24 Aug 1933
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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1933
Page
1
The item notes publication details at the San Saba Post Office indicating second class matter. It references Thursday distribution and formal placement in the postal system with archival tone. The fragment hints at local newspaper operations and mailing status.
The page quotes letters and opinions about repealing the 18th Amendment and liquor return, with Texas politics and local chatter. It mentions residents such as T. J. Stewart, Gladys Shaw, Jodie Coffey, and J. A. Parks. notes church meetings, community events, sickness, travel, and a filling station project.
Local items from Pebbly Point report Joe Cheek with tonsillitis. Clarence and Mrs Anderson visited Arthur Behrens. A quiet Friday night party gathered at J D Cheek's home. Mrs Minnie McBride tended her sister in Temple. A group including Pug Clarence Florence Vaughn Wallace Creek and Harrigan Lometa visited the Cheek girls at Wallace Creek head caves. Matt Anderson visited Arthur Behrens Sunday.
The Bowser area reports a barn owned by Chas Martin burned down around 8 PM Monday with the cause undetermined. Rainfall last Tuesday brings optimism for fall feed and garden planting. Local residents Mrs C Ingall Mrs Ford Mrs Lola Rose and others traveled to Brownwood for visits and business. Charlie Maynard the local merchant made a trip to Brownwood on Wednesday. Miss Ollie Knieff and Miss Clara Grimes hosted a Sunday school and card gathering at Tabernacle with song.
The sheriff was called to investigate a break in at Charlie Maynard's store Wednesday night. The intruders destroyed much of the merchandise. Community members report a church meeting led by Bro Edgar continuing locally with preaching at Skeeterville starting Thursday night and through Sunday.
Texas manufacturers numbering 760 major firms will be featured at the Texas Manufacturers Show during the State Fair of Texas. Directed by Holmes Green the exhibit expands into the Main Exhibit Building with space set aside for more than 300 exhibitors. Live models and daily entertainment programs are planned to center the display.
W. R. Payne returned Tuesday from a trip to New Mexico and reports a severe drought over that country. His brother, Howard, came home with him.
An attorney catalogs odd, old rules still on the books in various states and localities. Highlights include bans on slippery fashion, dancing missteps, outward opening gates, and required grasshopper killing days, with notes on a Waco visit by Mrs. R. S. Miller and her son Jack Burleson.
Texas A and M Extension Service Director O B Martin credits 4600 local committees and thousands of citizens for a record cotton acreage retirement totaling 4 190 208 acres surpassing the 3 942 000 acre goal. He lauds county groups as government agents and trustees while noting yields estimates stayed in line with past state crops. James Carroll and two sisters Fannie and Grace Henry, along with Mrs G A Wilson, are vacationing at Carlsbad Cavern this week.
The Norette Shoppe promotes Swagger Suits as modern attire. At Fair Park on Sunday at 3 30 p m the Hill Billies face Goldthwaite in a baseball game with admission only licensed. Miss Lorena Dry, county demonstrator, returns from Merkel visit.
Mrs R ON Estep returns home to Oklahoma City after Christmas in Sar Saba. Mrs J FE Hayden visits friends in San Angelo. International made to measure suits priced from 19.50 up at Shook's.
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