Pal’s Fish Camp on Cypress Creek, served fish, barbcue and passing gangsters
The Pittsburg Gazette reported that 42-year-old P.D. Thornton “is said to have an even chance for recovery” after one man
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Eli may not have known Monticello
WILL J, TAYLOR, who built the cotton gin in Monticello in 1915, stands to the right of the doorway in
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Cookville Cowboy won 1993 NCHA World Championship
From East Texas Journal, June 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Cookville, Texas – Billy Ray Rosewell hollered for his
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OSCAR L. TAYLOR 1894-1988
Special to the journal Synopsis by Etta Ray Case from an interview with Oscar Leonodis Taylor in 1979 Editor’s
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Camp County families built East Texas Peach Capital
Above photos, means the same now as 31 years ago, there’s work from daylight to dark at Efurd Orchards, where
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Every store in Cookville robbed !
By Sam Ferguson East Texas Journal Production Manager Cookville Texas was visited by a gang of burglars and “knob knockers”
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Scholarship winners score on poultry giant’s West Side ties
Above Photo, winners of the Sue Whalyn Payne Memorial Scholarship are: Diya Desai, Yahaira Pina, Tanner Marshall, Amir Martinez and
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Talco oilfields brought jobs
From East Texas Journal, March 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Paycheck promise brought sharecrop family to this area TALCO,
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Southerland’s Gins in Cookville, Texas
The picture of this old Cookville Gin was taken in 1915. It is the J. O. Southerland Gin in Cookville,
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The Big Indian, Pittsburg shop with California flair
From East Texas Journal, March 1994 By Hudson Old, Journal publisher Pittsburg, Texas — There was a picture, like a
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