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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1925
Page
3
Publication details for San Saba Texas weekly edition. advertising and subscription rates listed, with charges for obituaries cards of thanks and resolutions. Text notes corrections policy and policy on admissions for church entertainments, alongside typographic errors and misprints.
A column of random clippings and reader notes from the era highlights sly comments on Watch on the Rhine, a pun about an eight-day clock, district attorney succession jokes, a San Francisco cross word answer, a San Saba return to Texas, and a long list of scattered anecdotes including Mary and Pliny Armor’s win at Burleson College, all reflecting broad miscellany in a community page.
A long column mixes local pride and small-town lore. Notes on Burleson College student leaders, Texas figures on state university boards, a jibe at penitentiary investigations, village anecdotes, and a Cherokee County memory of Mrs. Lora Hanna Carr. A Richland Springs death and Ground Hog Day musings close the piece.
Thelma Houston hosted a Junior class party on January 20 with yellow and white decorations and games such as 42. Seniors retaliated January 27 with a surprise visit to Mr Glimp’s home, then juniors chased them to Cherokee for a marshmallow toast before returning home. Mr and Mrs T A Murray visited San Antonio recently.
San Saba county rural lands sit idle while neighbors fence theirs and gain income. Goats and sheep men report higher returns from livestock than unproductive land. Wolf Proof fence now available at about half the past cost, enabling profitable land use. Investigate the opportunity.
A new cafe opened on the neat side of the public square, next door to Thorp’s grocery store. It offers short orders, sandwiches, pies, hamburgers, and chili with a specialty hot cakes for breakfast. The Farmers Restaurant proprietors Mrs. Joe Benardino and Walter Lewis were in town with family en route home after visiting Ada Munsell in Bend.
The Parent Teacher Association members plan Friday afternoon meeting at the new high school to discuss planning the Pecan Day banquet. Mrs A Woods presides. Ex sheriff B T Neal is in Avatin on business this week. Tom Edmondson passed through town Tuesday with a four horse load of wood hay and oats en route to break land on the Estep farm.
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