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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1926
Page
3
Mary Anderson spent the weekend with home folks at Junction. Mrs. Emma F. Rogers was on the sick list at the start of the week and is improving. Mrs. A. H. Wendel has returned home from Fredericksburg after appendicitis surgery and is doing nicely.
Messrs Otto Moellendorf and Lee Wood visited Fredericksburg on Tuesday. Mr Lewis Nixon of the Morris Ranch community was a visitor in our town Tuesday. Professor C K B Cole went to Fredericksburg Monday and State Inspector Mr Borden of Austin returned with him. Mr Borden the State inspector and Judge Herman Usener visited our school Monday. Messrs John Rogers Borden and Judge Usener were guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Gammenthaler for dinner Monday.
Tuesday night friends surprised Evelyn Ballard with gifts and games. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wedekind, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bierschwabe and son Arthur, R. H. Tobin, Marvin and Trene Crawford Goode, Mrs. Frank Floyd and daughters, Abbie Cook, Lillian Gates, Nettie Smith, Kes Foster, and Misses Mildred Rogers Theresa Keller Emmie Stehling.
Mr. Hardin Tobin spent the weekend with relatives but is delayed from returning to his ranch due to heavy snow.
Mr. Temple Duderstadt, son of Mr and Mrs John Duderstadt, who is attending school in Fredericksburg, spent last weekend with his parents.
A seven inch snow fell Friday night and Saturday, signaling bright prospects for future crops. Mr. Jacob Jung and son James traveled to San Antonio this week while Mrs. Jung plans to return home with them. Last Wednesday a fire damaged the roof of Mr. and Mrs. Lyttle Gibson’s home before it was put out.
Attorney General Dan Moody revealed in a Saturday filing the state's 421 000 suit against Hoffmann Construction for asphalt surfacing costs totaling 908 443 24 with 208 194 78 paid later. The topping was 296 805 50 while subcontractors J F Dexter and H K McCullum earned a combined net 88 655 77. Court adjourned at noon. trial may run another week with witnesses including L K R Allison, former assistant highway engineer, alleged to have gained appointment through stockholder influence over ex highway commissioner Joe Burkett.
G. Mont Adams of Smith County produced 25 bales on 18 acres and shipped to Liverpool as Texas greatest per acre. He won county best crop prize and the state grand prize with 16 bales from five acres, totaling over 2200 dollars. His Mebane Triumph cotton led the display.
Readington Texans and several cotton states push for immediate acreage reduction. George B. Terrell led the call as Texas agricultural commissioner, with the Texas Safer Farming association holding a parallel closed meeting. Cultivation cuts aim to curb costs from imported foods and stabilize farming livelihoods amid looming catastrophe.
An advertisement lists John Deere tools including plows discs sulky moldboard planters cultivators and fore-truck options in single and double row configurations offered at reasonable terms and prices.
The sovereign camp of the Woodmen for the World won its supreme court appeal against Mrs. Alice C. Shelton of Frie county. The court reversed the lower court’s objection, disposing the case with a brief announcement that the cited authorities support the reversal.
Sioux Falls South Dakota January 27. Dr Charles Ericksen testified for the defense that Mrs Catherine Rogers and her daughter Zera 19 cannot live more than three or four years, asserting they are insane. He cited Mrs Rogers delusions as evidence in the Renner State Bank robbery trial.
An advertisement by Hy Fischer announces paying top market prices for all farm produce and invites growers to subscribe to the Standard for updates.
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