb
Estelle Tinkler
Archibald John
Commissioners Court
Sumnerwood School
Quail
Wellington
West Texas
Study Club
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Lennie Sims
Tommy Johnson
Patricia Sullivan Phillips
Pleasant Valley School
Amarillo
Wellington State Bank
Mark Wayne Keys
E.B. Peeples
Davis Thriftway
Memphis
Kenneth Maxwell
Booker T. Washington Ex-Students Association
Farmers Co-op
Kenneth McKay
Collingsworth General Hospital
Perry Foster
Don Lacy
Arthur B. Smith
Indian Creek
Pete
Naomi Fast
1St Baptist
Russia
Wellington High School
Country Club
Chamber of Commerce
Beau Boulter
Craig Carter
Texas Tech Medical School
Chad Holland
Karen Mote
Schooler Gordon
Order of Golden Rule
Jim Claunch
Eddie Smith
Nicholson
Chris
Jeff Hicks
PGA
Janice Johnson
Glynn Moore Post
VFW
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