97 Years Ago
October 2, 1924
There had been 3927 square bales and 901 round bales ginned here up to last Saturday September 27.
Miss Margaret Wilson has gone to Georgetown where she will be a student in the Southwestern University and will also be an assistant teacher of history in that institution.
The San Saba Realty Company has taken a new member into the firm. Mr. E. B. House will from now on be actively engaged as a partner of this firm. List your lands and houses with us. We will advertise them free and find you a buyer. Office in Star Office.
Tom Alderman and Ed Whitman was moseying around Taylor last week looking for cotton pickers and wandered into a ku klux hall. They did not join, in fact from Tom's argument they concluded he was not an applicant for membership.
Bring us you chickens and eggs and get top prices–– Brown & Bowers.
Miss Cleo Newby left Sunday for Algerita where she began work Monday as a clerk in Mr. Joe Smith's store.
The young folks enjoyed the party at M. Luther Brown's Saturday night very much.
Mr. Grimes and family of Bowser, spent the day Sun day with Mr. Threadwell and family.
Miss Velma Gage of Richland Springs spent the week end with her friends, Velma Threadwell, Ray McNatt and Alta Sanford.
School spirit is running high in San Saba High School, and every student is expected to be out at the opening game here Friday or Saturday. Football practice has been going on a week, and the boys have been working hard every afternoon. Capt. Reavis, the flashing halfback of last year assisted by his team will fight to the last whistle for the purple and gold. The Stars of last year who will play this season are Clyde Taylor, Moore, Brown and Armentrout in the backfield with Fagg, Davenport Joekel Aubrey Taylor, Thornton, and Locklear in the line. Other boys out for practice are Burns, Carroll, Waisman, Conner, Smith, Hartley, Schneider and Rich.
77 Years Ago
October 5, 1944
A telephone message from the West Coast the first of the week advised Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Doran of this city that their son, First Lt. H. G. Doran Jr., was en route to Texas during the week. In service for some 2 years, Lt. Doran has been in New Guinea for some time as a member of the U. S. Field Artillery. Lt. Doran was a teacher in the Sloan school at the time he volunteered for services.
John Tarleton Agricultural College opened her doors for the 26th Annual Long Session Sept. 25, with a materially increased student body over the same opening last year. Among the students registering for the fall semester are Marjorie Nan House, Louis Rochat, Glenn Trotter and John M. Walker.
R. L. Maultsby purchased the Sinclair filling station and grocery store last week which was recently operated by Dan Neeper. Mr. Maultsby until the past few months has been in the farming and ranching business at Cherokee, where he has been for the past 12 years. Mr. and Mrs. Maultsby with their family are making their home with Mrs. Maultsby's sister, Mrs. Leon Hamrick.
The San Saba Armadillos will be hosts to the Winters football squad here Friday night, it is announced by Coach Leon Lane. The San Saba boys, local fans predict, will definitely be the underdogs in this game due to a manpower shortage, as the local high school is less than half the normal enrollment.
Mrs. T. T. Walker has resumed her position with the Norette Shoppe after two months vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Moore of Richland Springs were here shopping Saturday.
Take if from one who has spent the past five years there, Alaska is the coming frontier of the world, with Kenai Peninsula in particular a drawing card for many persons of varied interests, as plans are being laid for new impetus after the war, for new avenues of contact with neighbors, new conveniences and industries for Seward and Kenai Peninsula, Claude G. Burleson, former San Saban, told members of the San Saba Rotary Club at a luncheon recently. Burleson, son of Mrs. Louise Burleson, and nephew J. W. Shook, San Saba merchant, arrived from Seward and Anchorage, where he has been connected with construction engineers in a government project there. He came to visit relatives. Burleson purchased property on the northern tip of the peninsula.