Around Town

Ennis native Martha Jane McBrierty was one good looking young lady. She was not only crowned Redbud Queen while a senior at Texas State College for Women (TSCW) in 1954 but she reigned as queen of Texas A&M’s Cotton Ball the previous year.

Vladimir Matskevich, minister of agriculture for the Soviet Union, visited farms in Ennis and surrounding communities in August 1955 during a tour of Texas in which he was studying cotton production.

Amusing comments from an editorial published in the Ennis Daily News in 1922 was syndicated in several other Texas and regional papers.

Radio was just starting to happen in the early 1920s and one fan of the new-fangled device was an Ennis man named N. Brunson who had developed a state of the art set with a signal that was strong enough to pick up international broadcasts.

Randy Bryan Bigham, a former news writer and columnist for the Ennis News who was furloughed when the Coronavirus pandemic hit in March 2020, has been rehired as a correspondent by the News.

Donations of historical documents, photographs and, in some cases, clothing, continue to be made by Ennisites to the archive being assembled by local historian and Ennis News contributing writer Randy Bryan Bigham, recently re-hired as a correspon

The Parent Teacher Association in Ennis in 1922 approved the purchase of a motion picture projector for use in the public schools and also announced that a radio connection would be installed for the schools.

Pioneer citizen

A story that was picked up by the wire services in May 1924 told of a car accident between Ennis and Palmer that killed all three in the automobile when it was struck by an Interurban train. The victims were Perry E.

Justin Dwayne Blanton, 42, Ennis. Driving while intoxicated, unlawful carrying weapon. Booked on 07/26/2021 by DPS. *The individuals listed above are persons booked in Ellis County by local authorities. An arrest is not an indication of guilt.