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Lilly

Mrs.Greg

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I have a couple questions-requests :) First one being your chicken puff recipe,could you maybe post it in the recipe part of ranchers so I can find it whenever I need it. Please and thank-you

Also had a sweet 80 somthing lady ask me at work today"Why the Texas panhandle is called that",and give me an idea the area of the panhandle,so I can show her on the map tommorow. Lol we call her Dora the Explorer...for obvious reasons. Thanks...Mairi
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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chicken puff recipe has been submitted to the Recipe page, and will be under "Starters" it said it'd be posted the next website update....don't know when that will be???

The Texas Panhandle is called that because if you looked at Texas like it was a skillet you'd see the handle. Amarillo is in the panhandle....the upper north western portion of Texas in the square area. Oklahoma also has a Panhandle...alot narrower than Texas' and it joins our panhandle on the map.
 

Soapweed

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kolanuraven said:
Nebraska has a panhandle also....Wyo-Braska it's called

Back about forty years ago, western Nebraska was feeling "alienated" from the eastern population part of the state. There was actually a concerted effort to take the panhandle and join it with Wyoming, but it never materialized. Cherry County is 96 miles east and west, and 63 miles north and south. It would still have remained in Nebraska, had the change occurred, since it is just east of the panhandle.

At about the same time period, western Cherry County was also feeling that the population center at Valentine was ignoring the best interest of the low-population western part of the county. There was a meeting in the Merriman school auditorium, with the sole topic being that of cutting off the western three-fourths of Cherry county, and starting a new county. I was just a pipsqueak kid of about fifteen, but went to the meeting just for the excitement it provided. One noisy ititnerant public television worker was the most "vocal" about doing the change, and he basically really didn't even have a dog in the fight. Everyone was so tired of listening to him, by the time the evening was over, that cooler heads prevailed and it was decided to just stick with Cherry County as it was and had been. Had the change been made, my "contribution" would have been an idea for the name of the new-county-to-be. I thought "Chokecherry County" would be fitting. :wink:
 

katrina

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That's interesting........ Living in the panhandle all my live I didn't know that... I lived in Kimball 6 years and we always talked about wishing we were in wyoming because they had such good roads...
Soap,
What's your take on the voting down the school consolidation???
And how come the east voted for it?
I have heard reasons but nothing that really makes sense, not that this does??
 

katrina

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Soap is this the meeting you went too?? :wink: :wink: :wink:


Early Attempts to Divide Cherry County




Early Attempts To Divide Cherry County Found in Several Newspaper Files.
Petition presented to county fathers October 7, 1896.
On motion the petition of certain persons of Boiling Springs and other precincts to submit a proposition to the electors of Cherry County to move the county seat to Cody, was rejected, for the reason that the petitioners have not complied with the requirements of the Statutes for such cases.
On motion the petition of certain residents of the southwest part of Cherry County, to submit a proposition to the electors of Cherry County to cut off certain territory from Cherry County and attach the same to Grant county, was rejected for the reason that the board is of the opinion that said proposition can not legally be submitted to a vote until the general election of 1897.
Petitions ask to divide Cherry County, August 1911.
Although petitions were filed to divide the county, form two new counties, and attach part of southern Cherry County to Grant and Hooker counties, no further information could be found, nor could a list of those signing the petition be found.
The petition asked that about a eastern third of Cherry County remain as defined; that a new county known as Lake County begin at the southeast comer of Township 28 N, Range 31 W, north to the north line of Cherry County and west to the West line of Range 35W. The southern part of Cherry County between Range 31 and 35 of the new Lake County to be attached to Hooker County.
Another new county to be known as Green County would begin at the south east corner of Township 25N, Range 36W, north to the north line of Cherry County and west to the west line of Cherry County. The southern part of Cherry County bordered on the east by Range 36 north to the southeast comer of Township 28 and west to the county line would be attached to Grant County.
Last of controversy apparently January 15, 1920.
A proposal that has agitated the people of Cherry County at different times for several years past, bids fair to become again a burning question and one that in all probability will be voted upon in the near future.
PROPOSAL149
Introduced by Festus Carothers of Grant County and referred to Committee on State and County Boundaries. Relating to the Division of Union of Counties.
Proposal to amend or revise Section 3 of Article X to read as follows: Section 3: No county nor part of the territory of any county shall be added to an adjoining county without submitting the question to the qualified voters of both counties, nor unless approved by a majority of all the qualified electors of the territory affected, voting on the question. When any county shall be added to another all prior indebtedness of each county shall remain a charge of the taxable property within the territory of each county, as it existed prior to consolidation. When any part of a county is stricken off or attached to another county, the part stricken off shall beholden for and obliged to pay its proportion of all the liabilities then existing of the county from which it is taken; but shall not be liable for any prior liabilities of the county to which it is attached.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I got out the big Road Atlas book lookin at states that have a "panhandle"
Texas
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Florida
New Mexico...has a lil thing down on the very southern tip that might be concidered a panhandle.
That's the only 5 states I could find that have em.
 

Mrs.Greg

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Thank-you Lilly for answering both requests. I'll share this information with our little "Dora" tommorow morning.

Actually was interesting reading you guys imput,I've only ever heard of the Texas Panhandle.Learn somthing new everyday :) Even at my advanced 47 year OLD age :lol:
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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ok I had to read that several times "boot hill"....LOL cuz the Texas Prison Cemetary is called Boot Hill......I think you meant "Boot Heel".....I didnt know what it was called in NM.....just noticed while lookin on the map that it had a.........appendage LOL
 
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