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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1926
Page
4
Kerrville firemen battled a blaze at E. D. Spinks mercantile at Legion starting about 5 a.m. The fire, suspected incendiary, caused about 10000 dollars in damage. Firefighters extended over 1100 feet of hose from hospital hydrants after a two mile run to protect nearby buildings.
Llano will entertain the district convention of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce in its annual meeting on September 10. Committees from the local chamber have been appointed and plans are underway for entertaining visitors. The convention will convene for one day only.
Sanitary squad from the State Health Department will arrive next Monday to conduct a complete survey of Kerrville. The action follows a conference between State health officer Dr. H. O. Sappington and Mayor A. T. Adkins, aiming to educate the city. Similar surveys have recently been completed at Cherokee? Noted.
Professor Chiles 78 of A and M College died in a Saturday night wreck on the Austin Houston highway near Elgin when a car driven by Mr. Alvord hit a caved in bridge after avoiding lumber. Mr. and Mrs. Alvord were badly injured and taken to St David's hospital with their daughter Mina. Chiles formerly with Michigan. body to be sent there.
Robbers broke into the office of the Southern Ice and Utilities Company in Dallas on Friday night. They carried the safe containing $61 to a waiting truck and loaded it aboard, then disappeared. Police were searching the area along roads south of town with no trace found by Saturday morning. No attempt was made to open the safe in the office.
In Kerrville Texas on August 10 Sam Tuttle a 37 year old lineman for Texas Pulte Utilities Company was crushed to death at 3 PM after being trapped beneath several tons of electric power poles unloaded from a flat car in the Southern Pacific yards.
In Pine City Minnesota a one year old girl unnamed in reports was shot and killed by her father who fired at what he believed to be an animal near the chicken yard. The child Elsie Lueile is listed as the victim. authorities say she was apparently walking in her sleep when struck in the abdomen by the shotgun blast.
A San Antonio hardware store advertises for sale paraphernalia to make homebrew and displays a placard in the show window reading Everybody is doing it why not you.
Weimar Texas August 10. With the cotton flea gone the leaf worm has begun to depredate. Demand for poison has surged and merchants are short as poison is shipped daily to infected areas. Farmers stay vigilant and hopeful a good crop remains possible.
A man claiming the name P P Brown and arrested at Needles California confesses to strangling at least five women in California and says he killed or harmed more along the coast including San Francisco Santa Barbara Oakland and San Jose He alleges escapes from Patton state asylum and past imprisonments in Colorado and Idaho.
Four men clinging to a wrecked power boat in Corpus Christi Bay were rescued by the Rover captained by Roy Preston after an all night search. One man swam four miles to Flour Bluff to report the wreck, and the party was found Friday morning still on the submerged craft four miles offshore. The group included S. H. Pitts owner L. H. Gilliam Decker and George Mitchell.
Funeral services will be held for 13 year old Tommy Williams who drowned Monday night four miles west of Kerrville while with 85 Sunday School classmates. Teacher Mary Swayze nearly drowned while saving him. pupil Georgine Rosa helped keep the teacher afloat until aid arrived.
Near Camp Springs, Texas two elderly men died within an hour after using automatic rifles in a long running quarrel. W. S. Reed, 65, and tenant J. D. Ware, 70, had clashed over Reed's farm for more than a year. Witnesses heard nothing of the final exchange as the men stood a few feet apart.
ATTENTION FARMERS Delco Light Plants are now used by several farmers listed with Frigidaire connections. Names include Aug Lott Mary Nauwald Louis Leiter Emil Kott Hy Mogford Carl Kroll Jr Jim Peril Alfred Sauer Ernest Kott Eddy Pfiester and Otto Braeutigam. Interested parties may obtain information from these men. For Sale by.
In San Antonio on Monday night, 160 motorists with headlights glaring were cited as they passed a checkpoint within hours. Bexar County enforcement officer Frank Grimsinger led the operation and noted strict enforcement of the headlight glare law.
Victoria Texas reports William Burchers 32 son of Henry Burchers located in Sidney Australia after eight years. Burchers enlisted in 1917 and after the war authorities could not locate him. He writes home to say he is in good health and doing well there.
Beaumont Aug 10 Preparations are under way for a mass meeting of East Texans to protest placing the name of Governor Miriam A Ferginson on the ballot. The exact date will be set once organizers and a speaker are chosen by J D Hensley Democrat executive committee chairman.
A newspaper classified item promotes hay ties from Juenke and Schoenewolf and highlights latest styles in ladies and men's and children's shoes including Peter's All leather Shoes.
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