101 Years Ago September 29, 1921
In the sale of the T. C. Henry stock of dry goods here last Monday by the receiver A. Robinson, San Saba acquired a new firm which has a chain of nine stores including the following places: Cisco, Gorman, DeLeon, Gatesville, Lampasas, Rising Star and San Saba.
Mrs. E. E. Fagg was hostess to the members of the Order of the Eastern Star. Those who were present report a delightful afternoon.
The oil well people at the Canyon Ranch have been having pretty hard luck. They encountered a hard boulder which caused more than one crook in their well, and filling up and drilling out lost them much valuable time. At this writing they are going straight down and making some headway.
Buck Joiner was at Rochelle and Brady last week with sweet potatoes. He reports the market well supplied with sweet potatoes from East Texas.
J. R. Ellis is sporting a brand new Buick Four.
Miss Florence Edwards left this week for Dallas where she re-entered the Southern Methodist University.
Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Mosley and little daughter, Miss Madge made a visit to Waco last week. Mr. Mosley has returned, but Mrs. Mosley will continue her visit with her mother.
Miss Jamye Campbell left for Georgetown where she re-enters as a student in the Southwestern University.
Yes, this is the second week of the opening of the public schools of San Saba. It opened with a very large attendance and they are still pouring in––in fact they have taken up all the west end for play-ground and have also taken up all the standing room in the school building. You fellows who voted against the new school building will either have to let your children stand up during the coming school years or kill the stork. You see the superintendent and the faculty are like the old woman who lived in a shoe––she had so many children she did not know what to do.
71 Years Ago September 27, 1951 Alfred Dacus, son of F. C. Dacus of San Saba, has enrolled at Daniel Baker College. He is a member of A. O. F. fraternity and the McBilly Club.
Miss Dorothy Garrett of Llano was employed as receptionist at San Saba Memorial Hospital, succeeding Gloria Aylor, who has accepted a position with the Howell-Doran insurance office. Miss Garrett, a 1951 graduate of Llano High School, is a niece of Bernie Hart of San Saba, Rev. and Mrs. Tommy Grozier were visitors in the Tom Gozier home. They went to Llano to fill their appointments in the North Llano Baptist Mission where he is pastor. Both are juniors in Baylor University where they are majoring in Bible.
Hospitalman 2-c Raymond Longley, stationed at Moffett Field, Calif., has been in San Saba visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Longley of the Live Oak community. Longley, a pharmacy major and a 1949 graduate of the University of Texas, is in charge of the pharmacy at the dispensary on Moffett Field. He has been in the service since January of this year.
Club men and club women in San Saba overwhelmingly approved parking meters for the City of San Saba and a garbage collection charge, with funds now spent for garbage pickup earmarked for recreation facilities and a municipal swimming pool. Approval of the two proposals was brought about by a poll of the Rotary and Lions Clubs and the San Saba Music Club, San Saba Study Club, San Saba Garden Club, Pierian Study Club, Distaff Study Club, Sharon Study Club and the Dirt Gardeners Club.
Glenn Patton and Clarence Tisdale of San Saba were among lucky Texas hunters at a recent drawing in Austin by which antelope hunting permits were issued. Patton and Tisdale are to hunt on a ranch near Marfa. The state game department determines how many antelope may be killed in the state without depleting the stock, and that number of permits is issued each year. As the applications far exceed the number of permits to be issued, the issue is determined by drawings.