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Young Otto Koeltzow writes that “our harvest at Anderson was good—nine bales of cotton and fine corn. Older brother Paul was old enough to plow, and so father bought a second yoke of oxen for $50 and rented more land. This required us to move farther from town. It was a four mile walk to school in good and bad weather, but we didn’t mind for there were several school boys along the road and we had good times together.
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Bedias Civic Club will sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday, Apr. 9, starting at 2 p.m. Please go to the civic club Facebook page, www.facebook.com/BediasCivicClubAssoc, for more information and updates.
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Winner number 32 of the 2nd Annual St. Joseph’s Catholic Church 52-week gun raffle was drawn Sunday, Apr. 3. The winner of an Escort HESO 12 ga. Shotgun is Jimmy Moran. The next drawing will take place Sunday, Apr. 10, 2022.
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Eligible Texas voters who have not done so already have until April 7 to register to vote in the May 7 statewide constitutional amendment election, as well as any local elections for city, school districts and other local entities.
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A small 84-page paperback book was published in 1962 by the Oklahoma Historical Society in the Chronicles of Oklahoma. It was titled, “From the Brazos to the North Fork, the Autobiography of Otto Koeltzow.” The topic is of the early, often painful struggles, of immigrants into the still raw beginning of Texas in the late 1800s.
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Much of the state remains at considerable risk for wildfires through this week, largely because of higher-than-usual temperatures and drought conditions. More than 40% of the state is suffering extreme drought conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Nearly the entire state is in some form of drought, with much of the Panhandle, High Plains and west central Texas most at risk.
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The Bedias Civic Club will sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt, Saturday, April 9, starting at 2 p.m. Visit their Facebook page for more information and updates.
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Welcome to Texas weather! My two daughters and I kept in touch until late Monday night. The storm appeared to be headed directly to Lyons where Joni and her family live. Thankfully for them, it took a turn. Since the tornado we had several years ago came right in my area, I get antsy when weather gets bad. Keep praying for our neighboring communities who were hit by this weather and suffered damages.
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