Ozona History

July 8, 2026
Ozona’s first big rodeo and celebration under the management of the Celebration Association is a thing of the past, the last of the three-day celebrating having been brought to a close last Saturday night with a big dance. The celebration had been advertised far and wide for several months previous to the chosen dates, and the invitation, “Meet West Texas in Ozona, July 1, 2 and 3,” was taken advantage of by some seven or eight thousand individuals who came prepared for a period of real enjoyment. Housing facilities for such a throng were not available and many tents and open camps were made use of by visitors. 

July 9, 1936
Crockett Country’s annual Rambouillet sheep sale, designated this year as the official Texas Centennial Ram Sale, again held its position of registering the highest average sale prices of any sale in the United States, and excepting the boom years of 1928 and 1929, registered the highest prices of any local sale since the event was inaugurated in 1926. The top price of the three-day auction was $425, paid by Wiley Green of San Angelo for a registered Rambouillet ram from the flock of Victor Pierce of Ozona.
 

July 11, 1946
Ozona children and young people resumed their normal way of life Monday of this week swimming, going to parties and picture shows after a period of six weeks enforced abstinence because of the polio outbreak. The polio ban was lifted Monday morning, two weeks after the development of the third case of the disease to originate here this summer. The three cases, two children of Mr. and Mrs. Miller Robison and the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Millspaugh Jr., developed at two weeks intervals, spreading the local ban on youth gatherings over a six week period.

July 7, 1966
HOLIDAY HIWAY LITTER — A camper mounted on a pickup truck is scattered along the highway shoulder and the pickup is lying on its back across the right of way fence in the background, the result of a crash two miles east of Ozona on Highway 290 Saturday afternoon. Seven persons in the pickup and camper, five of them children riding in the camper, escaped without injury. 
The truck and camper were struck from behind by a car driven by an Ozonan, Rodolfo Enriquez. Two passengers in the car were hurt, one still hospitalized with back injuries. On the opposite side of the highway from the above scene, the car lies on its back. Hiway Patrolman Robert Brown, foreground, investigated the crash.