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1909
July 12 - The sewer system is being extended half a block east on Constitution Street and 21/2 blocks north on Wheeler Street, or from the corner of L.F. Jacker's residence to L.I. Jecker's residence. Twenty-two men are engaged in the work, and good progress is being made. This will give Victoria about 31/2 miles of sewer, with 170 connections. Customers will pay an average of 75 cents rental per quarter.
July 13 - The Bailey Mills Company will at once erect for themselves a fine two-story brick store and office building on Santa Rosa Street on the old Hilke place, on which a wooden structure that is used for a barber shop now stands. This building will be moved to the alley between it and the Iroquois building and occupied by the Palace Saloon.
July 14 - A.F. Rees and party returned yesterday from their automobile trip from Beeville to Houston. The return trip from the Bayou City was made in 13 hours. This distance was found to be 200.1 miles, and, consequently, the car averaged a little over 15 miles an hour. Mr. Rees stated that he found fairly good roads all the way, the worst of them being between Goliad and Victoria. This is the longest continuous trip Mr. Rees has made in his Franklin car, and he is highly pleased with its performance. Only 11 gallons of gasoline were consumed in the 200-mile journey.
July 16 - The walls for the Iroquois building and Denver Hotel addition are now under construction and rapid progress is being made on both structures. Work will begin on the new Webster building adjoining the Iroquois as soon as the old one is removed.
July 17 - County Judge J.P. Pool performed his first marriage ceremony this morning, the contracting parties being Oli Adkinson and Miss Stella Hosey.
July 18 - T.D. Wood has decided to erect a fine three-story brick store and office building at the corner of Main and Juan Linn Streets, which will replace the building formerly occupied by the Krehmeier saloon and that now is being used by the Schmidt Grocery. Plans will be submitted for same in a few days.
1934
July 13 - A large number of Victorians this afternoon will attend the big political rally and St. Michael's Catholic Church picnic at Lost Creek Park, 3-miles from Cuero on the Yorktown highway. Former Gov. James E. Ferguson will speak in interest of C.C. McDonald's candidacy for governor. "Gov. Jim" will speak about 4 p.m. County and district candidates will address the gathering early in the afternoon.
July 14 - Last night at a meeting held at the Chamber of Commerce Hall, the owners of the leading restaurants of Victoria joined the Texas Restaurant Operator Inc., a statewide association for the betterment of the industry. Plans were made to undertake at once a number of projects requiring the urgent and united attention of the Texas Operators. Upon application for membership, each restaurant shall be inspected for the quality of food, service and sanitary conditions.
1959
July 13 - A dramatic example of instant cooperation among police, medical and civilian principals developed Saturday afternoon when an emergency delivery of surgical gas was made from Victoria to Ganado. When the Welders Equipment Co. of Victoria received an urgent call from a Ganado hospital for a supply of cycio-propane - a concentrated anesthetic used only in deep surgery - driver Don Caraway was temporarily stymied. He had the gas, but no tank in which to deliver it. A phone call to Citizens Memorial Hospital, however, soon remedied that, and the tank was dispatched to the equipment company while Caraway phoned the radio dispatcher at the sheriff's office asking for an escort. Highway Patrolman Fred Clements, cruising on the Houston Highway, was contacted by radio and waited beside the road until Caraway appeared. Then he escorted the car with the vital gas directly to the door of the Ganado hospital in time for the emergency operation.
July 15 - Descendants of the late Mr. and Mrs. Wincent Sam Shiller met for their second annual family reunion at Bellville Park recently with 74 members of the family and eight guests present. Those attending from Victoria were Mrs. J.F. Lala, Mrs. F.R. Marcak, Mrs. W.W. Shiller, Mrs. Nethal Groves, Edward Bravenec, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Grant, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Fischer, and granddaughter Nancy Watts, Mr. and Mrs. Anton Kalich, Nyle Ruth and Iris Kalich, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Ellis, Mrs. Perry Nelson, Dianne, Elsie Mae and Elaine, Mrs. James O'Connor, Michele, Sherill and Francis Wayne, Mrs. and Mrs. B.B. Shiller and children, George and Carolyn, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kruppa, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Arnold and Jo Nell and Ray.
1984
July 12 - Washington (AP) - Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, trying to end a controversy that has raged for 15 years, ordered Wednesday that airbags and automatic seat belts be installed in cars beginning with some 1987 models unless states enact laws requiring seat belt use.
A student at The Victoria College, Michelle Jackson, has won a national speaking competition at the Baptist BTU and Sunday School Congress convention in Orlando, Fla. Miss Jackson, daughter of Charles and Maxine Johnson of Victoria, previously had won district and state speech competitions to represent Texas in the Baptist event.
July 13 - St. Paul, Minn. (AP) - Walter Mondale presented Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York on Thursday as his political partner for the White House campaign ahead. "I looked for the best vice president and I found her, " he said of the first woman ever selected for a national ticket.
July 17 - City Council voted unanimously Monday to adopt a third and final reading of a revised and amended sign ordinance, with Delton Ashley, sole opponent of the ordinance on two previous readings, casting an "aye" vote for final passage. The ordinance will become applicable to new development on July 27 but provides for "grandfathering" of most existing signs until both the ownership and use of a sign location changes hands. Portable signs are banned, however, and those now in place, must be removed within six months.
