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Thanksgiving is a kickoff date for the holiday season. So much to be thankful for. God and country and pure clean cold water as near as our tap. Back in 1964 I moved to Allen. I had checked the town out fairly good, I thought. I even asked about the town’s water. “Lots of it, and it is cheap,” came the Chamber of Commerce reply. However, right after we moved from Ada customers down at the Pharmacy started bringing us empty 1-gallon jugs. “To haul water from the springs,” they told us. “You’ll need these jugs.”
Read moreI was listening to a preacher recently and he spoke on what we perceive as news and what someone else sees as less important. He used as an example, a news date from September 5, 1997. Princess Diana Spencer had been killed in a car wreck in Paris, France a few days before. And now it was her funeral day and CNN was doing a real bang up job covering every little aspect of it. They showed the London skyline, the sound of famous bells tolling and snippets of her eulogies by all sorts of famous people. They showed little girls crying and in tears and explained to the viewing audience on that September day how griefstricken the whole world was over this tragic event.
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Like so many other things Sunday has changed dramatically over the years. As a youngster, after church we would go home for lunch and spend the afternoon visiting or napping. No work was done on Sunday unless it was an emergency and there was no shopping. Home-owned stores were closed so their families could attend church and rest in the afternoon.
Read moreAnd so there is. In the Bible, the book of Ecclesiastes, a famous King and familiar Bible character, King Solomon, wrote a book on philosophy. You can read a lot of different ideas into this book in the Old Testament. But the most familiar thing is that word time. He basically reminds us early in this book that there is a time for all things. Dying and living and everything in between. Last week I wrote a little story about mine and Gerald’s quest as boys to look at where the Butterfield Stage’s Station on Wolf Mountain down in Leflore County, Oklahoma was located. Marshall’s Station was the first stage stop after the stage crossed into Oklahoma—an outlaw infested area.
Read moreMy knowledge of stagecoaches is from watching those old black and white movies of the 40’s. People like Roy Rogers and Hop-along Cassidy saved breathless passengers from the jillions of robbers that hid behind every rock waiting to remove the “strongbox” which nearly always contained a gold shipment. And sometimes they would rob and/or kill the passengers. That was over at The Main Theatre in Stonewall.
Read moreMeasures to prevent the spread of the flu virus take on an added urgency during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health professionals say efforts to minimize infl uenza may help preserve hospital capacity that may be needed if COVID-19 cases continue to rise.
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