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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
8
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The highest postwar average price for herefords was set as 54 registered cattle sold for an average of 1020 dollars in Sulphur Oklahoma. Champion bull Gordon Rupert Three Million sold for 5800 dollars after winning the 1939 International Live stock Show grand championship in Chicago. Top sires drew 2000 dollars for the leading female Lady Aster 16th. Twenty two bulls averaged 1534 dollars while females trailed the sires.
The Austin Mutual Life Insurance Co reviews 1939 claims paid totaling about 175 500 to 134 deceased policyholders and notes its 20th year in 1940 with stronger finances. It announces a new child policy for ages one month to 16 years and invites inquiries at the Austin home office.
A San Angelo report shows 41 West Texas counties including Gillespie contribute more locally to schools than they receive in state rural aid. Kerr and Gillespie are exceptions with extra rural aid. Mason and Kimble reverse the trend. statewide figures show rural districts drawing from the state equalization fund and local funding, with 52.44 percent of districts benefiting from rural aid.
Adolph Fritz of near Fredericksburg often mistaken for John Nance Garner. While in San Antonio with his wife and daughter-in-law Henry Maurer, a passerby apologized and asked if he was Garner. Fritz, like Garner, has a ruddy complexion and bushy eyebrows, a comparison he tolerates.
The Gillespie County Peach Growers Association named Ernest Hodges, Edmund Meyer, and Nolan Brown to study spray options for the coming year. The committee will locate a supplier for the sprays. The Friday meeting at the Gillespie County Courthouse discussed fruit tree diseases and treatments. Snnon Burg presided as president and Anton Schm idtzensky served as secretary.
Fredericksburg firms Knopp and Metzger and Schneider's Produce prepare to offer custom hatching for Gillespie poultry raisers. Knopp & Metzger expect a heavy season after hatching about 23 000 eggs last year. Their plant is on West Main Street and they raise white leghorn chicks at a South Heights farm. Schneider's Hatchery operates near Otto Schneider on West Travis Street and hatched about 60 000 last year.
Farmers look to classified ads to trade produce livestock and equipment. Advertisers highlight tools vehicles seeds and services with local buyers and sellers reaching rural households through timely listings.
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