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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1956
Page
5
A community roundup notes Henry combines for the Boberanns and Albert Whit ley in Big Valley. Several residents visit Austin for schooling and family events. Families travel, visit relatives, and plan summer activities including students and local residents from McMillan and nearby towns.
June visits and family gatherings described across China Creek and nearby towns. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Robbins visit relatives in Texas and Mexico. Ernest Dyess hosts relatives. church events and county conventions noted. residents travel abroad briefly and return. local families attend reunions and visit friends in San Antonio, Lockhart, and McKinney.
Funeral services were held in Llano on Thursday June 7 for Mrs Phillip Nixon with interment at Salem Cemetery near Llano. She survived by seven children, 19 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. She was aunt to Mrs J W Shook of San Saba and had lived in San Saba and Llang.
The Pulitzer adaptation Picnic by William Inge plays at Palace Theatre this Saturday midnight, Sunday, and Monday. Starring William Holden Rosa Lind Russell and Kim Novak, Holden drifts into a Kansas town sparking emotion and suspense as townsfolk, especially women, are drawn into his impact. Filmed in CinemaScope with Technicolor and distributed by Columbia.
Dr and Mrs F W Farley attended funeral services for his cousin Alvin Tisdale in Edna last Friday June 8. Tisdale died of a heart attack. En route the Farleys stopped in Houston and brought their daughter Mrs Jerry Strader and her children Sally Ruth and Bob to spend the week with them.
Local ad lists Father’s Day cists priced from $1.00 to $2.50 at Laird’s Corner Drug Store with sale offers for gifts and remedies.
June Mrs. Jack Sloan and daughter Josephine visited Co manche then Lubbock for Texas Tech summer school. Many relatives and neighbors from Sloan, Chappel, Rochelle, San Saba, and nearby communities attended church events, parades, and recitals. Livestock trends, grazing changes, and local travel highlighted a busy social scene with multiple visits and a horse race at the San Saba parade.
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