80 Years Ago June 14, 1945
The many friends of Mrs. Geo. Smith of Richland Springs are proud to learn that she has accepted the position as head nurse at the San Saba hospital. We regret to lose Mrs. Smith as she has been a very useful nurse in our little town.
Fern Burgess of Cherokee, texas, a ward nurse in this United States Army general hospital in England, recently was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant. Lt. Burgess entered theArmy in 1942 and received her nurse’s training at Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital in San Angelo, Texas She received Army training at Fort Bliss, Texas her father, J. B. Burgess, resides in Cherokee.
Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Bennett and son, Jack Monroe Bennett, have returned from Hearne, where they visited Mrs. Bennett’s brother, Cpl. Raymond Rumley, who has returned from the Panama Canal Zone, where he has been stationed for the past 2 1/2 years.
Tom Sloan reports that a dirigible or some such air machine, passed over the south part of the south pasture of Canyon Ranch. This airborne vessel had a motor and a propeller but no wings, was about 300 feet long and shaped something like a big long watermelon. Whence it came and whither it went? Who knows?
60 Years Ago June 10, 1965
Mr. and Mrs. Lehman Teal Sr. and daughters, Judy and Jane, were supper guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ish Tanner and children in Goldthwaite. They helped Mrs. Tanner celebrate her birthday.
Johnnie Reeves, who advertised a 1947 Ford for sale in the classified ad section of the San Saba News and the San Saba Star, got results soon. When asked if the ad sold the car for him, he said, “I surely would thinks so, for I always look in the classified ads when I want to buy a car.”
Charles Chrane, a member of San Saba High School faculty, has given over four gallons of blood to the Bloodmobile Unit. He probably will give another pint if he is physically able to do so. Other four-gallon plus donors include Martin Crutsinger, Dr. W. R. Benson, J. M. Bearden, Vinson Dismuke and possibly others.
From selling newspapers on Chicago’s Loop at the age of 14, and sleeping in the rear of saloons, to railroad conductor with a salary running into four figures, was long, rocky, road for J. L. “Jerry” Melton, 75. He reached the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, on his retirement , after 51 years with the Santa Fe Railroad, when he and his wife moved into their new home at Richland Springs. They came from Amarillo, where they lived 14 years. Thirty-five years ago, they bought one-half acre of land in the town of Richland Springs, always keeping their dream of retirement here.