100 Years Ago July 28, 1921
O. B. Mosley encountered a rattle snake in his tomato patch last week. He finished him up with a hoe and found that it had four rattlers.
City Marshal, Dave Chadwick has a crew of men at work on Wallace St. where the street is being broken up and concrete will be laid.
Carl Jones visited his parents in Brownwood the first of this week.
Miss Mamie Low has returned from a visit in San Angelo.
Miss Auval Brown, who has recently graduated from Baylor University is the guest of Miss Myrtle Brazil this week. Miss Brown has accepted a position in the Marietta, Oklahoma high school, where she will teach science.
If it is meat that you want, call up McConnell & Sons, they have what you want.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Watson and family have returned from a week's outing on the beautiful San Saba river. They report a delightful time and a fine recreation.
By feeding Purina Pig Chow you can produce from 25 to 40 per cent more live hog than from ordinary feed. Purina Pig Chow will fatten your hogs and fatten your pocket book. We sell it––MAYHEW PRODUCE COMPANY.
Mrs. S. J. Bross has returned from a pleasant visit with relatives at Houston and West Columbia.
Dr. H. H. Taylor, G. A. Arhelger, G. A. Walters and O. K. Harkey are the San Saba representatives who attended the big barbecue at Mason.
Misses Eva and Grace Gunter spent the week visiting in Lometa.
S. J. Moore of the Bend was in town this week.
Men should wear kimonos during the summer, they are much cooler, especially when they are cut low in the neck and short sleeves. San Saba Fair Aug. 16-19.
50 Years Ago July 29, 1971
The San Saba coaches will attend Coaching School at Ft. Worth Aug. 1-5. The school will be held in Convention Center. Those who will attend include John Baskin, James Gibson, Jerry Bethel, Milton Thompson and Wallace Fikes.
A total of three San Saba students are listed on the honor roll for the spring semester at San Angelo University in San Angelo. Katherine Shahan Ringo is listed on the 3.50 to 4.00 honor roll list. The others are listed on the 3.0 to 3.49 honor roll list. They are Thomas Ringo and William Watkins.
The San Saba Volunteer Fire Department received a check for $75 recently from Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies as an expression of thanks for the Department's work on the property of John H. Geddes, Lometa. The money will be used for their loss prevention program. The Texas Farm Bureau Insurance Companies pay volunteer fire departments this amount when the department works at a fire in rural areas, involving property insured by them.
Lightning set fire to a home Saturday afternoon during a thunderstorm. Local firemen said they believed the lightning ran into the house on the electrical wiring or the TV cable. The fire appeared to have started at the TV set, they said. The fire smoldered for some time, apparently, before it made sufficient smoke for neighbors to see it coming from the house and turn in the fire alarm. The homeowner was away at the time and firemen said that was her good fortune for she might have been killed had she been inside her home. Firemen saved the house from a complete loss, but it is charred and smoked inside. Smoke and water appeared to ruin the contents that did not burn, firemen said. The home had just recently been redecorated inside.
The Richland Springs High School cheerleaders, Brenda Patrick, freshman, Linda Pitts, junior, Kathy Gibson, junior and Linda Deeds, freshman will be cheering the Coyotes on to victory come school time. The girls were at Tarleton State College recently where they attended a week-long Tarleton Cheerleaders Institute by the National Cheerleaders. They were among 210 high schoolers participating.