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Hundreds Attend Mobeetie Old-Timers Meeting and Fort Elliott Picnic
Mobeetie Texas hosted a two day reunion with hundreds of visitors, tying the annual old settlers gathering to a barbecue near Fort Elliott. Speakers included Ellis County grower J D Coghlan who urged group selling and cooperation in agriculture, reflecting on Panhandle history from Fort Elliott to the town’s early days and its rise as a regional center.
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Mobeetie
Panhandle
Mobectic
Old Settlers
Old Fort Elliott
J. M. Kayser
Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Association
J. D. Coghlan
Coghlan
Ellis County
Texas
Hills County
Tie
Jie
Gahlan
Bankhead
Cantonment
Adjutant General
Sweetwater Creek
Fort Dodge
Kansas
Colonel Hatch
Oklahoma
Fort Eliott
Wrs
Mobbetie