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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1926
Page
2
San Saba Texas weekly newspaper lists editor J E Hayden and manager W A Smith with publication details. Rates show local reader ads at 8 cents per line per issue and classified ads at 11 to 2 cents per word per issue. The paper offers prompt corrections if a reflection harms character.
San Saba County oats yield noted at 70 to 100 bushels per acre while San Saba Armadillos put in strong baseball play this season. Cowboys and Texas talk fill the page as North South Highway progress nudges tourism.
A column discusses many Texas politicians and campaign tactics, noting quotes from Barry Miller about Jim Ferguson eight years ago and predicting county rallies will grow. It praises local fans and ball teams, questions the San Saba Chamber’s pep, and calls for a stronger Central Texas Chamber and larger local civic push.
In San Francisco on June 3 the state supreme court ruled that back seat driving is a just cause for divorce, a decision upheld after Claude H. Harman, a locomotive engineer, sued for divorce citing his wife Jessie’s constant critique of his driving. The ruling marks a notable shift in grounds for dissolution within state courts.
In a magazine piece on the kind of parents business leaders had, Roger Babson surveyed fifty bankers and manufacturers. Thirty answered yes about praying parents or both, and he notes most business figures had praying ancestry. He cites Conwell’s study of 4009 millionaires and Indiana University research linking clergymen to prominent professionals. preachers outpaced plumbers in Who’s Who figures.
Albert McLemore colored, born March 12 1870 in town, died June 8 1926 at 56 after years of illness. Known as Old Albert, he worked across many families and houses, loyal and trusted. Funeral conducted by Rev Hamilton at the Methodist church, with burial in the cemetery south of town.
The Ladies Cemetery Association will hold 9 Junior Fair at the Tourist Park on June 18. Everybody come.
The Dallas News reports that despite limited profitability of many federal irrigation systems the Elephant Butte project stands out as a notable exception in a Sunday article.
The Elephant Butte dam on the Rio Grande has irrigated about 61 818 acres in 1926 rising to 150 000 acres by 1926 with crop values from 2 411 000 to 10 776 000. In Texas alone 67 632 acres yielded 5 442 000 dollars, at 94 dollars an acre, justifying water charges of 90 dollars an acre paid over twenty years. Cotton and bollworm impact noted.
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