Looking Back

100 YEARS AGO – APRIL 30, 1920

BRECKWALKER

This is the newest and best Railroad Town in the Great West Texas Oil Fields. It is on the line of the Wichita Falls, Ranger, & Ft. Worth Railroad that will be operating trains from Dublin north probably to Breckwalker by the date of the opening sale of townlots in Breckwalker. Breckwalker is nine miles north of Frankell and eight miles south of Breckenridge. This new oilfield town offers one of the infrequent opportunities to invest or engage in business in the beginning of a town that is destined by all the circumstances to become a large city where values will increase a thousand fold in a few months.

75 YEARS AGO – APRIL 27, 1945

AUSTRALIAN GIRL ARRIVES HERE

Six days after she arrived in Olney and met her parents-in-law for the first time, Mrs. Marie Swanwick Reynolds of Melbourne, Australia, received the glad news that her husband, Norris Reynolds, had been liberated April 5, from Luft No. 3, where he had been held a prisoner of the Germans since October 15, 1944. Accompanied by her son, Norris Quenton, who arrived in Texas in time to celebrate his 2nd birthday, landed in the U.S. April 5, and arrived in Olney on the eleventh. She made the trip on the Dominion Monarch, a British vessel, which she described as luxurious. The six-weeks’ voyage was broken by a week’s stopover in New Zealand.

50 YEARS AGO-APRIL 30, 1970

TWO NAMED TO SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM

Two outstanding students, one from Olney High School and one from Newcastle High School, will be among those sponsored by Community Public Service Company to the 10th Texas Nuclear Science Symposium for High Schools to be held in Austin June 2-5, according to Hal R. Hayes, Olney manager for the power company. Selected to attend the symposium are Susan Brown of Newcastle and Jack Richardson of Olney.

25 YEARS AGO-APRIL 27, 1995

STUDENTS PERFORM FOR PIANO GUILD HONORS

Piano students of Frances and Edwin Key are participating this week in the National Piano Playing Auditions which are sponsored by the National Guild of Piano Teachers. The pianists are striving for Local, District, State, National and International honors. Honors are awarded according to the number of standard baroque, classic, romantic, and modern pieces chosen from the Masters of piano literature each student can creditably perform in the presence of the audition judge, Susan Cusenbary, of Wichita Falls.