May 28, 1936Opening a campaign of strict enforcement of the State law prohibiting cows or other livestock from running at large on highways,...

May 21, 1936Crockett County spent an average of approximately $76.50 per pupil in the public schools during the past year for the education of its...

Shackelford County—In the rugged cattle country of Shackelford County, Texas, in the late 1860s, Judge William H. Ledbetter was a hard-eyed pioneer who carved a life out of...

May 14, 1936A telegram received this morning by Supt C.S. Denham from Dr. L. H. Hubbard of Denton advised that the president of Texas State College...

 Edited by Jim FishFort Griffin once stood as a military outpost on the Texas frontier, helping restore law and order during a turbulent period marked by Indian raids,...

May 7, 1936Twenty-two pupils of the Junior High School will receive their diplomas denoting their graduation from the elementary grades to become...

April 30, 1936Miss Mary Williams, her mother, Mrs. Charles Williams, and Miss Mildred North, teacher in the commercial department of the local high...

In the blistering heat of an August night in 1875, a lone Texas Ranger named Lam Sieker swung into the saddle at the Frontier Hotel in old Fort Mason. What followed was no...

You know, I was thinkin’ the other day, I sure am glad I was born a boy. I don’t think I could have made it as a girl. I’m too ugly, too hairy, well except for my head, and...

Alfonso Steele, a Kentucky-born volunteer who joined the Texas cause in late 1835 at age 18, left one of the most vivid personal narratives of the Texas Revolution’s...

April 23, 1936One arrest has been made and Sheriff W. S. Willis and special deputies employed in curbing livestock thefts in this county are...

Have you ever dropped a lawnmower on your head? I know I have. Let me stop here and say that last week was not what you would call one of the best weeks of my life. I...

Austin—March 6 and April 22 have come and gone a hundred and ninety times and Texans once again turn their thoughts to the Alamo... that small mission fortress where a band...

April 16, 1936When the present school term ends, the Live Oak school, on the western edge of Crockett County, will be discontinued permanently, it...

I saw a picture on Facebook the other day of an old playground equipment, you know, swings and merry-go-rounds and such. Well, I remembered that I had written a story about...