Sept. 29 - Oct. 5
10 years ago 1999
• San Marcos senior Kelly Figueroa defended her first-place finish of a year ago at the Converse-Judson Cross Country Invitational, with a time of 12 minutes, 55 seconds. The course was slightly longer than two miles.
• Mike Natal Jr., Elidia Natal and Father Brian Culley, pastor of St. John’s Catholic Church, planted a tree in honor of Mike Natal Sr., who was dedicated to improving the landscape of St. John’s Church and many other places in San Marcos.
• Robert Gorman, professor of political science at Southwest Texas State University, has been named the second holder of the school’s Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Humanities.
• Retired Brigadier General John Serur awards Mike De La Cruz the Purple Heart Medal he earned during World War II. A communication mix-up delayed the honor 55 years.
20 years ago 1989
• First woman deputy, Sherry Stiles, goes on patrol for the Hays County Sheriff’s Department this week.
• SWT begins its first Phon-A-Thon fund-raising drive with the goal of persuading 20,000 alumni and friends of the university to become first-time contributors to SWT or to upgrade past contributions.
• A SWT student armed with a shotgun was beaten early Saturday morning after threatening four men at a local fast food restaurant.
• Rene Perez, bowled 201-205 during league competition and became the first “Bowl-A-Saurus” bowler to earn his official 200 game patch.
• The Southwest Texas State volleyball team breaks its nine game losing streak with a win against UT-Pan American.
50 years ago 1959
• Final phase-out of the Wm. J. Graham & Sons flying training contract at Camp Gary was completed as the last contingent of 12 employees left the base after turning over property to the Army custodians. The Graham operation here, which began in 1956, trained several thousand Army officers to fly fixed wing aircraft.
• Five broken meters were discovered last week by city policeman A.L. Camp beside the Palace Theater.
• The San Marcos Rattlesnakes grabbed the Lockhart Lions by the tail and win 36 - 8.
• Susan Cook was elected president and Charles Ewing vice-president of the San Marcos Junior High School Student Council in a recent election.
• Jim Hartley announced that construction has started on his Community Mausoleum in the City Cemetery. Charles Zunker has the contract to erect the structure at an approximate cost of $17,000.
• The Kiwanis Kids Day Parade was one of the largest they have had, and certainly one of the best received. (Featured in photo above.)
75 years ago 1934
• City Tax Collector Tom G. Oliver, Sr., reports the payment of more than $1,000.00 in city taxes on Monday, Oct. 1, the first day on which taxes for 1934 could be paid.
• When Patricio Hernandez, 11, who lives with his parents on the ranch of Lee Posey, five miles southwest of San Marcos, tried to put a mouse trap in a corner of the chimney Friday night when a rattlesnake bit him on the right foot. After the child had been brought to a physician in San Marcos his mother killed the snake, which had eight rattles.
• A new girl’s dormitory for the Southwest Texas Teachers college has been assured. President C.E. Evans and Mayor Chas R. Ramsay received a telegram Thursday from United States Senator Tom Connally which stated that the loan and grant for $126,000 by the PWA for the construction of a dormitory here has been definitely authorized by Washington.
• Hays County cotton producers who wish to secure a 12 cent per pound loan on cotton produced in 1934 may now obtain such a loan from San Marcos banks, according to announcement made by Jack Williams, county agricultural agent.
• Mrs. J.M. Van Ness honored Miss Vivian Sprague of Sturgis, Kentucky, with four tables of bridge Friday afternoon.
• Total rainfall in Sept. here was 2.6 inches, according to G.E. Williams, San Marcos weather observer. Last year 2.74 inches fell in September. Lowest temperature in the month was 50 degrees on Sept. 4. The lowest temperature this morning was 58 degrees. There were 19 clear days during the month, 11 rainy ones.
• Anyone having an empty ice cream can or tub belonging to us, please call us and we will send a truck to pick it up. Phone 505. Ivey Creamery.
• Scrutchin Motor Company, local Chevrolet dealers, reports the largest car sales for any month in the history of the organization for September when they sold and delivered 92 cars.
85 years ago 1924
• The Hays County Grand Jury, after deliberating for nearly six days, adjourned last Saturday morning, returning into court 31 bills of indictment, 22 of which being felonies and nine misdemeanors.
• You remember “Hoot Gibson” and Lovie Younger made a trip to the West this past summer, and the California authorities refused to allow them to enter their state on account of quarantine against the “mouth and hoof disease.” Since the disease has become alarming in Texas, we are inclined to believe that these two young culprits are the ones who brought it here.
• SPECIAL - 1 lb. box fresh Date Loaf, 88c. Kings Confectionery.
90 years ago 1919
• Carpenters began tearing down an old frame building that has been a landmark in S.M. for more than 35 years. It was the small frame building n North Austin Street erected by J. G. Laumen in the early days and was occupied by him as a shoe shop. Some 13 years ago this same small building was occupied by W.S. Davis ad was the home of The Daily Herald. Now this frame building, one of the few yet remaining in the fire limits, is giving away to make room for a new modern fire proof building of brick and tile, and when competed will be the new home of the San Marcos Record.
• We invite you to inspect our line of fancy cakes. We make small batches and keep them fresh. Austin Street Bakery.
• Civic pride, if for nothing else, ought to compel the owners to build a decent side-walk from the Hutchings corner to the Morris corner on North Austin Street.
• Next Monday is Clean Up Day at the City Cemetery. Do not neglect the city of the dead. Go out and help the good people in this laudable undertaking and make the cemetery one of the prettiest and cleanest in all the big state of Texas.
• North Austin Street is destined to become one of the leading business streets of the city. It is the only business street in the city that is having any improvements done right now. It is the main thoroughfare from the depots to the Normal.
• Joel Lowman of Staples was here Monday and requests the Record to ask the all wise Providence to grant us just 30 days of real sunshine and not a drop of rain.
--Compiled by Jenny Leidecker
