20 years ago…
June 30, 2005
LADY PIRATE DUO EARN SPOTS ON TSWA ALL-STATE SOFTBALL TEAM
A pair of Lady Pirates earned spots on the recently announced Collin Street Bakery/Texas Sports Writers Association 2005 All-State Softball Team.
Sophomore Alix Dean was named to the first team as an infielder and Brittaney Ross received honorable mention as a pitcher.
Dean led the Lady Pirates with a .553 batting average and 27 RBIs en route to a Region II semifinal appearance this year.
CES TO HOST ‘CASH AND CARRY MOVING SALE’
The Collinsville Elementary School will be holding a “cash and carry moving sale” Wednesday, June 29 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. in anticipation of their move to the new facility.
Items include used books, corkboards, shelves and many more items too numerous to list. Adults will pay $2 to get in, children under 12 for $1 each, and you can take away as much as you can carry. All proceeds will go to the landscaping fund for the elementary school campus.
30 years ago…
July 6, 1995
FIRST SPORTS-FEST SET FOR JULY 22-23
The Whitesboro Area Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring their first-ever Sports-Fest scheduled for July 22 and 23 at Sunset Park.
American Softball Association sanctioned co-ed games, utilizing blue dot balls, will be conducted in double-elimination fashion during the tournament. Games will have a one-hour time limit, as well as a run limit.
Teams are mandated to use five male and five female players. Church groups are encouraged to participate in the event, as well as previously organized groups.
Fee for participation is $125 per team - with first and second place winners presented with T-shirts. Registration, handled through the chamber at 903-564-3331, will be taken through July 21.
Bruce Abernathy will chair the two-day activity, while Melissa Abernathy will direct concession sales.
All proceeds from the tournament will revert to the chamber of commerce for community activities.
RODEO BREAKS ATTENDANCE RECORDS
It was an all-around record-breaking year for the 37th Annual Whitesboro CRA-CRRA Wild West Rodeo - both in the overall attendance and the number of competitors.
Spectators - approximately 5,000 in all - patiently awaiting entry to the paramount performances, formed mile-long lines down Highway 82.
Once inside, onlookers preferred to stay afoot - clinging to the iron fencing for hours of heart-stopping rope-slinging, bell-clanging activity.
With 329 contestants on the books - up from just 200 during the last rodeo - officials from the Whitesboro Riding Club didn’t see Friday’s dust settle until the sun began to rise.
Along with the total purse of approximately $11,000, contestants battled for $1,800 added money during the two-day showcase of skills.
Becky Stuckey, the 12-year-old daughter of Ray Lynn and Paula Stuckey of Whitesboro gained a top award for the weekend, claiming the crown as the 1995 Whitesboro Rodeo Queen during a formal ceremony on Saturday.
40 years ago…
July 3, 1985
BROWN TAKES JOB AS ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL
Whitesboro High School Principal Charles Brown has been reassigned as principal of the Whitesboro Elementary School, at his request, following a special called meeting July 4 of the Whitesboro Independent School District Board of Trustees.
The reassignment comes at the heels of the resignation of elementary school principal Ron Babers who has resigned to accept an elementary principal’s position in the Gainesville school system, according to Superintendent of Schools Jerry Dickson.
As a result of Brown’s reassignment, Dickson said the school district is now seeking the employment of a high school principal to fill Brown’s position. “We are taking applications and will be trying to fill that position in the near future,” said Dickson.
APARTMENT COMPLEX NEARING COMPLETION
Phase I of a Phase II apartment complex is under construction in Whitesboro, with completion date tentatively scheduled for late August.
Located next to Holiday Chevrolet along the westbound access road to U.S. Highway 82, the two-story, multi-family dwelling will feature a total of 16 units in Phase I, with 16 additional units to be constructed in Phase II.
The complex is being constructed on approximately two acres and will feature four two-bedroom units and 12 one-bedroom units. Rent is estimated to begin at $295 per month and up, including water, sewer and garbage.
60 years ago…
July 1, 1965
RODEO WILL BEGIN FRIDAY
Whitesboro’s annual Fourth of July celebration will begin this year with the fourth annual July Fourth Rodeo, sponsored by the local riding club, on Friday. Rodeo performances will be held also on Saturday and Monday nights.
Because the holiday falls on Sunday this year, riding club officials have scheduled the three-day event without a performance on Sunday night.
There are four events on tap for the performances slated for Friday and Saturday nights. They include bareback bronc riding, calf roping, bull riding and barrel racing. The riding club has scheduled an all-girl rodeo for July 5. Events for the ladies will include bareback bronc riding, barrel racing, bull riding and breakaway calf roping.
TWO WHITESBORO MEN COLLECT WOLF BOUNTY
Bill Odom, rural route mail carrier, reported last Friday that G.P. Hawkins and T.H. Lemons had killed six half-grown wolves and collected a three dollar bounty on each of the wolves from Grayson County.
The wolves were seen on top of a bridge near the underpass between Whitesboro and Collinsville. The two men went to the house of T.A. Clements and borrowed his gun. They returned to the bridge and shot the two on top and then shot four more below the bridge. Charlie Thompson, who lives near where the wolves were shot, said he “had heard them every night.”
There were no reports from the area that the wolves had bothered any domestic animals or fowls. Also no grown wolves were reported to have been seen.