Eastland Telegram

Texas Family Defense Committee regrets that due to scheduling conflicts in the Texas Legislature, advertised guest Faith Bussey Howe will be postponed to another time. Instead, we will show a film, Noncompliant 2--The Sheriff, by Constitutional Attorney KrisAnne Hall. The movie will begin at 6:00 p.m. Thursday, March 23, in the Myrtle Wilks Community Center, 1498 West I 20, Cisco. Admission is free.

PUBLIC THANKS TO TEXAS LEGISLATURE FOR PUBLIC NOTICES

What a day! First we went to the rice fields and saw freshly planted rice with people working in the fields. Next we stopped at the Butterfly Swing and that was a breathtaking experience. The Holy Water Temple was our next stop and it was a most beautiful site to see. Our next adventure for the day was driving the winding, narrow, jungle mountain roads to the Batur volcano. The last adventure was the amazing Elephant Park where we saw the Sumatra elephants, the smallest elephants in the world.

BROWNWOOD – March is Women’s History Month, and Thursday, March 8, marked International Women’s Day. This month, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) celebrates women of the Department who serve the citizens of Texas and make TxDOT’s mission statement “Connecting you with Texas” a reality. These women work alongside men, often breaking stereotypes from years past.

March 20, 2023

Robbery introduced at Connellee

Morton Valley Extension Education Club Vice President, Cathy Roberts presents County Judge Hullum with a check representing the value of the community service hours by club members in the past year. Staff Photo

GUNS & HOSES will be held March 25th - First pitch at 10 a.m. at the Eastland High School softball fields.

On the block across Lamar St. behind First Baptist Church in Eastland, something is under construction; folks are asking what’s going on there?

Filming begins on Bass Reeves story in Strawn

Ernest Smith with his wife Katrina and son Aaron. A large crowd met at VFW Post 4136 in Eastland Saturday night. Bo McDowell and the Texas Touch Band provided music for dancing and enjoyment. Others enjoyed playing pool.

We’ve all advised in advance of Monday, April 3, 2023-- for in-person tax value discussions and that’s just around the corner, so it is obviously time for us to consider being prepared-- because we can be assured at the Tax Office and a board will be ready to “listen” to our opinion of values and then announce their own opinions of what they “think” of “the values” based on their own “walk around” valuations, or what they’ve been told.

GRAHAM LIVESTOCK COMMISSION, LLC Sale Every Monday Starting at 10:00 AM, Graham, Texas (940)

It’s nice as I drive around the county to finally see some green plants out there, but as they say, “every coin has 2 sides”. On closer inspection, a lot of those green plants are “weeds”. Keeping with the “2 sides” saying, not everything about weeds is totally bad. If you are running livestock, many of those weeds are a welcome source of protein and animals, including wildlife, are making good use of lots of them. Beekeepers reap the benefits of weeds early blooms as bees are really getting busy now going from 1 to another turning pollen into honey. The wildflowers Texans love are mostly what some could argue are weeds. By definition a weed is “any plant out of place”, so if it is something besides what you intend to grow, it is a weed. Right now, there are a lot of weeds popping up in everyone’s lawns, flowerbeds, and gardens and the calls are coming in fast and furious.

ABILENE, TX (03/02/2023)-- Alexus Rains of Cisco was named to the Abilene Christian University Fall 2022 Dean's Honor Roll. Rains is a senior majoring in Health & Human Performance.

Third Part Series Remember Dave Arnold showed up with a Sheepskin Treasure Map at Clyde, Texas, in 1902, finding a stone carved map, as well as copper plates, and daggers, but no treasure. He then went 62 miles to the NW up near the Forks of the Double Mountain and Salt Fork of the Brazos and found a second carved rock, as well as a copper plate, a copper dagger, a copper key, 42 gold buttons, some epauletts, a silver cross, and a sword, but again no treasure. There was a Mexican Sheepherder on the river that helped interpret the stone map and scribbled his directions about how to find the treasure on a brown paper sack which he gave to another Anglo on the river named Will Stuart. A third so-called Spider Rock Map was found in 1909 NE of Rotan near where Gyp Creek runs into the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos. Supposedly, all of these artifacts and the stone maps were placed in Dr. C. L. Terrell's drugstore safe in Haskell and were destroyed in a fired in May of 1909. The Rotan Rock was discovered after the fire so survived.

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Old Rip Eastland County Courthouse February 27, 2023 This is Bette Armstrong and her husband Jimmy Armstrong.

Texas again leads state in new corporate projects Texas once again has topped the list for new and expanded corporate facilities added in a year, according to Site Selection Magazine. With 1,028 new projects in 2022, the state had more than the next two states combined Illinois and Ohio.

Saturday, March 18, the Desdemona Activity Center will host our first fish fry of 2023. We will have fish, chicken tenders, beans, potato salad,french fries, slaw, hush puppies, desserts, & all the extras. Serving time is 5:00 PM—7:00 PM. cost is by donation.

Saturday, March 18th at 5 pm will be the Olden Musical. Bar b que sandwich’s, chips, baked beans, dessert and drink will be avaialable for $7.00. Come and enjoy an evening of food and music.

The Cottonwood Historical Association will again be hosting an entertaining musical line up with dinner on Friday, March 24th. The Musical kicks off with dinner at 5:00 pm until 7:00 or until everything is gone! On the menu is King Ranch Casserole, or sandwich, salad, and your choice of dessert and drinks. The music will start at 5:30 and features a variety of tunes from blue grass to country, some country classics and even rock ‘n roll.

A free Teacher Retirement Seminar will be sponsored by Area 14 Texas Retired Teachers Association on Monday, March 20 at 9 a.m. in the Taylor Room of Region 14 Education Service Center at 1850 TX-351; Abilene, Texas 79601. Registration will start at 8:30.

Bethel Baptist Church in Eastland is having a huge Rummage and Bake Sale Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25 from 8 AM to 5 PM. There will be clothes, children’s sports uniforms, furniture, linens, kitchen stuff, jewelry, purses, toys, glassware, plants, what nots, fabric, craft kits and patterns, and lots of miscellaneous. They will also have bake sale items of cakes, cookies, pies, candies, breads and cobblers. And last but not least there will be raffles. Hope to see you there!!!

Dine in or take out chili meals will be available for sale Wednesday, April 5 at Bethel Baptist Church in Eastland from 11 AM to 1:30 PM. Meal for $7.00 will include cobbler or other dessert, nacho peppers, onions, cheese, and tea or water. Or you may want to make a Frito chili pie. You may call to order take-out meals the following: Gail at 254-433-0658 or Ruby at 254-433-6495.