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Here are the stories in the Wednesday, October 5, 2005 edition of Gurdon Times

Eating hot dogs can mean $25
The 25th Annual Gurdon Fall Festival will be held during the last Saturday of October, all day on Oct. 29. This years event will include a hot dog eating contest just after noon, where an adult winner will get $25 and get all of the hot dogs he or she ca...
Mission to collect school chum addresses
Alumni and other Gurdon students of the past will have a chance to get together for an informal reunion every year if they register at Faith Mission during the 2005 Forest Festival, Saturday, Oct. 29. Tommy Potter, mission director, said the building will...
Texas evacuees wait on FEMA relief
A group of 37 storm evacuees from the Orange, Texas, area sought refuge in Gurdon just before Hurricane Rita knocked down trees around their home and cut their electrical power off for what might be as long as a month. According to Irving Broussard, a hom...
Lucy Cabe
Born Sara Jane Lockett, 90, passed away peacefully in her sleep on September 27, 2005, at her residence at Edgemere Retirement Community in Dallas, Texas. Lucy was born on March 10, 1915, in Salt Lake City, Utah, to the late Charles Clay Lockett and Jan...
Gerald Smithpeters
Gerald Elton Smithpeters, 62, of Ashdown, Arkansas, went to his heavenly home on Tuesday, September 27, 2005. Mr. Smithpeters was born on July 10, 1943. He served in the United States Army as a military policeman in the early 1960s. He was a retired volun...
Devils fall to Outlaws in overtime battle, 9-6
The Gurdon Go-Devils played with heart Friday night against conference rival, the Dierks Outlaws, but the home team lost 9-6 in overtime. The game was a series of bumping heads in the middle of the field, with the first touchdown coming from the Outlaws w...

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