Students begin a new school year with hopes and dreams of better lives. Teachers and administrators similarly have high hopes for their students, trying to create classrooms and schools of the highest quality where these dreams can be nurtured and minds developed, as difficult as this sometimes is given the limits of budgets. Southern Methodist University in Dallas was created with such hopes but also with many obstacles. In the end, SMU was the result of a fight to relocate another college and the fate of a Dallas medical school that culminated in a world-class university. Southwestern University in Georgetown, just north of Austin, had been founded by the Methodist Church in 1840. As Texas grew, Methodist leaders at the turn of the century questioned if Georgetown was the best location. To many in North Texas, it only seemed reasonable that the college be relocated to Dallas or Fort Worth, given their large population of Methodists and growing business communities.

The Archer Public Library is excited to participate in Texoma Gives again on September 8th! We are raising money for next year's Summer Reading Program to help the kids of Archer County fight the Summer Slide, the loss of reading proficiency in the summer months. We hire educational performers, host arts and crafts events, and hold a reading contest with prizes for the participants to encourage kids to read all summer long! All these events are free to the children of Archer County so that we may help kids of all income levels. Please help us reach our goal by visiting https://www.texomagives. org/organizations/archerpubliclibrary on Thursday, September 8th. Thank you for your support! ************* Greed. Desire. Obsession. Revenge . . . It’s all in a night’s work.

Ahhh September. Here’s some good news for a change. The Climate Prediction Center issued their outlook for September 2022. They are predicting a pretty normal month. Normal? What’s that you say? This after several years worth of above normal temperatures with below normal rainfall (classic La Nina influence) and now this?

The Sheriff’s Office received 137 calls for service this past week. As this report is being written there are 28 inmates and 4 being female in the Archer County Jail. On Tuesday, dispatch received a call from the Megargel area in reference to stolen vehicle and missing juvenile. The caller stated that her grandson was seen on camera leaving the night before with at least four of his friends and in his grandfather’s truck. Deputies had a good idea of where the juvenile’s might be going and called the respective agencies to assist. It appears the juveniles went to Wise County and ditched the first vehicle and stole another from there. The juveniles then headed for Waco but was intercepted in Hill County where they were taken into custody. All parents were notified and the case is still open pending further charges.

The Archer Public Library is excited to participate in Texoma Gives again on September 8th! We are raising money for next year's Summer Reading Program to help the kids of Archer County fight the Summer Slide, the loss of reading proficiency in the summer months. We hire educational performers, host arts and crafts events, and hold a reading contest with prizes for the participants to encourage kids to read all summer long! All these events are free to the children of Archer County so that we may help kids of all income levels. Please help us reach our goal by visiting https://www.texomagives. org/organizations/archerpubliclibrary on Thursday, September 8th. Thank you for your support!

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 past week. As this report is being written there are 32 inmates and 4 being female in the Archer County Jail. On Tuesday, dispatch received a call of an accident on Hwy. 79 north of Archer City. The caller stated that a car hit a hog and that the hog was still alive. The caller asked for a deputy to come out and put the hog down. As deputies were in route another car hit and killed the hog. Both vehicles were damaged in the accident but no injuries were reported. On Wednesday, deputies were called to the north end of the county in reference to a man on someone’s back porch. As deputies arrived it was discovered that the man was having a mental health crisis and was confused as to where he was. The family was notified and the man is now getting some treatment.

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.

County The Sheriff’s Office received 297 calls for service in the past 2 weeks. As this report is being written there are 29 inmates and 3 being female in the Archer County Jail.