You lost me Louise. Is there a Lone Pine near Palestine? The one I know is between Lovelady and Crockett. Sue Louise McDonald wrote: > My thanks to all of you for your URL's > I grew up reading that paper. We lived on the old Wagnon place, up that > sand hill across from what is now a cemetery [used to be Grasty's]. > My job every morning was to go down the hill and "fetch the paper". > Our paper carrier bought berries from us every spring. Barter system in > action. > We picked enough berries to trade for the paper for the year. We had our > daily paper and his family had blackberry cobbler and blackberry jelly and > preserves. > My daddy and I walked the six miles into town to see the circus courtesy > free coupons in the paper. Then we walked home again. A lot easier than > the walk up Bowden Mountain going in. > During the depression we all walked. It was 2 and 8 tenths mile from our > mail box to Lone Pine School so that was another daily walk during school > term. > You had to live 3 miles from school before you could ride the bus. The > distance from the house to the road did not count. > I enjoyed the visit to the paper's site. Again thank you to all of you for > your kindness and bringing back some old memories. > Louise Pounds McDonald > Raking The Leaves From The Family Trees > Digging For Ancestors In The Roots > Researching Teague, Smyth, Reader/Reeder, Pound [s], Irsch, Pitts, Eaton, > McDonald, Fields > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237