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Early voting in this year’s midterm elections began Monday and continues through Friday, Nov. 4. Election Day is Nov. 8. Voters will pick the state’s next governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, land commissioner, agriculture commissioner and comptroller in statewide races. District races are also being held for U.S. representatives, state senators, state representatives and members of the State Board of Education.
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George M. Patrick, early Texas settler, has a two-county history, first in what became Harris County and later Grimes County.
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Plantersville News
Plantersville Christmas Parade is Saturday, Dec. 10, beginning 10 a.m. at the fire station. Plan to attend the annual Christmas celebration.
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For many, many years on the third Saturday of October, the children of Sylvester and Laura Sechelski put on a Czarnina (duck soup) party to honor their Polish heritage. Besides the Czarnina, there is homemade chicken noodle soup with real homemade noodles made each year by Debbie (Sechelski) Klawinsky, as well as fried chicken and all kinds of sides and homemade desserts.
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Thlaspi arvense, field pennycress, is found on every continent with debate about Antarctica. It is in the mustard family, Brassicaceae, with the same characteristics as other family members such as cabbage, kale, etc. Leaves and stem of family members have a pungent mustard odor when crushed. Flowers, white or yellow, have four petals in the pattern of a cross with 6 stamens, 4 tall and 2 short.
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In 1891, an albino slave child started up the Navasota Echo as publisher/editor of a black newspaper in Navasota. His name was Charles Love. His mother was born a mulatto slave in 1842 in what became Grimes County. She carried the name of Sarah Jane Holland.
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