It has been so dry here that I went to pick up an egg roll last night and it actually popped with a spark of static. You can't keep keep dirt off the TV screen, everything is gritty and dusty, and I think it adds to general malaise of the population. So that's why I say "Rain come on!" Of course, being West Texas, it won't be a gentle patter that you can sleepily dream through, but with high winds and stormy conditions. Oh, well, you can't always get what you want, but sometimes you get what you need. That's what Mick Jagger says, anyway.
I was torn about what photo to put up today, but this post card I found of the old Roby Truck Stop finally won out. It's dilapidated, now, and I have never seen it in decent condition. Wish it was still open so we could go eat breakfast there. On the back it says that J. A. "Jodie" Williams was the owner and Rig Edwards was the Mobil distributor.
The other photos that were in the running was of the estate sale that was south of Rotan yesterday, or of the nine Hobbs Yearbooks I scored there, ranging from year 1958 to 1966. I figured I could get the same reaction if I just bragged about them. I don't know what I'm going to do with them, yet. Maybe hold them for reference, maybe sell them. If there's a picture anyone wants out of them or some info, email me at hobbsholler@hobbsholler and I'll try to help you out.
I have headlines from the last three papers for you. I think the one between the last time I wrote and the oldest date for today is missing. Which means, I'm missing the Jan. 15 issue. It's still a lot of something for nothing, so here you go-
Roby Star Record / Rotan Advance issue for Feb. 5, 2009:
- First National Bank Rotan not compromised by Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. data breach
- Senior Citizen Valentine Banquet Feb. 12
- Congressman Randy Neugebauer votes against stimulus package; remembers Buddy Holly, Big Bopper & Richie Valens Feb. 3
- Baseball sign ups
- Texas Independence Day March 2
- Softball sign ups
- Texas Rep. Heflin announces grand recipients
- Area gins finish up season: Rotan total 37,000 bales, Longworth 18,298
- Sheriff's report
- Tumbleweed Smith: Taking the Polar Express to the North Pole
- Kyle Shipp named to Dean's List at South Plains
- Rotan natives make Angelo State Dean's List: Presley Gaspar, Breanna Marquis & Theresa Soliz
- Angelo State Fall graduates from Rotan: Rebecca Duke, Branna Marquis, Mindy Murphree & Theresa Soliz
- 60th Wedding Anniversary for Billy & Marlene Carter of Odessa, married in Roby 1948 (photo)
- Turner graduates with honors from UT Permian Basin (photo)
- Terms expiring for Roby City Council & Mayor
- Delta Kappa Gamma notes (photo)
- RISD accepting sealed bids on vehicles until Feb. 16
- Texas Preservation Days Feb. 10-11
- Rick Rodgers: Who must file 2008 income tax
- Fisher County basketball (photos)
- Roby Lit Crit off to great start (photo)
- FC Hospital Board meets with Dr. Carreon, field report on Trauma Survey
- What's happening in 4-H
- 2008 All Big Country Super Team
- Academic All-District Honors
- Academic All-State Honors
- Upcoming Quail events, Rolling Plains Quail Research Ranch
- Donations taken for Tracy (Posey) Lanbaren
- Grass fire burns 500 acres (photo)
- Obituary for Marie J. McCain
- Dean's List students: Lindsy Cave, Chanel Terry
- Graduating students: Chanel Terry
- Pastor's Column: Tim Schwertner
- Texas Rep. Heflin adds Reina Cisneros to staff
- Recipe Corner: Hamburger Patties with Ketchup Gravy
- Tumbleweed Smith: some TV Commercials Should Pay Viewers
- News Briefs: Juneteenth West Texas scholarship applications being taken
- AARP Public Service free income tax service
- 2008 Class 1A All-Big Country football team
- Roby Lions basketball fans (photo)
- State releasing $123.9 million in funds to help low income Texans offset high utility bills
- Shop at The Yellow Rose gift shop inside The Newspaper Office
- Fisher County Basketball (photos)
- Randy's Roundup: The Stimulus Plan; Troubled Assets Relief Fund
- Dickson retires from Rotan & National Gypsum (photo)
- Memories of John Ervin
- Gin report
- RISD Gold Performance Awards (photos)
- Retirement reception held for Mary Alice Ramirez, Roby CISD
- Local sales tax comparison allocation down
- Golden Spread Electric Coop names new President & General Manager; Big Country Electric is a member of Golden Spread
- Obituary for Alton Wayne Harris
- Sardis Cemetery Association meeting minutes
- Pastor's Column: Charles Glidewell
- Brandi Weathersbee on President's Honor Roll
- Denton announces closing of brush pile at city council meeting
- Graduates: Tyson & Chanel Terry (photo)
- Tumbleweed Smith: Some T & P Railroad Trivia
- Recipe Corner: Salsa Chicken Rice Casserole
- Adrian Daniel named to Dean's List
- HSU graduates
- DeeAnn Springfield certified as coder
- Randy's Roundup: Presidential Inauguration; Honoring Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.; Donating Computers to Locknery High School; National Sanctity of Human Life Day
- Fisher County Financial Report
- Rotan students vie for region band honors (photo)
- Rotan fifth grade enjoys concert
- Frank Cockrell Art Association hosted Nan Arnett in scratch art program (photo), next meeting Monday night, Feb. 9, 6 p.m. @ Williamson Branson office in Roby
- Fisher County Basketball (photos)
- The Rotan Plant, taken from Feb. 1948 gypsum newsletter
Ricky Niell has a new page on his RazzleDazzleArt site featuring his Alaskan photography. He has beautiful pictures and he can help you experience what it might feel like to wake up and find a moose in your yard.
There's no telling what I was Googling when I ran across a list of a few old patents awarded to Fisher County residents. Never mind that a couple of the people were listed as living in "Boby" or "Kotan". We know what they meant.
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