Join St. John in Ellinger for Breakfast Church on Nov. 26. Worship will be at 8 a.m.

Ellinger will host one of the Advent services this season on Nov. 29. Service will begin at 6:30 p.m. There will not be a soup supper this evening.

Christmas Eve service will be in Ellinger and Pastor Tracey Breashears Schultz will lead the service. She will be in Ellinger at 5 p.m. and at St. John in Rutersville at 7 p.m. Pastor Fred Hill will lead the service in Fayetteville and Warrenton at regular worship times. There will not be any services on Christmas Day.

To the editor:

Across races and places, Fayette County residents, Texans, and Americans value our freedoms, work hard for our families, and imagine a better future.

Have you ever seen, perhaps at a pot-luck dinner or a family reunion, a spread of so many appealing dishes of different foods that you literally would not know where to start except that someone pointed you to the end where you were supposed to begin? I mean, sure, that’s where the plates are, but if you were not to follow orders and stay in a nice line, where would you go first?

The Texas Legislature, conceived as a parttime body to meet every other year for 140 days, is now in its record fifth session (counting the regular session). When the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is included, legislators have been in Austin pretty much the entire year, as the Texas Tribune noted. While legislators are paid just $7,200 a year in salary, per diem payments – meant to cover their expenses while in Austin – have mounted. If the fourth special session goes a full 30 days, taxpayers will have spent $4.8 million keeping lawmakers in Austin.

The pass-happy Ponies of Southern Methodist clipped the Rice Owls’ wings on Nov. 15, 1926 setting the stage for a showdown with the Baylor Bears to crown the king of Southwest Conference football.

The shut-out was sweet revenge for Coach Ray Morrison, whose 1916 team was humiliated by the boys from the Institute 146 to 3. The 22-touchdown rout, worst loss ever for SMU, was the low point of a winless season which ended with the firing of Morrison.