Down Memory Lane

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99 Years Ago

September 8, 1921

A. W. Woodruff has opened an office on the second floor of the Murray building just north of the post office. It is understood this is to be headquarters for an organization which will supply comfortable homes for superannuated jackrabbits.

Let The Baptist Ladies Circle No. 1 Do Your Quilting. We will make quilts at $1.25 a piece. Work finished while you wait. Have it done now––before cotton gets higher.

Guy Walker of Brady was here the first of the week.

Mrs. H. C. Holcomb has returned from a visit to Smithville.

Miss Leila Behrens has a position with the Famous Bargain store.

Rev. J. E. G. Hillman of Cherokee was visitor here Tuesday.

Monday was Labor Day–– we observed it as usual by laboring all day.

Walter Meador and wife of Duncan, Okla., are visiting relatives and friends.

Mrs. W. R. Chalk and daughter, Elaina, spent the weekend with relatives in Cherokee.

Let Townsend the Tailor clean and press your clothes––he satisfies.

S. J. Howard of the Mayhew Produce Company made a business trip to Brady this week.

Misses Nell Oliver and Lena Tot Cowan returned Wednesday from a week's visit in Llano, where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Nullmeyer.

School will soon be here. Have your children's school shoes repaired and save the price of a new pair. Bring all those shoes that you have had lying in the closet all summer and let us fix them up for fall wear. First-class neat job guaranteed. San Saba Boot Company. Successors to F. M. McLaughlin.

69 Years Ago

September 6, 1951

Ernestine Hawkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hawkins of Rough Creek, left Monday to enter nurses training at Shannon Memorial Hospital, San Angelo, and also to attend classes part-time at San Angelo Junior College. She was accompanied by Joyce Woods, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Woods, who will enter business school.

The news force was treated to a watermelon feast Tuesday afternoon. Frank Hendrick brought the staff a nice 60-pound melon. The succulent fruit was thoroughly enjoyed by all of us. Our sincere thanks to Mr. Hendrick.

The other day Roundup was treated to a nice mess of roasting ears, courtesy of H. L. Richmon of near Richland Springs. We are deeply fond of roasting ears, and we report these excellent. Our belated thanks, Mr. Richmon.

Peggy Longmire, 1951 graduate of San Saba High School, entered nurses training at Scott & White Nursing School at Temple on Aug. 24.

Gordon Osborn, student at Nixon-Clay Commercial College in Austin, visited with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Osborn, over the Labor Day holiday.

About 21,000 pounds of watermelons were loaded out to truckers Monday at the sandy-land farm of Frank Hendrick, located in the Red Bluff community between San Saba and Lometa. One whopper weighing 93 lbs. was sold to a trucker from Killeen for $2.25. This melon, a yellow-meated one of the Queen of Parker County variety, is the largest one Hendrick has sold this year, but he has sold several weighing in the upper 70's. The average so far is about 54 pounds he said.