Texas

The following were among the many calls received recently by the Lamesa Police Department:

The memory is lodged in my brain’s recesses, as closely as mistletoe clings to mesquite trees. Our parents – neither with educational opportunities beyond high school – provided commonsense counsel for my brother and me.

There was once an old wise king who wrote and collected various sayings that reflected his observations of life, from youth to old age. In pondering his younger days, he wrote poetically to the those in his kingdom that were starting out in life, “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity. Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened. . .” (Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:2) .

Numerous Dawson County citizens who had been summoned to district court in Lamesa on Monday for possible jury duty no longer need to report as originally requested, a court official announced Friday.