"Sweet Swatter from Sweetwater" wins boxing title
      When Lew Jenkins fought the lightweight boxing champion of the world on May 10, 1940, the burning question at ringside was whether the "Sweet Swatter from Sweetwater" would answer the bell drunk or sober. In the depths of the Great Depression, Verlin "Lew" Jenkins used his fists to pound out a meager existence on the Texas carnival circuit.
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Thirty years of Diboll Free Press clippings
      ONE YEAR AGO Diboll Boy Scout Troop 128 completed 20-mile trip down part of Village Creek between Kountze and Silsbee spending one night camped out on the creek bank. Temple-Inland's building products operation in Diboll contributes $1,000 to the Volunteer Services Council of the Lufkin State School.
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