Days gone by

10 YEARS AGO
Hughes Springs FFA member Chad Penny showed a Simmental heifer at the San Antonio Livestock Show.
Ryan Collins of Daingerfield and Ricky Jones of Hughes Springs have earned a place on the dean’s honor roll at Texas State Technical College in Waco.
Avinger Junior High girls’ basketball team has been undefeated three years in a row with a record of 39-0.
20 YEARS AGO
John Brown of Cason treated South Elementary fifth graders to a ride in a mule-drawn wagon.
Southwestern Electric Company in Hughes Springs will close its office at the end of business day April 16.
Beckie Shelton is calling on all Hughes Springs residents to join the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Wheels for Life Bike-A-Thon to raise funds for cancer research.
30 YEARS AGO
Tele-Communications held its grand opening. The business is located on Coffey Street in Daingerfield in the Gulf Station.
Negotiations for a new three-year contract between union steelworkers and Lone Star Steel Company are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Dallas.
John Traylor’s Insurance held its grand opening at his new building at 815 Linda Drive in Daingerfield.