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08/29/2014

SHARE THIS: The Harris County Sheriff's Office has identified four men and one woman as the department's "Wanted Fugitives of the Week."

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08/16/2014

08/14/2014

Your assistance is needed in locating and apprehending this wanted individual
The Mainland Communities Crime Stoppers Program is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 dollars for any information leading to the arrest of this wanted individual!
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DETAIN OR APPREHEND THIS INDIVIDUAL YOURSELF

08/13/2014

***SHARE*** Help us get the word out for Galveston County Sheriff's Office! A person is calling citizens and identifying himself as a member of the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office. The person tells the citizen he has failed to respond to a court summons and court fines have been assessed. The caller tells the citizen to purchase a Green DOT card (money cards) for a specific amount and to call back with the card numbers in order to avoid a warrant being issued. By the way, whether the crook says GCSO or LCPD, law enforcement agencies are NOT going to ask you to do this. Hang up the phone.

08/07/2014

***Alert***Fraudulent solicitation of money on behalf of League City Volunteer Fire Department.

Have you received a phone call or letter on behalf of the League City Fire Volunteer Department asking for donations? Aside from when LCVFD partners with the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) for the “Fill the Boot” donation campaign, the Fire Department does not ask for donations of any kind. Some citizens have called us reporting that various companies have called or sent letters to them requesting donations to benefit our local fire department. These calls and letters are not authorized or supported by the City of League City or the Volunteer Fire Department. Should you be contacted by one of these companies claiming to offer your donations to us, simply decline to donate and ignore any further contact. If you are interested in donating to the League City Volunteer Fire Department, contact the Administrative Office Monday – Friday from 8am-5pm 281-554-1465.

08/05/2014

08/04/2014

Traces of Texas reader Sammy Simpson was nice enough to share this stellar photo of Manning, Texas. Manning is a ghost town about 15 miles southeast of Lufkin in Angelina county. Sammy isn't sure when it was taken but he thinks about 1910. The Texas State Historical Handbook has this to say about Manning:

"Manning, a lumber town in the Neches River bottomlands of southeastern Angelina County, flourished between 1903 and 1934. In 1863 a Dr. W. W. Manning constructed a small sawmill at the site, which lies nine miles south of Huntington, near Farm Road 844. In 1885 Manning built one of the first two steam sawmills in Angelina County, on Lindsey Lake south of Homer. Manning, who was born in 1820 in Monroe, Louisiana, brought the talents of a druggist, physician, merchant, and industrialist to the development of Angelina County.

W. T. Carter and G. A. Kelley organized the Carter-Kelley Lumber Company in 1903, built a new sawmill near the site of Manning's first mill, and named the site Manning. Their mill, built for yellow pine, had the most modern machinery in its time and cut all sizes of lumber. It had a capacity of thirty-four million board feet a year and employed 300 people. Timber was brought to the mill from Angelina, Tyler, Polk, and Jasper counties. In 1907 the Shreveport, Houston, and Gulf Railroad (known as "Shove Hard and Grunt") was built from Manning to Huntington to connect the sawmill town with the Cotton Belt and the Texas and New Orleans railroads. The Carter-Kelley Company, like many other Angelina County sawmills, issued scrip instead of currency and served as a bank for its employees' so-called "Manning checks." Manning got a post office in 1906 with Charles C. Gribble as postmaster."

08/04/2014

My Texas Arcane Fact of the Day, posted at 7:00 a.m. this morning, was a short description of this man, legendary Texas Ranger John R. Hughes. Doesn't he just LOOK like somebody you wouldn't want to be on the bad side of?

08/04/2014

Traces of Texas reader Mike Lashombe submitted this amazing, and horrifying, photo of spectators in Waco gathering for the lynching of Jesse Washington on May 15th, 1916. Washington's trial, which was conducted in a courtroom packed with angry citizens, took less than a day and the jury convicted him in four minutes. If you look closely you can see people actually running toward the event. This photo was taken by noted Waco photographer Fred Gildersleeve. I have seen many photos of this event but never this one. It's hard to believe that this happened less than 98 years ago.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Mike. It's as important to remember the cruel and tragic parts of Texas history as it is the glorious ones.

08/04/2014

Workers weighing cotton bales in Houston, 1941. I would imagine that a day of doing this in Houston's heat and humidity would leave you pretty dang tired!

Photo by Robert Ritchie. Courtesy Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library