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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1925
Page
4
Fredericksburg Standard published by Fredericksburg Publishing Co issued Saturdays. D. R. Schumacher editor and WM Habenicht business manager. Post office entry as second class matter in Fredericksburg Texas. Public urged to send oil communications to the publishing company. business matters to Bookkeeper's Dept and other to Editor's Dept.
The piece explains tax rate issues and how assessed value differs from market value. Gillespie County taxes are low in rate and much of the property is assessed at about a quarter of market value, compared with Bexar County at about forty percent. The author notes the practicality of budgeting around valuation and taxes.
The college dismissed several students for hazing, underscoring the institution’s rule against hazing and the need to maintain discipline among its two thousand students. The piece discusses hazing’s history, its harms, and the rationale for enforcement.
Mrs. F A Grote Sr nee Mina Jordan was born April 26, 1850 in Fredericksburg Texas to parents Ernest and Lizzette Jordan. She married Dan Hoerster in 1871 producing two living children Emil Hoerster and Mrs Adolph Rothmann before his 1875 death, then married F A Grote Sr in 1877 and had seven children with five more stepchildren.
A city driver on a country road finds a bright metal plowpoint fallen from his car. After half an hour search another motorist stops, asks about the incident, and the first man reveals he has found the lost plowpoint.
Price list dated January shows local market quotes for farm goods. Fryers 2 lbs at 25 cents per lb. Hens 13 to 15 cents, roosters 25 cents per lb. Turkeys 16 cents per lb. Oats 60 cents per bushel, shelled corn 1.10, wheat 1.60 per bushel, baled cane 1.00 per cwt.
State of Texas versus Joe Miller bound over to grand jury on liquor charges with $1000 bail. State versus Tom Ivy bail set at $1000. Miss Anita Dechert of San Antonio visiting relatives in town. Judge McLean and family from Llano shopped in Fredericksburg. Local farm equipment ads note John Deere planters and new Lubricating oil price updates from area merchants.
Chinese secret societies or tongs function as mutual protection groups with commercial aims. They operate as rival trade associations whose friction can erupt into warfare via unfair practices and boycotts. U S tongs are branches of larger bodies with HQ in Shanghai and Beijing and branches worldwide.
Workmen carry Tim Malone’s remains from a fourteen story skyscraper where he fell. Terry arrives at the Malone home to tell his wife the bad news but she insists she is not a widow. A terse street scene accompanies the grim notification in Capper’s Weekly.
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