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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1949
Page
10
Mrs. R. J. Barber declined a furnished room in a deluxe rooming house in Memphis. A bathroom sign stated baths were available on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays only, reflecting restricted utilities in the facility.
More than 200 Girl Scouts in the Texas Colorado Lakes Area Council have signed for summer camp at Camp Texlake on Lake Travis. The camp opens June 12 with ongoing equipment donations from Taylor Fredericksburg Comal County and Burnet. The Taylor Kiwanis Club led pledges this week toward the $35,000 construction cost.
More than 600 guests are expected at a barbecue and dance sponsored by the Williamson County Livestock Association and the Williamson County Sheriff's Posse on June 7. Invitations went to members, scramble calf buyers, spring sales participants, and Livestock Show catalogue advertisers. Guests will eat barbecued beef from a scramble calf purchased May 12.
A brief note reports young scorpions born alive and carried by their mother for a short period before independence.
Rockdale civic leaders met to outline plans for expanded industry and farming. W P Hogan urged support for trucking and dairy sectors while Dc A Nelson outlined cooperative community programs. A planning council was formed to seek UT data and conduct an economic survey with a June meeting set to review results.
Reuben and L. N. Kirkpatrick hear about a new Juneteenth event in western Travis County organized by the Possum/Coon Hunters Civic Association with a day of gab and barbecued beef goat and mutton. Nearby Williamson County hosts a barbecue as cattle sales boost Capitol Livestock Auction Company receipts with 970 cattle and 50 hogs sold.
Auction results show hogs topping at 19 per cwt while cattle and calves trade across a wide range. Representative buyers include Gault Austin Hokanson Reid Cedar Creek Prokop Bastrop and others with weights from 175 to 990 pounds and prices from 10 to 27.50 per hundredweight reflecting strong demand for cows calves heifers and steers.
Prices listed for cattle and calves from buyers including A. D. Kastner of McDade V. C. Deadear of Round Rock and W. O. Channing of Driftwood. Entries cover weights from 49 pounds to 690 pounds with steers heifers cows and a cow with calf at various bid prices.
Lone Star Gas Company has been granted a franchise by Lampasas as expansion work proceeds. Vice president Chester L. May said all towns in the area have franchises and the gas line will extend from Hamilton to serve Lampasas Lometa Goldthwaite San Saba Llano Burnet Marble Falls Fredericksburg and Bertram.
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