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  • Aprill Brandon •
  • Originally published January 6, 2009 at 6:56 p.m., updated January 6, 2009 at 6:56 p.m.

January 7, 1909

The first section of Allison-Richey's largest excursion of home seekers will arrive here tomorrow and there will be 150 people in the party. There are over 300 in all, and the others will arrive Saturday. The train entering the Sate was composed of eleven coaches, ever run to Texas.

January 7, 1934

A large attendance is expected at the farmers' mass meeting to held at the court house tomorrow night, when the government's cotton acreage reduction plan for 1934-35 will be officially presented, explained and discussed. January 31 will be the final date for farmers who intend to join in it to give notice of their acceptance.

All persons interested in basketball officiating are requested to attend an organization meeting to be held at the YMCA Jan. 10. An association will be formed here to prepare officials for the many games that are to be played here and in the section this winter.

January 7, 1959

Royce C. Wood, executive vice-president of Groce-Wearden Co., was elected president of the Victoria Chamber of Commerce yesterday during the meeting of the chamber's 12-man board of directors.

January 7, 1984

Sales tax refunds for the January rebate periods were all on the plus side for counties in the Victoria area. Some of the gains over the January 1983 report were modest, but in most cases they were significant - ranging to 170.55 percent for Karnes County and 362.84 in Refugio County.

Mrs. Margaret Finn, 58, of 508 W. Constitution St., who had been confined to a wheel chair by a terminal illness, was found dead from severe burns about her body and smoke inhalation Friday morning inside her home. Authorities said Mrs. Finn, who was alone in her duplex apartment, appeared to have made an effort to get to a telephone or to a LifeLine monitoring system to seek assistance. However, the authorities said the fire quickly covered her body and burned all of her clothing making it doubtful that any source of help, through the Lifeline system or otherwise could have saved her life.



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