Yesteryears: All garages, filling stations will sell for cash only
October 6, 1922
A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash. says “Stubbornest woman ever stays in jail rather than sign her name.” It depends on where she had been directed to sign her name — it might have been a “hot check” she had been directed to sign — and the sentence for the crime longer.
* A 100-year-old Mexican in the Lower Rio Grande Valley predicts the hardest winter in years; an apple tree in the backyard of a man in Middletown, New York, is in full bloom and he declares it is a harbinger of a mild winter. All we can do is wait and see who is the better prophet — the old Mexican or the apple tree, a thousand miles nearer to the North Pole.
* One of the important and highly enjoyable social functions of the year was the at-home honoring the new president of Southwestern, Dr. P. W. Horn and family, given by Prof. S. C. Mast on Friday evening from five to seven o’clock. Arriving guests were ushered into the appropriately decorated reception room where they met the host and hostess and were presented to Dr. and Mrs. Horn and Miss Horn.
* Important Notice to the Public — This is to notify the Public that beginning November 1, all garages and filling stations will sell for cash only! — on account of the small profits in our products and the great expense of collecting we find it necessary to adopt this policy. DO NOT ASK US TO CHARGE IT!
H.E. McKeithan & Son Gordon Repair Shop Treuthardt Machine Shop Ahlberg & Suttles Garage Quality Filling Station E.C. Ivey Garage Jim May Towns Bros. Shaw Garage Georgetown Motor Co.
* Work On Sanitarium Begun — Work on the Georgetown sanitarium, Drs. Martin, Martin and Martin, proprietors, was begun last week and terracing and sinking of the foundation trenches is going rapidly on. The building, which will be brick throughout, is to be two stories high and equipped with every modern convenience, the plans being accepted only after inspection trips had been made to some of the most modern sanitariums in Texas and adjoining states…. It is understood the promoters hope to have the institution in operation soon after January 1st.
* In county court — B. F. J. pled guilty to a charge of theft under $50 and was given two days in jail and fined $5 and costs.
H. M., pistol toting, pled guilty and fined $100.00.
A fine of $150 was assessed against Joe W. on a charge of pistol toting.
Leo P. F., theft of property, value less than $50. Fined $1 and one hour in jail.
Don M. was fined $25 and costs on a charge of aggravated assault.
Jim B., theft of value under $50. Fined $5 and two days in jail.
Jim R., aggravated assault, pled guilty and fined $75.
September 30 & October 4, 1979
You Are There — A trooper from Company C, Fourth Texas Infantry of the Confederate States of America, Waco, lets you feel like you’re part of the action during the staging of “The Battle of Donahue Creek” outside Bartlett Sunday afternoon.
* Counsel To Keep: A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human world. — Goethe
* Cheerleaders — 7th Grade — Haven McMaster, Tracy Skero, Juli Forcier, Tricia Leech, Andrea Poisson and Vivian Vasquez 8th Grade — Lorrie Tonn, Carolyn Saterfield, Angela Toungate, Lisa Stuart, Kari Peters, Cindy Vasquez
* Pulling Hair by Linda Scarbrough — “A friend of mine who wishes to remain nameless (she is paranoid about being written about in the newspaper, she claims), nonetheless said something so funny the other day that I must use it — attributed or not.
We were going to lunch. Whose car to take, hers or mine?
‘I have a sordid confession to make,’ she whispered to me over the phone. ‘I have a condition. You know what it’s like to have falling socks? Well, this is even worse. I have worn-out brake shoes.’
We went in my car.”
* Coach R. M. Medley, 81, has passed away. He was Southwestern’s athletic director and coach from 1939 until his retirement in 1969.
September 27 & October 1, 2006
Williams Drive and D. B. Wood Road get dedicated right turn lane * Wilco Children’s Advocacy Center to get new 10,000 square feet home * Rees Crosby and Kash David key cogs in Eagle defense * County Attorney Jana Duty gives 30 days to convenience stores to remove any form of pornography.
* Defense Attorney Robert M. Phillips was named by “Texas Monthly” as a Super Lawyer. He is the first in Wilco to have this distinction.
October 1 & 5, 2014
Hop on the “saddle.” Biking to school gives a healthy start to the day. * The Salon Professional Academy has opened next to Salons of the Town. The cosmetology school is modeled after NYC Revlon salons. * East View High School Homecoming Royalty – King Apollo Hester and Queen Kesla Brown * City considers new parking garage, as well as the planned 150-space lot at Eighth and MLK Jr.