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HIGH POINTS FROM EL CAMINO REAL
We said goodbye to one of our longtime residents last week with the passing of Syble McMahon. Syble was a very special lady and had a great personality. She left many pleasant memories behind for family and friends to enjoy when they think about her. She left us at the ripe old age of 93. Please keep her family and friends in your prayers as they mourn the passing of this dear lady. Nathan and Karla Bryan are the proud parents of a brand new baby boy. Aaron Christopher Bryan was born Sept. 18. He weighed 5 pounds 14 ½ ounces and was 17 ½ inches long. He was a little early but I just think he was trying to get here early so he could play with his big brother, Aidan. If you need more information about the new baby boy, the proud grandparents can tell you plenty. Congratulations to the Bryan family on their new addition.
Holcomb and Mary Helm attended from the Central High TEEA Club. Elna Perkins and Bobby Russell attended from the Ponta EEA Club. Louraiseal Mc- Donald, Family & Consumer Sciences of Cherokee County Extension Agent, was there, too. Louraiseal works really hard at her position and we appreciate all she does. These two Cherokee County Clubs helped sponsor the State Convention in Tyler. My friend, Ms. Emal Rogers won first place with her beautiful china painting at the state convention. She has brought blue ribbons home for this event for the past two years. If anyone has heard of china painting then they have heard of Emal Rogers of Alto. She does paint beautiful china, but I like her china best when the painting is completely covered in some of her wonderful chicken and dumplings. Those dumplings are worth a box of those blue ribbons. The Home Demonstration ladies of Cherokee County are some of my favorites and I like to see them travel out of the county and show out. If you would be interested in joining one of these clubs call Bobby Russell for the Ponta TEEA Club at (903) 726-3678 or for the Central High Club call Hallene Thomson at (936) 858-2182. Thanks again, ladies, for making Cherokee County shine. A big crowd showed up at Jacket Stadium on Friday night to watch the Alto Yellowjackets square off against the Hemphill Hornets. Everyone who showed up got their money's worth because these two teams battled four quarters without letting up. Yellowjacket fans weren't used to this kind of competition and many were hanging on the edge of their seats by the time the game was over. The Yellowjackets came out on top with a score of 43 points to the Hemphill Hornets' 30 points. Hemphill has a team they can be proud of, and I imagine you will be hearing more from them as they head into district play in 2A. Clayton Scott pulled a muscle in the first part of the game and wound up sitting on the bench through most of the action. The bench is not a position Clayton is used to playing. I checked on him over the weekend and he was balled up on his couch at home recuperating from his injury. This week is open for the Yellowjackets, so everyone should be able to get back in shape and healthy by the next game. Congratulations to the Yellowjackets on a hard fought win. For as long as I can remember the City of Alto has had a place of higher knowledge within its city limits. A place where the husbands of school teachers, retired folks, horse traders and others who have nothing else to do can meet and ponder the wrongs of the world each morning over coffee. After Toby's Country Kettle and the Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant quit opening for breakfast, the great minds of our fair city were left wandering each morning with no place to gather. Marion Lindsey heard of their plight and started serving breakfast at his Lazy L barbecue and Mexican Restaurant. The men of knowledge who once gathered at the round table in the middle of beautiful downtown Alto can now be found behind the big smoking gun in Lindseyville. I visited these men of knowledge on Thursday morning and even though they had changed places, they were hard at work spreading their wisdom. One was discussing his prowess as a fighting man, while others discussed the work that lay ahead for the day that was laying in the same place the day before and would probably still be there when it was discussed the next day. Marion Lindsey had no problem entering into conversations with these men of knowledge as he conducted his experiment to see how many times you could pour water over the same coffee grounds before people would quit asking for refills. When I picked up the pot for a cup it was clearer than Alto drinking water. This week he is trying to figure out how to half a fried egg without customers realizing they only got half an egg. If you have a problem you can take it to Lindseyville between 6-8 in the morning and let the wise ones who gather for coffee and fellowship have a look at it. You'll still have your problem when you leave, but you'll be looking at it with a brand new and much stranger perspective. Friday and Saturday of last week must have been the official days to plant oat patches for deer in East Texas. After working to get everything mowed and disced for all of our stands in the Coon Pond Hunting Club, I headed to town to buy our seeds. When I got to the feed store I found out that my brother had bought the last of the seed in town. I drove on to Rusk and the first feed store I stopped at on the way in was out of seeds. Fortunately there were plenty of seeds left at Southland Feed, so I was able to load up and get started planting. Everything was in the ground by dinner on Saturday. The wasps were killed in all our stands and corn feeders and a nice rain came on Sunday morning and some more on Sunday afternoon. We just couldn't have timed the whole process any better. If the hogs don't root all the seeds up in the next few days we ought to have some food plots ready to go when the deer hunting gets in full swing. The deer are eating acorns now, so they won't be in any hurry to start on the oat patches until later. If we could just get another rain or two and a good norther to cool things down for the first day of squirrel season, life would be perfect in East Texas. Almost perfect anyway, I still have the buzzard mess in my deer stand. I guess I've told all that needs telling for now. Keep the news coming if you want it told. I'll see ya next week! And remember, Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. |
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