The little town with "nuthin" to offer

  This weekend a small "one jackass" town will celebrate it's hundredth anniversary. It was going to be named Ripley after the train station owner. Later it was discovered another Ripley existed. That Ripley has since unincorporated. This "one jackass town" is east of Anton,Texas and west of Lubbock,Texas. It saw population growth after WWII when DOD built Reese Airbase. Many federal workers moved to "One Jackass,Texas" and only came to Lubbock to visit relatives,friends or shop. This editor had an aunt,uncle and two cousins grow up in "One Jack Ass,Texas". My father retired on 2.5 acres in 1982 near "One Jackass,Texas" where this editor and WT Free Press is located. The funny thing about "One Jackass,Texas" it took 98 years to get a Dollar General and almost 100 years to get a Sonic Drive-In. Dairy Queen came and went and it took 95 years to get beer,wine&liquor sold in "One Jackass,Texas". The little town with "nuthin" to offer is officially named Shallowater,Texas.