100 years ago
Sept. 28, 1923
The Comanche county farm bureau association has now enrolled over 100 members representing more than 1,000 bales of cotton, stated N.H. Payne, manager of the sign-up campaign conducted during the last two weeks.
This passes already the goal that was set at the beginning of the campaign, and other names are still being added to the membership, it is stated. The contracts are for this year’s cotton and the next two years.
The cotton is being shipped by the association to Houston and is being marketed there in reasonable amounts every day, it is stated, the purpose being to extend the marketing of the entire crop over a ten months period.
Sept. 17, 1948
Official recognition of the completion and opening of the highway from Dublin to Carlton was observed Tuesday afternoon. A delegation of six cars left Dublin for Carlton at 1:45 p.m. led by a highway police escort.
This good-will delegation were well received in Carlton. This occasion sealed further the good-will already existing between these two towns. This is the culmination of over 20 years efforts by the part of the citizens of Dublin and Carlton to get this paved highway.
This good-will trip was sponsored by the Dublin C. of. C.
50 years ago
Sept. 27, 1973
Jack Arthur, member of the Coordinating Board, TexasCollegeandUniversity System and former mayor of Stephenville, has been selected Tarleton State University’s Distinguished Alumnus for 1972.
He will be honored at the annualTarletonEx-Students Association Distinguished Alumni Luncheon during Tarleton’s Homecoming on October 12.
Arthur is a native of Lingleville and graduated as the top boy in his class at Dublin High School. He attended Tarleton in 1932 and was awarded an academic scholarship to Texas Tech where he majored in architectural engineering. He taught school in Hale County eight years during the depression era.
Arthur entered the theatre business in 1936 while teaching at Lockney, and in 1937 purchased the theatre at Crosbyton in West Texas.
In 1943 he entered the U.S. Navy and served as a radar technician at Pearl Harbor until the end of WWII in 1945.
Returning to Crosbyton, he opened a hardware, furniture and appliance business in addition to the theatre. He was mayor of Crosbyton from 1947 to 1950 when he resigned and purchase the two drivein and three downtown theatres in Stephenville.
25 years ago
Sept. 24, 1998 A gift from the Dublin Bottling Works (then Dublin Dr. Pepper) turned the Corner Lot Gang’s dream into reality.
An offer for $50,000 for The Corner Lot has been accepted by owner David Stokes and “it’s a go!”
A community celebration is tentatively scheduled for some time around Thanksgiving, which Corner Lot organizers described as “an appropriate time.”
The group spent most of the summer trying to raise the $50,000 asking price through fundraisers and donations. They raised just over $30,000 which was offered to Stokes earlier this month.
Last Thursday, The Corner Lot Gang received a fax from Stokes declining the offer and telling them to begin removing their property from the lot. In a “zero hour” move, Dublin Dr. Pepper owner W.P. “Billie” Kloster contacted the group and offered to cosign a note for the remainder of the needed amount.
On Tuesday, Stokes accepted the offer with the stipulation that the Corner Lot Gang would pay for the title insurance and survey which they agreed to.
No closing date has been set.
“Billie Kloster and the Dr. Pepper plant are so supportive of this community,” said Ike Wade, one of the organizers of The Corner Lot. “It was a wonderful gesture on his part. There’s no way to properly thank Billie or the people who have come forward to make this project happen.”
“The people of Dublin have demonstrated how much they want to keep the lot,” he said. “What can we say but thank you?”
(Editor’s note: The above excerpts are from previous editions of The Dublin Progress and The Dublin Citizen and are meant to reflect the history and writing from those time periods.)