100 Years Ago May 27, 1926
Last week people of the Sloan community organized a baseball club. Big, little, old and young may be members of the club by paying monthly dues of ten cents. This helps to pay the expenses of the team. The team proper we named 'Rockshoales Roosters' and the sub-team, 'Sloan Bantams.'
Some people in this county perhaps do not know that there is one man in their midst who makes from six to eight brooms every day and sells them all in this county. Rol Ray raises his broom corn and makes the brooms.
Miss Edythe Rich entertained the Senior Class after the graduating exercises, when the entire class repaired to the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Rich, where they made merry for a few hours.
Three screened in dining rooms have just been finished at the tourist park and a large camp house and a wading pool for the children, sanitary toilets, and shower baths are now under construction. The park committee is planning for a grand opening of the park in the near future. The first plums of the season were marketed here by Clinton Holcomb of the Orchard Hill Farm in the Shiloh community. The plum is known as the six weeks plum, ripening six weeks after blooming. This plum is of a large red variety, looks like a Burbank and has a delightful flavor. These plums were retailing at 15ยข per dozen.
70 Years Ago May 24, 1956
Raymond C. Arhelger, son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Arhelger of San Saba, was one of eight students in the Division of Architecture at Texas A&M College who received a J. Cameron Webb Award in City Planning, according to an announcement by Texas A&M News.
San Saba firemen answered a call from the Algerita community when Sam Rainbolt's barn and a large quantity of hay burned. Firemen arrived in time to move 50 or 60 turkeys to safety and to move out a butane gas tank.
The W. H. Lewises of Richland Springs were on the river fishing. Other fishermen found the body of the woman who drowned about three weeks ago near Pontotoc in a flash flood. The body was found back of the Henderson old field lying partly in the river water and partly out of the water. Sheriff Barker and a highway officer were notified and took charge of the remains. The Yard of the Month plaque has been placed in the yard of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Clements at 408 Storey St. by the San Saba Garden Club committee as the best kept yard for the month of May. A new refrigerated and humidified trailer for transporting hatching eggs from this area was put in service in San Saba by one of the largest hatcheries in the southwest, Western Hatcheries. The truck which cost about $16,000, will pick up hatching eggs here twice weekly. On its first stop the truck loaded on more than 70,000 eggs from the San Saba and Cherokee areas.