Mrs Ragsdales Foods Takes Over Floresville Pickling
Mrs Ragsdale s Foods Company acquires Floresville Pickling Company forming Pickle Division. J T Lambert Pitluk and San Antonio Drug Co. veteran J B Heingah linked to the deal. Ogburn of Lindale Texas named manager moving to Floresville to start operations. Factory to be enlarged with new equipment. cucumber acreage contracts urged. seed available for distribution. over 100 acres signed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville
Comlamn Skarloff
Rima “Foods
H. L
Vanderatavid
J. T. Lambert
San Bromio
Heingah
San Antonio Drug Co
de Geen
Mrs. Ragsdale’s Foods Company
T. Ogburn
Lindale
Texas
Met
Ogburn Hasl
Ogburn
Incomplete OCR Notes On Wartime Meetings
Fragmentary text references an important meeting at 730 with families and prisoners of war. Details are unreadable. cannot confirm date, place, or participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fileon
Fin Amarin
Ceiling prices for farmers peanuts extended into 1945 season
Clifton George Jr of the San Antonio district Office of Price Administration informed L F Spruce that ceiling prices for farmers stock peanuts will continue for the 1945 crop. The advance notice helps growers plan for 1945 and parity prices are expected to be received by growers throughout the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton George, Jr
San Antonio
Price Administration
L. F. Spruce
War Price and Rationing Board
Spruce
Canning Sugar Rules Tighten as Applications Open
The OPA reports only 700000 pounds of home canning sugar available this year, down from 1150000 last season, prompting strict limits. L F Spruce, Panel chair, urges applicants to use sugar only for canning and to fill blanks completely to avoid rejection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. F. Spruce
Spruce
Tell Stormalcs Opa
Fam
Board
Westfall Receives $100 Award For Suggestion
Frank Westfall of Floresville, employed in the Army Service Forces Red River Ordnance Depot at Texarkana Texas, recently received a $100 award for a suggestion. A letter from the Ordnance Department acknowledges his contribution to stamping spaces for bogie wheel stamps, noting the improvement in operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Westfall
Floresville
Red River
Two Philippine camp births return to San Antonio family
The War Department announced the liberation of the Plowman family, with Claire eight and Patricia one month old born in Santo Tomas and Los Banos. They will reunite with parents Mr. and Mrs. George Harden Plowman in San Antonio, as uncle Allen Richards and relatives in Floresville and Wilson County note the news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire E. Plowman
Santo Tomas
Patricia Plowman
Los Banos
San Antonio
George Harden Plowman
War Department
Floresville Musical Club Meets in Homemaking Cottage
The Floresville Musical Club held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday afternoon March 13 at 4 30 in the Martha Eschenburg Homemaking Cottage. Mrs J C Houston was absent. Mrs A C Eschenburg presided. Mentions included piano accordion solos by Bobby Stephenson, topics of the day by Mrs Hugh Wiseman, trombone and m mellophone quartets, violin solo by Mrs William Oxford, and hostesses listed with Lane and Goehring at the tea table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville Musical Club
Martha Eschenburg
J. C. Houston
A. C. Eschenburg
J. T. Sheehy
Bobby Stephenson
Hugh Wiseman
Charlie Zidek
Billy Clay
Annabel Teltschik
Carl Ray
Joan Varnon
Janie Poppell
Margaret Rose Black
Jascha Heifitz
Emily Goer
Cottage Rising On Ed McDaniel Property
Ed McDaniel builds a neat cottage on his home place using second hand lumber from the former Seale Hotel property he recently purchased.
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Ed. McDaniel
Seale Hotel
Son of Mrs. Concepcion Quintero Killed in Germany
The Graytown county resident son of Mrs. Concepcion Quintero was killed in action on the German front on February 25. An earlier casualty report appeared in last Friday's issue.
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Concepcion Quintero
Graytown
Germany
Cullen Gives Four Million To Hospitals
Houston reports that H. R. Cullen and Mrs Cullen donated four gifts of one million dollars each to Hermann Memorial and Methodist hospitals for building program expansions and to the Episcopal church for a planned hospital project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cullen
Houston
H. R. Cullen
Seventh War Loan Quota Set for Individuals and Firms
Washington announces the seventh war loan drive with a 7.0 billion dollar target for individuals and the same 7.0 billion for corporations. The sale period runs May 14 to June 30, exceeding prior length and totals. Previous individual quota reached 6 billion with 6.351 billion in sales.
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Washington
Treasury
Worker's Council Of Gambrell Baptist Assn Well Attended
The Gambrell Association monthly Worker's Council gathered at Floresville Baptist Church last Thursday with attendees from Kenedy Karnes City Stockdale Range Nixon Sample San Antonio Marcelona Pleasanton Fairview Choate Coy City Smiley Gillett. A fine lunch was served by local ladies at noon.
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The
Gambrell Association
Floresville
Soldier in France Sends Warm Hello From Foxhole
Sgt. Phil Ramiriz writes from France that he reads the home paper in his foxhole to stay warm in the snow and passes greetings to friends back home.
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Phil Ramiriz
France
Floresville S Sgt Daniel Lairon Earns Silver Star
T/Sgt Daniel Lairon of Floresville receives the Silver Star for actions in Leyte Province with the First Cavalry. His unit advanced along a narrow ridge to a saddleback position and engaged heavy enemy fire, taking the objective under intense fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Lairon
Floresville
Leyte Province
WAC Recruiting Team Visits Floresville For Med Tech Plan
A U.S. Army recruiting team led by 1st Lieutenant Pauline Sternenberg from the San Antonio WAC Recruiting Station will visit Floresville today to explain the Army Medical Corps WAC plan for women as medical and surgical technicians. The nationwide drive seeks enlistees to form WAC hospital units assisting doctors and nurses in Army General Hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WAC
Pauline Sternenberg
San Antonio
Floresville
Army
Army General Hospitals
Women’s Army Corps
Pvt Elbert W Franklin Writes Parents From German Prison Camp
Floresville family joyed after receiving two post cards from Pvt Elbert Wiley Franklin, prisoner of war in Germany. The notes dated November 26 and December 10, 1945 report he is safe, in transit, with no permanent address, and ask prayers as his whereabouts are clarified.
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Elbert W. ‘Franklin
Floresville
Pvt
Elbert Wiley Franklin
Germany
Franklins
U.S
Washington
O.K
Elbert W. Franklin, Jr
Elbert Franklin
Youngest Lieutenant Visits His Uncle Here
Lieut Wayne Oxford age 19, said to be the youngest lieutenant in his organization, visited his uncle Dr. J W Oxford and aunt Mrs J W Oxford in Floresville. He traveled from Fort Worth with his mother and 90 year old grandfather after stationed at Fort Snelling Minnesota and came to visit relatives in San Antonio. He is son of the late J S Oxford, missionary and educator in the Methodist Church, who spent three decades in Japan and died in Fort Worth.
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Plowman
Harriet. R. Plowman
Fourth Street
Allen Richards
Huisache Avenue
Mindanao
Los Banos
Thomas D. Oxford
Corsicana
Philippines
San Antonio
Floresville
Wilson County
J. W. Oxford
A. A. Knox
Knox-Flato Ranch
Lieut
Wayne Oxford
Fort Snelling
Minnesota
Fort Worth
Alamo City
Oxford
J. S. Oxford
Methodist Church
Japan
W Seale of San Antonio Claim Inheritance Case
A fragment from a San Antonio notice mentions W Seale as a party in an inheritance dispute. The readable text provides limited detail beyond the names and location, with no clear action date or outcome.
Wilson County War Fund Drive Seeks Full Red Cross Quotas
Wilson County nears completing its War Fund Drive for the American Red Cross. Only 4200 dollars of the county quota is raised, leaving 3000 to raise. Officials urge immediate support across all 15 districts to back soldiers and families as front lines demands rise. County Chairman W J Ellinghausen asks districts to send reports by Tuesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson County
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Agency of Mercy
W. J. Ellinghausen
Connally Lt Wounded in Iwo Jima Pilot Wounded in Both Legs
Lieut Merrill W Connally son of Mr and Mrs J B Connally of Floresville was wounded in both legs during the early days of the Iwo Jima attack while serving as an observer in a cockpit aquarium. He writes he is on crutches aboard a U S hospital ship and recovering well. His brother Lieut John Connally and Corporal Wayne Connally also serve in the Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrill Connally
Iwo Jima
Merrill W. Connally
J.B. —Connally
Floresville
Washington
Lieut. Connally
U. S
Lieut
Connally
Pacific
3Rd Marine Division
John Connally
U. S. Navy
Corporal Wayne Connally
Aleutians
Wilson County
Also Mentioned on This Page
Floresville Pickling Company
J. T. Ogburn
Westfall
Wits
PFC
Oliver A. Quintero
Worker’s Council of Gambrell Baptist Assn
Red Cross War Fund
Elbert W. Franklin
W. Seale
Tomaay Tang
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