COVID Update

Erath County Emergency Management Coordinator Cyndi Smith reported 35 new cases and 45 active cases of COVID-19 in Erath County in the most recent report Monday afternoon. “We are seeing an increase of COVID-19 cases, wrote Smith.

Turning Back the Pages

100 Years Ago Dec. 9, 1921 It was announced that the City Drug Store, under management of Ray Franks and Doc. Landers, was to open in the former building of the Franks Drug Store. 75 Years Ago Dec.

Briefs

Market Days downtown for lighted parade Come on downtown Thursday evening, Dec. 9. Dublin Market Days will be set up on Dublin’s Holiday Parade route, downtown. Come shop local crafters, creators, and producers while you enjoy the parade and Santa.

Community Calendar

an event calendar for Dublin and nearby communities Thursday ■Middle Trinity Groundwater Conservation District: 1 p.m. -930 Wolfe Nursery Rd., Stephenville ■Dublin Market Days: 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. -Patrick and Blackjack ■Lighted Christmas Parade: 6 p.m.

MUSEUM MATTERS

If you have never been through it, the community of Bunyan is located 6 miles north of Dublin on highway 219 between Dublin and Lingleville. Settlers started moving there about 1878.

The Dublin

The Dublin Woman’s Thursday Club met on December 2 for a final meeting of 2021. Each member brought a wrapped Christmas ornament and a lively round of Chinese Exchange was enjoyed.

In the Neighborhood

The Comanche Chief Comanche County Medical Center is set to receive a $200,000 from the James and Dorothy Doss Foundation, which will go towards furniture and fixtures for the new nursing home building.

The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

21 1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt by her. Untie them and bring them to me.

The Cleansing of the Temple

12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.

UDC honors Veterans

The United Daughters of the Confederacy Major George B. Erath Chapter 2679 honored several local Veterans during the 2021 Military Service Awards Ceremony on Nov. 14 at Stephenville Historical Park. Cross recipients were James Walter Babb (US Army) and Edward F.