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100 Years Ago

September 10, 1908

Up to 11 o'clock Wednesday, the Farmers Union Warehouse Company gin had turned out 308 bales of cotton and the Oil Mill gin 289, a total of 597 bales.

Wiley Barnett of Montgomery, Ala., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Louise Urquhart, whom he had not seen for 35 years. Mrs. Urquhart left the old state to come to Texas 35 years ago and had not seen her brother since.

T.M. Burleson represented the Eye Witness in the county capitol last Friday. He was pushing the business interests of his paper.

R.G. Coryell has the Beveridge old gin completely overhauled and new machinery out in the gin room proper.

W.J. Moore came home last Friday from Beggs, Okla., where he has been with his cattle for some time.

70 Years Ago

September 15, 1938

Robbery of four filling stations in this city occurred last Thursday night of last week, according to Justice of Peace H. Clyde Smith. The stations robbed were the Humble and the J. Roy Taylor stations, located on the public square, and Behrens and Kelly Station on South High Street, and the Owen and Krauss Magnolia Station directly across the street from Hotel San Saba.

With an increase in the enrollment of the San Saba High School over last year of 32 and that in the grammar school an increase of 78, the San Saba schools opened Monday with the highest attendance record in the history of the system. Due to this increased attendance it was necessary that two additional teachers be named to the faculty.

San Saba County got scattered but heavy showers last Sunday and Monday that varied from half an inch to two and one-half inches of rain in various parts of the county.

Prices for spot cotton paid by local buyers Wednesday ranged up to $7.75 or $8.00, with J.W. McConnell & Sons and W.R. Harris doing most of the buying.

50 Years Ago

September 11, 1958

Preston Robinson, local rancher and sheep dog trainer, received injuries when the horse which he was riding last Wednesday, September 3rd, died as a result of a heart attack. Robinson, Sammy Maultsby of San Saba, and Bill Cardwell, with their Border Collie sheep dogs, were gathering goats on the Moss Ranch in Gillespie County when the accident occurred.

Dick Clark of the China Creek community was the first farmer in the county to get a bale of cotton ginned here in San Saba, according to W.R. Shipp, local ginner. Clark's bale of cotton was ginned the last week in August.

Steve Boultinghouse, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Loland Boultinghouse of Cherokee, was injured in a gun accident on Saturday, September 6th. The lad was dove hunting with his aunt, Mrs. Don Grimes of Austin, when the .410 ga shotgun which she was carrying, discharged, striking young Boultinghouse in his left leg. He was rushed to San Saba Memorial Hospital, treated the flesh wound and dismissed.

"Miss Roebuck," a Duroc gilt owned and exhibited by Georganna Adams of Richland Springs, was named the Champion gilt at the San Saba County Sears Swine Show here Saturday, September 6th. Miss Adams is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Adams and a member of the Richland Springs 4-H Club.

At the Corral Drive-in - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in double headers - "Jumping Jacks" and "Scared Stiff"