>From "Our Town This Week..." Homecoming The newest thing this week is the homecoming signs the committee had made and the light company installed across the entrances to town. They read, "Welcome--Homecoming September 4th and 5th." ...Ernie was catering the homecoming affair... Never will I forget the first time Ernie prepared to serve other than his famous Ernie's at Greenville. He fixed the barbecued beef for the pep squad Western Party here and it was such a success the custom was followed for several years. In the meantime, Ernie went on to much bigger groups, also. The Homecoming, if it goes like the others, will be one thousand or more here for the dinner, the gatherings, and the program, etc. White Rock The annual homecoming recently at White Rock was well attended and the day a good one. Of special interest was the morning service in which Bro. Baker preached. It was in honor of his coming to White Rock and Lane circuit in November of 1915. He has always had a special place in his heart for those first almost five years--from conference in 1915 to May 1920 when he went to Van Alstyne. He and Miss Eula McGuire married in 1917 and Anna Ruth was born here in the circuit parsonage, the house now the home of the Fugitts. Many were the remembrances Bro. Baker could have brought up and we who were privileged to be his flock could reminisce also. The church people presented the gracious couple a gift at the Homecoming and he told of the wedding gift the White Rock people gave him and Eula at the time of their marriage. It was a small desk--just right for his typewriter these many years. The numerous letters (with which he makes happy his friends) are all written from t! he little desk, he said. In a note sent to us in Boston, too late to come home for the day, Harrison told of his fifty-year honors. Southwestern University honored him in May as a fifty-year graduate; SMU honored him at the Dallas Press Club with a dinner in honor of his being first editor of The Campus, the SMU school paper. At White Rock, numerous couples stood up as having been married by Bro. Baker. His list has grown to almost 3,500, if the figures quoted are remembered correctly. Vernon Green is White Rock Homecoming chairman for next year and the J. D. Lowerys are secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Lowery named as secretary. Former Residents Many former residents were in town Sunday to attend the funeral services of Mrs. John Hunter. The two Verble couples from Dallas and the Raymond Verbles from Ada, Oklahoma were among those. A former resident of Lane, Rose Williams, who lives in Lewisville, saw the notice in the Sunday Dallas paper and came. Dorothy Peacock, used to be, now Mrs. M. E. Evans and her husband of Garland, came also and greeted friends known back in the early 1930's when the family lived here and Bro. Peacock was pastor of Lane and White Rock. Later, he taught at Lane and Crescent. The list is not complete of all the out-of-town callers. (By Mrs. Lois Lacy Lewis, July 30, 1965, The Celeste Courier)