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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
10
The News Club recalls a Saturday picnic with a table packed with food and a cheerful crowd. It argues the club blends enjoyment with education and urges members to be active in home church and community life, stressing daily Christian work beyond Sunday observance.
A photo shows the San Saba County A and M Club formed last January at College Station with 15 members. Officers for 1938 39 were G W Poole president and Eldon Duncan vice president. New 1939 40 officers include Warden Terry president and M W Kuykendall sec treas. The club meets monthly at the Landscape Building and plans a summer fish fry with ex Aggies.
A writer reflects on teaching, humility, and Christian duty while praising rural life. He urges readers to improve talent, support neighbors, and build a lasting peace through county meetings. A traveler's dinner reveals the real cost of farming life and communal resilience.
Poem style reminiscence contrasts rural farm life with urban costs and pride in hard field labor. It recalls rationing chores from dawn to night, feeding hogs poultry and cattle by hand, and the health and solace found in farm work. The speaker appeals to city readers to value rural toil and sun and earth.
Church services were lightly attended due to rain with ongoing wet conditions hindering harvest work. The column lists locals visiting, fishing trips on the San Saba River, travel homecomings, and social gatherings, plus updates on students, a new car, and local training plans. Names include Leon ard Hart, Joyce, Gee, Munsell family, Nina Jean, Darrel Terry, Junior Riddle, Evant’s Rav. Cundieff, Mineral Wells visitors, and Lubbock-bound Ernest Pierce.
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