Editing Mills County, Texas (section)

=== Historical notes ===
The [[People's Party (United States)|Populist Party]] was at its height in Mills County towards the end of the nineteenth century.<ref name=":6" />
[[File:Officials with Captured Alcohol Still.jpg|left|thumb|Officials with captured alcohol still, c. 1920-1929]]
A prohibition movement starting in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries lead to a ban on alcohol in the Goldthwaite School District; in 1908, liquor ban went into effect for the whole county.<ref name=":6" /> A local option election held on November 8, 2016, lifted the ban on alcohol sales within the Goldthwaite city limits (357 votes for and 277 against).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Goldthwaite Eagle - November 16, 2016 |url=https://1318.newstogo.us/editionviewer/default.aspx?Edition=5710d162-9dcf-4f2e-8e81-25c2851ba071 |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=1318.newstogo.us}}</ref>

A special buffalo bar-b-que organized by a number of local businessman in 1948 welcomed [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], who arrived by helicopter and delivered a speech to a crowd of 2,500 at the baseball field near Lampasas Commission Company.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=1948-07-02 |title=The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1948 |url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1060031/m1/1/zoom/ |access-date=2022-12-02 |website=The Portal to Texas History |language=English}}</ref>