10 Years Ago August 27, 1925
S. L. Kirk, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. S. S. Kirk and daughter Miss Katheryn Kirk have returned from an 8,000 mile trip made in their Chrysler car. Kirk says they enjoyed their outing immensely. They went north into Canada, west to the Pacific Coast, east as far as Iowa and south into Mexico.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney M. Cate and family of Chalk were fairweek visitors here in Cherokee with his brother, Frank Cate and family. Since leaving here two of the children have married, Jamie and Leona. They came along also with their wife and husband.
The Yellow Prize Takers onions does equally as well in San Saba County, some of these onions were exhibited during our fair the past week, raised by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hubbert and according to the latter they have sold over $1,000 worth of onions from a 3-acre irrigated patch.
The young people of Sloan enjoyed themselves immensely Friday night of the past week at a dance at Vernon Dodd’s. The Ellis boys and Myers boys made the music.
Artists are born, and not made. A fellow just can’t help being an artist that’s the reason little Weldon Dawson of Harmony Ridge set down and modeled all those quaint animals and that gruesome skeleton out of wax and exhibited them at the county fair. There was quite a menagerie of animals and even reptiles in Weldon’s collection; and to cap it all a human skeleton. We are going to keep our eye on that boy and venture to say there is an embryo sculptor at Harmony Ridge, and to telling what may develop in a few years from now.
50 Years Ago August 28, 1975
Mrs. Ann Phillips and daughter, Traci, of Irving and R. L. Lehrer of Cherokee were weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. Jess Askey. The group, accompanied by Karen Dawson, attended the Gillespie County Fair and Horse Races in Fredericksburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Uvalle are parents of Matilde, eight pounds, five ounces, born Aug. 23 at the San Saba Memorial Hospital.
The San Saba Ladies Golf Association played the game “Odd and Even” and saw the team of Frances Hill and Rhonda Stone win first place. Tieing for second place were the teams of Jeanette Askey and Dorothy Sterner along with Wadene Ivy and Gladys Stewart.
Air Force Master Sergeant Thomas W. Harris, son of Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson of San Saba and 1955 graduate of San Saba High School, has been assigned to Lackland AFB for duty with a unit of the Air Training Command.
Modern Way Grocery in San Saba has a brand new look as a result of major renovation both inside and outside. Automatic doors have been installed on the east side of the building along with a new front, sides and paint job. Work continues on the inside with a new meat market and expanded display area.