The Archer City Junior High squad suffered a 44-0 defeat to Petrolia on Thursday, Sept. 30.

With just seven matches to go in the regular season, playoff pictures and district races are beginning to take shape. In District 9-2A, we seem to be on a collision course leading up to Archer City/Windthorst on Saturday, Oct.

The Holliday Lady Eagles’ cross country team picked up a pair of wins, taking first at the Lubbock ISD Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 25, with 59 points and winning the Decatur Reunion Run on Saturday, Oct. 2, with 32 points.

The 2021 Homecoming Court (L to R): Hudson Williams, Jill Liles, Gage Gillispie, Maddie Lopez, Kolton Miller, Crown-Bearer Kai Awakuni, Homecoming Queen Abby Sargent, Flower Girl Jill Graham, Breden Hulse and Sara Schroeder.Photo/Will Edwards

Writers from across the country will gather in Archer City to pay tribute to one of its native sons and author Larry McMurtry who died March 25, in Tucson, Ariz. In addition to the literary tribute, the Royal Theater will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of The Last Picture Show, the Peter Bogdanovich film made from McMurtry’s third book, with an outdoor showing of the film.

There aren’t many things as fickle as our memories, especially in times of hardships. The Israelites in Exodus seem to be the biggest bunch of ungrateful people you could imagine. They had just witnessed God save them by sending plagues on the Egyptians, parting the Red Sea, turning bitter water sweet from a log, making manna appear out of nowhere, having water come from a rock and many more things. Even in all of these impossible scenarios, we continue to see the people of God complain, whine, and wonder if God cares for them.

Thank you to Barbara and Harold Jenkins for their donation to the library. Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests.

The discovery of oil transformed communities and entire states in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century.Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana saw their economies transform overnight with the discovery of oil.For the Osage of Northeast Oklahoma, they saw their impoverished, dilapidated reservation transformed into one of the richest communities in Oklahoma almost overnight. It attracted great jealousy and then hatred and then murder.In the end, it took one former Texas Ranger, Thomas White, to help solve the case.

After 5 days of good rain chances, 5 days of hit or miss T’storms, we managed 2/10ths at our house, 3/10ths at the nursery. Way less than the 1” to 2” amounts that were predicted by local forecasts. Still, those days were much appreciated. Some of our plants pulled out of wilt but not enough for the deeper rooted trees and woody shrubs. Joe Brown used to say, “Never complain about the rain or a newborn calf.” So I’ll leave it at that.

The Sheriff’s Office received 106 calls for service this week. As this report is being written there were 15 inmates with four being female in the Archer County Jail.