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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
2
The article honors Bill of Rights Day amid wartime, stressing the rights' role in democracy. It lists key rights, contrasts constitutional liberty with totalitarian rule, and notes that wartime requires limits on freedom. It cites examples like habeas corpus, due process, and wartime restrictions to preserve democracy.
In December 1941 the San Saba News prints letters from Dallas and Lone Grove readers. Murphy Alderman asks to continue the News at his Dallas address and wishes a Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year. T A Smith of Ed notes subs and joking about rain to grow food for the Japs. M W Trussell and Mabel Winslow and Betty Harlan are mentioned with travel and holiday plans.
Pontotoc notes list local youths in military service or training at North Carolina Missouri and Hawaii. Bill Fielling visits family in Field Creek while J O Latham and J W Britton prepare for training. Howard Davis of Burnet visits Albert Hoy. Three Pontotoc lads Monroe Bush Wesley Roberson and R W Roberson are in the Hawaiian Islands with no word yet.
San Saba citizens and county folks are happy about the new enlarged illuminated clock on the court house tower. The face dial is larger and clearer and illuminated at night so it can be seen from afar. The hourly chimes sound pleasant and the clock is guaranteed for years.
Ed Fagg is home from New Mexico to spend the winter. Mrs Frank Russell of San Angelo visits her parents, Capt and Mrs James Boyd. Mr and Mrs T A Murray travel to Dallas. No paper next week. Local workers burn pear on the Hall yanch this winter. Ads note sale items and a marriage license issued to T W Parisher and Miss Viola Sawyer.
The column recaps social events and property deals from December 1911 and December 1934. It lists marriages, such as Mrs Lonnie McCarty to Myrtle Watkins under an oak tree, and Doyle Ledbetter wed Lucille Dean, plus ranch sales of thousands of acres and notable moves by local families like Walters, Gunter, and Harris.
Richland Springs notes describe peanut storage nearing 600 tons for future marketing. Local families plan Christmas visits to Zack Arkansas Catton and Menard, with Baylor student ministers home for holidays. Community members move houses remodels and updates, while planters gin closes at 706 bales. News covers hospital stays, transfers, and a new night watchman.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Kincaid received a cablegram from son Thomas, stationed with the U. S. Marine unit on Dragedore Island in the Philippines. The message, dated December 18, said he was getting along fine and to not worry. Thomas has served with the Coast Guard Marines for some time and has been in the Philippines about five months.
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