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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1923
Page
3
Local residents and visitors are listed with brief mentions of travels, business, and social activities. John Mabry and son T. J., Dr A M cBeth, Maj Alfred Petseh, Oran Webb, and Rev Wm Bier schwale are among those noted plus a snake bite incident involving Tom Parker. A Methodist meeting concluded with five new members and strong attendance.
Mr. F. M. Floyd and family and Mr. Jno. Duderstadt and family shared supper Sunday evening at the spring near Mr. F Lammenthaler's place, a small social gathering noted in the community.
Mr. Hubert Merritt son of Dr. J W Merritt of Center Point visits Floyds and Harper in his youth before attending Southwestern University and two years at Galveston Medical College. Mr C W Granville and family return from a Mason County trip noting dry hot weather, fine barbecues, good crops and excellent watermelons.
The Harper community applauded a Sunday evening program at the Presbyterian church performed by pupils from Klein Branch school under Mrs. Stevens. The teacher Mary Linton Baer, a former high school instructor, has guided expression and music lessons for the past year and promises another similar program in the future.
Mrs. J A Lennon is noted among Monday shoppers. Whismand and Davenport from the Hondo Valley came to engage finished hogs for fall delivery. Alfonso Hopf family and Oliver Hopf family traveled to Sonora to visit relatives. Bryson Crockett Mercantile Co posts improvements with a north end window and two doors and has moved office to create a cooler work area.
Mr. Vene Cottle and Mrs. Cottle with children and Mr. R. C. Little dined with Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Moore on Monday. Cottle leases Moore's ranch in Kimble near Knoxville. M. V. Johnson and daughters Myrtle Lorine and nephew Virgil Stewart were in town earlier in the week.
Miss Bertha Heinemann daughter of Mr and Mrs Jno Heinemann and Mr Willie Maurer from Fredericksburg were joined in marriage at 8 am Monday in a Catholic church. Heinemann is popular with local youth and Maurer has two brothers Hy and Felix Maurer in Klein Branch. The couple will live in Fredericksburg with many friends wishing them a bright future.
and make hen house Bug Proof by painting with TAROLINE. Keep fowls free of blood sucking insects by feeding INSECTI MUNE to your poultry. Guaran teed by H. C. Maier, Schneider Produce Co. and all dealers. 47-Special Bargains in second hand Pianos and Organs, at LOYAL MUSIC STORE. A large shipment of Peters All-Leather Shoes has arrived at 44 Juenke & Schoenewolf.
A proposal urges arranging lessons with a competent musician near the school building during term time. It cautions parents to verify the instructor’s background with a letter of introduction and local checks, noting the value of real talent over mechanical music and the aim to keep children from unwise after school activities.
Advertisement for Turkeytone from H. Maier and dealers offering disease cure and prevention for turkeys with a money back guarantee.
Desiccated grasshoppers are being harvested and dried as chicken feed in Hill County Montana with a hopper catching contraption described by Austin North of Billings. Farmers sun-dry hoppers and pack them in sacks to supply poultry markets along the Glacier to Gulf Motorway, aiming to turn pest destruction into profit.
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