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• KMOO of Mineolamay have the most memorable radio station call letters in East Texas. People keep asking me if Mineolais a dairy community with a lot of cows, but I don�t know. Perhaps someone from Mineola will enlighten me.

"Hello from MINEOLA, TEXAS"
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• Something else I�m not sure about is how St. Joe in Montague County got its name. The town was founded in 1849 by Ithane and Prince Singletary, who came there looking for a buried treasure, When they failed to find it, they moved to Whitesboro. But the Singletarys moved back to St. Joe , this time calling it Head of Elm, after its location on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. But the name St. Joe surfaced again around 1873, likely as a name for a pious resident, Joe Howell.
• Carl Alsobrook of Poyner writes the shortest newspaper column in East Texas. Entitled �Poyner: Commonsense and Humor,� it simply offers a one-line piece of philosophy each week, such as �Anger can erupt into what is called road rage and terrible consequences.� His column appears in the Frankstonnewspaper.
• Someone in the oil business called me about a �yellow dog.� He wasn�t talking about a mutt, but a double-wicked lamp used on oilfield derricks. The lamps were so named because their two burning wicks looked like a dog�s glowing eyes at night. Others say the lamp cast a dog�s head shadow on the derrick floor.
• Another Bigfoot sighting comes from Joe Pagitt of Palestine, who said he sighted one of the creatures carrying a deer�s carcass around 4 a.m. on a lonely highway near Tennessee Colony about 14 or 15 years ago. The creature leaped over a fence and melted into the woods.
• Cowboys and cattlemen are well-known professions in Texas, but there was a time in the 1850 when they were known as �cattle keepers.� The 1850 census of Angelina County listed the occupation of several men as �cattle keepers.�
• Founded in 1926 at Longview, the East Texas Chamber of Commerce was once one of the most influential business organizations in East Texas, but in 1988 the Chamber merged with the Texas Chamber of Commerce and a further merger in 1995 created the Texas Association of Business and Chambers of Commerce.
  Bob Bowman's East Texas
  April 25, 2011 Column.
  A weekly column syndicated in 109 East Texas newspapers

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