Oct. 13 to Oct. 19
10 years ago 1999
• Hays County Deputy Sheriff David Peterson reviews the Mounted Patrol program and the importance of horses as a law enforcement tool for local youngsters.
• The Hays County Sheriff’s Office graduated its sixth cadet class.
• The Heritage Associations Most Worthy Citizens are named. Civil Servant, Melissa Millecam; Volunteer, Domingo Tobias; Heritage, Lunelle Anderson; Business, Marty Bryan and Education, Mike Martin.
• Southwest Texas State University’s Department of Technology dedicates the new Centennial Fountain near the intersection of Smith Avenue and Moore Street.
• ”Remembrance and Celebration” scheduled at Sewell Park to recall stories of the Great Flood of 1998.
• The Rattlers beat Lockhart 35-28 but lose their quarterback Marques Jackson for the rest of the season due to an injury in the fourth quarter.
20 years ago 1989
• Natal’s Produce displays its “Pumpkin Patch People” on Hwy. 80 in preparation for Halloween.
• The Southwest Texas Lady ‘Cats win over North Texas State in three straight games.
• A San Marcos woman loses control of her vehicle on IH-35 and crashes into a barn. She is taken to CTMC for observation.
• The Rattlers celebrate Homecoming. Shay Churchwell and Martin Flint are crowned this year’s Queen and King.
• Central Texas Medical Center Auxilian, John Holtermann, is recognized for more than 700 hours of outstanding and untiring service to the Texas Silver Haired Legislature.
• The Bobcats beat the Texas Southern University Tigers 34-14.
• The Tangram 10K race gets underway and features more than 700 runners to raise money for rehabilitation at the San Marcos Tangram facility.
• Report cards for the first six weeks of school go out this week, they will need to be returned by the following Friday signed by a parent or guardian. Students who fail to return their report cards may face disciplinary action.
• Betty Jo Martinez is the first student to graduate from the PRIDE Center just three weeks after it opens.
• SWT’s Epsilon Beta chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Spanish Honor Society, has dedicated the 11th edition of its annual publication Al Principio to Mary Ann Mendoza.
• Jene T. Laman, director of the Home Economics Department’s interior design program at Southwest Texas State University, is selected for publication in the 1990 edition of Baron’s “Who’s Who In Interior Design.”
50 years ago 1959
• This week’s rainfall brings the October total thus far to 8.73 inches, a 2.77 inch gain over the entire month of October last year.
• Property owners attend a city council meeting to protest the acquisition of additional right of way for improving RR12.
• San Marcos wins its first away game against Gonzales since 1949.
• The following Hays County men have been ordered to report for pre-induction physical examinations for the draft: Bennie Ray Williams, Clide Ellis Harris, Augustin Caballero Balles, Jr., Alberto Alvarez, William Austin Matthews and Guadalupe Villalpando Flores Jr.
• B.D. Hillburn, San Marcos druggist, and the Rexall Drug Company of which he is a representative, are awarded a citation from Vice-President Richard M. Nixon on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The citation is for the service to the U.S. rendered by the company in setting up a demonstration of a typical drug store in the United States Exhibit at the 1959 International Trade Fair in Poland. The service presented the first view of an American drug store to be seen behind the Iron Curtain. It is now being shown in the International fair in Greece.
75 years ago 1934
• All outstanding obligations of the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce were ordered paid at the regular meeting of the board of directors.
• Tom Tate, constable, escaped injury or possible death when his car stalled on the Katy railroad tracks near the Old Mill. Tate got out of the car and started to crank it when a northbound passenger train came down the tracks. After frantically spinning the crank to no avail Tate jumped away from the car as the train hit it, carrying it about 50 yards down the tracks.
• Gin report shows cotton production down 10 percent.
• The High School Glee club sings for the Rotarians under the direction of Ezell Murdock.
• Three old buildings on the southwest corner of the courthouse square are being wrecked and cleared away. While no information is available as to use of the lots after they have been cleared off, it is understood that new permanent buildings may be built on the locations.
• NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS - Dog owners will please keep their pets off the grounds of the Campus School. The campus foreman has orders to kill all dogs at large on the school campus. He regrets the necessity of doing this and hopes that he will not be forced to kill anyone’s favorite canine.
• Due to the growing interest manifested by the students, ex-students and faculty members are seeking a “Fight Song” for the college.
• Yancy P. Yarbrough is the new city golf champion.
• Hays County is furnishing its equipment to build an underground silo for the San Marcos Baptist Academy.
• The Southwest Texas Teachers College Band is getting a new uniform outfit.
85 years ago 1924
• The case of Mrs. Annie Hauptrief, charged in five cases with murder and attempt to murder by poisoning, is continued until the regular February term of District Court upon plea of the defense council, Chapin & Watson of San Antonio, in district court here Monday morning. The condition of William Hauptrief, husband of the defendant, whose four children she is charged with poisoning, is improving so that he now walks with the aid of two crutches. His arms are sill seriously affected by the arsenic poison he received when his wife attempted to take his life. He asked a reporter why the case had been postponed and when apprised of the facts appeared to be deeply affected.
• FOUND - Good boy’s sweater. Left at Rogers Park last spring. Call, describe sweater and pay for this ad, and get sweater. Rogers Park.
• In response to many requests from students and teachers in this section of the state, the Southwest Texas State Teachers College has established extension units in the following cities: San Antonio, Corpus Christi, LaGrange and Weimar.
• Oran W. Cliett, president of the San Marcos Valley Seed Farms, leaves for Dallas where he has an exhibit at the fair.
• The Associated Press has written Coach O.W. Strahan last week in interest of an agent to represent that body at the athletic contests to be staged in San Marcos this year. This means that the Bobcats will get recognition all over the state and country. A write-up of 100 words, including score and line-ups of each game is sent in for use in all state papers.
90 years ago 1919
• B. R. Blankenship, former San Marcos publisher, dies in El Paso.
• Boyd Lawrence, age 11, dies of rattlesnake bite.
• The San Marcos Buick Co. has moved from its old location on West Hopkins Street to its handsome new quarters in the new modern fireproof building on North Austin Street, recently erected by I.H. Harrison especially for a home for the Buick Company.
• San Marcos Academy has a new $10,000 hospital for boys, and it seems that the boys are claiming ownership by the fact of their holding it. Since last week’s Laurel, John Brockhas been in the hospital with a sprained ankle, Glynn McKamey has had the rash, Floyd McMullan, Floyd Smith, Joe Dawson, Marshall Smith, Joe Gross, Clyde Parrish and Sam Hildreth have had slight attacks of malaria.
• “We are wagering a year’s subscription to the Record to a gingersnap that there won’t be 50 poll tax receipts issued to the fairer sex this fall, in Hays County. In fact the good women of Hays County do not care to pay out $1.75 for a poll tax receipt for the fun of voting, but are willing to let the men voters settle all political questions. God bless our women!”
• TELEPHONE OPERATORS WANTED - We need four experienced operators at once. Wages from $8.50 to $10.50 per week. Apply to the business manager or chief operator. San Marcos Telephone Co.
• It has been raining practically since Friday of last week and the rainfall since then will probably total 8 or 10 inches. What little cotton in the fields is rotting and feed and corn is being badly damaged and all kinds of work and improving are at a standstill.
– Compiled by Daily Record staffer Jenny Leidecker
