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by Vera Day https:// twitter. com/ VeraDayAuthor

Credit for the following information about Cisco, taken from early newspapers, is given to the late J. C. Mc-Daniel a former math teacher for over 40 years at Cisco College and also a former resident of Carbon, Texas. He was an avid researcher of railroad material, but along the way recorded in his notes information about other historical happenings of the Cisco and Eastland County area.

by Vera Day https:// twitter.com/VeraDayAuthor Cisco Writers Club sponsors a writing contest each summer. This is its 47th year. Should you enter contests in general and this contest in particular? Contests always flex your writing muscles, so that’s a plus. But beyond that, winners get bragging rights, their author names publicized, and, in this case, monetary awards. I’d shy away from contests that charge an arm or a leg, but the Cisco Writers Club contest fees are extremely reasonable at just $5 each.

Varsity team had a great weekend at Lubbock Christian University team camp! We competed in the 3A/4A division and played 8 games and an overtime tournament in 3 days

Ms. Tank’s Kinder Camp (this is a FREE camp for students going into Kindergarten) Date: July 11-20 Tuesday’s and Thursday’s only Time: 1-4 p.m.

Chief Walter Fairbanks

Cisco Writers Club Rendezvous With Writing

Lady Loboes are the June Jamboree Champions in Weatherford! Way to go Lady Loboes!

Cisco Writers Club's 47th Annual Summer Writing Contest opened June 1 and continues until midnight, July 31.

The Dallas Morning News, July 19, 1888, printed “Cisco as a Shipping Point.” The article is quoted here: Cisco, Tex., July 17---Cisco manufactures soda water and sends it to all points of the compass, also ships ice in every direction. Cisco has a soap factory in full blast. Cisco has one of the finest roller mills in Texas that is now crowded to its utmost capacity and will soon be running both night and day. A candy factory will be started here the first of August. Mr. C. M. Pilcher, a produce man here, informed the News man a day or two ago that he had from sixty to seventy customers to whom he shipped goods regularly, some of them as far west on the Texas and Pacific road as Sierra Blanco. Every wholesale business that has ever been started in Cisco has prospered from the beginning and the great wonder is that some moneyed firm does not put a wholesale grocery house here. Cisco has the same freight rates from the eastern markets that Fort Worth and Dallas have. A wholesale grocery house in Cisco would have one of the largest territories in Texas.” (research from J. C. McDaniel) Two things need to be added to this article. Number one is that Isaac Simmons began his Soda Water Business in Cisco in 1885. He was on the cutting edge of this business because Dr. Pepper began in 1885 in Waco, Texas, and Coca Cola began in 1886 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Lela Latch Lloyd Museum in Cisco has one of Isaac Simmons’ soda water bottles which was dug up in Toyah, Texas, four years ago and which was sold to Dan Griffith’s Antique Shop in Cisco by the mayor of Toyah, and he sold it to the Lela Lloyd Museum. Number two is that West Texas Produce was later opened in Cisco and ran fresh produce with its trucks that had been filled by trains coming to Cisco to Brownwood and Abilene and many other nearby towns.

A WOMAN OF TWO WORLDS AND A MAN IN TWO WORLDS AT COUNTY MUSEUM

Cisco Senior Nutriton Program helps to serve meals to those who are 60 years of age or older, and/or are physically unable to prepare a well-balanced meal each day and live within a 5-mile radius of Cisco. If you are in need of this service, please give us a call at (254)442-5420.

Texas Family Defense Committee is delighted to welcome Lance Bauslaugh, a senior vice president with Alliance Defending Freedom, to the Myrtle Wilks Community Center Thursday, June 22, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. The Community Center is at 1498 West I 20, Cisco.

No One Living Remembers Cisco Texas in the Period 1887 to 1890 So This Article is Based Upon Early Newspaper Accounts

The Cisco “Friendship Meal” will be this coming Tuesday, June 19th, 2023.

The novel This Is Where It Ends by Cindy K. Sproles is set in the early 1900s. Minerva Jenkins lives alone on a mountain in Kentucky. She’s ninety-four years old, and she’s been widowed for three decades. Her husband made her promise to keep his secret. She buried it in a box next to his grave. But the thing is, even she doesn’t know what’s in the box. She doesn’t know exactly what the secret is.