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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
2
W J Cameron on Ford Sunday Evening Hour defends American fiction and society against foreign pessimism. He argues Western democracy will outlast autocracy, praise American growth, religion, and education, and declares the United States embodies renewal and hope amid global peril.
H W Atkinson visited town Saturday evening reporting a satisfactory gale for wood and sheep, and promising food crop prospects along with iron bed developments nearby. The Cumberland Presbyterian elder and deacon meeting will span Friday to Sunday at the San Saba church.
Mills County shows a 1940 census preliminary count of 7 946 residents, down from 8 293 in 1930. In Lometas, on June 19, sheriff deputies hunted two alleged army deserters who fled a guardhouse and stole a 1940 V-8 sedan from an army officer in San Antonio.
Menard draws big rodeo crowds as July Jubilee plans loom in Brady. A junior chamber completes by laws at Scout Lodge. Range conservation parade set for June 27. Seven inch cloudburst near Rochelle damages McCulloch County farms. Brady coop adds a cold storage locker, due July 1. Lometa plans Trades Day June 29. Burnet reports rains totaling up to 1 and 1/2 inches with broader county showers. Burnet schools receive 20,746 in equalization aid for 1939-40. Mason County Fair opens June 27 with horse races and a nighttime rodeo. Mrs. J. R. Gee dies at 79 in Lampasas. Edens Water Facilities Project rumored to move from Brady. San Angelo hosts livestock hauler meeting at the Cactus Hotel. Texas produced 480,000,000 barrels of petroleum in 1939 with oil workers buying 60,000,000 dollars worth of farm and ranch products.
A group of Old Settlers gathered at the Court House to finalize plans for the 1935 reunion to be held on Wednesday, August 14. Judge W. V. Dean will present the loving cup to the winter of the first half of the Business Men's League at a Thursday night meeting, when the Firemen square off with the Chamber of Commerce in a double dealer to close the evening.
Four San Saba residents attended the Ranchmen's Round-Up in Sonora on June 17 and 18. Jake Hattox H M Haswell and Morris Williams joined County Agent C E Tisdale at the meeting. About one thousand West Texas ranchmen were present. The event, at the Ranch Experiment Station 29 miles south of Sonora, covered animal disease stock feeding range improvement and bitter weed control.
Mrs. H. K. Benham of Balmorrhea visited San Saba with her children Billy and Sara Ann for three weeks with her mother Mrs. W. E. Martin. Mr. J. C. Wallace of San Saba traveled with daughter Mable and Miss Maxine Duey to Mineral Wells. Mrs. Wallace remained for treatment and will ride home by bus. The Allens of Crystal City joined Mrs. D. Smith for two months, then returned home. Viron Payne, ROTC student in San Antonio, was home for the weekend before maneuvers at Camp Bullis. Mrs. E. J. Martin and BE. J. Jun of Odessa and daughter Itha, with Mrs. J. G. Egger of Ebony, visited Mrs. Hope Cruisinger. Itha is the Jaycee Rodeo Booster drum majorette. Clem Till and Grandmother Till of Locker visited San Saba. Cherokee visitors included several locals. W. W. Dickason and children Frank and Benny Jean from San Saba spent a weekend in Austin with Mrs. Dickason’s mother, Mrs. W. F. Dickason.
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