Sept. 22 to Sept. 28



10 years ago 1999

• SMCISD passes $41 million budget for the 1999-2000 school year.

• Emergency medical crews are called to the intersection of LBJ and Ramsay for an auto-bicycle wreck. The bruised rider is taken to CTMC.

• Margie Villalpando, a long time Hays County resident and Red Cross volunteer, is named the new director of the American Red Cross Hays County Service Center.

• Three local women are honored as new members of the San Marcos Women’s Hall of Fame at the San Marcos Activity Center. Honored are Mildred Cates, Refugia M. Pinales and Susan Thomas.

• A special gathering of World War II bomber and fighter pilots and planes is bringing history to life at the San Marcos Municipal Airport.

• San Marcos High School beats Round Rock 31-27.

• Wood sculptor Boni Rosales, of New Braunfels, creates his most recent masterpiece designed for Dr. Jeff Jorgensen’s veterinary clinic on Hopkins Street. The eight-foot tall statue of a cat with its paw in a sling is carved out of a cypress tree.



20 years ago 1989

• San Marcos Rattlers beat the Austin Lanier Vikings 6-0.

• Southwest Texas State beats the Northwest Louisiana Indians 26-7.

• A dispute between a couple over who owned furniture in the apartment they used to share leads to the arrest of two men.

• Lt. Col. Pete Natal, of San Marcos, retires from the United States Air Force.

• SMCISD alternative academic PRIDE center opens.

• WANTED: Volunteers from across the community to serve on three new task forces aimed at studying the feasibility of a future city bond election, a convention center and public transportation system.

• CTMC holds a hospital-sponsored appreciation dinner for Emergency Medical Service workers in Hays, Caldwell and Comal counties.

• Former SWT Cheerleader, Russell “Rusty” Lewis, is honored with a personalized megaphone for his work as a cheerleader from 1931 to 1933.

• A ceremony celebrating the long-awaited restoration of the Hays County Courthouse Annex is held honoring the Hays County Historical Commission’s Key Committee, which worked since 1987 to collect the $45,000 in private funds used to restore the building.

• SWT students rally to raise public consciousness about the plight of blacks in South Africa under apartheid rule.

• The seventh grade volleyball team from Owen Goodnight Jr. High took first place in the Briesemeister tournament in Seguin.



50 years ago 1959

• Nine freight cars of the Katy Comet, train 73, were derailed early Wednesday morning at the Gary Switch near the north end of Camp Edward Gary. No one is injured and the cause is unknown.

• Mrs. Carmen Milligan, president of the local Classroom Teacher’s Association, is elected to serve on the nominating committee for district two at the Conference of presidents of Texas Classroom Teacher’s Association.

• The John J. Stokes Construction Co., received contracts this past Thursday and Friday for $1,448,085 of work at the Texas Blind, Deaf and Orphans School in Austin and at the Golden Age Home in Lockhart.

• Rattlers shock Luling with 68-0 win.



75 years ago 1934

• The Hays County grand jury returned 19 indictments.

• Hays County District Court is in session with heavy docket.

• Mattress Factory to begin operation in East End Building. It will employ 40 workers and produce 48 mattresses daily.

• Meat distribution plans abandoned. Owing to the fact that the cattle buying program has come to a sudden close, County Relief Administrator C.R. Bourdene announces that plans which were made for the distribution of fresh meat have been abandoned.

• Jesse Posey is bitten by a rattlesnake on his left leg.

• The two buildings of Gus Voges on the square next to the First National Bank are undergoing repairs this week. New awnings will take the place of the old unsightly fronts. Horace Pirtle is doing the work.

• Chas. Zunker of this city, former star tackle on the SWT Teachers Bobcat team, later coach at San Marcos Academy, has definitely established himself as first string tackle on the strong Cincinnati Reds professional team.

• Bobcats win over Twenty Third Infantry Doughboys 13-0.

• High School classes elect Billy Speck as Senior President.



85 years ago 1924

• At the end of the first day of registration, the SWT Teachers College had the largest opening enrollment of any previous year with a total of 815 students.

• The Western Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church is in session here this week and between 50 and 60 prominent ministers and elders of the church are in attendance.

• Jack Storey, of San Marcos, is awarded first prize in a national art contest conducted by A. Stein and Company, Chicago manufacturers of “Paris Garters.” The prize is awarded for the best design submitted for new holiday package for use by the concern.

• Jennings Drug Store is resplendent this week in a new coat of paint and varnish, and presents a very pleasing and new appearance for the large fall trade which they expect. Improvements such as these add greatly to the appearance of our business houses.

• Mr. D.H. Reeves of Kaufman is the new superintendent of the Record plant, and arrived to take his position Monday of this week.

• Judge Dave Watson and Judge D.B. Chapin, prominent criminal lawyers of San Antonio, are employed in the Hauptrief murder case.

They were employed in the case by relatives of Mrs. Hauptrief after the disappearance of Judge Carl.



90 years ago 1919

• Miss Burnyce Stevens, the first graduate in the Piano department of the San Marcos Baptist Academy, has accepted a position as instructor at the academy.

• For Sale – Oil stock 40 shares of Turman Oil Company stock at $4 per share, now paying 60 percent annually. Will take cow instead. Phone 490-Red

• A warehouse near the Katy depot, filled with hay, was damaged by fire. It is not known how the fire started. Loss unknown.

• District court is in session this week. The Grand Jury will have little to do.

• SWT Normal opens football training camp.

• R.E. Burk, a great layman in the Baptist Church will speak at the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday night.

• An electrical baseball board will be installed in the New Theatre on Wednesday in order to show the World Series games between the Chicago White Socks and Cincinnati Reds.