Posted on: San Saba Co., TX Queries<br> with Automated Mailing List Posting Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/SanSaba/10697 Surname: ------------------------- The San Saba news is on microfilm at the San Saba Library. >From the San Saba News October 29, 1897 [from the neighborhood "reports"] China. We had some rain last week but not enought to put out stockwater. Cotton picking is progessing slowly. Montie Brown is very low. His mother and brother have come from Bell county to see him. Jim Baker and wife, of Coryelle [sic] county, were visiting relatives here last week. Mr. Neal Foster and wife from near Milburn have been visiting the family of S. C. McCarley. Grandma Haney, Mrs. MrCarley's mother, returned home with them. Will Page and wife, of Hamilton county, are visiting relatives here and will perhaps remain some time. We acknowledge the receipt of the announcement of the Editor's marriage, and extend congratulations, hoping their life may be one of peace and prosperity, and when the last editorial has been written that they may spend eternity where only joy is known. We learn that there are still efforts being made to have the rangers removed. We are not surprised at this, neither can we blame them, for if we belonged to such a thing we would not want such men as Capt. McDonald and his boys on our track. We have no uneasiness about their removal until their work is done. Hoping that their work may be crowned with success and the power of this diabolical organization be forever broken we shall expectantly await developments. [Note of transcriber: This piece refers to the efforts made by the Texas Rangers to discover and disband the "San Saba Mob."] Melica Man. [advertisement, top of column cut off] Only for Spot Cash. I thank all customers for past patronage and will appreciate your future trade, but please understand I am no longer situated so as to enable me to extend credit and Must Have Cash! For what goes out of the Store. All who owe me must pay them promptly so I can settle my debts. This is BUSINESS and excuses are unnecessary as I NEEED MY MONEY. I will thank you to come in and Settle Now! And save me the trouble of mailing statements or calling on you. J. R. Taylor, Richland Springs, Texas. [end of photocopy]

Thanks Lisa, for the excerpt about the "San Saba Mob" This would have been about a year after my gr-grandfather, Will James was shot by the mob. It was interesting to read how it was afterward. I have always read that everyone was so afraid they wouldn't speak of it. This newspaper item shows that that was not entirely true. Margaret