Stricker’s Rockdale Store Stocks Countless Items
M N Stricker who runs a Rockdale variety store since Jan 5 1922 holds a $5 offer for anyone to name the exact number of items in stock. He has not counted them, noting his shelves brim with hundreds of thousands of items from pins to electric appliances. He is active in local business leagues and community programs. He is married with two children.
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Rockdale
M. N. Stricker
Tory
Stricker
DeWitt County
Young Men's Business League
Georgetown Starts Garbage Pickup
Georgetown begins its first city garbage pickup on Monday with a new truck. The residential east of Main Street will be served Monday and Thursday while the west side is Tuesday and Friday. Daily rounds will cover the business district. Bills start in July.
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Georgetown
Lee Black
Main Street
Black
Serra Club Barbecue and Officer Installation Planned
A chicken barbecue precedes the Serra Club officers installation on Tuesday at 6:45 p m in Zilker Park Sunken Garden. New officers named are Louis V Shurr president Aubrey Reilly and Herman P Becker vice presidents Solon T Earle secretary Aubrey L Moyer treasurer and trustees Chester Koock Earle E Burkhalter and Raymond Campi. An informal program will follow for members their wives and dates.
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Serra Club
Zilker Park Sunken Garden
Louis V Shurr
Aubrey Reilly
Herman P. Becker
Solon T. Earle
Aubrey L. Moyer
Chester Koock
Earle E. Burkhalter
Raymond Campi
Ecuadoran Postmaster General Honored at Houston Dinner
Francisco Vallego Lopez, postmaster general of Ecuador, was the honor guest at a Houston Chamber of Commerce dinner Monday night. The event highlighted international cooperation and trade ties as part of ongoing relations between Ecuador and the city.
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Houston
Francisco Vallego-Lopez
Ecuador
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Williamson County Miss title fight set for July 4 revue
Eleven Williamson County girls entered the Miss Williamson County contest to be held July 4 at Sportsman's Field in Taylor. A $50 bond awaits the winner, with gold trophy cups for boys and girls divisions and a Murphy Park meet at 2 45 p m to crown swimming and diving champions. Pool manager Milton Jirasek will direct events including senior and junior boys races, dives, and girls races.
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Fred Seale
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Millard Benad
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Paul Rosengranz
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Willie Jaecks
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Murphy Park
Milton Jirasek
Wives Take Over Club At Rockdale
The Rockdale Lions Club annual ladies night banquet featured wives running the program. Guest speaker was Robert Calvert state comptroller with Virgil Menier district governor installing officers. Attendees honored for 100 percent attendance. wives assumed roles and oath for officers' spouses.
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Rockdale
Cotton Congress set for Dallas July 27 29
The 10th annual Cotton Research Congress will be held July 27 29 in Dallas. More than 5 000 attendees expected including over 3 000 Texas veterans growing cotton. Displays will cover all phases of cotton production and harvesting with Agriculture Secretary Brannan slated to address one session at the State Fair Automobile Building.
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Dallas
Texas
Agriculture
Brannan
Death Knell Sounding For 22 Williamson School Areas
Williamson County uses Gilmer-Aikin bills to abolish 22 dormant districts. Superintendent John O. Rogers says letters sent to trustees. Three more districts with one year dormancy may be abolished and three with under 15 pupils in 1948 49 could go. Dormant districts listed include Barker Berry s Creek Theon Eck man Bell Matsler Jim Hogg Sanders Wilson Springs Yakey Ranger Branch Woodrow Monodale Walnut Springs Mount Prospect Sandoval Union Hall Macedonia Strickland Grove Tennill Moravia Polanka.
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Llano Junior Chamber Installs W. M. West as President
Llano Llano Jun ior Chamber of Commerce installs W M West as new president at ladies night banquet. Off icers include Myron Moore first vice president Spencer Weber second vice president T D Tanksley third vice president Robert Kussell state representative and E T Rogers Joe Tom Wallace Mac W Hutto and Jack Farmer as directors. Grover O Reat serves as master of ceremonies and State Senator Carlos C Ashley of Liano delivers the main address. Lester Inman named program chairman.
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Carlos C. Ashley
Liano
Lester Inman
Ranch Home Burns Near Johnson City
A ranch home and its contents owned by Clinton Smith in the Cypress Mills area, about 15 miles from Johnson City, were totally destroyed by a fire at 2 a m Friday. The Smith family escaped with little warning.
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Clinton Smith
Cypress Mills
Smith
Fishing Pond Costs Drawn Up for Council
The City Council will study cost estimates for creating a youth fishing pool with Beverly Sheffield drafting figures. Proposed site runs from Barton Springs Dam to the Zilker Park bridge, and the Austin Rod and Gun Club backs the plan to curb juvenile delinquency.
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Guston Morgan
Barton Springs
Zilker Park
The
Austin Rod and Gun Club
Father Charged Over Marooning Two Toddlers
In Syracuse on June 27 a 30 year old father Donald Frazier was charged with endangering the lives and health of his children after leaving Peggy five and Patrick three on a Seneca River island for more than a day. Assistant District Attorney Jesse Cantor said the case would go to children's court with a maximum penalty of one year in jail or a 500 dollar fine. The children were found Friday night hungry and frightened after a 24 hour isolation on the uninhabited wooded island and have since recovered.
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Seneca River
Jesse E. Cantor
Donald Frazier
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