Posted on: San Saba Co., TX Queries<br> with Automated Mailing List Posting Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/SanSaba/10704 Surname: ------------------------- >From the San Saba News April 8, 1898 [neighborhood 'reports'] Sloan. Ed News: -- Vegetation is rap[idly] recovering from the effocts of [a] late freeze. [R]ain is badly needed and if it [does] not come soon somebody is going to get in bad shape. [T]he Rev. J. A. Irwin preached [her]e Saturday night, Sunday at 11 [and] Sunday evening. Prof. W. N. Ellis, of the Brady [Hi]gh School, came home Friday [morn]ing and returned to Brady ____ day evening. Judge Plum_____ of Brady, accompanied Bill ________. They report it very dry in [Mc]Culloch county, there being [sca]rcely any water in that county excepting in the wells. Our good people got rid of all our surplus chickens and turkeys [las]t week. Two men from Lampasas swapped goods for chickens. [So]me of the boys took these men's _____gons for the cars. All fools day came and the boys ________ [cut off] -- China. We have seen farmers wear brighter smiles than the Chinamen are wearing now. Corn was bitten down [sic] and the wheat and oats are needing rain. If it don't rain soon we can all go fishing, and I won't that be jolly for the candidates. [sic] They can turn their horses out to graze; put up their Sunday clothes and go to the river and catch frogs and minners [sic] for the dear people. It will be well for some of them to practice up a little as the most proficient catcher of bait will be the most popular. The boys spoken of in our last communication escaped without further injury than a few scratches. They are not talking wolves now but are going into the more peaceful pursuit of tank building. Jim McDaniel and family and his son-in-law, Will Page, left Sunday, April 3rd for Arizona. They are going through in wagons. Jim McCarty has actually gone to stealing. Week before last he stole a young lady, Miss Corda Smith, of Richland Creek, and after a short ceremony at the residence of Newt McDaniel, which gave him a bona fide title to the property he had stolen, he and his bride started for a trip to Mason County. They returned last Friday and that night the boys gave them a serennade. They are house keeping in a part of the house occupied by George Tomlinson. Mellica Man. -- After A Woman! Any good woman who has to look after the health and comfort of a large family has used a bottle of Taylor's Little Liver Pills. She learns to rely on them. She averts serious sickness by using them promptly on the approach of threatening symptoms. Ask your wife what medicine she prefers. She will appreciate your thoughfulness. Then come and give these pills a trial. She'll be pleased and so will you. For Sale By J. R. Taylor Richland Springs, Texas or Sanderson Bros. San Saba. [end of photocopy]