110 Years Ago April 6, 1916
Miss Isabelle McKinney late of Navasota, has bought a half interest in Mrs. Kate Minton’s Millinery stock. Miss McKinney is an experienced trimmer, having had a number of years experience. She is a sister of Mrs. W. O. McCully of our city.
J. A. B. Jones and Douglas Keenan have leased the building formerly occupied by Watson & White and are making preparations to open a cold drink and confectionery parlor in connection with the former’s jewelry store.
The San Saba Produce & Commission Co. opens for business in the building formerly occupied by the San Saba Grain & Feed Co. on High street. J. C. Dalby is manager and B. R. Long is Secretary-Treasurer.
Ed Tom went to Fredonia to accompany his daughter, Miss Myrtle, home. She has been there since Christmas teaching music. We are delighted to have Miss Myrtle home again. Misses Grace Carroll and Bertha May were seriously injured when a horse they were driving became frightened at one of the shafts coming loose, and ran away. In coming down Commerce Street as they neared the Second Hand Store the horse ran into a wagon, violently throwing the young ladies to the ground and almost totally demolishing the buggy. No bones were broken but they received severe bruises and both are suffering with a sprained ankle.
70 Years Ago April 12, 1956
Mrs. Robert P. Taylor, president of the Distaff Study Club, has announced that the club’s project for the club year has been completed. The project for the club was to purchase a crib for the nursery at the San Saba Memorial Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Clark of China Creek took their daughter and grandson, Mrs. Taylor Holland and Wesley, to Temple where they took a train for New York City. They are on their way to Germany to join her husband.
Gold Star Mothers and other mothers who have lost a son or daughter while they were in military service will be given an opportunity to honor the memory of these sons and daughters on Military Day during San Saba county’s Centennial Celebration.
Births at San Saba Memorial Hospital April 6-10: Mr. and Mrs. Valerino Cantu of San Saba are the parents of Rosalio, seven pounds and 14 ounces, born April 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin D. Murphy of San Saba are the parents of Rhonda Lane, seven pounds and one ounce, born April 9.
For the high crime of using cosmetics (to darken the color of his beard), Buster Martin was sentenced in Kangaroo Court to be locked in the stock on the San Saba public square and his wife, who had begged mercy for him from the court, was ordered to squirt water in his face with a water pistol. Keystone Kop B. J. Pridgeon was sympathetic.