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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
2
The piece urges Christmas as a powerful force guiding living and public service toward goodwill. It envisions nations living in peace, officials serving the public welfare, and individuals abandoning greed for the common good, with love as a practical, daily virtue.
A fragment urges residents to vote on Tuesday December 17 in Saba County. The message champions exercising the American right to vote and using best judgment on the bond issue.
Bethel notes report visits from relatives in Tustin Mullin and El Paso, Rotary guest list of high school hunters, and local travels. Armadillos win bi district 12 6 over Albany to earn regional playoff berth, with Belton, Dublin upcoming. Local in Perry Abilene Fort Worth and Brownwood trips noted along with community events and a fox race.
A historical reflection notes how early America built on Bible teaching with colleges and the New England Primer guiding schooling. It contrasts past Bible influence with Hitler's Mein Kampf, urges renewed Bible reading, and cites the American Bible Society's 125th anniversary and Universal Bible Sunday as a push to restore Bible popularity nationwide.
San Saba reminiscence from December 11, 1891 notes Guy Brown and Warren Teague painting the bridge red. Mentions J J Carter of Richland visiting, Rev. McMahan the Catholic minister, M D Slater district attorney returning to Llano, Katie Oliver employed to teach Pecan Grove school, S Hargon in town, R L Seiders and Dan Jackson on a Goldthwaite trip, H H Doran of Lometa reporting livery business, P W Burleson buried corn seed after children played with matches, and that the bridge north of town reopened with T Y Elton and Ed Campbell first to cross.
Attorneys A B Wilson and Mitch Johnson were in Goldthwaite Tuesday representing a client in a criminal prosecution. R L Oliver purchased the S J Enochs farm on the river eight miles below town, a 260 acre Senatorfitt old homestead. Mrs W B Scott of Lampasas visited the home of her parents Mr and Mrs J A Quinn last week. N A Kimbrough of Lordsburg M arrived this week to spend a R Doran has been on the nick a few days here.
December notices from Cherokee report Mrs. D. A. Gay in San Antonio after her son's appendectomy. Howard Payne College homecoming guests, Llano parsonage project, and football visitors from Eden. Cemeter y bazaar set for December 14. Baylor students and local families visit, plus illness and a new daughter Mary Joelene welcomed by the Randolphs.
The note details drawing names for a Christmas tree, extended talks on cool winter weather, and extensive food storage including pork, lard, sausage, and ham for hard times. It mentions Mrs. J. T. Taylor returning from Austin and the Rio Grande valley, farm stock movements by Jesse Yarbrough and Howard Tate, and several local visits and community activities amid improving grain crops after heavy rains.
CITY DRUG STORE offers a one dose vaccine for all ages claiming life immunity against STRAUB blackleg disease with immediate action on any age group.
Hastings Steel meets Western Associate Store in a sports context with a decisive ring event. Players unknown, results not fully clear, but emphasis on competition and outcome.
The Fairview note cites fair weather for Sunday with plans for hog butchering as November’s cool spell ends. It mentions a good school with minor flu cases, M. A. Guess moving to Hall ranch adding pupils, and Minister Rogers of Daniel Baker College preaching at the schoolhouse. Will Darley and wife visited his ill mother at Voca as the community message continues.
Deer Creek December notes welcome guests from Cherokee Brady and Meridian families. Mrs Barber reports hospital stays and recoveries including Mr Holt’s tonsil removal. A sympathy note travels with readers into a quiet closing paragraph.
An advertisement announces Davis DeLuxe batteries with a two year guarantee sold at the Western Auto Associate Store. A city drug store markets M S A poison oak eczema and all skin irritations a clean liquid that leaves no stain.
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