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.

Thank you to all who donated and shared our message during Texoma Gives! Thanks to you, the library raised $2,105! Seven years ago, Mia Briscoe was at a college frat rave with her best friend, Serena, when a fire broke out. Everyone was accounted for except Serena, who was never seen nor heard from again.

Dr. Ken Bridges is a Texas native, writer, and history professor.

Paul and Nila Dowlearn-Owners of Wichita Valley Nursery. Paul’s recent books, “The Lazy Man’s Garden” and “Touch the Earth” are available at the Nursery, 5314 S.W. Pkwy, Wichita Fall, Texas.

The Sheriff’s Office received 127 calls for service this week. As this report is being written there were 13 inmates with four being female in the Archer County.

The Cambridge Dictionary defines “focused” as “giving attention to one particular thing.” So, today are you focused on a problem you are facing at work, the financial strain of medical expenses along with many other bills, or the burden of caring for an aging parent. The list of things that can enter our lives and call us to give our attention to are endless. But, I want to alert you to danger of being so focused on the daily issues of life that you neglect your relationship with God. Here’s the reality: Our lives get out of focus, when we spend time only on the temporal things of life to the neglect of the spiritual. Jesus gave counsel to those whose lives out of focus with worries and anxiety about daily needs. In Matthew

TThank you to all who donated and shared our message during Texoma Gives! Thanks to you, the library raised $2,105! Thank you to Jean Hall for her donation in memory of Peggy Hubbard. ************ The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City.