100 Years Ago April 15, 1926
The city of San Saba is building a culvert leading into the Odd Fellows cemetery. This piece of work adds much to the street and entrance of the cemetery.
Mrs. C. P. Smith, mother of our townsmen, J. D. Smith Jr., and Clyde Smith, has moved here from Llano to make her home. Mrs. Smith is pleasantly domiciled in the R. Halden residence.
Elvis Brown is having a neat little house constructed two blocks southwest of the Santa Fe station. Work is rapidly going forward and Mr. and Mrs. Brown will soon be domiciled in their new home.
San Saba town baseball team defeated Goldthwaite 12-3. Battery for San Saba was Walker, pitcher, and Lane, catcher.
The Bend section had one of the most disastrous rains and hail it has had in years. The strip of hail was about one and one-half miles wide. It passed over the G. A. Arhelger farm and the Bend church buildings traveling east. It missed the River Bend Farm a few hundred yards. W. F. Lewis, Fred and Bill Barefoot suffered the greatest loss. Two days later the hail is still drifted. It stripped everything in its path. All crops in this section will have to be planted over. What didn’t wash up was covered up. The pecan crop in the noted Bend section escaped.
80 Years Ago April 18, 1946
With 24 hour services daily being given by the new managers of Hotel San Saba, the Coffee Shop which is run in connection with the building, has been leased by Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hicks, who are completely renovating the Coffee Shop and the adjoining banquet room and who will open for business soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Hart and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hardin returned from a visit in Mexico and with the latter’s daughter, Miss Jean Hardin, who is a member of the public school faculty at Raymondville.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. McDowell, who ranch in the Colony community, received a letter from their son, Capt. Chas. McDowell, who has been stationed in Japan for the past several months, in which he advised that he would soon be stationed in Tokyo where he will teach in the School of Agriculture there.
Jim C. Clark and family accompanied his crew of sheep shearers to Wyoming where they will again do the spring shearing for the sheep growers of that section. Clark has made this annual trip for several years.
Jack and James Harkey are making extensive improvements in building a modern dairy located across the street where the former Doran Dairy was located. They expect to furnish the City of San Saba with enough milk to supply everyone and will carry Grade A dairy products. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Otice Harkey.