100 Years Ago December 10, 1925
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus J. Thornton were host and hostess at an unusual and highly enjoyable hospitality in honor of their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, when more than one hundred guests, the beaux and bells of over thirty-five and forty years ago, responded to an invitation to participate in an old time square dance.
We had an item in the paper of the wonderful crop of turnips grown by J. F. Squires of this county. He has broken the record by bringing in a turnip which tips the scales at eight pounds and five ounces. If you folks have any larger turnips in your community–– speak out now.
Mr. and Mrs. BrockAshby and Wilson Shook spent the day in Austin. Mr. Shook had purchased a new Chrysler sedan which he brought home.
San Saba turkeys have been bringing 30 cents throughout the first week of the Christmas dressing demand. Two dressing plants are busy here and turkeys are coming in brisk although the crop is about half that of last year. Two cars of dressed birds have been shipped from here.
Some of our people from the Sloan community were in San Saba one night to see the much talked about movie, “The Ten Commandments.”
80 Years Ago December 12, 1945
Leslie J. Hosman, seaman, first class, San Saba, Tex., served on the USS Marshall destroyer when whe was part of the Task Force 58. The “Mighty Marshall,” now on inactive status, took part in the invasions of Hollandia, Saipan, Guam, Tinian, Rota, Pelileu, Anguar, Leyte, and Okinawa and in the Battle for Leyte Gulf.
With 411 students, about 45% of the enrollment, out of classes because of the influenza epidemic here, San Saba public schools were closed for a week according to Supt. W. M. Campbell.
Our school bus driver in Sloan, Mr. Mace, returned from Detroit where he had been for a new bus. He drove it thru from he factory.
There has been some changes in the business line in Richland Springs the past week or so. Leonard Gober purchased the Octane station from Walter Barclay and Walter has purchased the Hesskew Service Station. The Hesskews are planning on leaving our town for some other place yet to be decided upon by them.
The Millicans wrote a communication to the American Fruit Grower, publishec in Ohio, on Pecans. Its Culture, and our county on its pecan interest and have received 80 letters from every state in the union wanting further information relative to this industry, along with wants for pecans. It’s remarkable how many people know so little about pecans.