CLASSIFIED ADS AND NOTES OF LOCAL INTEREST
Lost: Male emu, answers to the name of Skipper. Contact Limestone Ranch, Llano County.
Celebrating 50 Years of Wedded Bliss: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manly of Kerr County met with family and friends at Bill Baker’s Barbecue in Falfurrias, the town where they were married 66 years ago.
“16 of those years were pretty turbulent,” Mr. Manly explained. “Only after I cut off my relationship with a certain gal in Comfort, where I was stationed during the war--I was a gasoline station attendant—would Dottie acknowledge our wedding anniversary again.”
The group arrived in Falfurrias on Wednesday afternoon, but gathered at the restaurant in the evening when it was cooler, at 105 degrees. The menu included Bill’s famous barbecue brisket, which has become even more popular since the cook started using mesquite bark as a fuel rather than as a condiment.
Mr. Manly was later rushed to Mercy Hospital for food poisoning, which, oddly enough, affected none of the other celebrants.
“I’ve never seen Dottie happier,” commented a family friend who accompanied the stricken man in the ambulance. “50 years of marriage certainly agree with her!”
A memorable evening for all culminated with a stomach pump for Mr. Manly and a nine-hour grilling of Mrs. Manly by police.
Personal to F. M.: Get well quick, Frank! Your faithful gal in Comfort will meet you as usual at Schlitterbahn’s Bed and Breakfast next Friday. I made some of Oma’s peanut brittle, if you’re up to it. You bring the dominoes!
Found: Something that resembles an ostrich and eats triple its weight in pancakes and grits every morning. We beg you to take this creature off our hands. Call Harry and Bertha Gerdes in Junction.
Ride Needed: To Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. Didn’t realize when I registered for the fall semester that the only bus station in East Texas is actually located in Shreveport, Louisiana. I live in Kimble County, will meet you anywhere nearby as long as it’s within walking distance. To make arrangements, call Laurel Oehler at her aunt’s house.
Need to Get Away From It All? Try Schlitterbahn’s Bed and Breakfast opposite the Shell station in Comfort. No children, no pets, no Catholics. We run a moral establishment. By the way, that smell in your mattress isn’t bedbug soil, it’s just your imagination or something you ate earlier in the evening. Bring plenty of Boric acid tablets if you don’t like cockroaches. Leave your allergies at home, we have thirty cats.
For Sale: Quigley’s Taco Run, thriving business located pretty close to Main Street in Dime Box. Closed down by the Texas State Board of Health, this popular restaurant would be a remarkable success in the hands of an owner willing to cook eatable food and cooperate with sanitation codes. If you want to come and look around, bring your steel-toed boots in order to stomp on the chameleons that have virtually overrun the place. Call Tyler Moody for directions. He lives in the trailer behind the restaurant and has a key to the establishment. Or you could climb through the back window, but be careful, as we are fairly sure there is a scorpion nest in the pantry. Caution: Don’t eat the tortillas.
EAT AT BILL BAKER’S BARBECUE
LOCATED IN BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN FALFURRIAS
“The only thing hotter than our bbq sauce
Is our dining room!”
Visit festive Dime Box! Stay at the famous Lady Bird Johnson RV Park
and Travel Village off Route 10A!
Enjoy a heaping helping of ice cream in the flavor of your choice
(as long as it’s vanilla) at the Dairy Queen in nearby Kerrville!
Visit the celebrated Dime Box Chamber of Commerce,
located just south of Highway 290!
See a genuine oil painting of Dime City founder Prometheus “Red” Clay
at the Hill Country History Museum!
Swim in the pristine Little Dirty River after a seasonal flash flood!
Send your children to the finest school in Kimble County,
the Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Temporary Middle School
at the junction of Farm Road 7 and Highway 291!
Lost: Male emu, answers to the name of Skipper. Contact Limestone Ranch, Llano County.
Celebrating 50 Years of Wedded Bliss: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manly of Kerr County met with family and friends at Bill Baker’s Barbecue in Falfurrias, the town where they were married 66 years ago.
“16 of those years were pretty turbulent,” Mr. Manly explained. “Only after I cut off my relationship with a certain gal in Comfort, where I was stationed during the war--I was a gasoline station attendant—would Dottie acknowledge our wedding anniversary again.”
The group arrived in Falfurrias on Wednesday afternoon, but gathered at the restaurant in the evening when it was cooler, at 105 degrees. The menu included Bill’s famous barbecue brisket, which has become even more popular since the cook started using mesquite bark as a fuel rather than as a condiment.
Mr. Manly was later rushed to Mercy Hospital for food poisoning, which, oddly enough, affected none of the other celebrants.
“I’ve never seen Dottie happier,” commented a family friend who accompanied the stricken man in the ambulance. “50 years of marriage certainly agree with her!”
A memorable evening for all culminated with a stomach pump for Mr. Manly and a nine-hour grilling of Mrs. Manly by police.
Personal to F. M.: Get well quick, Frank! Your faithful gal in Comfort will meet you as usual at Schlitterbahn’s Bed and Breakfast next Friday. I made some of Oma’s peanut brittle, if you’re up to it. You bring the dominoes!
Found: Something that resembles an ostrich and eats triple its weight in pancakes and grits every morning. We beg you to take this creature off our hands. Call Harry and Bertha Gerdes in Junction.
Ride Needed: To Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. Didn’t realize when I registered for the fall semester that the only bus station in East Texas is actually located in Shreveport, Louisiana. I live in Kimble County, will meet you anywhere nearby as long as it’s within walking distance. To make arrangements, call Laurel Oehler at her aunt’s house.
Need to Get Away From It All? Try Schlitterbahn’s Bed and Breakfast opposite the Shell station in Comfort. No children, no pets, no Catholics. We run a moral establishment. By the way, that smell in your mattress isn’t bedbug soil, it’s just your imagination or something you ate earlier in the evening. Bring plenty of Boric acid tablets if you don’t like cockroaches. Leave your allergies at home, we have thirty cats.
For Sale: Quigley’s Taco Run, thriving business located pretty close to Main Street in Dime Box. Closed down by the Texas State Board of Health, this popular restaurant would be a remarkable success in the hands of an owner willing to cook eatable food and cooperate with sanitation codes. If you want to come and look around, bring your steel-toed boots in order to stomp on the chameleons that have virtually overrun the place. Call Tyler Moody for directions. He lives in the trailer behind the restaurant and has a key to the establishment. Or you could climb through the back window, but be careful, as we are fairly sure there is a scorpion nest in the pantry. Caution: Don’t eat the tortillas.
EAT AT BILL BAKER’S BARBECUE
LOCATED IN BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN FALFURRIAS
“The only thing hotter than our bbq sauce
Is our dining room!”
Visit festive Dime Box! Stay at the famous Lady Bird Johnson RV Park
and Travel Village off Route 10A!
Enjoy a heaping helping of ice cream in the flavor of your choice
(as long as it’s vanilla) at the Dairy Queen in nearby Kerrville!
Visit the celebrated Dime Box Chamber of Commerce,
located just south of Highway 290!
See a genuine oil painting of Dime City founder Prometheus “Red” Clay
at the Hill Country History Museum!
Swim in the pristine Little Dirty River after a seasonal flash flood!
Send your children to the finest school in Kimble County,
the Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Temporary Middle School
at the junction of Farm Road 7 and Highway 291!