1897 TAX RECEIPT, ETC.
Across
the Fence
February,
1981
By
Arvord Abernethy
Jessie
[Jessie Lee (Sims) (Wilson) Gautier] also
had an 1897 tax receipt of G.M.D. Carters. The tax on 905 acres was
broken down this way:
State
Tax, $8.05,
School
tax, $7.25,
County
Tax
, $10.06,
County
special tax, $14.09 and
Poll
tax $1.75.
R.
C. Moore was the tax collector. One might say, “Them wuz the good ole
days”, but who would like to dig that much out of the ground with a
hoe and a cotton sack and bring it to town in a wagon over rough, rocky
roads? The Carter place was located south of the
Leon
River
and west of Highway 281 and is now owned by the J. K. Wilhelms.
Don’t
know when I got such a lift as I did last Friday when I feasted on a
good meal at the
Senior
Center
and got to hear the La Tourneau College Singers put on a program. There
were five of the young men; and whether it was solo, duet, quartet,
every song was a treat.
La
Tourneau is a private Christian college at
Longview
,
Texas
where the principles of integrity, industry and discipline are stressed.
These boys reflected these qualities
I
was down town the other day when the Lion’s Club had their broom and
mop sale on the square. I bought a broom and some light bulbs and was on
my way to the car when I met Mitch Lykins. He suggested that I put a
card on the broom as a Mother’s Day present. I followed his suggestion
and was just fixing to crawl under the house to check something when
Mary drove in. I told her what I was doing and she went on into the
house. In a minute she hollered back, “You can just stay under the
house”. I got the message. Mitch, you have made some good suggestions
at times, but this was not one of your better ones.