In November of 1908 a gang of young “hoodlums” broke up another performance at the Crow Opera House with “whistling, clapping of hands, talking, cat calls and shuffling of feet.” A stranger remarked: “I have always understood that Stephenville was a great educational center, but there seems to be a mistake. Stephenville Tribune

In 1903 a man stopped at the Chalk Mountain home of the the John Riley Brown family for supper. They talked all night and the the visitor was invited to join the family – and he never left – and is buried with them.

Heloise Brown Morton and Juanita Jackson, in Dan Young, A Calendar of Erath County History, 1983, Vanderbilt Street Press, Stephenville.