84 Years Ago
March 11, 1937
Our new modern stream-lined high-speed ambulance-hearse arrived this week and is now ready for our Funeral Home service or for ambulance service to hospitals in other towns. With this fast motor, there will be no funeral call too far away for us to answer. This ambulancehearse is of the latest design and represents a substantial investment but we want to give the people of San Saba the best of service. ––Bodkin & Little Funeral Home
A cat and dog play together at the San Saba Hydro-Gas Company, "Believe It or Not." Priss, a 11 year-old Spitz dog, plays with an alley cat that was admitted to the Hydro-Gas Building about a year ago by Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Traut. The cat and dog made friends with one another immediately and have never has a fight during their long friendship. Mr. Traut attributes the compatibility of the pair to the soothing influence of the Hydro-Gas heat used in the building.
Mrs. E. H. Hapgood was a visitor from her farm in Big Valley and while here renewed her subscription to The Star, as she does not want to miss the special edition which will appear some time next month.
W.H. Slaughter of Richland Springs who has been testing 2683 turkeys, owned by San Saba County producer members of the Brady Poultry and Turkey Cooperative Marketing Association, for pullorem or Bacillary White Diarrhea reports that not a single case of the disease was found in San Saba County.
After being employed at Ketchum's Kitchen for nearly six years, Miss Johnnie Mae Scott has bought the business and will continue at the same stand. Miss Scott went to work after graduation from the San Saba High School and has never worked at any other place.
54 Years Ago
March 9, 1967
March came roaring in like a lion with its strong winds and no rain during its early days. When the month is gone, we hope we can say it went out like a lamb and brought sufficient moisture for spring planting. Time changes everything, and the drouth is one thing we would like for time to change very soon.
Students in all three of the county's schools, San Saba, Cherokee and Richland Springs, will take a holiday Friday when the teachers and administrators will attend the 60th annual convention of the Mid-Texas Education Association, District XI, Texas State Teachers Association in Brownwood. Approximately 2,300 teachers are expected to attend the convention with the theme, "Texas–The Future Is Now."
Staff Sergeant Dick Eastman will be in San Saba Tuesday to outline the benefits received on an early enlistment in the Marine Corps. He especially is interested in explaining the plan to high school seniors, who have to make the decision on whether to further their education or to complete their military obligation.
Newcomers here are Mr. and Mrs. Alton Sutter and two children, Michael, age four, and Annette, six weeks. They come from Lampasas. He is agent for Life and Casualty Insurance Co., in San Saba and Mills counties. She is a Baptist. He is a member of the Church of Christ.
Only seven students in San Saba Junior High made the honor roll for the fourth six-week period, according to Principal Leon Lane. No students in the eighth grade made the honor roll. Students in the seventh grade making the honor include Keith Sterner, Kristi Doran, Patricia Calhoon, Bill Jones and Sharon Nicholson. Jimmy Cameron and Luci Hendricks were the only sixth grade students making grades that entitled them to the honor roll.
H. D. Moore was honored on his 86th birthday Wednesday, March 1, with a dinner in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lee Long, at Goldthwaite. Others present from San Saba were Mrs. Sam Everett and Mrs. C. J. Childers; also Miss Tommie Moore, Bert Moore and sons, all of Goldthwaite, and Mrs. Robert Long of Caradan.
March brings breezes, sharp and chill––stirs the dancing daffodils, or so the poem goes. Where did winter go so soon? Winter months, you did tread softly. The yellow daffodils dotting the town, are doing their bit to add some color to the drab landscape. Without rain, can there be spring?