From the San Saba News & Star Archives
99 Years Ago September 6, 1923
Cold drinks, Ice Cream, Fruits and Cigars at–––MOTHER'S CAFE.
Mrs. Shelby Walker and daughter, Miss Mary Roe Walker, have returned to their home in Long Beach, Cal., after an extended visit with relatives here and at San Angelo.
Heywood Edwards, who is a cadet in the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis Md., is at home on a furlough visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Edwards. Mr. Edwards has just returned from a long cruise and reports a very interesting trip.
Get out your smoked glasses next Monday afternoon and look at the eclipse of the sun. It will be over a hundred years until there will be another eclipse, and chances are you will not be here to see it. So, to be safe you had better take a peep at old Sol next Monday evening.
There is a whole lot of musical talent here that has been going to waste for several years for the want of some one to take the initiative. That has been overcome now. Mr. D. W. Sauer, an experienced band master is here interesting our young people in the organization of a band and he is meeting with wonderful success. In fact we are going to have two bands––one grown ups and one among the school pupils––both girls and boys. Instead of paying an out of town band $600.00 next year to play at the fair, we are going to keep those six hundred bucks at home and maybe that kid band can outplay the grown-ups.
We understand the next grand jury will be asked to investigate the visit of the Ku Kluxers to the camp meeting on lower Cherokee a few Sundays since. Some of the women were thrown into hysterics and the children were very badly scared. It is claimed the invisible ones were from Lometa and the identity of some of them are known. The grand jury can find out the balance of the bunch and make it unanimous.
69 Years Ago September 10, 1953 Mrs. Doyle Dacus, formerly of San Saba, completed work for her master's degree at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene. Mrs. Dacus is beginning her third year of teaching in the Abilene public school system.
Five men who pleaded guilty to killing dove from an automobile paid a minimum fine of $38 each in Justice Court, Judge Joe Clark reports.
Clearing skies on the heels of a 'wet norther' last Thursday found a large portion of San Saba county soaked by heavy rains. Some totals for the week reported by United Telephone Co. include 3 inches at Bend; 2.50 at Chappel; 2.50 at Cherokee; 1.10 at Harkeyville; .50 at Algerita; and scattered showers at Richland Springs. San Saba gauged at total of 1.60 for the week.
Enrollment in the San Saba public schools during the first week of the present term totalled 922, highest figure for the school since the 1950-51 term, when 961 were enrolled, according to figures released by Supt. S. G. Boynton.
Today in San Saba...Newest business, Brown's Electric Service, located in the Bagley building on East Commerce.. It is a thing of beauty, from the blue decorating scheme to the gleaming white of the Westinghouse appliances, stoves, refrigerators, etc... Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Brown, Jr.
Mr. Abe Willis, a most ardent San Saba fan, showing off the newly decorated entrance to the Palace Theatre. 'People big and little show respect for property when it is pretty and kept attractive,' he says. He never misses a chance to commend the town for its 'friendly people and good kids.' He has been manager of the Palace and Corral Drive-In Theatres since March.