57.50 Howe Enterprise April 27, 2020

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Down the rabbit hole...

Howe High School Track

Blessings in a box from Feed My Sheep

Meet the Howe High School Track members

During the Coronavirus pandemic, several organiza-

What if you've been duped to voluntarily give

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Grayson Publishing, LLC

Volume 57, Edition 50

© 2020 The Howe Enterprise

Monday, April 27, 2020

City Council meets outdoors for two minutes and six seconds

The local liquor store in town says that their sales have gone up a tremendous amount since this all began. The sales of March 15– April 15 far exceeded their busiest month of the year which is December (Christmas and New Year). Part of the uptick in sales could be that masks are being worn which allows for the Baptists to be able to shop locally. ***** Let’s take an average or below-average hitter in the major leagues—let's say former Ranger's third baseman, Steve Buechele. He had 1,046 hits in 4,266 at-bats over his 11 seasons. His chances of getting a base hit in his career was .245. In Grayson County, 22 have tested positive for COVID-19 out of 658 tests for a positive average of 0.033. Buechele could come out of retirement and strikeout 27,051 consecutive at-bats, which would be 52 more seasons with nothing but strikeouts for 518 at-bats per season—and still have a greater chance of getting a hit at age 110 than testing positive for COVID -19 in Grayson County. Perspective. Stay safe! EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an opinion column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

Businesses adopted stricter health policies, even as dire predictions didn't materialize , pg. 9 Hot Jobs pg. 10 Business Directory, pg. 11 Local events, pg. 13 Texas History, pg. 14 Christian, pg. 15 Finance/Children, pg. 16 Past front pages, pg. 17-24

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Here’s Howe A transformation in the 1940s was led by one iconic Howe woman

a Members of the Howe City Council approve a motion outdoors Tuesday evening.

Miss Mame Roberts and Howe were featured in The Rotarian in June 1940.

The 50th Anniversary of Howe Mayor Bill French seconds. After passing the Earth Day happened last decided to hold the city consent agenda, the council Wednesday with hovering clouds and a tornado watch council meeting outdoors approved the Declaration most of the day. Earth Day last Tuesday instead of of Disaster for Public 1970 gave a voice to an opting for an online Health Emergency emerging public meeting using now famous indefinitely unless consciousness about the apps such as Zoom. otherwise notified. state of our planet. But 30 years before that Howe’s The agenda only had three They also officially own Mame Roberts was items listed which the cancelled the Special council buzzed through in Election that was slated for featured in The Rotarian magazine for her work in only two minutes and six May 2. the beautification of Howe, Texas. The article made Parade and prom photo shoot her somewhat of a famous planned for the HHS Class of 2020; person around Howe, around Texas, and across Graduation moved to June 27 the, well, Earth. Earth Day in Howe and Mame Roberts are synonymous and today we thought we’d feature the full article that was published in the June 1940 Rotarian. Here’s Howe By Lewis T. Nordyke The Rotarian, June 1940. The Howe High School Class of 2020 have been given the short end of the Coronavirus testing swab, but every effort is being made to let them have

some sort of celebration and to go out in style during the pandemic that has cut short the many activities they would being (Continued on page 4)

Two years ago, was a weedy, down-at-the-heels village, drowsing in the Texas sun beside the highway to Dallas. It's one claim to fame was that in the long-gone past it had

been Texas’ major grainmarketing center. But Howe no longer drowses. Motorists who used to zip through— wondering, perhaps, why people lived here—now stop, look, admire, and say all manner of pleasant things. For Howe is about the prettiest little town in Texas. Gone is the detritus of sluggish village life. Every front and back yard, every vacant lot, is a garden of roses, zinnias, and other brilliant flowers. Little Howe now leads municipalities of the nation for parks per capita—six of them for 560 people, not to mention a well-equipped playground! No dollar-studded wandwaving from Washington D.C. achieved this miracle. The transformation is undeniable, but there’s really nothing miraculous about it. Any town, anywhere, can do likewise—if it has but one (Continued on page 2)

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