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award this week at Press Club of Dallas
This Thursday is the night that the Howe Enterprise has been waiting for since learning that 54-year-old publication became nominated for the Hugh Aynesworth Award in the weekly newspaper division The Howe Enterprise will finish second at worst and first at best as the publication is up against the Progress Times
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The Enterprise was nominated because of an article written by Monte Walker on May 2, 2016 entitled, "EF1 Tornado; EF5
Community" The Progress Times article "Samaritans donate new abode to Mission octogenarian," written by Jose De Leon III on Dec 9, 2016
The awards banquet will be held Thursday night at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas Hugh Aynesworth, a legendary journalist has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize six times, and has been a finalist four times The emcee of the event will be Dale Hansen of WFAA-TV
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Monday, November 27, 2017
Let us exalt His name together
Dr. Billy Holland
Like all of God’s people since the beginning (not just the Pilgrims), this week we give thanks to the Lord for all He has done for us I know in my own life, I’m truly thankful to Christ for allowing me the opportunity to learn and grow in my relationship with Him I realize there are hard times and many problems and difficult situations, but all in all we are so fortunate to have God’s love and how He longs to surround us in His peace I published a book a couple of years ago called, “A Lifestyle of Worship” and it’s about becoming determined to develop an awareness of God’s presence in all we do in order to have a more clearer understanding about who He is Our Thanksgiving holiday is more than a day off from work, a celebration ritual or a black Friday sale, it’s a state of mind where we can appreciate our eternal salvation every day It’s wonderful to have a roof over our heads, good health, and a long list of blessings but I’m especially grateful for God’s infinite love and mercy I’m embarrassed to admit that I do not always wake up in the mornings and think about such important things Why? Because I’m too occupied with trying to control my own decisions and lean on my own understanding It will take perseverance and serious dedication to continually concentrate on how worthy He is of our gratitude and praise “O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together” Psalm 34:3.
So, we see that Thanksgiving is actually expressing our love to God and those who desire to know Him personally will discover that we do not love Him for what He can do – but just for who He is Above my fireplace at home, there’s a log engraved with Matthew 22:37 and 38 and I ask God all the time to please show me the depths of this spiritual truth “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind This is the first and greatest commandment ” Every word that has ever been spoken and every book that has been written can only scratch the surface in describing God’s endless generosity and glorious Majesty Brother Lawrence, whose seventeenth century work, “The Practice of the Presence of God,” details his discipline to become so focused on everything around him that he might consider all situations as an opportunity to serve Christ and be thankful for His goodness It’s my prayer today, that I may never take God’s grace for granted or allow myself to become spoiled with His blessings, but instead to not only be sincerely grateful for all He has done in my life, but that I may be willing to demonstrate His great love and compassion to others
Dr Holland is a Christian author, outreach minister and community chaplain To learn more visit: billyhollandministries com
Learn about antiques and collectibles with Dr. Georgia Caraway
gobbling their way down country roads to urban markets was a regular sight in the weeks before Thanksgiving Vermont turkeys hiked their way to Boston, Kentucky and Tennessee turkeys marched proudly into Richmond, and some Western birds even found themselves driven the thousands of miles between Missouri and Colorado
Even though Thanksgiving is over, I thought I would wrap up November’s articles with one more turkey column I found another fascinating excerpt from the book written by Emelyn Rude, a food historian and the author of Tastes Like Chicken (Pegasus, 2016, $27 95) about how Americans in the mid-1800s got their turkeys to table, and I felt compelled to share it.
“How exactly the turkey arrived at our forefather’s tables is much less of a mystery [than why we eat turkey at Thanksgiving]: The turkeys walked there
“Many have been the tales of the great cattle drives Hardly anyone remembers the great turkey walks,” recounts author Kathleen Karr in her book The Great Turkey Walk And indeed, in antebellum America a parade of thousands of turkeys
“The task of the turkey drover, as the individuals who herded the turkeys on these journeys were known, was no easy one Roads in the late 18th and 19th centuries in the United States were generally pretty bad and accounts of the great turkey drives recall the flocks bravely fording streams and climbing rocky hills, or flying over lakes and rivers at least a mile across In such conditions, according to one contemporaneous observer, the birds “were apt to crowd together and trample each other to death ” Should the birds become frightened, as turkeys are very want to do, “a cattle stampede [was] a tamer affair”
“The long march of the turkeys was a slow business as well, with flocks typically ambling at a top speed of one mile per hour If a drover were lucky, throwing out enough corn and applying enough guidance with his long pole topped with a red piece of cloth said to strike fear into the heart of even the most quarrelsome of turkeys a turkey drive could cover 20 miles in a single day”
“Each night it was the particular habit of the turkeys to roost in adjacent trees and bushes until the following morning Once the turkeys took the inclination to settle down, an experienced drover knew that “nothing would induce them to continue the march to the slaughtering pens ” Much to the annoyance of their human counterparts, in this behavior the birds often disregarded the actual time of day and mistook an overcast sky or even a heavily shaded portion of the road as indications that the sun was going down Drovers would sometimes walk miles out of their way to avoid densely wooded spots that might tempt their birds to stop for the night, but even then a few errant bushes or the fine shrubbery of a Capitol Square would induce the turkeys to roost for the remainder of the day
While the modern turkey barely walks at all, these massive forced migrations of birds occurred well into the 1930s in some regions of the United States, particularly in the turkey towns of Texas, which held great celebratory “Turkey Trots” for the birds streaming in by the thousands for the slaughter”
Dr Georgia Caraway, former director of the Denton County Museums for 14 years, and her friends opened the Howe Mercantile at 107 East Haning Store hours are Thursday through Saturday noon until 8 p m She has written five Denton history books She hopes her next book will be the history of Howe If anyone has photographs or documents that she can copy, please bring them to Howe Mercantile recently reached out to the locals by way of Facebook to ask if anyone need some chickens. The "post office chickens" had baby chicks and apparently the local stray cats will try and have a post-thanksgiving feast on the little foghorns. Beckemeyer says that mom and dad are up for adoption as well.
Downtown Howe has two gift and antique shops Howe Mercantile and Stark Farms Gifts SHOP LOCAL We can show you Howe!
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Dr. Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridges@gmail com
John Pinckney, a Texas congressman, was noted for his fairness and his willingness to defend a cause in his short 59 years In 1905, his stance against alcohol cost him his life and became one of the few instances of the assassination of a sitting congressman
John McPherson Pinckney was born into a farming family in 1845 outside of Hempstead in what is now Waller County He was a middle child between an older sister and brother and a younger brother. As a youth, he attended school and also received private tutoring His sister, Susanna, became a noted writer in the 1890s and early 1900s
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, the 16-year-old Pinckney and his brother Thomas both enlisted, serving in Hood’s Texas Brigade The two fought for the Confederacy in some of the bloodiest battles of the war, including the Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg
Pinckney rose in rank from private to first lieutenant When the Confederate army surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865, Pinckney was part of the surrender ceremonies
After his return to Waller County, his popularity led area residents to elect him justice of the peace by the early 1870s In Texas, a justice of the peace is essentially a smallclaims court judge Though Pinckney had a reputation for intelligence and fairness, he had no legal education His sister reportedly inspired him to go further and study law He was admitted to the state bar in 1875
He moved to Hempstead, the county seat, and began working as an attorney In 1890, he was appointed district attorney He served in the position for the next decade In 1900, Pinckney was elected county judge for Waller County, the chief administrative official for the county
