• Originally published July 27, 2009 at midnight, updated August 5, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

1909

Aug. 9 - A heavy rain of short duration accompanied by a stiff northeast wind, fell here yesterday evening, amounting to nearly 1-inch. The weather is threatening again today and the prospects are good for another copious downfall to help relieve the intensity of recent heat.

Aug. 10 - Matthew Pellegrino, an important factor in the baseball team that helped to make Victoria famous, left today for his home in Corpus Christi. "Pelle" has a host of friends here who will heartily welcome his return next season - in fact the team would seem incomplete without him.

Aug. 12 - The barn of C.S.E Holland on Stayton Avenue caught fire last night about 7 o'clock, but the blaze was extinguished before damage of any consequence resulted. The fire department responded promptly, but arrived to late to be of any service. The blaze originated from a fire built to destroy an ant bed, a spark from which ignited some hay.

Aug. 13 - Victoria is to have a creamery of some magnitude. Mr. Vandemeer and Mr. Knaup, two well-to-do farmers, have associated themselves with the Victoria Manufacturing Company and the necessary machinery has been ordered to install a first-class creamery. The creamery will be located at the Victoria Manufacturing Company's cold storage plant at the foot of South Main Street and will be rushed to completion. Contracts for milk from between 500 and 600 cows have already been made and the promoters are daily adding to the list.

Aug. 15 - Clarence O'Neil, the "National Visitor" who is walking 55,000 miles for a wager of $7,000 arrived in Victoria at 9 o'clock this morning from Telferner. He will remain in Victoria until 9 o'clock tomorrow, when he will leave the Public Square for Goliad. He started his walk January 1st, 1904 and must complete it by July 1st, 1910. Here in Victoria his distance is now 51,800 miles. At the time he made the wager, he started with a solitary nickel, under a pledge to neither beg, borrow, or steal, to sell no post cards, souvenirs, or photos and join no society or order.

1934

Aug. 9 - The Victoria Municipal Band will render another program tonight at the Public Square under the capable leadership of Professor G. Martino. It is hoped that a good audience will be present at this concert and, as a matter of suggestion, the following will be played: Tenth Regiment, Princess of India, Jolly German, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, Orchids in the Moonlight, A Dream, and The Star Spangled Banner. Under the leadership of Major F.H. Blake, physician director of the Y.M.C.A., the children of the city will be afforded an hour of play. Many contests and games are scheduled and it is hoped that many of the city children will participate in these games as they have in the past.

Aug. 11 - The American Liberty Oil Company's No. 1 Anton Pribyl in the Coleto Creek Field near Victoria is getting casing for completion as an oil well after making the best showing of any well in the field on the drill stem test. The test was made of five feet of land from 2,794 to 2,801.

Aug. 12 - A huge red beet weighing fifteen and a half pounds was brought to town today by Albert Billo. The beet was raised on Billo's farm near Raisin.

Aug. 14 - Race meet officials this afternoon announced everything in readiness for the opening of the ten-day Victoria Downs Race Association meet at Fair Park tomorrow. The first race is slated for 2:30 o'clock. The meet runs from Aug. 15th to Aug. 25th, inclusively, with six or more races daily, except Sunday.

1959

Aug. 10 - Top winners in the recent Goliad County 4-H Clubs style were Sandra Kay Hoff, senior division, and Geraldine, junior division.

Aug. 12 - American Bank of Commerce has declared a 50 percent stock dividend, payable Sept. 15, fourth anniversary of the bank, it was announced yesterday.

Aug. 14 - The vanguard of 7,000 appeals for emergency assistance went into the mails yesterday from the Victoria County chapter if the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mrs. Robert I. Patterson, emergency drive chairman, said that her group hopes to have all 7,000 letters in Victoria homes by Monday explaining the nature of the emergency faced by the chapter. Briefly, both the local and the national chapter treasuries are depleted. In past years when local funds gave out, the chapter could call on the national for assistance to carry it through until the January drive. "This year, there just isn't assistance available," Mrs. Patterson said. Alfred Stern is the county chairman.

Aug. 15 - A resolution paying tribute to the late Dist. Judge Frank W. Martin was passed unanimously Friday at the regular meeting of the Victoria County Bar Assn. Dist. Judge Howard P. Green presided while the resolution was read into the minutes of the 24th and 135 District Courts. It was also read into the minutes of the bar association at a session conducted by president Arthur Lapham. All Victoria lawyers signed the resolution. The original was sent to Mrs. Martin.

1984

Aug. 10 - Members of the Victoria school trustees' salary committee, confronted Thursday with a potential 30 percent tax rate increase if they raise employee pay 5 to 11.8 percent overall, said they could not recommend such a plan.

Aug. 12 - An estimated 1,200 to 1,500 people strolled through the Texas Zoo Saturday during the first day of the annual ZooFiesta, finding themselves entertained by zoo animals, break dancers, snake handlers, and south-of-the-border music.

Aug. 13 - Joyce Marie Cavazos, bride-elect of Mark Allen Dean, was honored with three pre-nuptial courtesies.

Aug. 14 - A Victoria area resident who served at the Pampa Army Air Field in the 1940's returned there this month for a yearly reunion at the Texas Panhandle base organized by former airmen.

Aug. 15 - Chili chefs, young and old are invited to enter the second annual cook-off sponsored Saturday and Sunday in Riverside Park by Victoria Parks and Recreation Department and Victoria and Surrounding Areas Chili Appreciation Society Inc.

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