From the San Saba News & Star Archives
70 Years Ago October 13, 1955
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Morrison went to Waco where they attended the dinner at Cameron Park observing the 83rd birthday of his mother, Mrs. J. S. Morrison, with most of the members of her family present.
About 60 San Saba Future Farmers plan to leave for Dallas for the annual trip to the Texas State Fair. Two buses will take the group to Dallas.
Roy A. Edmondson and his roommate visited the McMillin home of his parents, the Carson Edmondsons. They hunted squirrels on the Oglesby place here.
Hamburgers, a football movie and a few brief speeches were the program when the Booster Club entertained the Armadillo football team and coaches. A movie of last week’s San Saba-Lockhart game, filmed by Bill Jameson, was shown.
Members of the San Saba Band Club greeted shoppers in three cooperating grocery stores and tried to boost the sale of Betty Crocker Cake Mixes and Gold Medal Flour, on which the Band Club received cash premiums to be used toward retiring an indebtedness incurred through the purchase of instruments for the Armadillo Band. Chairman of the sales event, Mrs. W. E. Bryant along with other Band Club sales ladies, Mrs. Ryst Hendricks and Mrs. J. P. Carmouche, participated in the sale.
60 Years Ago October 14, 1965
This week is also designated as Fire Prevention Week. The week began with a dirty trick by someone. The heap of wood, trash, and such, that had been gathered by the students for the Homecoming bonfire, was set off early by some persons with a twisted sense of humor. Now the students have to start all over again.
A large number of people from Locker attended the football game Friday night at Rising Star when the Richland Springs Coyotes were victorious.
A new face at the window of the San Saba National Bank is that of LeRoy Walker. Beginning of October he was named teller. For the past seven or more years he was employed as assistant manager of Barnes Lumber Co. He and his wife, Billie, and their nine-year-old son, Stanley, live east of San Saba a few miles.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Kuykendall and Sandra attended the Fair at Dallas when Sandra was crowned Texas Shorthorn Lassie Queen. She rode in the parade and modeled in the style show.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Aylor and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Harrison were in San Marcos to attend a Southwest Texas-McMurry College football game. Aylor and Harrison were among the fathers of Bobcat team members who attended a barbecue dinner at Sewell Park, given by the Alumni Association of SWTSC and men of the faculty. Their wives were guests for a buffet supper attended by mothers of the players and wives of the coaches.