100 Years Ago January 15, 1925
A mutual friendship made it agreeable for the following young people to participate in a double wedding when Dan Cupid claimed them for his own. January 11th, 1925, Mr. Earl Pierce and Miss Vida Estep; and Mr. Archie Shoemake and Miss Grace Bogard were married in the first weddings in the New Year, and also the first wedding ceremony in the newly erected Baptist Church.
Bethel community is still alive. Our indoor baseball team went to Shiloh and played their first game in 1925; and were victorious with the score of 13 to 3 in our favor.
J. D. Parker, one of our leading farmers went to the Rio Grande Valley the first of the week to set citrus fruits and otherwise improve a forty acre tract of land he recently purchased there.
Cupid had apparently gone out of business in this county, according to records of the county clerks office. There were no marriage licenses issued since December 24th, 1924 until January 10th.
SHOWING AT THE MAJESTIC
Rafael Sabatini’s Masterpiece
REX INGRAM’S SCARAMOUCHE THE BEST PICTURE OF ANY SEASON
A Cast of 10,003 with 30 Principals headed by Alice Terry, Lewis Stone, Ramon Novarro. Adaptations and Continuity by Willis Goldbeck. Photography by John F. Seitz.
Directed by Rex Ingram Monday and Tuesday 25¢, 50¢
60 Years Ago January 18, 1965
The San Saba A team boys defeated Mason, 53 to 49, with Steve Letbetter leading the scoring with 23 points. Rodney Hyatt, who has come back to the team and Eugene Marshall, each scored 11 points; Sandy Watkins, 5; and Bob Millican, 3 points. The B team boys took a 19 to 15 victory over the Mason Cagers with Radow Keeney scoring 7 points for high point man.
Pancho Miller visited his mother, Mrs. Charlie Miller, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. David Green have purchased the drug store from D. N. Chapman.
Rupert Christmas and wife have moved to the Dee House rent house.
DANG GOOD PIE By Mrs. J. Lee Daniel
1 ½ cups sugar
2 Tbsp. flour
3 eggs
1 stick margarine
Mix well and heat until margarine is melted.
Add: 1 cup coconut 1 cup crushed drained pineapple
Pour into unbaked pie shell. Bake 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
Members and guests of San Saba Rotary Club were entertained with colored slide pictures at the regular dinner meeting. Wardell Creamer of El Paso, a former San Saba resident, who was a guest of Tommie Golding, showed colored slides of his hunting trip in Alaska and other places to the North.
Walter Irvin Moore, son of Arthur Moore and the late Mrs. Moore, has been transferred to the Columbia-Nitrogen Corporation in Augusta, Ga. A 1954 graduate of Texas A&M, Moore, a chemical engineer, was a 1944 graduate of San Saba High School and was born and reared in San Saba county. He was superintendent of the chlorine unit at the Corpus Christi PPG plant when he was re-assigned.