By: W.C. Reader

Well, after an absence of a goodly number of months, here we go again with “Odds and Ends.”  God willing, it will appear on the first Wednesday of each month. -----

Have the wife drive us by the new house of Margaret Cox in Karnes City as often as possible.  The main attraction is a long porch wrapped around this pretty home, with comfortable chairs scattered about in all directions.  We have a standing invitation-ex-sitting invitation-to make libe4ral sue of the swings and chairs, whether the owner is present or not. ----- Saw Lamar Hunt in town the other day, and he was wearing one of those new straw hats that farmers like to wear.  Didn’t find out whether he was wearing it to work, or just to show off around friends. ----- Stopped our old amigo, Elmer McCoy, for a chat while he was moving along the sidewalk recently.  Glad to report

Elmer is still able to spread good cheer along the way. ----- Peggy Schroeder, who used to keep Dalton Metting on the straight and narrow path while they both were earning their keep from Central Power and Light Co., now is working as a Storekeeper for the same firm, but with a different name (the firm; not Peggy).  Don’t know what a storekeeper does these days, Peggy, but when Truett Hunt and we were schoolboys, they used to sell groceries over the counter. ----- Always like to sit on that bench inside the doors at Wal-Mart’s because you never know when some nice person like Ruth Alexander is going to stop off and ask you if you are saved. ----- Ran into old friend Walter Ulbricht while paying homage to Texas Lutheran University in Seguin the other day.  Walter worked in the bank at Kenedy before moving to Seguin.  He’s still doing a little work, like most of my friends, but spends a great deal of his time inquiring about such things as whether Walter Koepp and Ray Freeman are following the football fortunes of Texas A&M Aggies.  Does the sun rise every morning Walter? ----- Have to drive all the way over to Kenedy to have a chat with classmate Lucille Pullin Koenig, who lives only a few blocks down from us in Runge.  She says the Pullin family, which includes her late father, Smith Pullin, will be having a family reunion this summer, so you Pullins’ better check up on that. ----- Never feel comfortable quoting Paul Bordovsky on something he said but we believe he said something about have two longhorn steers out on his farm, and one of them is mounted on a piece of wood.  Chick on that Cecilia Mueller and Mary Moy in over several months now, so think we’ll have someone take us down to the front of the Runge Post Office and engage them in a conversation on “Women in Politics.”  Incidentally, the last time we wrote on that subject, one of our key advisors, Ray Freeman, called and suggested we stay with safer subjects such as wolf hunters and morning coffee-drinkers. ----- “Sonny” Prasek and his good wife out on the town the other night and stopping off for a delicious Mexican dish at Taqueria’s. ----- Stopped Henry Miller along the way and asked him to cancel our wife’s charge account at People’s Supply.  His refusal was firm, unless the request was over our wife signature.  He also asked us to tell her to drive by and look at a new shipment of dresses they had received. ----- Dropped by Sandra Slaughter’s home recently to ask where we could locate her son, Russell Osburn.  She said he was out at the farm working.  When we drove by, he was on the farm, but does sitting under a tree qualify for working?

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