100 years ago
July 20, 1923
In expectation of a very large attendance of co eds at the John Tarleton Agricultural College for the session of 1923-24 the girls dormitory is being fully repaired and equipped for the opening of the college in September. As the dormitory was full to overflowing last year and more girls are expected this year, one of the cottages on the campus formerly occupied as a residence is to be converted into a dormitory for senior coeds and to be named “Senior House.” This new cottage home is to be furnished with hot and cold water and steam heated just as the larger dormitory is. All seniors who wish to make reservations are advised to write the Dean or the business manager of the college.
75 years ago
July 23, 1948
There have not been any case of polio reported in Dublin up until Wednesday afternoon late. There have been rumors of other cases, but this is only rumor though there have been one or two persons under observation. This will undoubtedly be good news to the whole town.
The City Council called for another cleanup day yesterday. This is the second cleanup day called, the other being held on Thursday of last week. The first cleanup day was met with wonderful response, announces Mayor D.R. Franks. Over two hundred vehicles passed through the gates at the city dump yard hauling garbage and trash. Every business house in town closed and it seemed that everyone put in a complete day of hard work.
A check up of the work was made over the weekend by the city health officer, Dr. Joe Pate, and his report was that the work was not finished. The city council met in a special session Monday afternoon and called for another closeup and cleanup day for Thursday of this week. A mass meeting was called for Wednesday night at which a large crowd attended.
The city health officer states that as far as has been determined the spread of polio is not affected by crowds or the regular channels of business. People who trade in Dublin need not be alarmed as the two cleanup days were called in order to get the manpower for the cleanup work, and not because of any precautionary measure on account of remaining open. The cleaning up of the town is such a tremendous job that it has taken this extra manpower in order to accomplish the work that was needed to be done.
50 years ago
July 19, 1973
Ground breaking ceremonies for the new Doggett Nursing Home were completed at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 17 with Mayor Early Knox turning the first spade full of soil. Also attending the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Denver A. Doggett, Sr., Mr. C.E. Leatherwood, Mr. Wylie T. Culpepper, Mr. Raymond Vaughn, Denver, Phillips and Kelley Doggett, Mr. Hershel Barnes, Mrs. Virginia Darling, Mrs. Linda Blain, members of the press and other interested parties. The same group looks forward with great expectation to attending the grand opening ceremony and open house which will be scheduled in approximately 150 days.
25 years ago
July 23, 1998
The Dublin school board dealt quickly with the A,B,Cs at their regular monthly meeting Tuesday night (annexation, budgets and charter schools), but it was the D for dress code that created the most heated discussion of the 19-item, four hour meeting.
The dress code debate centered on how much leg is too much leg and what advantage/disadvantage the long-legged girls had over the short-legged girls. When the hour-long discussion ended and two votes had been taken, it was apparent no one was entirely satisfied.
On the final vote, trustees prohibited shorts that are more than four inches above the top of the knee for students in grades 6 through 12. (The above excerpts from The Dublin Progress and The Dublin Citizen are meant to reflect the history and wording from those timeperiods.)