I think readers will like the old news items I picked for this week. I chose some funny ones from the Ennis Daily News, The Ennis Weekly Local, and a few national papers that carried news of the Bluebonnet City.
That’s exactly what the good folks of Ennis were doing in 1902 when Pastor S. H. Slaughter of the First Baptist Church “called a series of meetings for the purpose of praying for rain” and …