50 years ago
Jan. 2, 1948
The following letter was received at The Progress office this week. The name was signed, but is being withheld.
The Dublin Progress, Dublin, Texas Dear Sirs and Friends: Will you please let me have just a small place in this wonderful friends and the Goodfellows of this wonderful little town for the nice box delivered to me and my little girl on Christmas Eve. You will never know what it means to me. It helped make the darkest Christmas I have ever spent just a little brighter than it would have been.
May God bless the Goodfellows and everyone who had any part in this is my earnest prayer.
A Friend A few additional donations were made to the Goodfellow fund after the Christmas edition of The Progress went to press. They were: Kimball-Dublin, two boxes apples; Myrta Bishop$1, O.L. Smallwood - $1, Kenneth Stephens - $2, Mrs. Pearl Prim - $1 and Miss Pearl Martin - $1.
Jan. 4, 1973
Swindle’s Jewelry, 109 North Patrick Street in Dublin was robbed late Saturday night by an unknown robber taking everything within reach of the frontstreetshowcase. Breaking the show window and taking hundreds of dollars in jewelry and watches, etc.
Swindle’s is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Grady Swindle of Stephenville.
25 years ago
Jan. 8, 1998 Council chambers of Dublin City Hall were packed Monday night with senior citizens who have an up-close and personal interest in health care for the elderly.
A panel discussion, organized by the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, drew together a group of professionals to discuss Medicare home health benefits which are scheduled for reductions under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (BBA).
Panel participants included health care professionals Ann Stephen, owner of Stephen’s Home Health; Bobbie Nichols, owner of Golden Age Manor Nursing Home, CCS Hospice and Three Oaks Retirement Center; Kenneth Chisholm, administrator of Dublin Nursing Center, and Deanna Beachaum, director of Lifeline Home Health Care. Also on the panel were Rudy Izzard of San Angelo, Republican candidate for U.S. Representative and Richard Watson of Gorman who represented Becky Farrar, Republican candidate for state representative.