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One snowy Christmas Eve our family decided, at the last minute, to drive to Texas to see my wife’s parents. Weather advisories warned us to stay home but we said “We’ll drive slowly. Who cares how long it takes us to get there?” But after traveling an hour the fierce storm forced
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Laughter is Still the Best Medicine
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Many of us complain about the economy but few of us know what hard times really are. Our parents and grandparents that were alive in the 1920’s and 1930’s knew what hard times really were. Many were homeless, hungry, and hurting.
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Located in western Lincoln County, Fallis is situated on a paved county road five miles northwest of Wellston. Originally known as Mission, the town was established on the western edge of the Iowa Reservation. In 1894 the name was changed to Fallis for its prime developer and first postmaster, Judge William H. Fallis. Due to its location in the productive valley of Bear and Mission creeks and the Deep Fork River and at a crossroads of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway and the Fort Smith and Western Railroad, the community became an agricultural trade center. In 1903 fourteen thousand acres around Fallis produced 10,500 bales of cotton worth a half-million dollars. In 1904 the county's first oil well was drilled nearby. At 1907 statehood the population was 321.
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