REMEMBERING OUR PAST I do this more than I really want to admit. I look into the past to find relevance in today, by scanning old newspapers. Many of the articles are rather mundane, but occasionally some stand out in a larger historical context. An article in The Canadian Record, dated Jan. 29, 1920, announced that local enumerator W.L. Helton (later Hemphill County judge 1930-1936) was…