Mifflen Reflects on Vanishing Texas Towns and Road Change
In a reflective piece, Mifflen notes how once thriving East Texas villages dwindled to crossroads stores as roads, autos, and emigration reshaped life. He cites DeWitt Greer, highway improvements, and shifts from farm to city work, with memories of LaRue merchants and the pull to return to rural roots. The essay frames economic forces as the quiet revolution altering small towns.
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Yesteryear
Athens
DeWitt Greer
Texas Department
Intelligence capability urged amid leaks and tensions
Roberts argues against a permanent committee with power to release secret data after a string of leaks. He cites CIA officer deaths tied to foreign groups and urges maintaining a strong intelligence capability. He notes Rules Committee opposition to the reporting and calls for awareness and vigilance. The passage also covers IRS efforts to aid taxpayers and a district survey showing support for cutting federal spending.
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House Intelligence Committee
Settig
CIA
Angola
Rules Committee
Down Memory Lane Highlights From Sun Files
From the Sun entries dated January 8 1931 and January 9 1936 note local deaths marriages and employment shifts. Miss Lillie Mae Hickson 32 died at her brother W M Hickson’s home east of town. Chesley Rutledge reports a minor change from a pool table incident. L C Ross and Robert Holland left for Oklahoma City for work. Bettie Nell Yeager daughter of Mr and Mrs John Yeager appeared on a Lions club minstrel show in Sherman. Claud Jones left Bow Wright Pharmacy for Longview. O S Calloway bought the 97 acre Ed Alexander farm for 7900. Harold Doss announced reelection bid as public weigher. Bill Wilson moved to Whitewright. Ralph Pryor and Miss Geraldine McCollum married. E T Doss celebrated his 60th with a venison party for grammar school students. Mr and Mrs Claud Dillion hosted daughter Billye Faye on her fourth birthday. Fifty five years earlier notes list Mr Stanley Fogle and Miss Ruth Myrick’s marriage, a birth, dances, a stroke suffered by Mrs Joe May, and bank president Josh May reelected. Other items note A&M College returnees, business college, and various local family events.
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the Sun
Lillie Mae Hickson
W.M. Hickson
Chesley Rutledge
L.C. Ross
Robert Holland
Oklahoma City
Bettie Nell Yeager
John Yeager
Lions Club
Sherman
Claud Jones
Bow-Wright Pharmacy
Longview
O.S. Calloway
Ed Alexander
Harold Doss
Bill Wilson
Whitewright
Trenton
Ralph Pryor
Geraldine McCollum
Ambrose
E.T. Doss
Claud Dillion
Billye Faye
Stanley Fogle
Ruth Myrick
Rham Pennington
Mary Rena Penn
Bryant Penn
Joe May
Josh May
Savoy State Bank
Claud Willis
Joe Johnson
Roger Davis
Reed Wilson
A&m College
Mitchell Cox
Fort Smith, Ark
Althy D. Mize
M. Belew
Basil Thomson
R.G. Pierce
G.D. Bennett
Floyd Earnheart
Grayson County
Lloyd Moore
Kerr Furniture Company
Denison
McAlester
Okla
Moore
Texas School Stats and County News From 1876 Texas
Reports show 2 924 schools and 124 567 pupils in Texas last year with average teacher pay 63. various county items include Brenham mayoral quarantine, a Paris to Sulphur Springs post route proposal, Bryan demographics and commerce, Cory Whitesides Panther kill, Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in Waco, and 21 horses shot near Oakville. old adverts note Winslow's Teething Syrup and Texas Tech University mass communications.
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Austin
Public School Department of the State
Texas
Lamar County
U.S
Maxey
Paris
Senate
Sulphur Springs
Cooper
Bonham
Ladonia
Ben Franklin
Sidney Sherman Texas Patriot and Later Hard Times
The Texas lawmaker famed for Remember the Alamo spent his final years in poverty at his daughter’s Galveston home. Born in Marlboro Massachusetts, he helped pioneer cotton bagging by machine and funded a Texas Revolution volunteer company. His years featured disasters from a steamer explosion to multiple house fires. The first Texas railroad locomotive was nicknamed General Sherman by Galveston residents, though he had no railroad interests. The piece ends with a croft of old-time humor about debt and a boarding school departure.
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Sidney Sherman
Galveston
Marlboro
Massachusetts
San Jacinto
Farmer
Harrisburg Town Company
Kentucky
Harrisburg Depot
David Burnet Sherman
Richmond
Texas
General Sherman
Cotton plantings rise in Texas as honey gains noted
In northern Texas cotton planting begins with Rio Grande Valley slated to plant 1976 crop. Statewide cotton acres may rise 10 percent from last year to 4.8 million. 1975 Texas harvest nearly finished after lean yields. Honey production rose 25 percent in 1975 to 12,896,000 pounds with value $6.15 million, though price per pound edged up slightly to 45.9 cents.
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Texas
Rio Grande Valley
Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
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Tucker Glenn
Claude
Cecil Hogue
Dallas
Beaumont
T& NO
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LaRue
East Texas
Ailler
Hay Roberts
IRS
Internal Revenue Service
P.O
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EPA
FORD
Chevrolet
Figues Stoer
Ford Pickups
Texas Tough
Bob Worthy
From the Sun
Lejas
Fannin County
Brenham
Bryan
Brazos County
Grimes County
Cory Whitesides
Wallace Prairie
Waco
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows
New Hall
Live Oak County
Oakville
Floyd Powell
Mass Communications
Texas Tech University
Tex
Stern
The
Sun Publishing Co
Elton L. Miller
Darla Howell
Grayson
Fannin
Whitewright Sun
Texas Press Wember
Association
Texas Department of Agriculture
John C. White
First National Bank
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