110 years ago
June 25, 1908:
PEOPLE YOU KNOW
Mrs. Temple Bell and children, who have been guests of her sister, Mrs. E.J. Willis, 903 Olive St. for the past week, will return to their home at New Boston today; Mrs. J.A. Hurley and children returned home yesterday from a visit to relatives at Gilmer: Mrs. F.G. Cook and daughter of Cooksville, Texas, are visiting relatives here this week.
June 26:
HEROIC ENGINEER SAVES BOY'S LIFE
Engineer J.A. Tynan, by a quick swim and dive, achieved a thrilling rescue of a drowning boy yesterday. Tynan is a passenger engineer on the Central and, when approaching Mud creek, caught sight of the lad midway on the bridge, fishing. Wholly oblivious to the approaching danger, there was an instant closing of the throttle and applying the brakes, but before the train could be stopped the bridge had been passed. The boy, in his fright, either jumped into the water or was swept off by the train. When Tynan leaped from his engine the little fellow was struggling in the stream below, absolutely helpless. The engine driver plunged down the bank into the water, wading swimming and finally diving to reach the boy, and emerged a few moments later with the boy almost exhausted.
June 27:
'PIPE LINE'
There can be no doubt about the "Pipe Line" just laid down in our City and of which nothing has appeared in any of the papers heretofore and of which few are aware, it is here-has been laid in front of store of J.S. Gaines, 312-314 State Line. The finest line of pipes that money can buy bought so that they can be retailed at wholesale prices. Come before picked over. J.S. Gaines.
June 28:
CRASH THROUGH WEAK BRIDGE
PARIS, Texas-While O.N. Sloan, a farmer, living four miles north of Tigertown, was taking a steam thrashing machine, weighing 15,000 pounds and propelled by a big traction engine, over a bridge on Sanders creek, the bridge broke and the thrasher was hurled down to the bed of the creek. The bridge was sixty feet long and the thrasher had proceeded about halfway across. Mr. Sloan was in the cab, and William Collins was sitting back a few feet from the engine. When the bridge began to fall, Collins jumped and called to Sloan to jump, but before he could get out of the way, he was caught under the cab and dragged down and buried in soft mud. He escaped with slight bruises but almost drowned before he could be rescued, his head being only a few inches above mud and water. Three men with spades dug him out from under the engine. The bridge had been condemned some time ago, and the Commissioners Court had awarded the contract for building a new one.
June 29:
GIRL DRANK INK
"I see by the papers that a girl drank a bottle of ink yesterday and almost died from the effects of it." "Did they arrest her for attempted suicide?" "No; it happened to be an accident according to the girl, and she explained that she took it by mistake meaning to be drinking her milk."
June 30:
OLD HOME ICE PLANT
The old Home Ice Company building caught fire last night about 8 o'clock, but the flame was soon extinguished by the fire companies. The roof of the building was mostly burned off, entailing a loss of about $300 to $500, which, it is said, is covered by insurance.
July 1:
THE WANDERIN' BOY
When ma comes home from her club an' pa gits in fresh from his'n, or sets behind his paper readin' the gamblin' market reports, a great hue an' cry is set up about our wanderin' boy tonight, warranted to smoke a package of cigarettes erer' fifteen minnits. What's to be done? Why, pa heaves a sigh like a bellows'd hoss, an' ma hums a tune betwixt her sniffles. Now, what's to hender pa from gwine out arter the youngsterwl' a rawside, an' yankin him home, home, an' teachin' him a leasson that he'll never forgit as long as he lives?
50 years ago
June 25, 1968:
TEXARKANA MAN HURT AT LAKE
A man was seriously injured Sunday afternoon at Lake Texarkana when he dived from a barge on the lake and apparently struck the bottom of the lake. Paul Tarber, 28 of 20201/2 W. 11th St., who suffered serious neck injuries in the diving accident, was taken in a city ambulance to Wadley Hospital for emergency treatment. He was transferred later in the evening to Shreveport for further treatment. The accident occurred at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Clear Springs landing on the lake.
June 26:
BIRTHS-Wadley Hospital
June 12-Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rice, a girl; Mr. and Mrs. James Bohn, a boy; Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn McCoy, a girl; Mr. and Mrs. Tony Johnson, a girl; Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Rose, a girl; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Porier, a boy; Mr. and Mrs. James A. Davis, a boy;
June 13-Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur V. Cox, a boy; Mr. and Mrs. Owens, a boy; Mr. and Mrs. John Hay, a boy; Mr. and Mrs. David Hendrix, a girl; Mr. and Mrs. James Wright, a boy; Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Norris, a boy; Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Chapman, a girl.
June 27:
EMERALD BALL COMMITTEE MEETS TODAY
The organizational meeting of the Emerald Ball committee will be held at 10 a.m. today at Howard Johnson's. Mrs. Karlton Kemp, Mrs. Henry Moore, Mrs. J.C. Crownover, Mrs. Charles Potter, Mrs. William Potter, Mrs. William Patterson, Mrs. James Murphy, Mrs. George Peck, Mrs. Thomas Arnold, Mrs. Richard Schneider, Mrs. O. Abernathy, Mrs. Jack Meriwether, Mrs. Carroll Wheeler and Mrs. David Orr.
June 28:
GAZETTE WILL FEATURE 'MODEL CITIES MAILBOX'
J.Q. Mahaffey, citizen participation and community organization specialist with the Model Cities program, Wednesday invited the citizens of both sides of Texarkana to ask questions about the program through a "Model Cities Mailbox" that will be conducted as a feature of the Texarkana Gazette. "This program means too much to the development of the physical and human resources of this city to be to be hindred by misinformation and unanswered questions," Mahaffey added.
June 29:
ARMED ROBBER STRIKES ROSE OIL STATION
An armed robber held up the Rose Oil Station at seventh and Texas at 3:15 a.m., taking $226.97 from the service stations' cash register. Jerry Wells was working on a car at the station when a man came up behind him. Wells told police the gunman had a brown paper sack which he told the attendant to fill with the money from the cash register. Wells said after he had put the money in the sack, the robber told him to go into the restroom and not to come out or call the police. The attendant said he waited a few minutes and then came out of the restroom in time to see the gunman walking west on seventh street. He described the gunman as a tall black man, about 6 feet tall, with a goatee and bushy hair and wearing dark trousers, a checked coat and a hunting cap.
June 30:
SCOUTS LEAVE FOR PHILMONT
Boy Scouts of Troop 14 of Texarkana paused briefly boarding a bus for the trip to Philmont National Scout Ranch near Cameron, N. M. The Scouts plan to return to Texarkana July 10. While at Philmont, each boy will be assigned a burro or horse and rations with which to make his way on a trek through the desert and badlands. The Scouts are Wayne Birts, James Worley, Arthur Beaty, Bruce Feagins, Danny Fyffe Ben Westbrook, Chris Robertson Richardson, Richard Henry, Bobby Click, Scott Sewall and Mr. Lewie P. Henry, Scoutmaster.
July 1:
LOCAL SCOUTS ATTEND CAMP
Texarkana Girls Scouts attending Camp High Point, Conifer Girl Scouts Council's established camp located near Mena: Alexa Richter, Kim Looney, Cindy Williams, Marti Link, Abigail Barnes, Kay Thomas, Vicki Melde, Andrea Goesl and Susan Cook.