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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1933
Page
2
A damaged excerpt describes a long road trip route through Tulsa Guthrie Oklahoma City El Reno Enid Ponca City and other points. The car remained on the road 23 hours out of 24 with lubrication and oil changes at Bartlesville after each thousand miles.
The region reports a light rainfall of about one quarter inch, with corn crops needing more rain. Farmers stay busy, gardens thriving, and canning activity is high. Visitors include Floyd Massey and family from Oklahoma and Mrs. Carl Guyton from Fort Worth visiting Mrs. T. T. Watkins while canning. Clinton Fulcher’s son at a Phoenix hospital is improving.
Beginning Friday June 30 Elder Clem W. Hoover of Goldthwaite will conduct a revival meeting for the Bend Church of Christ. A cordial invitation is extended to one and all.
An ad from City Drug Store promotes Dr Emil’s Adia Tablets for indigestion caused by smoking. It urges continued smoking while using Adia Tablets and mentions a Copperas solution advice for plant care as an odd additional tip.
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Henry hosted a 7 oclock dinner Tuesday evening honoring Supt. and Mrs. W. M. Campbell recently wed. The group included Clay Kuykendall, E. L. Kirk, Worth Nance, H. C. Timmins, Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Wilson, Dr. and Mrs. F. W. Farley, Dr. H. V. Felts, Misses Lillian Wayland and Grace Garrell. Guest prize was a set of tumblers.
A Georgetown youth leads a church program beginning Friday to avoid a meeting conflict. The Methodist program continues Saturday evening and Sunday with services at 11 am and Sunday night at Glock. Local 0. B. Ater members attended a school in Sraith Oregon Hayden Dreamer of San An visiting with parents Cy Summers.
The Maytag Company of New ton Iowa markets washers in Texas and Southern Louisiana through Maytag Southwestern Company. Distributors report a sizeable business rise and expect further gains with lower prices. May 1933 sales rose 79.9 percent from May 1932, signaling improving conditions.
San Saba Hill Billies overwhelmed Fairview Plowboys 8 to 1 on their diamond. Pitcher H Tinney fanned 16 as San Saba hitters Hartley, Tinney, Ormand, Franklin, Tinney, Watson, Henderson, and Brown contributed. Fairview lineup included Funderburk Taff Johnson Low Johnson Taylor Crockett Taylor.
Dear Billy notes River Bend Farm visitors from Austin including Jd. M. Ramsey and Moffett party praising fruit and pecan crops. Plums and peaches shown, yard with 14 pecan varieties and two walnut types, flowers and vines extensive. Writer prefers farm life to banking, invites visits to enjoy country scenes and early morning rooster.
Miss Bennie and Master Woodrow Simpson celebrated a birthday last Friday on Mrs. I. J. Hendricks lawn. Guests included Bobby Joe Pridgton Jolly Pridgeon Dorothy Wilson Frances Jones I. J. Hendricks Jr Paul Glenn Hendricks Mary Leigh Moore Alex Brinson Perrylou Coughran and Agnes Miller from Richland Springs.
Mrs. G. A. Walters will visit relatives and friends in Cortland and Dallas after returning home with her son Ah on Sunday.
Families travel to Houston for health matters while others report relatives improving. Social visits occur across the Wallace community with several gatherings noted. Canning and crop work mark the week as travelers pause for brief stops and a department store plans a summer vacation.
Dr Berry Lee Harper and son Eddie and Miss Eddie Burgess of Conroe visited Mr and Mrs C B Lambert in the Wallace community. County Clerk Arch Wooda attended the clerk s convention at San Angelo and spoke on the program and sat on the auditing committee. Ed M Dickerson and W W Holman serve as petit jurors in federal court in Austin this week. Anne Thedford of Okmulgee Okla is here to quit his sunt Mrs C H McMillan.
Miss Lorena Dry assists in Mason for Rally Day judging. Miss Kittie Sue Harrison, now Menard county demonstrator, attends Rally Day and visits Miss Anna Belle Howard. Mr. and Mrs. Summers return from visiting parents. Beatrice Pardon accompanies them home. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett and children visit J Mitch Johnson's family. Garrett returns home while the visit continues. McConnell sold 150 steers to J. K. Knight of Bartlett with delivery planned midweek.
Frank Sloan son of Mr and Mrs P C Sloan was operated on in a Brady hospital Monday and was getting along nicely at last report Miss Anna Belle Howard visited relatives and friends in Brady the first of the week
The firm invites families away from home or in sanitariums to call any time. They will transport the body, allow home selection of a casket, and consolidate all bills with the family’s home undertaker. Available day or night.
The H. B. Club Colony met Friday at Mrs. W. G. Kolb's home with seven members and five visitors. Plans were made for rally day. next meeting at Mrs. Grover Wallace's on June 30 with Miss Dry to present a canning demonstration.
N Landau went to San Antonio Sunday and accompanied Mrs Landau and the children home the first of the week. The latter had been visiting relatives for several days.
Mrs. B Howard Weems of Ballinger relocates to San Saba and takes a position as sales lady at the Economy Store.
Mrs. A B Liptak and her children are expected this week from New York to visit their mother, Mrs. Doris Oliver.
A wedding report notes Gina Patton and Bil Ragsdale were married at a Presbyterian Manse. The ceremony closed the forms and future reports promise details next week.
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a dual remedy for malaria and a general blood tonic. It claims the quinine destroys infection and iron fortifies blood, noting safety for children and wide store availability. Thousands cited as beneficiaries.
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