10 years ago 1999
• Two men are taken into custody following a traffic stop that yielded five pounds of marijuana.
• Three San Marcos High School students were recognized as Scholar Finalists in the National Hispanic Recognition Program, announced Principal Julio Toro. Sandra Rios-Fraticelli, Katie Galaviz, and Cecilia Rangel are the finalists.
• The San Marcos High School Marching Band, directed by John Martinez, won top honors among 4-A schools at the Hill Country Marching Contest in Fredricksburg.
20 years ago
• Four local teenagers, Kama Davis, Tarah Price, Erin Hanson and Star Jennings, leave with 50 SWT students and two local homeless people to Washington D.C. to participate in a march to raise public consciousness about the problem of homelessness in America.
• Rattlers finish eighth overall in what is the largest Texas high school cross country meet of the year.
• A suit is filed against Southwest Texas University and the governing board of regents by former university president Robert Hardesty, claiming he was wrongfully fired because of political differences with the board.
• A suspected shoplifting ring of two men and one woman, all from San Marcos, is arrested by local police who found stolen goods in their car.
• At a recent Court of Honor, 25 boys from Boy Scout Troop 112 and Explorer Post 112 received a total of 95 merit badges, 15 skill awards and seven advancements in rank.
• Cindy Brooks is named the new vice principal at Goodnight.
• Volunteers at the San Marcos Tourist Information Center who logged more than 50 hours of work are honored at a dinner.
• Kappa Sigma fraternity is granted a colony at SWT, marking the first appearance of the organization in two years.
• Southwest Texas State’s Paul Alsbury received all-conference for his 46.8 yard average in the SFA game and is now 9th in the nation with a 40.8 average.
• Darla Dees Wood, a 1989 graduate of Southwest Texas State University, is selected by local J.C. Penney store as Hays County’s best example of the “Spirit of the American Woman.”
50 years ago
• More than seven inches of rain falls in San Marcos, closing the bridge just above Sewell Park.
• William Z. Fitzgerald of San Marcos High School is named semifinalist in the 1959-60 National Merit Scholarship competition.
• Carleen Aiken, SWTSC junior, is named to play the part of Anne in the forthcoming production of “The Diary of Anne Frank.”
• Fire Prevention Week is held in San Marcos, honoring San Marcos firefighters and celebrating the 75th anniversary of the fire department.
• A fire of undetermined origin sweeps through the San Marcos Record office and plant causing a complete loss. The owners are T.A. Buckner and Sons, who have published the weekly newspaper since 1921. Temporary offices for the Record are being established and the owners will continue their weekly publication.
• Eight new teachers are added to the San Marcos High School faculty.
• Bobcats beat Sul Ross Lobos with passes by score of 13 to 8.
75 years ago
• Hays County ex-sheriff Bill Jackman is elected to preside over Trail Drivers Association as 250 trail drivers gather for annual meet at San Antonio.
• The High School Mothers will have a cake and pie sale at Jackson’s Grocery store all day Saturday. It benefits the band. Your patronage appreciated.
• Work is begun on a sidewalk for the north part of the courthouse lawn.
• Lloyd Bingham sells his partnership interest in the Bingham Tailor Shop to his father, S.V. Bingham, who is now sole owner of the establishment.
• Thirty-six boys and 12 girls report to instructor Ezell Murdock for the first get-together of the San Marcos High School glee club.
• According to the latest reports from L.H. Kidd, the total college registration up to date for the fall term has reached 930, an enrollment record for the fall term.
• A report from Hays County Memorial Hospital today indicates that there have been few serious cases of illness or casualties the past three weeks. The only patient now in the hospital is Irene Schumann of Asherton, a student of Southwest Texas Teachers College, who is recovering from an appendicitis operation.
85 years ago
• An item of unusual interest to students and alumni of the Southwest Texas State Teachers College was contained in a letter received this week by Prof. H.H. Goodman of the teachers college from his daughter, Miss Novella, who is at present a student in Columbia University. She wrote in part: “You will be glad, I am sure, to learn that the Graduate Council of Columbia University has given me full credit for my four year course at old SWTTC.” This action on the part of the Graduate Council of Columbia University indicates clearly that a B.A. or B.S. degree from the Southwest Texas State Teachers College gives its possessor equal standing with graduated from the est. colleges in the United States.
• Claude Evans, San Marcos High School student, who was seriously injured in the San Marcos-Luling football game at the fair last week, is still confined to his bed, but is reportedly improving. He was hurt while playing halfback in a hot mix-up in which a Luling player was also injured.
• “The case of Mrs. Hauptrief is and upon application of her attorneys, Dave Watson and D.B. Chapin, a postponement was granted to next Monday morning upon a plea that the defendant was soon to become a mother, and time was wanted to determine if she was really physically able to go to trial.”
• Bobcats defeat Lumberjacks in season’s opener. Strahan uses practically entire squad in slow game against Bob Shelton’s Lumberjacks – score 23 to 6.
• R.P. Thorpe leaves for Pearsall where he will represent the A.D. Mebane sales agency at the fair.
• Secretary W. A. Lyon of the chamber of commerce gives notice that the speeches given at a special dinner served to the officers and directors of the National Chamber of Commerce will be broadcast from station WDAF, Kansas City, Oct. 9, at 8 o’clock. The program promises to be a good one.
90 years ago
• The first football game of the season is played on Normal Athletic between the academy team and the High School team. It was a battle royal and at the end the score stood 20 to 0 in favor of the Baptist Academy. The academy team was too heavy for the high team. After the game a squabble took place and a few fist fights took place.
• A toilet in the rear of the Harrison & Merrill jewelry establishment is discovered on fire. As the smoke boiled up over the rear of the business houses in this section of the city, it created a regular stampede. Many thought it was the tailor shop in the rear of Wood Bros. store. The fire department responded quickly and soon had the blaze out, with very little damage resulting from the blaze. No doubt the fire started from a lighted match or cigar stump carelessly thrown on the floor by someone.
• The Backman-Tinsch Wild Animal circus is to visit San Marcos next week. It is a trained wild animal show.
• The “boys” stopped in front of the Record office Wednesday, their combined ages aggregating 240 years. They were D.P. Hopkins past 80, J.A. Montgomery 80 and Col. Ed. J. L. Green almost 80. And by the way they are not so old either, as two of the “boys” came very near getting into a wrestling match. Mr. Montgomery challenged Mr. Hopkins, but Col. Green and the editor persuaded them not to try out the bout on the hard pavement.
– Compiled by Daily Record staffer Jenny Leidecker
