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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1918
Page
1
The Loan and Abstract Company operated by G Striegler as manager examined land titles and investigated loans. Location noted as Rooms 10 and 11 Gold Building in Fredericksburg Texas.
Local items report visits by Miss Jennie Dietert and Miss Stella Beckman in Fredericksburg, plus trips by Judge A. S. Moursund and law figures from San Antonio. Citizens from Kerrville, San Antonio, and Austin share news of family, business, and travel as Gillespie County eyes rains and harvest. Red Cross efforts, sewing drives, and a August 27 exhibit highlight community service with quilts, junior work, and a new St Louis Crippled Workers Bureau noted.
The popular Stehling Bros hardware store in Fredericksburg has been sold to D A Riley who will operate it in the Rusenberger Building on Main Street. The Stehling brothers, founders of the store, have entered military service, prompting the sale. Riley, a Gillespie County native, is well known locally and plans to uphold the business reputation.
An Atlantic A tanker burning with no crew aboard was sighted off the American coast. Passengers from a nearby steamer reported the crew had taken to lifeboats. The vessel, anchored near a port on August 20, was allegedly attacked by a submarine, but officials offered no confirmation or details.
The American Red Cross announces 700 canteen stations along railway lines and embarkation posts to provide refreshments to enlisted men traveling through the country. Stations in the Southwestern Division, including Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, will be maintained until after American soldiers return from the war to thank them for their service. Also ordered, soldiers to send first post cards to Berne Switzerland to receive food packages and trigger prisoner notification. George W. Simmons plans to support wounded and disabled soldiers with re education institutes for new trades.
The Child Welfare Committee of the Women’s Council of Defense arranges a community play and song night at Court House park from six to ten o'clock Tuesday night August 29. Everyone is invited. Boy Scouts will demonstrate games. Attendees should sing the National Anthem and songs the soldiers sing in camps.
By order of the Postoffice Department patrons on star routes must have their names on mailboxes due to frequent barrier changes causing wrong deliveries.
Miss A. Lindig expresses gratitude after selling her Sanitarium to Mr. P. C. Pressler. She thanks Dr. Victor Reidel and Misses Clara Metzger and Nellie Schumann for assistance during her management and asks for continued patronage.
Government Railroad Administration to grant greatly reduced freight rates for hay and feed shipments into the drouth stricken area for stock and farmers. Hon. Wmn. Bierschwale appointed to assist in Gillespie County. call Citizens Bank for details. The program aims to aid those actively keeping stock, with shipments certified as for feed and not diverted.
A brief notice notes Michelin casings or tubes directed to the Cain City Garage for service. The item outlines a local call to action, with emphasis on location and service request within the community page.
A 1918 telegram from Wm Bierschwale, Gillespie County Council for National Defense, asks for 125 white cotton pickers for Rosenberg Texas with wages of 1.25 per hundred. Prospective workers offered choice of job and transport arranged via bank, with free movement between jobs and no binding stay. Also notes Kaiser Frederick William granted six months vacation to Crown Prince Commander and delays in Berlin.
A burlesque entertainment titled The Womanless Wedding drew a packed crowd Tuesday night at Klaekner’s opera house. About fifty prominent businessmen performed, delivering nonstop laughter as the Public School Auxiliary led by Miss Laura Arbelger organized a successful show with proceeds near $150 for the door.
Twenty-two Gillespie County youths will depart Fredericksburg on Tuesday August 27 to report for military service at Camp Travis in San Antonio. The group includes Walter Willie Wallendorf Linlin Kabenicht Walter Richard Henry Henke K E Pressier Harry E Lorenz Oscar Ullrich Jim Wilkinson Louis Douglas Lynch Richard Ludwig Kneese Alfred Rusenberger Adolph Kneese Felix Kensing William Althaus Emil Blanchard Johann Goene Alfred Kasper Benno Piiester Emil Bernhard Erwin Gold Walter Durst Benno Weinheimer and Harry Kunz. Locals wish them a speedy and safe return to their homes.
Louis Kott and Company report the sale of 116 Fords from August 1, 1917 to August 1, 1918, a record for all previous years. The local firm thanks customers for the splended business under adverse conditions, saying it could only be accomplished with a Ford.
Aug 20 Ballinger man Ben Weatten declared during a civil case that he wished a German airship would fly over the courthouse and blow it up. Bystanders disagreed and he is jailed awaiting federal officers.
British forces push north of the Ancre River capturing Courcelles Achiet le Petit and reaching Moyenville and Beaucourt sur Ancre as their morning drive advances, according to front line reports.
Buenos Aires Aug 21 After cabinet meetings on living costs President L R Iguoyen signed a decree banning export of coal wood fuel oil and key foods including vegetables potatoes beans rice peas and mineral oil The finance minister is to study adding more items to the embargo The ban excludes supplies for ships and may expand to other foods.
William Acker of Washington County filed a habeas corpus action in the Court of Criminal Appeals questioning the validity of Texas's loyalty act. Bail set at $2,000 with return date October 9. Acker argues the state lacks constitutional power to enact the law and that loyalty jurisdiction resides with the federal government. He was arrested on alleged disloyal remarks against the government.
A cattlemen's loan agency, a branch of the War Finance Corporation, will open in Dallas per a Federal Reserve statement. R L Van Zandt says the agency will lend money directly to cattlemen for periods set by its head. Directors are not announced. Dallas is chosen for central location and Fed Reserve Bank presence.
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