• Rubi Reyes •
• Originally published January 18, 2009 at 8:31 p.m., updated January 18, 2009 at 8:31 p.m.

January 19, 1909

Miss Junia Rosborough entertained yesterday with a home luncheon in honor of Miss Mary Bolton of Wharton. Covers were laid for Misses Mary Bolton, Gussie Bolton, Ruby James, Mary Oliver, Pauline Gervais, Maggie Jones, Rebecca Rosborough and the hostess. The honoree is quite a social favorite in Victoria, for she possesses both beauty of face and character, and to these natural gifts she adds the winsomeness and charm of manner that endears her to all.

January 19, 1934

E.M. Van Zandt, L.C. English, Fred Schneider, H.A. Lawrence and J.R. Gervais represented Victoria at the hearing held in Austin yesterday by the State Fire Insurance Commission on the petition of the South Texas Chamber of Commerce for a reduction in the fire insurance rates charged this section of the state.

January 19, 1959

President Eisenhower's budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 includes $600,000 for continuation of the Victoria Barge Canal, according to a telegram received yesterday by Victoria County Navigation District member Earl Fischer. The telegram, from Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Rep. Clark W. Thompson, came on the eve of the opening of bids on the next section of the canal by the Corps of Engineers in Galveston at 11 a.m. Tuesday. The first three-mile section of the canal to Highway 35 was completed recently and the next section will bring it to the Missouri Pacific's Tivoli Branch.

January 19, 1984

Director James Stewart of Victoria Public Library agrees there are few better places than a library for a young person to spend a couple of hours after school. He told members of the library board Wednesday, however, that "we're being used as baby sitters, and we're not staffed for that." Stewart said as many as 40 children a day - and some of them every day - in the first-through-third grade age group come to the library from two area schools. He said from 25 to 30 Nazareth students and five to 10 from Mitchell come to the library after 3 p.m. daily, and some of them frequently aren't picked up by parents until 6 p.m. That is the second part of the problem, Stewart said. "We don't like to walk off and leave children (waiting for parents outside the library), but there is no provision in our budget for overtime and I don't think it is reasonable to ask staff people to remain," he said. He told the board that "it is not realistic to expect children who have been in school all day to just sit down and read for another two hours" after school." He said later, however, that the children behave "surprising well" under the circumstances.

Arrangements for the South Texas Zoological Society's annual fundraiser were reviewed and acknowledged by the board of directors Wednesday night. The date for the ball is June 22. Dubbed "The Bear Ball," the dance and dinner will most likely feature the reggae band, "Pressure," and be held at Club Westerner. Ticket prices were increased from last year's $35 a person to $50. "We've got to realize this is a fund-raiser event. It's not just something to recover our costs on," dinner-dance chairman Aubrey O'Connor said.

Commissioner John H. Hammack of Precinct 3 said Wednesday he thinks Victoria County does not need to put an engineer-superintendent in charge of road and bridge maintenance for Victoria County.

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