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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
4
The Fredericksburg Standard lists Frederickburg Publishing Co staff including R S Klett managing editor and R E Jordan sports editor. The paper is issued every Friday and entered as second class mail in Fredericksburg Texas.
The notice directs readers to send all communications to the Fredericksburg Publishing Co. For purely business matters use the Bookkeeper's Dept. All other matters go to the Editor's Dept.
The Southern Conference and church bodies authorize Blinn Memorial College to merge into Southwestern University of Georgetown Texas. The merged entity will be Southwestern University with a Brenham college continuation, and Blinn assets become endowment if Brenham needs end. Ex-students gain rights. records move to Southwestern. a local Blinn executive committee will govern.
At Chicago today the grand champion steer, once tipped at $7 a pound in 1928 and $825 for a top record last year, was led to the suction block amid shouting arguing and pleading from bidders and onlookers.
A crowded auction saw timid bidding for top stock. Aber Deen Angus yearling sold for 2.50 a pound to J F McKenney of King City Missouri. Breakers Hotel Atlantic City hosted the 1930 champion at 2700 dollars. other yards posted lower prices with 31 cents per pound for Angus lots from the Tolan farms.
Police and newspapermen searched Pampa Texas for Morgan P Moorer Jr a missing University of North Carolina student from Asheville North Carolina who disappeared from Asheville last February A Salvation Army captain in Galveston had wired Asheville police that the youth seen in Pampa resembled the missing student The man described as blond tall with curly hair spoke with a Southern accent and claimed to be from the Carolinas He ate breakfast Friday then vanished from Salvation Army lodging
An aged newspaper solicitation promotes a Standard subscription at 50 cents annually. It invites readers to sign up or renew to receive the latest issues.
E J Earthman 25 of Terrell, an employee of the Texas Power and Light Co, was kidnapped by two armed men who forced him to drive out of town, swap clothes with one attacker, and later abandon the car near Reinhardt after a tire puncture. He was made to strip and forfeit $4.90 in the incident and escaped unharmed.
In San Antonio on December 10, Mrs Mildred Woodruff who died after a party at the Lambda Chi Alpha house on Thanksgiving will be exhumed for an autopsy. Dist Atty Walter Tynan said he will seek evidence that alcohol poisoning was not the sole cause of death.
Mrs. R L Taylor celebrated her 100th birthday in Tona near Terrell Texas with 195 descendants including five children 44 grandchildren 119 great grandchildren and 27 great great grandchildren. A humor moment arises as a railroad worker buys buzzard eggs for his wife and learns a turkey prank backfires in lunch.
Surgeons review Virgil Bennett 18 of Hall Summit Kansas. 22 caliber bullet lodged near heart. only two favor surgery. no prior case cited. Bennett was accidentally shot by a younger brother before a hunting trip.
A valise bearing the name Ryland Geistweidt was lost on the Fredericksburg San Antonio road last Friday. The bag contains ladies clothing.
Mrs Magdalena Muehe of 1409 K street Galveston reports years of stomach trouble and severe indigestion improved by Konjola. She urges others to try the alcohol free remedy and notes its sale at Central Drug Co Fredericksburg Texas and other town druggists.
The bereaved family expresses sincere appreciation to friends and neighbors for assistance and sympathy after the death of Otto Zimmermann. They thank Rev Fellmann, Schaetter and Son, the wake and pallbearers, and for the floral offerings.
Local notice warns that hunting with guns dogs trapping or trespassing on land owned or controlled by Spring Creek and Honey Creek Game Protective Association is strictly forbidden. Violators will be prosecuted under the law by August Behrends Alfred Pfiester Alex Priess Louis Crenwelge and others.
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