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Sunday, August 5, 2018
The brand new Kingsbury T-shirts are now available on the Kingsbury website, it's National Rice Pudding Day and National Bowling Day this week, in Kingsbury news past the June 29, 1899 Houston Postshowed that Kingsbury reported on rain recently and a waterspout was seen over Smithville, August is National Sandwich Month, and a really great exciting of a gusher in a Kingsbury oil field in 1923.

Sunday, July 29, 2018
The first days of August are this week, August facts & folklore, it's National Cheesecake Day and National Coloring Book Day this week, the Kingsbury VFD and Auxiliary will have their monthly business meetings this week, the Old Kingsbury Aerodrome will have a Volunteer Work Day August 4th, the KIC-P2 Committee will have their meeting August 1st, and an awesome picture of some Kingsbury kids at the school on a warm, sunny day.

Sunday, July 22, 2018
The Kingsbury VFD Bar-B-Q is coming up July 28th, it's National Vanilla Ice Cream Day and National Day of the Cowboy this week, the Full Buck Moon is this week, full moon facts and folklore, in Kingsbury news past the June 18, 1899Houston Posthad a letter from Alice Dale from Kingsbury and there was an anti-round bale meeting in Hillsboro, and a great picture of the Kingsbury graduating class of 1941 with some other 1941 happenings.

Sunday, July 15, 2018
The wild hog bounty program starts this week, it's National Peach Ice Cream Day and National I Love Horses Day this week, in Kingsbury news past the June 16, 1899 Houston Postgave the rate for Kingsbury to S.A. on the train as 75 cents and and several train bridges around Texas have been washed away due to flooding, the annual KVFD Bar-B-Q is coming up July 28th, the Old Kingsbury Aerodrome is having a volunteer work day July 21st, notorious outlaw Sam Bass was born this week in the Old West, and a wonderful picture of the Kingsbury School kids in 1911.

Sunday, July 8, 2018
Summer meteor showers, it's National Mac and Cheese Day and National Paper Bag Day this week, the newest Kingsbury T-shirts are now online, the Annual Kingsbury VFD Bar-B-Q is coming up July 28th, in Kingsbury news past the May 17, 1899 edition of the Houston Postreported on the "Miraculous Escape" a Kingsbury boy Green made from a well cave in and ranchers are bringing in their cattle from their winter range by river barge near Orange, the Liberty Bell rang out this week in 1776, and a great picture of the 1909 class of the Kingsbury school.

Sunday, July 1, 2018
The 4th of July is this week, it's National Dive Bar Day and National Macaroni Day this week, the month of July is National Ice Cream Month, the annual Kingsbury VFD Bar-B-Q is July 28th, the Kingsbury VFD and Auxiliary have their meetings this week, fun facts and folklore about the month of July, in Kingsbury news past the May 12, 1899 edition of the Houston Post reported on heavy rains around the state and Kingsbury "cisterns and tanks are all full" and the play-by-play of a shootout on a train in Haskell, Natural Bridge Caverns opened this week in 1964, there is still a burn ban, and a great picture of a steam powered drilling rig in Kingsbury in the 1920s and a catalog drawing of the same rig.

Sunday, June 24, 2018
The Kingsbury VFD Bar-B-Q is coming up July 28th, it's National Catfish Day and National Chocolate Pudding Day this week, the second Guadalupe County town hall meeting is July 27th, the Full Strawberry Moon is this Wednesday, in Kingsbury news past the May 1, 1899 edition of the Houston Post reported on the cotton crop across the state and in Kingsbury where the crop is "three weeks late" and you can get a parrot cage for $1.25, General Custer made his last stand this week in 1876, there is now a burn ban in Guadalupe county, and a wonderful picture of Kingsbury students on the school steps in the 1920s and a picture of the old red brick school house.

Sunday, June 17, 2018
It's Father's Day today, it's National Martini Day and National Seashell Day this week, Guadalupe County is having town hall meetings June 20th and June 27th, this week in American history in 1775 General Prescott ordered his men not to fire on the Redcoats "until you see the whites of their eyes", the outside walls of the new fire station are up, pictures of the animals for adoption at the Luling Animal Welfare Society, in Kingsbury news past the December 23, 1898 edition of the Houston Postreported on the Sunset Limited timing run that stopped 4 minutes in Kingsbury and someone in Houston is selling a "wolf pup", the Kingsbury VFD Bar-B-Q is coming up July 28th, the Summer Solstice Film Festival was a big success, fun facts and fiction about the first day of Summer which comes up this week, and an awesome picture of a Kingsbury school girls athletic team wearing bloomers in 1929.

Sunday, June 10, 2018
The 4th Annual Summer Solstice Film Festival is June 16th, it's National Iced Tea Day and National Flip Flops Day this week, Guadalupe County is having Town Hall meetings June 20th and 27th, in Kingsbury news past the September 16, 1898 edition of the Houston Postreported on the passing of John Roember from Kingsbury who was "liked and respected by all who knew him" and men are wanted in Amarillo to lay track for $1.50 a day, the Kingsbury VFD Bar-B-Q is coming up July 28th, this week in Texas history the state treasury in Austin was robbed by bandits of half it's money in 1865, there is currently no burn ban in Guadalupe county, Benjamin Franklin flew his kite in a thunderstorm this week in 1752, and a great picture of the 1940 student Choral Club at the Kingsbury School.

Sunday, June 3, 2018
Find the train to win a T-shirt this week, it's National Egg Day and National Moonshine Day this week, buy Kingsbury depot T-shirts online, the Kingsbury VFD meets this week, in Kingsbury news past the June 19, 1898 edition of the Houston Posthad a list of youngsters in the "Happyhammers Club" including John Hunt Brawner of Kingsbury who write in regarding a monument and a water filter bucket is listed as a great wedding present, the new Kingsbury VFD has a siding and roof going on, the KIC-P2 meeting is this week, the Horse Marines of the Texas Navy capture a Mexican ship this week in 1836, and a great picture of a class of students in front of the old red brick Kingsbury Schoolhouse around 1912.
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