Early voting began Monday, April 22 for municipal, school board and various bond elections. It ends on April 30 with Saturday, May 4 being election day. What is on the ballot depends on where you live.
William Walter Vinson Draper was born 28 July 1864 in Harbour Co., Alabama. His parents were John S. and Margaret Reed Draper. Margaret Draper wrote in the family Bible: “J. S. Draper and family left old Alabama Harbour Co. the 3rd of November in 1869 landed in Texas the 7 of January 1870. J. S. Draper bought Mr. Lon land 28 of September 1911. We moved in our new home the last day of September.”
You know that feeling of being bored behind the wheel? So bored that you just can’t help but check your phone? Yeah, that feeling. Instant gratification is only inches away, right up to the moment your car is airborne at 70 miles per hour.
It started with an insurance salesman and one small airplane. From there, it became an aviation empire and one of the most noted names in Texas aviation. From Braniff Airline’s humble beginnings, Tom Braniff ’s story became one of many colorful tales of Texas pilots and businessmen and the quest to conquer the skies.
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