Days gone by

10 YEARS AGO
The Tri City Titans place second in the Dr Pepper Tournament. The Tri City Titans are a select team from the Daingerfield and Hughes Springs areas.
Lone Star Volunteer Fire Department members hit the street with the “Fill the Boot Program” for muscular dystrophy.
Lone Star Volunteer Fire Department men spent Sept. 7 practicing on new equipment received from a Homeland Security grant.
20 YEARS AGO
The city of Daingerfield adopted a budget totaling $1,022,826 which is about 3 percent lower than last year’s budget of $1,052,860.
Idabel celebrated its football homecoming with a 27-8 handling of Daingerfield Friday might.
The Captain Daingerfield Day’s fifth annual chili cook-off will be held Oct. 15 and 16.
30 YEARS AGO
The 1984 automobiles have arrived, but with few changes, other than minor cosmetics. With new car sales down in the area over the past year, they might attract little attention on the showroom floor at first.
Daingerfield’s annual fall cleanup campaign has been set for the two-week period from Oct. 10 through Oct. 21. The first week, city crews will pick up brush and other burnables which have been placed at the curb.
Gene Bryan, a freshman majoring in agriculture business at East Texas State University, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.