Posted on: San Saba Co., TX Queries<br> with Automated Mailing List Posting Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Tx/SanSaba/10699 Surname: ------------------------- The San Saba News is on microfilm at the San Saba library. >From the San Saba News November 19, 1897 [Again, another partial column.] / ...[mat]ter of regret to everbody that the market was a little off, and that the price they realized was not what they could have gotten a few days before. --Lampasas Leader ___ Stump of San Saba was here yesterday selling cotton and buying goods. Mr. and Mrs. Barlow, of San Saba, were in this city visiting friends yesterday. _ugh Miller, of San Saba [the remainder illegible due to tears in the original document] Our Public School The second month of our school [end]ed last Saturday. The average attendance was 245, enroll[ment] scholastics 237, 11 unders, 20 [ove]rs, total 268. [T]he reports for the several [tea]chers at the faculty meeting [Sat]urday evening show that the [sch]ool is doing fine work through-[?] The teachers made no comments. [T]ardiness on the part of some pupils is becaoming a nuisance. [All?] pupils should be at school to [ans]wer roll call. [T]he literary societies are doing [goo]d work. We are pleased to report everything in good working order. G. H. Hagan -- China. Mr. T. E. Brown and family, who have been on China several weeks, have returned to their home in Bell county. Mr. Brown's son, Montie, died last Saturday afternoon after a 59 days' spell of typhoid fever. Mr. Brown was deeply grateful for the kindnesses the China people extended his son during his illness. Dick Wright and family, of Co- _________ [have] moved to San Saba ___________________ little house___________ [tear in paper] Judge A______________ Menardville. He said, for the first time in his judicial service he cleared the dockets. One criminal and two or three civil cases were on the dockets and all were disposed of. Mr. Typer, agency of the Will A. Watkins Music Company, of Dallas, was here the latter part of last week to deliver a piano to Dr. Greer. he said F. H. Ross, who was here the week before, is not an authorized agent of the Will A. Watkins Music Company. -- Charlie McCormick, of China, was in town Saturday afternoon giving a street exhibition of his skill as a horseback rider. Later, after he had returned to the Creek the bucking pony pitched him off and kicked him in the head, making an ugly wound. Skill should be "well cured" beofre it is taxed too much. [end of photocopy]