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A week from this coming Monday, we celebrate this venerable old rag’s 132nd anniversary, its first issue having been published Dec. 9, 1887 exactly one block west of where it is published now.
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Sheriff Bobby Rader mentioned in passing one day this week an unusual story about Sheriff Allen Wheat, who was sheriff of Liberty County in the 1920s. The gist of it is this:
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(1) Dickie Dixon is writing “A History of Lufkin, Texas, December 1881 to the Present,” to include everything he can of significant events, people, businesses, and pieces of history interesting to those who love history.
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Playing on their home court the Hardin Lady Hornets got the better of West Hardin’s Lady Oilers Monday, beating them by 53-33. Shirley Guillott sent in these photos of the game.
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Sarah Catherine Stephens, 72, of Dayton passed away on Sunday, Nov. 24, at her home, surrounded by her family. She was born on Oct. 6, 1947 in Bossier City, Louisiana, to the late Dennis Ervin and Jewel Louise Cubley Wyatt.
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Sheral Ann McKinney, 70, a lifelong resident of Dayton, passed away peacefully on Friday, Nov. 22, in Winnie-Stowell, surrounded by loving family. She was born on June 16, 1949 in Dayton to the late Edd C. and Ada Bell Burns Favors.
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Mary Lopez, 78, of Liberty was born on Jan. 6, 1941, in Lufkin, the daughter of the late Farah D. (Higgins) and William “Thomas” Baty. She passed away peacefully surrounded by her husband of 58 years and her three children, on Tuesday, Nov.
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