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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1921
Page
2
San Saba Texas weekly note states the editor and foreman machinist publish the paper in San Saba County. It confirms publication every Thursday and entry as second class matter at the local post office in San Saba Texas.
Bob Russell voices concern that every morning reveals many rat tracks along the road, highlighting what he calls the rat army. The speaker champions facing life’s problems directly, working hard, and boosting others rather than knocking them.
A Sydney Bulletin remark mocks a conversation about modesty and appetite for life. A woman jokes about skirting lines while the man jokes about desires, reflecting social humor on restraint and indulgence in the era.
An antique item quotes a comic exchange between Shades about home returning from a graveyard gathering. The Second Shade says his wife mistook him for an ogre and knocked him for a ghoul, framed in a Fleur de 418 context.
A Florida Times-Union column reflects on age, theology, and living righ teously. It contrasts old fashioned religion with modern theology through anecdotes and a fable about a dying theologian and a child who rewrites a Bible line. The piece muses on judgment and a life lived humbly, with memories of local colloquialisms and rural wisdom.
A call to action for San Saba valley pecan growers to organize and market their product. The piece notes only a few of about 100 growers are active, while nearly a million pounds in the valley and a separate million in neutral trade areas go largely unmarketed through San Saba. It urges a local grading plant owned by growers to capture added profits.
In Oklahoma a pistol shot by a burly negro touched off a Tulsa riot described as the worst in the nation’s history. The ensuing chaos left fifteen blacks and nine whites dead as a district including churches burned. New York uplift groups demand investigation by Governor and President. author argues Oklahoma’s and America’s disgrace and notes the city’s racial tensions and labor shifts during and after the war.
A playful exploration of the origin of bunk and the idiom bunkum, tracing to a North Carolina legislator from Buncombe who popularized the phrase talking Buncombe. Also a light verse about Brock Ashby Beck McKee and a tale of two youths in a muddy Ford adventure ending with married Beck and bachelor Brock, plus a Texas City visit note.
George Watkins, developer of the ost mine on Wallace Creek, asks the News to inform the public that visitors are not allowed anymore. He requests that locals refrain from seeking permission to visit the mine.
Taken up on the streets of the City of San Saba on Tuesday May 24 1921 a brown horse mule about 15 hands high with trace and hobble marks wire cut on a tight front foot two small white spots on left jaw no brand Also one brown horse mule colt about one year old no brand just well from gelding taken up Friday May 27 if not claimed and proven both will be sold as law directs D Chadwick City Marshal
At the home of the bride parents in San Saba Mr William Lowe and Miss Lillie Biggs were married Saturday evening. Rev T F Dimmit performed the ceremony. The bride, a teacher, is daughter of Mr and Mrs W C Biggs. The groom is a Lometa druggist respected by his community. The News offers congratulations and best wishes.
Miss Lelia Pool, a clerk at the local post office, is away on her annual vacation. She and her mother, Mrs. J. M. Pool, left Friday for Chico, New Mexico, to visit Mrs. L. W. Rector, the sister of Mrs. Pool.
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