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1872: Grand jury indicts governor over disputed election results On this day in 1872, a Reconstruction-era grand jury indicted Republican governor E. J. Davis for “willfully, unlawfully and feloniously [making] a false and untrue tabular statement” of the election results for the Third District congressional seat. Dewitt Clinton Giddings, theContinue Reading

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May 7, 1958 ~ January 30, 2023 Memorial Services for Ruthann Hargroves Skinner, 64, of Marshall, Texas. will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2023, at 2pm in the Cpt. Wm. Perry Chapel of Haggard Funeral with Apostle Lionel Childress officiating. Ruthann was born on May 7, 1958, in Texas City, TexasContinue Reading

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Winter weather possible this week ATLANTA ­– Due to the possibility of winter weather conditions this week, TxDOT crews in Bowie, Cass, Camp, Marion, Morris, Titus and Upshur Counties began pretreating many roads and bridges with brine today. Crews are focusing on pretreating the most highly traveled roadways, which include InterstateContinue Reading

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From Coach Schubert: Junior Hight Girls Basketball Season The 8th grade Lady Bullpups traveled to West Rusk this past Thursday for their final game of the season and came home with a 40-16 win! Scorers were Mariya Johnson with 2, Anna Hauptman with 3, Avery Ephram with 4, Chloe WoodContinue Reading

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1840: Englishman and future critic arrives in Texas On this day in 1840, British lawyer and writer Nicholas Maillard arrived in Texas. He settled in Richmond, where he acquired a reputation as a mixer of excellent drinks and became coeditor of the Richmond Telescope. In May and June 1840 he made severalContinue Reading

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1881: Rangers ambush Apaches at Hueco Tanks On this day in 1881, a company of Texas Rangers ambushed a group of fugitive Guadalupe Apaches at Hueco Tanks, thirty miles east of El Paso. Hueco, Spanish for “hollow,” refers to the hollows in the rocks that collect rainwater, which has long been oneContinue Reading

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1836: Italian hero of San Jacinto arrives in Texas On this day in 1836, Prospero Bernardi arrived in Texas aboard the schooner Pennsylvania as a member of Capt. Amasa Turner’s volunteer company, raised in New Orleans. Bernardi was born in Italy in 1794 and was a notary by trade. He enlisted inContinue Reading

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Hugh Lewis/Jefferson Jimplecute Jefferson High School had their first gun related incident of the year last Thursday when a loaded .22 caliber revolver was found in a student’s backpack. School officials found the gun following a search to locate a vape which had triggered automatic sensors in one of theContinue Reading

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City Offices moved Jefferson City Hall offices have been moved to 305 E. Austin Street (green door at west end of building) until further notice.  Please call 903-601-4377 for your utility balance or any other questions. If no one is available, please leave a message and someone will return yourContinue Reading

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Austin Lewter/Jefferson Jimplecute  Jock Lauterer, the director of the Carolina Community Media Project, defines a “community newspaper” as a newspaper that serves a specific location with a circulation of 50,000 or less. The Jefferson Jimplecute  proudly fits this criteria and serving our community is something we take very seriously.  Community newspapersContinue Reading

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Ken Bridges/Contributing writer Success in business is often a combination of timing, determination, and imagination.  One Houston businessman, Jesse H. Jones had all these qualities and an innate sense of enterprise to build a fortune that changed the landscape of Texas’s biggest city.  Jones became a giant in Houston business circles,Continue Reading

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Norsha Cone, 77, died on January 19, 2023. A native Texan, Norsha and her husband, Tim, retired to the mountains of Western North Carolina in 2016. Norsha is survived by her husband; her son, Noel Bass; and her sister, Iris Mobley. She is also survived by a host of otherContinue Reading

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JHS students attending DECA District 6 Leadership Conference and qualifying for DECA state competition are: Xavier Brown-Robinson & Eden Hopes – Sports & Entertainment Team Decision Making Charlene Moore – Apparel & Accessories Marketing Series Braylon Fortson & Kenya Ross – Hospitality Services Team Decision Making Alaysia Durden – PrinciplesContinue Reading