Recently I learned about a man by the name of George McJunkin. I had heard about him before when I was chasing other stories.

A key House education committee adjourned last week without voting on a school voucher bill that is Gov. Greg Abbott’s top priority this session, the Houston Chronicle reported. Barring some unforeseen maneuver in the last week of the regular legislative session, the bill is effectively dead for now.

Recently at the Museum I found several printed pages stapled together, and I do not know when they arrived at the Museum or how. The title reads “Store Money or Store Tokens, the First Credit Card”, by Tom Rhodes. I had an uncle by marriage, Thomas Rhodes, but he died in 1986. I’d bet a hundred bucks he wasn’t the author of the piece in question, and I’m ignorant as to who this Tom Rhodes is or was. The papers appear much newer than 1986 and it’s my guess they are the product of a modern computer and printer, and fairly recent. The pages show no sign of age and could have been generated yesterday! I’m sharing the piece next but with an insert near the end of some other local history.

It’s official. Fort Hood, named for a high-ranking Confederate officer in the Civil War, has been renamed Fort Cavazos, in honor of native Texan Richard E. Cavazos, the country’s first Hispanic four-star general.

If you look at a map of Texas counties, you will probably agree with me that Madison County is one of the smaller ones. It covers 472.4 square miles, more than the smallest, Rockwall, with 148.7 square miles. Madison is fourteenth smallest of 254.

CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS The clock is ticking on getting bills out of the House and to the Texas Senate, Lt. Gov.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is proposing to construct a new relief route located south of the City of Madisonville designated as State Loop 1853 in Madison County. TxDOT will be conducting a public hearing on the proposed project on Tuesday, May 23, 2023, from 4:30 p.m.