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PART 2 - The “roaring 20s” would seem far away to the Sears, McLeroy, and other families in frontier West Texas. Both families had come west from East Texas to Haskell County and on to Terry County - in the mid teens. Along with other early 1900s seekers of more and cheaper land, blocks of native pasture land still existed on most of their 80, 160 or 320 acre farms. Horse and mule teams pulled mostly one row planters, “go-devils” (slides with long steel knives to cut weeds), cultivators and wagons for the crops of cotton, corn, maize and “bundled feed.” Human power would do the hoeing, harvesting, and the host of other “before daylight to after dark” chores.
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Darwin Barton Burns November 19, 1961 - December 21, 2022 Funeral Service for Darwin Barton Burns, 61, of Brownfield will be held at 10 am Tuesday, December 27, 2022 at Brownfield Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Steve Carter officiating. Burial will follow at Fairhaven Cemetery in Ackerly under the direction of Brownfield Funeral Home.
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Sure, there’s an app for this and an app for that; but when it comes to finding excellent childcare on a budget, parents can find themselves stumped. Employees of the Brownfield Independent School District now have a new option, thanks to the Rising Cubs program.
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