Around Town

Ambassador Baptist Church is proud to announce a Christmas Concert featuring Grammy nominated, Dove award winners and southern gospel chart topping The Erwins. The concert will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Dec.

Two Houston-based railroad-employed brothers who shared a room in Ennis on stopovers actually went two years without even seeing each other, or so a 1939 syndicated column claimed.

Roderick Lamont Daniels, 40, Ennis. Assault causes bodily injury family member, interfere w/emergency request for assistance. Booked on 11/03/2021 by ECSO. Victor Hugo Rojas, 21, Ennis. Possession CS PG 1 LT1G. Booked on 11/02/2021 by ECSO.

The Ennis News is proud to announce the winners of our September Coloring Contest sponsored by Prachyl Insurance Agency.

Last week, a local artist and photographer, Julia Schloss, was involved in a fashion shoot for a forthcoming book for which another local, writer Randy Bigham, is contributing as an adviser.

UP International supplied the following brief to newspapers in 1937 about an event that took place at the old Ennis Country Club: “Ennis, Tex., April 21. Helpful hint to fishermen: Take up golf.

C.W. Duke of Ennis would have answered “yes” in 1930 when a plane ride reportedly restored his hearing.

The 1960’s hit by the Blood, Sweat & Tears made riding the ferris wheel popular again. Autumn Daze began with the Hay Maze, and then came the arrival of what has become an annual family hit, the fall carnival.

Ennis people and events have often made regional, even national, news. And on occasion, a note of levity marked the various stories of local interest that appeared in daily and weekly newspapers across the country.