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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1930
Page
11
Winter limits green vegetables so the guide offers varied preparations. Miss Inez S. Wilson of the National Live Stock and Meat Board suggests creative methods. The recipe for Sweet Potatoes on the Half Shell with Baked Ham or Roast Pork uses baked potatoes filled with butter milk and marshmallows.
Peel Hubbard squash and cook until tender. Mash and mix with cream and melted butter. Fold into a buttered dish and top with grated cheese and buttered crumbs. Bake until well browned in a moderate oven.
The recipe describes roasting a lamb shoulder with stuffed carrots, using boiled thick carrots filled with onion parsley and seasonings, breaded and baked around the roast. A second dish outlines cabbage with milk cheese sauce, butter and flour, served as a side.
Three more Coast Guard sailors pleaded guilty today at a general court martial hearing arising from the seizure of the rum ship Flor Del Mar. The trio brought the total guilty pleas to 16 of 39 cases.
Bastrop County farmer T. J. Barton reports selling pecans from his new orchard this year totaling about 1500 dollars at prices as high as forty cents per pound, illustrating growing value in local agriculture.
Rate reductions for residential customers totaling at least 200000 dollars annually were announced by Dallas Power and Light Co. Earlier this year the firm disclosed an industrial rate cut totaling 150000 dollars.
The Palestine plant had orders for 10 000 chairs before Christmas but refused more due to capacity limits. Output runs into thousands. South Texas reports fruit and vegetable shipments for the season to Dec 8 1928 at 1 210 ears, and to Dec 7 this year at 2 847 ears, with weekly totals 246 ears in 1928 vs 675 in 1929.
The Palestine creamery enlarges production capacity while a $200,000 Texas Milk Products Co. milk plant rises at Mount Pleasant. By end of 1929 Texas dairying widens with diversification. Floresville ships 250 cars of corn as Bee ville plans 200 acres of tomatoes. Cameron and Big Spring add 32000 egg hatcheries and Floydada adds a 16000 egg incubator, lifting local hatchery capacity above 100,000.
The Taylor Press notes Cedar Park quarries on the Williamson Travis line produce cordova cream limestone cordova shellstone pebblebrook and cedarbrook stone. Shell stone resembles travertine and changes color from cream to white with calcite specks, then back to rich cream when polished.
Guidance on building breeding pens advises keeping hens in small, uniform flocks of 12 to 20 with one male, to ensure uniform eggs. The text notes that promiscuous breeding yields unpredictable chicks and profits. It also cites Texas output in 1929 with 4,717 producing oil wells and 522 gas wells.
Washington reports Miss Ethel Nelson accused in a parrot kidnapping case. The police judge ordered 25 days in jail or a $25 fine after Nelson, believing the bird should stay stolen, chose the jail as punishment amid a chaotic scene with feathers flying and accusations.
Extension Poultryman C O Ufford urges using artificial lighting to boost winter egg production. He notes most laying occurs in spring and summer and describes three clock‑based lighting methods, including morning and evening schemes with dimming. He states extra light helps hens resist cold and maintain grain feeding during long nights. The Brazos River drains 41,700 square miles entirely within Texas.
Albert Koennecke testifies as owner of part of the unincorporated The Bank of Fredericksburg in Fredericksburg Gillespie County Texas Names Ad Gold Mary Alice Smith Estella Smith Elsa Walter and Koennecke as interested parties confirm the bank is not run under a common law declaration of trust Notary Lawrence Knopp attests on January 13 19 1.
In Philadelphia on January 9, four blasts tore through the Globe Theater at Market and Juniper, causing injuries to more than 30 people, four severely. The blasts followed a small fire and were blamed on a spark entering an acetylene tank near the ruined building. City Hall windows shattered as crowds fled and Mayor Mackey, just after leaving his office, avoided the debris.
Dallas January 12 The SMU male student body spends most of their budget on social dates and cigarettes. An SMU survey shows an average annual expenditure of 892.77 per male on dates. Theatre and other dates total 96 347 88 for the entire student body while smoking costs 29 710 80 and sweets 71 305 92. Books and magazines account for 55 354 05 though the breakdown by subject is not given.
During the fiscal year ended June 30 1929 Texas citizens paid 39 465 939 50 in taxes to the federal government of which 37 703 785 was on incomes.
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