Ennis News

Fitbits and other physical, wearable tracking devices may help farmers more effectively monitor their herds health and eating, sleeping and milk production habits. More than half of Americans now track their daily activities with some kind of wearable device in an effort to stay healthy.

Researchers at Tarleton State University’s Southwest Regional Dairy Center in Stephenville, a part of the Texas A & M University System, say that digitally tracking diary cows’ eating, sleeping and other movements helps them take better care of the herd they milk three times a day.

Since Halloween these days is so often not just about scary stories but also about tales of mayhem and murder, I decided to include a few briefs referencing some local killings from the 1950s that manage to spook even all these years later.

Of mice and men

In 1940 an Ennis resident named Herb Justman claimed he was in possession of the remains of the “oldest mouse” in America. According to the United Press, which syndicated the story, Justman was displaying the skeleton of a mouse along with documentation that it has been kept since Jan. 2, 1877. How’s that for weirdness?

THEATRE

On Golden Pond, a classic that received 10 academy award nominations, offers a beautiful, thoughtful look at an aging love. Written by Ernest Thompson and directed by Bill Rhoten, it is now playing at Theatre Rocks in Ennis.

First of all, with Lisa Rosewell of Waxahachie and Bill Walker of Red Oak playing the long-married Ethel and Norman Thayer, you know you are in for a stellar show.

ACCIDENT

A two vehicle, head-on crash on Tuesday morning sent one driver to Dallas Baylor with injuries while the other, a teenage boy, walked away with only bruises.

While the reason for Candida Lemus, a 52-year old woman from Farmers Branch, who was driving a 2017 Grey Toyota Corolla in the wrong lane, was not apparent, she collided with a 2016 brown Dodge Ram 1500, driven by a 17-year old male, juvenile, on State Highway 34, approximately a mile west of the Lake Bardwell bridge. He was reportedly on his way to work in Italy.