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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
11
Cherokee residents host relatives and friends from Austin San Saba Gonzales and other towns with numerous weekend calls. The community notes weddings church visits and planned cemetery work feature Miss Marie Smith and Mr Orville Tomilson wedding plans and upcoming Baptist preaching services across town.
Bowser residents attended the annual picnic at Post Oak Grove on Friday. Saturday night saw a performance in the same area. Steve Boren and two sons from Belton visited Friday and Saturday with his brother Lee Boren and family. J D Finlay of Brady vacationing with grandparents Mr and Mrs Dave Childers. Neely Lord of Los Angeles visited Saturday with Messrs.
Woodson M Keeney reports a successful stage play Adventures of Grand pa and praises the performances. Rain trough the week relief crops and range lands. Local social notes list Miss Armour Patsy Brazil Ruth Gage Audrey Bloomer visits San Saba and many others. church and Sunday school attendance up. appeals for more news contributions.
The annual Vacation Church School at the Methodist Church begins Monday at 9 a.m. for children ages 9 to 15 and runs two weeks. Directed by Rev. George J. Stein man, the program centers on World Friendship Among Children with the theme Two Weeks With the Children of Africa. Activities include worship, lectures, play, notebooks, and geography aligned studies.
Rejoicing over rain and active Sunday school attendance. Travel plans as writer and husband visit family in Childress Vernon and Freer. Funeral of Mrs. H. R. Ripple at Colony cemetery with large crowd. she was 78 and daughter of Rev. Tom Smith. Local visits include Millican and Parks families. census taker Lucille Linn and Mrs. Loftin Linn in the area. Texas bread plants total 535. Don Nicholas Saez’s 1748 1750 cattle brand noted in Real de Las Sabinas.
Sunday church schedule includes Bro Cundieff regular appointment and family attendance. Community night meeting set for the first Friday in June. George Munsell hosted a Sunday school picnic on the river with Mrs M A Terry assisting. Homemakers met May 22 with several members and a visitor, next gathering with Mrs Lois Oliver. Visitors Lonnie Lackey with parents in Knoxville. Texas wildlife value report ranks Texas first nationally at 94,350,394 dollars with 1264 game preserves covering 4,602,491 acres.
San Saba residents will tour a Hobby Show hosted by the Methodist church Young People's Department to fund delegates to Kerrville Assembly. The church basement will display diverse hobby collections from 2 30 to 10 pm on Thursday June 6 with lectures by Rev. George J. Steinman at 4 pm and 8 30 pm. Admission is 15 cents for children and 25 cents for adults.
The colored school held a closing on May 23 with a barbecue on May 24 attended by both races. The program featured music, dialogues, pantomimes, a seventh grade oration, and certificates. Teachers and pupils later enjoyed softball games at Risjen Park followed by barbecue dinner. Sponsors were Henry Williams Jr, Preston Dilworth Jr, and Luke Taylor Jr.
A program of outdoor entertainments is arranged for the 1940 State Fair of Texas with several free amusement areas similar to those at the 1999 fair. Frequent performances will be given for visitors.
About one thousand people attended Live Oak school's closing picnic at the Live Oak grounds. The event featured a barbecue with 498 pounds of meat, bread, pickles, onions, tea, and coffee, plus a student program and seventh grade graduation. Teachers Nadine Head Geraldine Lewis and Lloyd Smith outlined plans for next year while local volunteers organized the celebration. The article notes gratitude to the arrangements committee and supporters who funded the dinner and activities.
Fort Worth lawyer William Richard Watkins has announced his candidacy for Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court. A veteran appellate briefs specialist with famed Archer County road bond and Isaacs Hobbs cases, he emphasizes no political ties and a life devoted to the science of law. He has five children, is married, and attends the Christian church.
Several families enjoyed a day trip to Buchanan Dam with attendees from here including D. Templetons Babe Ivys J. C. Gamblins H. E. Browns J. T. Campbells and Martin Burlesons Misses Glenda Short and Reva Sullivan Mrs Connie Brown and Howard England plus Presley Adams of Richland Springs the Jesse Fettys of Lohn and the McBees Rochelle. Relatives from San Antonio and Austin met them there Patsy Pope returned home with the J. T. Campbells for a visit Ida Mae Smith home from Alamo Beauty School in San Antonio for a day Cone Sullivan back from California for a visit Mr and Mrs J. R. Moss and family visiting with daughter Mrs Jesse Smith and family G B Temvieton Marion Wood Alicia McQueen of Richland Springs and J. R. Moss family also visited. T S Woolsey family and Clint Woolsey with their father and grandfather at Gouldbugh. Game wardens in Texas do not get part of fines. they are on a straight salary.
A fish named Labyrinth Bubble Nest Builders constructs a floating nursery. The species deposits eggs in a bubble nest and tends young, producing a self-sustaining colony. Researchers note unusual nesting behavior and potential for aquarium use.
The community notes the school’s closure last week after a Thursday night program by the pupils. Mrs. W A Jones of Fairview and others visited relatives, attended events, and hosted gatherings at several homes including the Brister and Walker households. Fragments mention visits by Vera Palvada Frances Brister and Doyle Dacus with families, plus a club day on June 5 at Mrs Arthur Walker’s.
Mrs M W Trussell was bedbound with stomach flu this week. John Molloy of John Tarleton College visited his mother Mrs Marjorie Molloy. E R Phillips and family visited the R G Murray home with Grace a Llano high school graduate. Wiley T Murray family joined the visit. Mrs J B Perry and daughter of Cherokee visited in San Saba, as did Mr and Mrs R B Singleton of Cherokee. John Lewis and Mrs Beckie Lewis of Cherokee also visited San Saba Saturday.
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