The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by Over-Drive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy to get started for new users and a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users. Learn more at overdrive.com/apps/libby/.

Thomas Clark Thomas Campbell Clark played an important role in shaping many of the civil liberties Americans enjoy today during his career. As part of a long and distinguished legal career, Clark became the first – and to date, only – Texan to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

The Sheriff’s Office received 106 Calls for Service during the past seven day period ending Sunday, Nov. 1. On the day of this report there were 34 individuals incarcerated in the Archer County Jail consisting of 27 men and sevem women. 42 individuals were arrested and booked into the Archer County Jail consisting of 25 men and 17 women during the month of October, 2020.

Okay, we had our first official freeze, some sleet and some snowflakes, but the warm season plants did not die? We saw pictures posted on the internet in awe and disbelief. I posted a picture of our Red Cascade rose blooming away with fresh buds showing. I even have a Texas sage that is blooming new flowers today after the freeze. I recorded 26(f) at the homestead Thursday morning after everything cleared off. It is a fact that the coldest night is always after the clouds clear off and the winds die down. Still, I just checked my three peppers and one tomato in containers out by our pond this morning. I failed to cover them yet all are alive with the peppers looking fine and the tomato looking a bit haggard but has a small tomato hanging on a still green stalk minus most its leaves. So what’s up with all this?

The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by OverDrive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy to get started for new users and a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users. Learn more at overdrive.com/apps/ libby/.

The Semicolon Case Every so often, news reports emerge of court cases that hinge upon the meaning of a word, or a spelling error, or even the correct placement of punctuation. Legal documents and statutes often have such complicated conditions or phrases that such exact precision is demanded.

Well…. It did rain! A good one too. With thunder. Now many of us will show above normal to near normal rain for this month. Not so for our neighbors out west as the precip fell on a Vernon, to Seymour, to Throckmorton line missing the same areas where the dreaded drought lines are currently drawn. So please leave those “Pray for Rain” signs out. It ain’t over and may come to visit us all. But please do take credit. It worked this time.

The Sheriff’s Offce received 111 Calls for Service during the past seven day period ending Sunday, Oct. 25. On the day of this report there were 29 individuals incarcerated in the Archer County Jail consisting of 24 men and five women.

The Archer Public Library now offers Libby by OverDrive! Borrow e-books, audiobooks, and magazines to read on your phone or tablet using the Libby app by Over- Drive. You can even send and read your borrowed e-books to your Kindle e-reader (U.S. only)! It’s free and easy to get started for new users and a streamlined experience for current OverDrive app users. Learn more at overdrive.com/apps/libby/