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50 YEARS AGO
New hospital opens doors
Mayor W.A. Kucher cut a ribbon officially opening the new $1.5 million Columbus Community Hospital Sunday and the doors were opened to more than 1,100 visitors at an open house The turnout of visitors far surpassed the hospital’s expectations. Hospital officials had expected between 400 and 500 people.
New Charter goes to a vote Colorado County voters will join those across Texas Tuesday in deciding the fate of a new proposed constitution.
The polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m., thereby opening an hour earlier than in the past as ordered by the secretary of state.
County Clerk Lester Schneider predicted a light turnout. He forecasts a turnout of about 25 percent of the county’s ellgible voters.
Cash balances Up-School audit
The Columbus Independent School District had a total revenue of $1,311,105 in the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31, compared with total expenditures of $1, 204,287.
Total revenues were up 13 percent over the figure a year earlier and total expenditures were up 7 percent.
75 YEARS AGO
Car-truck collision kills four; County’s traffic toll now 11 Death of four Houston negroes Monday afternoon as a result of a cartruck collision on Highway 90 brought the death toll of traffic accidents in Colorado County in 1950 to 11, probably an all-time record.
Killed instantly in the collision a half mile east of Gross’ store were Albert Ceasar, 32, Ora Mae Bland, 30 and Johnnie Mae Blair, 37; M.A. Shelton died in Columbus hospital a few hours after the accident at 2 p.m.
Sanders found not guilty of polluting Sandies A 6-man jury in county court yesterday found P.M. Sanders, Tidewater Oil company employee in the Sublime field, no guilty of a charge of polluting Sandies Creek with draining from a distillate well sludge pit.
Lions estimate about $800 made from carnival Busy yesterday totaling up expenses and proceeds from their annual carnival Tuesday night, Lions club members here yesterday hazarded a guess they might have cleared around $800 with which they intend to help beautify Memorial Park.
100 YEARS AGO
Store burglarized
to Will’s Place last night by breaking the glass in the upper sash of a window on the east side of the building and releasing the catch.
His efforts netted him about three dollars in pennies, all that was left in the cash register. Nothing else was missed.
Serious accident at Eagle Lake
Last Sunday evening as a Ford touring car occupied by Misses Kittie Belle Ney, Ruth Boothe, Dorothy Darby , Janet Cummings, Ruby Clapp and Fraces Calison was crossing the Sap tracks the car stuck by a train, totally demolishing the car and serously injuring its occupants.
Cafe struck by lightning
Lightning was carried into the Burger Cafe over the aerial of the radio last Thursday night, and a small hole was knocked out of the wall by the hasty fluid when it jumped from the radio wire to a large nail which penetrated the wall to some depth from the Paulsen side. After reaching the nail the juice grounded from the tine wall of the Paulsen store.
The damage was small.
Nebraskan dies in Garwood James, the fifteen-yearold son of Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Baker of Gibbon, Nebraska, died at Garwood l ast Saturday and was buried at Rock Island Sunday. The cause was pneumonia.
The Baker family had been visiting Garwood for some three weeks.
125 YEARS AGO
Meteoric showers in November Calculations indicate that a splendid meteoric shower may be expected in the early morning of November 16th probably visible on both sides of the Atlantic. The earth will then encounter a swarm of meteors which travel in a long oval orbit around the sun, making their circuit in thirty-three and one-fourth years.
