The Walters Herald
Oct. 10, 1935
After 22 years, the first woman in Walters has come back here to live. She is Mrs. Lulu Carlton, now living with her sister, Mrs. Anna Walton. In the early fall of 1901 Mrs. Calton, her husband, and her father pitched tent in a settlement then known as McKnight, situated approximately where the Cotton County Poultry building now stands. She was then 19. She found, to her surprise, that she was the only woman at the settlement. Ace Carlton, her husband, is in a hospital at Ft. Lyons, Colo...The marriage of Miss Hazel Cook and Hanford Robinson was solemnized Tuesday evening at the Presbyterian manse. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Cook of Walters...Sylvia Lee Nelson, three years old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nelson, was operated on last weekend at Wichita Falls for a broken nose, suffered when she fell from the top of a lattice at the home of Vernon Davis. The girl fell to the sidewalk when the lattice broke and she hit, face down, on the walk.
The Walters Herald
Oct. 6. 1960
Ivan Eddie Phillips, Jr., is the name Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Phillips, Wichita Falls, have chosen for their son born October 4 at a Wichita Falls hospital...Wedding vows were solemnized for Miss Frankie Nichols and William C. Ricketts, Saturday, September 24, in the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Montgomery...Judy Claiborne, Walters high school graduate of 1960, has been chosen as one of seven twirlers for Central State College band for the current year...Mr. and Mrs. Richard Klein, of Dallas, are parents of a daughter Ginger Lee, born September 24. Mrs. Klein is the former Miss Peggy Lee...Fire broke out in the residence of Charles Walters, 525 West Nebraska, Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock, and spread rapidly over much of the house before the department brought it under control. The report said the blaze was started by a youngster who took a cigarette lighter into a clothes closet, and tested its working qualities...The dial system for Walters is getting closer. Subscribers of the exchange here are being assigned dial numbers in anticipation of a conversion to the new system late this year or early in 1961. All Walters numbers will have the prefix MIssion 7.
The Walters Herald
Oct. 9, 1980
The Temple Bar was the scene of a Saturday night shooting that took the life of Coy Eugene Mullens. At approximately 4:00 p.m. Sunday Temple firemen were fighting a blaze at the bar that authorities believe was the work of arsonists. Witnesses saw a white car containing three men at the scene earlier and say two men went behind the building shortly before a blaze was discovered. The building, located at 403 E. Central, was owned by Buster Spanhanks...Actual construction got underway last Thursday for a new sanctuary for the First Christian church. The completed structure is expected to cost $75,000. Maribeth Blackman Sexton is pastor of the Walters church...The Temple school board appointed Royce Stringer to finish the term of school office held formerly by Don Lacefield who resigned in August to take over the Chevrolet agency for the Temple area...Gary and Cindy Edgmon announce the birth of a baby boy born September 26, and named Jeffrey James. Paternal grandparents are Jimmy and Sylvia Edgmon, of Walters. Maternal grandparents are Louis and June Gose, of Blackwell, Okla.
The Temple Tribune
Jan. 17, 1957
Miss Nelda Rhea Cox, daughter of Mrs. Diasy E. Cox, Temple, became the bride of John Ray Stow of Moore, Okla., Saturday, January 12. They will make their home in Riverside, Calif...Formal open house of the First State Bank in Temple in the completely remodeled bank building will be held next Sunday, January 20, Edward Brockert, executive vice president, announced. David Courtwright, Temple, was general contractor... Army Pvt. Juel L. Bell, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bell, Hastings, recently was graduated from the military police training center at Fort Gordon, Ga.