91 Years Ago
August 8, 1929
Ras Thorp and J. G. Mathews have divided the Radio Electric Shop and will each specialize in their line of work. Mr. Mathews will call his the Auto Supply and will handle auto supplies and batteries. Mr. Thorp will continue the Radio Electric and will handle radios and electrical appliances.
Andy Reavis, old-timer of this county, who formerly was a tonsorial artist here and sold his shop and established himself in Brownwood, can not stay away any longer, and will begin work here with the Hotel Barber Shop at once. Mr. Reavis and his good family will be welcomed home by their many friends.
Mrs. Dora Maultsby has rented a neatly arranged lunch stand in the rear of Carter's Market where she will serve barbecue and other good eats. Mrs. Maultsby has been with Mrs. Kate Wallace in the dining room and has many friends in this city.
With a new modern refrigerator, that is big enough to serve for all purposes, Mr. Thorp says he is better prepared than ever before to keep perishable food fresh in Thorp's grocery store. The plant was put in this week, and his son Ras Thorp, of the Radio Electric Co., installed the system.
Algerita has one of the best rural schools in this county, and sees to it that their building comes up to standard requirements. The building is now being re-roofed, remodeled throughout and the interior reconditioned, prior to the opening of the fall term. It is advisable that all schools are being kept up to standard, so as to receive state aid appropriation.
M. E. Smith has a position with the Crystal Ice Company.
Mrs. H. R. Clark has returned from Temple.
71 Years Ago
August 11, 1949
Kemp Anderson, Jr., former employee of the San Saba News, was a member of the Oklahoma A&M College summer graduating class where he received the Master of Science degree in Journalism.
Mrs. Jim Mack Martin and daughter, Lou Ann, recently returned to Talera, Peru, after visiting in Richland Springs the past eight months with Mrs. Martin's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Coughran. Mr. Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Martin of San Saba, is employed in Talera with Standard Oil.
Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Clary are spending their vacation visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Neal and Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Clary, in the Spring Creek community.
Miss Diane Scott, who has been attending summer school at North Texas State College in Denton, is home with her mother, Mrs. Werden Scott, for the rest of the summer. She will resume her school work in Denton in September.
HALL––We are having nice rain this morning for which we are very thankful. Part of the neighborhood had a good rain on Friday of last week but most of us had only a small amount and are happy to receive this additional rainfall.
Maize harvesting is about over. Yields were usually good. Jesse Smith who had a field of 110 acres, is high man with an average yield of a little over 3,000 lbs. per acre. J. C. Gamblin is a close second with a yield of from 2,300 to 2,500 lbs. per acre.
More than 12,000 feet of pipe had been laid by Tuesday on the Lone Star Gas branch line to San Saba, progress reports show, and ditching is moving along at the rate of about 1800 to 2500 feet per day in the rough terrain where operations are underway. Almost four tons of high explosives were detonated at 7 a.m. Saturday in blasting a channel in the river bed near Bend. A 300 foot trench about 15 feet wide and 12 feet deep was opened, and a gas line will be buried in it beneath the river bed. Lone Star Gas has a crew of about 150 men stationed in San Saba employed in right-of-way, fencing, ditching and pipelaying work.