Sheriff's Report Number 449- Missing Child reported on FCR-717, found 6 minutes later. FEMS to Thousand Oaks, breathing troubles. A typical summer weekend on the Interstate, numerous reports of tailgating, reckless driving, Road Rage. THDEMS to Webb, 16 year old with injury to hip. Also to Walnut, Lady fell, struck head.

Deputy Clayton Aldrich makes traffic stop, FCR- 1040, one arrested, Warrant out of Mexia. Intoxicated neighbor causing troubles, FCR-237, Dep. Shaw to same. Horse in yard, Monroe, TPD right on top of it. TPD Howard to vehicle burglarized, stereo system stolen, West 84. FEMS to Sunnyvale, man very ill. Cow jumps cattle guard, Cowboy Church, US-84.

EFFECTIVE 08-03-09 THE BURN BAN HAS AGAIN BEEN LIFTED. BE VERY JUDICIOUS WITH YOUR FIRES.

Contractor's trailer stolen, N.FM-488.Teague VFD to Spruce, car on fire. Dep. House dealing with problem over car, FM-1580. Lady being harassed by another over phone, 30 or more phone calls after midnight. Limestone County to 911 Bounce reported our County, accident, FM-27 at FM-1394. DPS Thornton, Purnell and Putz, FEMS and Fairfield VFD to accident East US-84.

15 year old packs bag, goes AWOL from house while Mom at Church, reported came back home in ten minutes…..Say…..That young man is a quick learner….. Didn't take him but less than 10 minutes to figure out this is a tough old world, and ain't no place like home! Good Boy, I commend you. Young man sent to Jail by District Judge. Deputy Diana Willis to trailer park in Teague, report of folks fighting.

FEMS to East Reunion, blood sugar above 600. JP Farris to pronounce death at ER. Deputy Barrentine gets confession from man who stole 3 4-Wheelers. Deputy House to report of missing computer, FM-488. Deputy Willis, DPS Purnell and Thornton arrest Lady DWI, Mile 182. Teague, Kirvin, Dew and Fairfield VFD's to explosion/fire on Walnut.

Lady on Oak 911's, someone has threatened to blow her brains out, FPD to same. FEMS to Streetman residence on high blood pressure. Deputies Aldrich and McGowan arrest man at residence on S. Bateman, Parole Warrant. Arrest another on Warrants, F CR- 671. THDEMS to US-84, Lady in labor. Missing checks in Teague causing problems, TPD Howard to same. Teague City Worker to bad water leak on S. 4th. Deputies Willis and Hendrix to report of stolen chain saw FM-27, man with same located driving company truck, arrested, saw recovered, man in Jail.

TPD Martin arrests man on S. 6th, outstanding Warrant. FPD Kindon jails ANOTHER, TRAFFIC Warrants. TPD Sykora jails yet another, Controlled Substance. TPD sykora to report of folks burning inside City Limits of Teague, S. 10th. Also to husband/wife problem, N. 9th. And still another, stolen checks on Pine.

Deputy Rick Howerton arrests man, Probation Troubles. TPD Travis Martin jails DWI, US-84. FPD Kindon gets another, City Traffic Warrants. DPS Adams to accident, US-84, driver arrested, hit fence and tree, DWI. And yet one more DWI, arrested on S. Fairway by FPD Kindon. Fairfield and Teague VFD's to smoke spotted at local eatery, Service Road.

FEMS to breathing troubles on Ferndale. Dew VFD and FEMS to Mile 183, 32 year old Lady with chest pains. Teague VFD to grassfire, US-84 at FM-1366. Father unable to contact wife and daughter on Atwood, getting concerned, TPD checks on same, they will call him to relieve his mind. Man's cell phone on belt, somehow dials 911, he was on a race track somewhere. Officer Carter to Pease, missing tool box and compressor. Vandalism on FCR-431 when someone puts BB's in gas tank.

Deputy Elom to family troubles, US-84. Three young men on 4-Wheeler believed playing havoc with mail boxes, FCR-1080, detained by citizen until Deputies Robertson and Hendrix arrived, Juvenile Officer advised, released to parents for the time being. Fence cut, FM-1451. Deputy Shipley to loose calf, FM- 416. Also to a dozen loose horses, FCR-971. Complaint of tracks blocked by train, Teague. Loose donkeys, US- 84 at US-79.

FEMS, Dew, Fairfield and THDEMS to accident with DPS Putz and Zotz, Mile 193. Lady in Jail gets new Warrant out of Kaufman County. DPS Adams to Jail with DWI Minor and carload of other Minors, all drunk. Deputies Willis and Casey arrest man, Donie area, Possession of Controlled Substance (Meth). Suspicious vehicle reported FCR-520…..Just looking for their lost pooch.

*On this date in the year 1857 a momentous occasion occurred in San Antonio as the very first Overland Stage left the Alamo City headed west toward the sunset, enroute to San Diego, California. This was our first attempt at cross country passenger and mail service. Heretofore there had been no quick method to travel across the United States. It was slow, dusty and hot by our standards of today, but seemed a miracle to those of that day and time. Way stations for team change-outs were located at regular intervals over the entire route. If my memory serves me correctly, the route started in St. Louis, crossed into Texas near Gainesville, then to San Antonio, El Paso and due west to California. An arid country, even in a good year. A quicker method would surface in just a few years at least for the mails and news of the day, the Pony Express. Progress would again step forward on this short lived method with the first transcontinental telegraph, then next, with a big boost toward populating the American West, the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. They could handle bulk mail, express freight as well as passengers. It would take another 40 years, but our country would rapidly become crisscrossed with rail and wire. It all happened in one lifetime…..All of which traces back to that first primitive stage line in 1857…..Gainesville to San Antonio to El Paso to California.

FEMS to Tanglewood, mother having diabetic troubles. FPD to reported break-in on McDonald. FPD to ER, report of man with gunshot to foot. TPD Solly and Martin, Deputy House to construction site, Teague ISD, open gate and band hall. FPD Warren arrests Marijuana Man on Dogan. 911 comes in concerning house on fire, McKinney Street, Mexia, Mexia VFD contacted and advised. Deputies to Butler area, 32 year old either drunk, high on drugs, etc., very combative to family.

3-4 year old child darts across US-84 at Fair Park, slipped away from home, returned to residence by FPD Gassaway. No, this was not the typical ignored child. Just a bold little girl. I know both parents. They wouldn't have had that happen for anything in the world. She just pulled a Houdini and slipped away. Now you see her, now you don't. I won't mention where she started from…..but for a little girl of her age….Well, she took quite a hike. Thank Heavens it all turned out on the safe side.

TPD Cox to N. 4th, Family Troubles. Streetman VFD to grassfire in median, Mile 209. Tree blocking Old 75, Dew, TxDOT advised. THDEMS to China, Grandma fell, hip hurting bad. Dep. Barrentine deals with man on American Express card he found missing, someone has most generously charged $7,500.00 on it for him in New Mexico. I've been sweating out my own which I misplaced and still haven't found….But got a replacement, with new number, very speedily. Fortunately for me, apparently nobody else found it either. Fairfield VFD to Sunset, something burning in yard.

Until Next Week . . . RALPH BILLINGS