A news tidbit from the "Galveston Daily News" dated November 2, 1870: "The San Antonio Herald says that much damage was done by the recent overflow of the Sabinal. Most of the small towns on the stream suffered, and some where entirely washed away. Some stock and other property was lost. One gentleman, just from Eagle Pass, tells the Herald that he counted in the stream four houses, several hundred head of cattle,some five hundred head of sheep, and divers articles of household furniture floating down. Bandera is entirely submerged."
"Galveston Daily News", December 6, 1876: "There is a small society of Mormons at Bandera City, in Bandera County, but they have no more wives than the law allows."
"Galveston Daily News", September 19, 1877: "The range in Bandera county has been much injured by fire this season."
From the "Colorado Citizen" (Columbus, TX) 04/08/1880: "In an affray at Bandera on the 22nd, Arthur Pue and O. C. Marsh killed each other with pistols. It was all about a game of cards."
"Galveston Daily News", July 23, 1880: "John Powell is reported to be crazy. It is said he attacked John Hoffmann, who lives near the boundary line of this (Medina) and Bandera counties, with a six-shooter, but, fortunately for the latter-named John, it was not loaded."
"Galveston Daily News", 8/15/1885: "Mr. Hudspeth, of the Bandera Enterprise, thinks he has stumbled upon a bonanza in the shape of mineral veins, in the hilly portion of Bandera county. It is a vein of lead containing a portion of silver, but no thorough assay has yet been made."
"San Antonio Daily Light", 01/27/1886: "Judge Davenport and Mrs. Cunningham are from Bandera, and were united at 1 o'clock today by Rev. Mr. Preston, pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. They will return to reside in Bandera, where Judge Davenport holds considerable interests."
The "San Antonio Daily Light", Valentine's Day 1887: Mr. Theodore Magott, of this city, was recently united in Bandera to Mary Kindla, and the happy couple are now domiciled in San Antonio."
"Galveston Daily News", 11/26/1889: The wandering away of the aged father of Mr. John Heinin has many interesting features in showing the tenacity of life under peculiar hardships. The old gentleman was out three of the coldest nights yet of the season, was without food of any kind and seems to have wandered up and down unceasingly. He was found by the merest accident by a passing shepherd in the Wonders, wither he had wandered, but how he reached the place where he was found is a mystery. He was sitting on a narrow ledge of rock, holding on to tufts of sage grass on the opposite ledge, and when removed the grass had to be torn out by the roots, so firm was his hold on it. He had put off his shoes and stockings, and at some time had been in the river up to his waist in water. Of his wanderings, and of what he did he has no rembrance, but says he was cold, cold. How an old man of 82 years came through alive the exposure of these three cold nights under such circumstances is a great wonder. There is not a doubt but a few hours longer undiscovered life would have been extinct; as it was, when found, he was shivering from head to feet, and it was only by the persistent efforts of Mr. Causey, to whose house he was carried, that he revived.
"The burning of the Bandera Bugle's office, which is said to have been incendiary, is a great misfortune to the little town. The man who would burn a printing office would play poker on his mother's coffin and take the half dollars from her sightless lids to pay for the drinks when he lost. The Light extends its sincere sympathy to the Bugle, and hopes it may soon be in position to toot its horn more lively than ever." From the "San Antonio Daily Light", 04/10/1889.
This amusing bit is from the "San Antonio Daily Light" 5/21/1890: "The Bandera Enterprise (an early newspaper) is of opinion that if the census taker of that town will include the hogs in his enumeration, it will very materially increase the number of his returns. By a fatal lack of explicitness the Enterprise fails to classify his hogs. Are they bipedal or quadrupedal?"
"San Antonio Daily Light" 07/27/1895: J. N. Dilbridge, a Bandera county farmer, was so badly wounded by a Winchester rifle bullet in his leg, caused by the accidental springing of a wolf trap he had planned for wolves, that the leg was amputated in this city yesterday, whither he came for relief."
"Galveston Daily News", 8/3/1901: "On yesterday morning, four miles below Medina, an old man by the name of Sexton was killed. The trouble occurred over a contention about land lines. The old man lived only about two hours after being shot. W. C. Freeman went to Bandera and surrendered to the Sheriff."
"News reached the city today that Bud Wingate, a prominent young man of the Horse Valley neighborhood, near Bandera, had just been shot and killed, but by whom the news did not say. Wingate was killed in the yard of W. M. Bennett, his father-in-law, Mr. Bennett being absent in San Antonio at the time. There are no particulars." 11/8/1901, "Galveston Daily News"
"Galveston Daily News", 9/4/1902: Medina, Bandera County, Texas. An unfortunate cutting scrape occurred just after noon in which a young man by the name of Ernest Bauta was cut. The thrust was under the left armpit, about three and a half inches long. Bauta is doing very well and will be up in a few days. Abe Lankford is in jail."
12/12/1907, "Galveston Daily News": "P. St. Knowles (of Medina) committed suicide this morning at 6 o'clock by taking cyanide of potassium. His wife is very low with pneumonia. Thinking his wife was going to die, he became insane and committed this rash act."
"Elmer B. Heinen of San Antonio and Miss Anna May Newcomer or Pipe Creek were married in Boerne at the Methodist parsonage Tuesday, Rev. B. A. Myers officiating. The happy couple left on the evening train for San Antonio, their future home. Both young people were raised in Bandera County, and belong to two of the most prominent families of that county." "San Antonio Light and Gazette" 7/17/1910
"The First State Bank of Bandera opened its doors for business Saturday morning, with P. G. Walker as president and Aaron Meadows as cashier. The board of directors are P. G. Walker, Henry Welge and H. E. McKeen of Kerrville, and A. E. Dorow and Aaron Meadows of Bandera. The bank opens its doors under the state guarantee law." Galveston Daily News, 11/7/1910.
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