75 years ago
Jan. 18, 1924
Have you stopped and asked yourself what your duty to Dublin is? Do you want to live in the best town in the state? Do you want it said of Dublin that it is a wide-awake and up and coming city! A place for men looking for business opportunities to locate! Then consider your duty!
What is your duty? – It is the duty of every loyal Dublin citizen to keep talking and boosting constantly for Dublin. MAKE DUBLIN FIRST.
It has been said that “Community growth and permanent progress is measured by the scope of its commercial activity; by its ability to support that portion of its population which depends upon it for a livelihood.” If this is true, and it is, this situation undoubtedly rests in the hands of all of us as citizens and it becomes not only a civic but a patriotic duty.
We, Dublin folks, should be known for fifty miles around as big hearted hard hitting home town boosters, and we want you to join us, without hesitation, to make this a feature of our community life and on a 100 percent basis. Let this be our slogan: “I buy all I can in Dublin.” Investing your money in some other community is just another way of knocking the supporting props from under your home town foundation. Patronizing other business firms in cities while you live in Dublin is simply straddling the fence, dividing and weakening the splendid force which you could otherwise be lending to our city’s progress. This is plain talk founded on plain facts. MAKE DUBLIN FIRST.
Jan. 21, 1949
The FFA Club boys Fat Stock Show will be held Saturday, Jan. 23, V.A. Underwood, Dublin vocational agriculture teacher, announced. W.W. Reed of John Tarleton College, will be the judge of the cattle. The show will be held on the school grounds. The new building will be used.
The Dublin Chamber of Commerce is the sponsor with the help of the business men of the town. The judging will be done at about eleven o’clock in the morning, although the show will be open for visitors practically all day.
Following are the names of those entering and their entries: In the milk fed Hereford steers: William Rasberry, 1 head, from the Lee Campbell herd.
Kenneth Stevens, 1 head from the Kyle Berrett herd of Comanche.
There will be four entries from the Stephenville FFA boys.
Don Russell, 2 head, one from the Worth Barbee herd and one from the Charles Neblett Jr. herd.
Wendell Tackett, two head, one from the Hasten Walker herd and one from the V.A. and Billy Underwood herd.
In the Angus steer class, the following entries have been made: Charles Bell, John Underwood and Jim Jordan, all bred from the Doyle Rockwell herd.
In the dry lot class, Don Russell, the head from his daddy’s herd; John Underwood, one head, home breeding; Kenneth Stevens, one head from the Walter Barrett herd, and Jim Jordan, one head from the Charles Neblett Jr. herd. There will be one entry from Stephenville in this class.
There will also be one shorthorn class from Stephenville. Other entries of chickens, hogs, etc. are not available at this time.
25 years ago
Jan. 21, 1999
David Petty is only five years old, but he knows what to do when there’s an emergency, thanks to a video he watched in his kindergarten class at Dublin Elementary.
David was enjoying a normal Friday afternoon Jan. 8 when his grandmother, Katherine Petty, got her feet tangled in a chair and fell. Unable to get up she called for David and told him to get help.
“I meant for him to get a neighbor from the house next door, but he called 9-1-1,” Mrs. Petty said.
The five-year-old became a regular “Cool Hand Luke” by picking up the phone and dialing the number he learned about in school.
“They said in the movie that you were supposed to not be scared,” David said. “I called and told the lady that my grandma had fell. I told her the address and phone number.”
David also warned the dispatcher his grandmother had fallen next to a door and for the people to help to be careful when they tried to get in.
“The movie told us how to stay on the phone until they said to hang up and I did,” David said. “I was glad I saw the movie so I knew what to do.”
David’s teacher, Betsy Dudley, credited Erath County Deputy Jim Cooley for bringing the video for youngsters to watch.