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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1941
Page
9
The Goodyear Service Store promotes a new booklet by H Meurer outlining how car owners can maximize tire life amid gas oil and tire shortages. It recommends LifeGuards as a puncture resistant tube insert to slow leaks and urges buying durable tires like G-3 Air Weathers for lasting mileage.
An advertisement for ADLA Tablets promising quick relief for stomach gas. It promotes purchasing at Kallenberg's Pharmacy with Frank Hanisch as pruggist and urges customers to get them today. The copy emphasizes sleep disruption and dining discomfort as problems solved by the product.
Families asked to host singers for Saengerfest on October 11 and 12. Notify committee members Miss Exama Hohmann and Mrs Hy Piller with contact details 33 54 19 50.
Harper residents hosted and visited relatives and friends from San Antonio Kerrville Sonora Junction and Fredericksburg. The column lists multiple family gatherings rodeo attendance at Junction Fair and a birth in Fredericksburg hospital with relatives seen in Harper. Notable names include Juenke Bier schwale Lange Kroll and Jones among many gathered visitors.
Gillespie County cotton growers may insure 50 or 75 percent of average yield under the 1942 crop insurance program. Dorman D. Sell, ACA secretary, outlined that premiums and yields are based on lint cotton pounds and county crop history. Note payments may be in cotton or cash, with premium notes due at maturity and possible deductions from indemnities if unpaid.
The Agriculture Report notes a looming shortage of poison to combat insects, risking cotton yields in parts of Texas while West Texas reports good prospects. East Texas faces fair crops with predictions of heavy losses to pests._feed crops look strong, corn quality is poor, and the Panhandle wheat crop is only about half of earlier expectations.
Hans Hannemann and Raymond Durst representatives of Zions Lutheran Church Luther League left last week to attend the National Convention of Luther Leagues in Greeley Colorado. The convention was scheduled to open Monday and close Saturday.
Advertisement announces a subscription to The Standard at £1.50 per year. Includes payment details and renewal terms for new readers seeking económica access to the publication.
George O Longley of Dallas and near Capeville Texas describes a low cost fly catcher for cattle. Three posts form a triangle with oil soaked sacks on wires, cattle enter for mineral salt and are greased by the sacks, flies repelled. Reapply oil every four to ten days.
Sheriff Rathien of Hemphill County says mother cows identified their calves after stolen calves from Aubrey Bowers ranch were placed with the herd. Bowers notes calves had been missing gradually since April, leading to charges against five men.
An advertisement lists General Tires and Tubes with Fredricksburg Drive In Station Rubin Crenwetge, Prop as the local business contact. The text emphasizes tire services and related auto supplies offered at this roadside shop.
Mr. and Mrs. Arno Wahrmund of Houston vacation with her brother Ewald Koennecke. San Antonio visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davis with Walter Duecker family. Eckhardt and Grobe families made regional visits. Otto family and others attended Stonewall fair. Betty Jane Gold visited grandparents Frank and Knaup. Alonzo Duecker recovering slowly. Alton Ottmers and baby visited Albert Ottmers. Emil Herbert visited Fredericksburg. Lee Althaus ill at parental home. Oswald Eckhardt guests included Bertha Griffin Pauline Isaacson Amelia Eckhardt and others from San Antonio and Gold.
The 36th Kendall County Fair will run August 29 30 31 at Fair Park in Boerne. Plans by the Board and Ladies Advisory Board promise splendid exhibits especially in Live Stock with beef and dairy cattle hogs sheep goats and horses. The event features FFA and 4 H Club involvement plus midway rides Band concerts ball games horse races and nightly dancing in the pavilion.
Exhaustive lab analyses will be made to uncover the mystery disease that has taken a heavy toll among hogs in four Lower Rio Grande Valley counties. Dr. T. O. Booth of Fort Worth, chief veterinarian of the Texas Livestock Sanitary Commission, reports some owners have lost all their hogs and others face losses in the thousands of dollars. So far examinations show mainly lung congestion.
Field work began last week surveying a proposed 68 000 acre army camp in Bastrop County near Austin. Engineering company in charge announced the project. Construction listed as part of the army expansion program was expected to start in October.
Louis Kott, partner in Fredericksburg Implement Company, reported an experimental flax crop on two acres in Bear Creek. Seed sells up to 2.00 per bushel, straw about 45 per ton. crop harvested in three months by a combine. Kott plans 15 acres next year, noting flax use in linseed oil and cigarette paper, with Texas production reaching 174000 bushels in 1940.
Tourists nationwide are visiting the University of Texas Giant observatory in the Davis Mountains West Texas. Officials in Austin say the site is open to the public Monday through Friday 1 to 1 30 PM and Sundays 2 to 3 PM with no permit or reservation required.
Jerry the dog of Harry Witzer Jr. became the first canine graduate at Verona High School after attending a summer session with his owner. He sat quietly in class for six weeks and did not bark, earning an authorized diploma from the school.
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