75 years ago
Feb. 23, 1923
Mrs. W.W. Boggs of Proctor, was in Dublin on Monday and ordered the Progress sent to her son Travis Boggs at Honolulu, Hawaii Islands. The many Dublin friends of Travis Boggs will be interested to know of his whereabouts and that he is successfully engaged in teaching in that far away city.
Travis graduated from the Dublin High School last year. He is a young man of charming personality and held in high esteem by his friends, classmates and acquaintances for his ability, his uprightness of thought and behaviour. But Travis is not a commonplace person content with an uneventful record but he desired strong and continuous action so one day he slipped out of view – stole away as the early morning stars steal out of the sky. As the days passed by and his family failed to hear from him, his mother – as is the way of mothers – became alarmed. He was in Colorado, Texas last September and was due in Dublin where his parents resided at that state and from where he was to go to Austin to enter State University. But Travis failed to appear. As time wore on and still no word came, his parents appealed through the columns of the daily press hoping to learn of his whereabouts.
Feb. 27, 1948
At a meeting of the City Council Monday night an order was passed to hire a superintendent to have complete control of the water works, fire department and station, streets and sewer system and farm. The selection of this foreman is to be made at a later date after the councilmen has had time to receive applications and select their man.
A report of the progress being made in the naming and numbering of the streets was made. At this time there have been about 50 posts made of cement that are ready to be placed. This is about a third of the number needed. Cold weather has hampered this work.
J.T. Strong reported that the survey of the town for more information on the water and sewer needs and service will begin this week and expects to have this information finished in a week or so.
50 years ago
Feb. 22, 1973
A “Dream Come True,” say D.A. and Eula Mae Doggett, as they announce their plans for a brand new nursing home. They are in the process of building a new 60 bed unit Doggett Nursing Home to be located inside the city limits west of Dublin on Highway 6, sometime in the foreseeable future.
It will cost in the neighborhood of $200,000 and is to be built on a 3 acre plot. V&C Developers have designed the 60 unit home centering it with a huge rotunda and will be built in the near future. The plans of this structure was Federal and State approved in every line of requirement necessary for operating a nursing home.
Mr. and Mrs. D.A. Doggett opened their nursing home doors nine years ago with 30 beds and 17 patients.
Six years passed and 17 more beds were added along with their daughter, Linda Blain as head bookkeeper. Mrs. Blain now serves as Administrator.
In 1968 Phillip Doggett joined the corporation with his parents and sister. He now serves as manager and will be manager of the new nursing home when it is completed.
25 years ago
Feb. 26, 1998 Students in Mrs. Heaton’s 7th grade Texas History class learned about the Alamo from the ground up when they were instructed to make special projects, many of which were small recreations, and then give a presentation to the class about what they learned.
“This all started out as an Alamo unit,” said Mrs. Heaton. “I wanted to help the kids feel and see what it was all about.
“We read ‘ Thirteen Days to Glory’ by Lon Tinkle, and they really got involved with the people and characters in the novel. I think they enjoyed the novel more than they care to admit.”
Sam Hirst-Wade, a student in Mrs. Heaton’s class, was quick to point out the various areas and their uses in his and John Del Bosque’s plaster creation of the Alamo.
“I had fun doing it,” Hirst-Wade said.
(The excerpts above are featured from previous editions of The Dublin Progress and The Dublin Citizen.)