From the San Saba News & Star Archives
110 Years Ago May 28, 1914
Dave Chadwick received a phone message from Locker stating that a four inch rain fell there during the night which washed the crops so badly that replanting will be necessary.
J. A. Quinn, the accommodating carrier of rural route No. 3 is now sporting a new wagon of the latest design. He believes in being comfortable while doing his work.
San Saba needs a clean-up campaign. The excessive rains the past few weeks will cause sickness if the town is not given a thorough cleaning. Clean the town and there will be fewer flies to swat. The breeding places will have to be destroyed.
W. F. Crawford and wife, daughter, Miss Ruth, and son Wood; Joe Millican, wife and son Tom, left for Coleman and from there they will go to Roswell, N. M. The Star regrets to lose these good people as citizens of our town, but we have a notion they will be citizens of old San Saba before it frosts again. And they will all be welcome back home again.
John Magill last year found the skeleton of an Indian chief, down near Cherokee and among the trinkets found at the time was 49 bracelets the property of the warrior. He sent one of them to O. T. Heustis, chief of the state house police of Indianapolis, Ind., whom he met last summer while in that city. Mr. Heustis, has written to Mr. Magill that the bracelet has been received and he has placed it in the state house museum with other historical relics.
60 Years Ago May 28, 1964
Leon Longly received a plaque from the Lions Club as the Outstanding Conservation Farmer of the San Saba-Brady Soil Conservation District at the Ft. Worth Press Conservation Awards Banquet.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Larry O’Banon of Cherokee are the parents of Sally Suezan, six pounds, four ounces, born May 19.
Tom Cooksey, service manager at Golding Motors, local Ford dealership, has graduated from the service merchandising course conducted by the Ford Marketing Institute in Dallas.
Brock H. Faulkner, native of Bend, received promotion as full colonel. He and his family plan to move from Hilo, Hawaii to Honolulu when Col. Faulkner will become commander of Fort Shafter.
Harold D. Kennedy, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Kennedy of Richland Springs, was among 276 students who received their Bachelor of Science degree from East State College, Commerce, Texas.
Phillip Morris and his dog Sam were on their way to hunt squirrels with Lloyd Henniger when Sam either fell or jumped from the jeep and broke his leg. He was taken to the San Saba Animal Hospital where they set the badly broken leg. The leg is to remain in a cast for six weeks. Both boy and dog are feeling better at this time.