If you have been out about a mile on the Pottsville highway and noticed a new brick home being built on the hill north of the road and wondered whose it was, it is the Bobby Stephen home.

 

It should be completed in about a month and Bobby and Grace will be moving out there then.

 

It is a three bedroom, two bath brick with a wonderful view of Hamilton and the countryside. James Tischler has done most of the work on the house.

 

Sometimes people like to build out where they have some open space to rear their children, but not so with the Stephen family; they have had a desire for some time to be out. Their two sons have been away for some time. Mike is in San Antonio and Mark has just finished electronic schooling in Austin .

 

The Stephens sold their Austin stone home at 800 E. Coke to Mrs. Ellis Dawkins back in the spring and they have been living just back of it in their rent house on S. Bouldin since then.

 

 

The Joe Raibourns have moved into their new home on S. Williams which was built by Bates and Watson. It is on the last block of that street where some eight new homes have been built within the last couple of years.

 

I’m not going to repeat what someone said when they realized that four of the Raibourns were right here in a two block radius. No, it wasn’t too bad.

 

Otto Wendland and I were standing around watching Charles and Johnny Wagner working on the Voges home (we like to do things like that since we have retired), when we thought of some jokes about carpenters. Otto, told about a carpenter placing a board up in place and then throwing it aside. He did another one or two the same way when his helper asked him what was wrong with the boards. His reply was, “They are a little too long, if they had been too short I could have spliced them.”

 

That reminded me of when Fred Massingill was helping here on our house and was trying to fit a board. He jokingly said, “I have already sawed this board off two times and it is still too short.”

 

A goodly number of people attended the Farm Bureau Annual Meeting and Chili Supper last week at the Hamilton School Cafetorium. Benn Gleason acted as master of ceremonies in the absence of the president of Hamilton County Farm Bureau.

 

One of the business items was the election of two directors for the coming year. The directors will be Bill Sloan, Charles Arendt, Cecil Grisham, Benn Gleason, Royce Poteet, B. J. Marwitz, Jack Davidson, Harry Hansen, Christy Wright, Winston Walton and Charlie Railbourn.

 

The main speaker was Ridge Pate, staff attorney for the research and education department of the Texas Farm Bureau. He spoke on the nine amendments to the Texas Constitution which will be voted on November the 4^th. He merely outlined the amendments and did not comment on any stand that the Farm Bureau might take on them.

 

See your last week’s Hamilton Herald-News for a good description of the amendments. The Farm Bureau’s main concern is for people to get some idea of the issues and candidates at stake and then be sure and go vote their convictions.

 

It is hard to know whom to vote for, but there is one thing we can nearly be sure about; our children’s inheritance will be greater, their part of the national debt.