Diboll History Center Press Clippings
      ONE YEAR AGO O'Hara Chandler, a member of the Diboll High School graduating class of 1926, celebrates his 100th birthday with family and friends at the home Martha and George Chandler. The recent University Interscholastic League realignment moves Diboll High School from District 20-3A to District 18-3A along with Huntington, Carthage, Center, Rusk and Jasper.
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THIRTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
     New Diboll Postmaster Gerald Kerr, second from left, is congratulated on his appointment by Lufkin Postmaster Joe Anthony, left, his old boss. At right is Dixie Shaw, Newton postmaster who had been serving as officer in charge here and former Diboll Postmaster Edythe Weeks, who retired in May 1978. Kerr is a former Dibollian who has worked ten years in the Lufkin Post Office and becomes the ninth postmaster in Diboll since 1897. Photo Courtesy of The History Center
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The Texas Santa Anna hated the most
      Jose Antonio Navarro, a courageous patriot who endured fiendish torture rather than renounce the cause of independence, finally returned to Texas on Feb. 15, 1845, after three hellish years in a Mexican dungeon. Navarro's father was a Corsican, who traveled halfway around the world before settling in Mexico in the middle of the 18th century.
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A county seat's troubles
Bob Bowman's East Texas
      As Hopkins County's first seat of government, Tarrant had more troubles than most frontier communities in East Texas. In the end, the misfortunes converged to cause the town's demise after 24 years of tenuous existence. In 1846, the Texas Legislature created a new county named for the Hopkins family from portions of Lamar and Nacogdoches counties.
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