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1909
Aug. 17 - Commissioners Court, which closed yesterday, gave much of its time during the week to the public road question looking to the betterment of the roads and the economy of construction. As a result, the county placed an order for a national grader and an order for a 25-horsepower traction engine. It is expected that the engine will do the work better than the mules have been doing. The mules will then be used for lighter work when possible.
Aug. 18 - A new shipment of buggies and surries has been received at the Roos Mercantile Company and the public is invited to come by and see them.
Aug 19 - The First National Bank of this city has installed a Burroughs adding machine that is operated by electricity. This feature greatly increases the speed of the operator and is consequently a time saver. The machine is the second of its model now in use in the state and cost $525.
Aug. 20 - The construction of the Iroquois building, which has been almost at a standstill for the past three weeks or longer, is once more under full headway.
1934
Aug. 18 - Bandits who barricaded themselves in houses or strikers who seek to hold off the police will receive the same treatment in Victoria as they find in the larger cities of the nation. The reason is simple. The Sheriff's Department has added one of the modern tear gas guns and two sub-machine guns as regular equipment, the same as they use in Chicago, New York and cities larger than Victoria. But county officials are hoping the tear gas gun won't be fired many times. The shells, which measure about 8-inches in length, cost $7.50 each.
Aug. 19 - The annual ball arranged to create a uniform for the Victoria Municipal Band will be held at Pleasure Island Thursday night, Aug. 23. Dancing will begin at 9 and will continue until 1 o'clock. The admission is $1. Tony Martino and his Southerners will furnish the music for the occasion.
Aug. 21 - Victoria bakers, it has been learned, are expressing concern over the unfortunate aspect of the prolonged drought which may result in a wheat shortage. Such a shortage, one baker claims, would undoubtedly bring about a higher flour price which in turn would be reflected in the price of bread.
1959
Aug. 16 - Mission Valley School will open for its second terms as an independent district on Sept. 2, Board President Nelson Pantel has announced. Two new teachers, Mrs. Winifred Russell and Miss Helen Anne Boyle, will make their appearance this fall to bring the school staff to seven teachers, one more than last year. Bernard Staff is principal of the school.
Aug. 19 - Principals of Victoria public schools put the final polish on plans for the opening of school in an all-day session Tuesday, as throughout the district hundreds of mothers put their new first graders through final registration Wednesday and Thursday. The freshly scrubbed and heavily indoctrinated youngsters, if events ran true to form will, skip and smile or scream and be dragged into classrooms at 12 elementary schools to begin the process known as formal education. Approximately 1,000 first graders are to be registered at the schools they will attend, beginning Sept. 2, Supt. C.O. Chandler announced.
Aug. 20 - A buzzing bee stirred up a furor in City Park last night and it didn't end until the sirens of two police cars and two ambulances had quieted down. By that time the bee had buzzed off. What the bee's buzzing did was to cause 17-year-old Charles Robert Stark of 1301 N. Jecker to turn his head sharply while strolling in the park near the Optimist Club fishing ponds. This, in turn, caused him to collapse on the road in a dead faint, because he has a broken neck on which he wears a brace, but which he has been warned not to move suddenly. Soon after the youth fell unconscious on the roadside, fire marshall L.B. Richardson cruised by. Spying the boy, he investigated, noted the brace and used his radiophone to notify the police dispatcher. An ambulance and Sgt. Mike Skinner and officers Wesley Pringle, John Goldman, and T.C. Cash were dispatched and the youth was conveyed to Citizens Memorial Hospital for observation. It was learned that the youth had broken his neck in June during a swimming party at Magnolia Beach. He said he had fainted once before when he had turned his head too sharply.
Aug. 22 - Pvt. Ronald Eilers, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gawlik of Victoria, is with the 9th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., where he is taking basic training.
1984
Aug. 16 - In a public service gesture, supporters of Mac Sweeney of Wharton, Republican candidate for Congress in the 14th district, plan Saturday to paint the concession stand area in Riverside Park.
Aug. 17 - The first two performances of Tchaikowsky's classical "Swan Lake" will be presented by the Victoria Ballet Theatre at 8 p.m. Friday on the special events stage in Riverside Park.
Aug. 19 - Surplus food commodities will be distributed by Victoria Community Action Committee of Victoria Thursday and Friday at Indian Ridge Apartments in Gonzales.
Aug. 21 - Bingo has blossomed into almost a $2 million a year business in Victoria County, based on reports from the state comptroller's office for the period from April 7 through Aug. 3.
