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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1940
Page
2
San Saba County invites former residents to join the Old Settlers Day celebration next Thursday August Sth at the Old Fair Grounds. The event marks Home Coming Day with descendants returning to renew friendships and celebrate the county’s history. All former residents are welcome to come August 16th for the annual gathering and county pride.
Looking Backward At San Saba recalls local names and movements as W A Oliver and wife visit in Mc Lennan County with relatives in San Saba. Mrs T A Falvey of El Paso visits, Mrs Tom Ward and Mrs J L Baker return from the east. R G Murray and W M Godfrey are noted in travels and business, with a mention of cheaper eastbound railroad routes boosting travel.
Mrs DeW Kirkpatrick reports the birth of a daughter at her house. DeW will rejoice when he learns the news as he is in the east with several stock cars. Miss Lida McDowell, daughter of James McDowell, visited last week at aunt Mrs J W McConnell. She has changed since leaving San Saba about a year ago. A health tonic named Taylor's Sure Cure is advertised as a boil remedy, sold by Ketchum.
Twenty years ago August 12 1920 the county fair and encampment opened with a thronged fairgrounds and an elaborate program planned for Modern Woodmen Day next Friday August 13. Notables visiting included Mrs Harry Arbelger and family in San Angelo and Mrs Godard Wagner of Brownwood. Rev T F Dimmitt joined G T Sanderson and Lula Terry in marriage last Saturday. Naomi Whitt returned from Tobin Business College in Waco.
San Saba News Force reports community notes including Leon Relles fainting in Fort Worth heat, the replacing of a house on East Commerce Street with a stone duplex, funeral attendance for Herbert Berry in Norman, and multiple marriages. It highlights Vera Zumwalt Holding visiting March 6 1941, election results in San Antonio with Prentice Dickison elected tax collector, and references to local residents Vera Donald and a watermelon feast.
Near Richland Springs the old settlers plan the eleventh annual reunion at the Fair Park grounds next Wednesday. A memorial stone for Sampson and Billy Cole, killed by Indians in 1864, will be unveiled at Lewis Hicks ranch at 9 o clock Saturday morning. Mrs. G A Stroud of Jacksonville visits with her parents Mr and Mrs A B Wilson and family. The San Saba FFA team L B Owen and Elton Duncan won first in debate at the Huntsville state meet. Mrs G F Edwards and children from Shreveport visit Ed Crawford. Supt and Mrs W M Campbell and daughter returned from Fort Worth. W M Moore attended a district manager meeting in Austin. Mr and Mrs Dick Kurkendall of Liano visited Mrs W T Locklear. San Saba News Clanai.
John A. Dean aged 19 and his brother Dale Dean aged 18, sons of Alvin A. Dean and his wife of San Saba, are both in the National Guard encampment in Alexandria Louisiana for weeks of training. They are John Tarleton College students and will return this fall.
Miss Nila Jeane Harber had an appendix operation on August 1 in a Fort Worth hospital. She is doing nicely and will be out in a few days. Her mother Mrs S E Harber is with her.
Notice asks Amt persons who play stringed instruments to bring them to the Old Settlers Reunion on August 16. The committee in charge plans fiddling contests and other good music that day. G. A. Wilson.
Calip residents Mr and Mrs A B Crowley and their two children visit Bakersfield relatives then travel to El Paso to see Mrs Crowley's sister and mother before visiting Bishop and Corpus Christi kin. They return via San Antonio sightseeing historic sites and meeting Postmaster L C Smith.
A long list of neighborhood visits and trips unfolds. Lon Locklear family from Voca visited W. T. Locklear's relatives, while Judene Couch and Sara Tom Kimbrough vacationed in Del Rio and Old Mexico. Others traveled to Norton, Winters, Loop, Seagraves, and Corpus Christi, with several returning home after stays. People also report hospital blood tests, care for an ailing relative, and multiple short trips to Austin, Los Angeles, Carlsbad, Roswell, and Fairfax.
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