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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1928
Page
9
Marie Cottle, noted reporter and collector, is featured in this Harper News item. The piece highlights her journalistic work and collecting interests within the community.
R J Gamel visited Fredericksburg Tuesday, August Strackbein from Reservation settlement came Wednesday. J C Casper and son Milton visited relatives at Junction last week. J M Scarborough Jr and daughter stayed with Arthur Sellers last Sunday. Warren/ Larr en Hunter ill earlier this week but improving. Henry Pehl and Lytle Gibson visited town midweek. N C Cottle and family visited Frank Staudt early week. Carl Whitworth of Knoxville visited Harper late in the week.
Mr and Mrs Roy Cottle and their children traveled to Kerrville to visit relatives last Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Otto Rahe and family visited near Fredericks burg at the start of the week. Dr and Mrs J B Birt Mr and Mrs Walter Mc Dougall Mrs Ida Kneese and daughter Monterey are on a pleasant James River fishing trip.
Self Leslie of Kenedy visits relatives. Mrs Ida Kneese and son Alton go to Harper on Wednesday. Cecil Floyd spends the weekend visiting home folks.
Mrs Lena Ernst of Fredericksburg is visiting Mrs Hy Tatseh, staying for a social visit.
B C Spence and his mother were pleasant visitors in town one day this week. They toured local shops and enjoyed coffee at a downtown cafe, chatting with residents and posing for photos with fans.
Dillard Stapp of the Noxville community was a business visitor in Harper Tuesday.
Eddie Baumann and Willie Kaiser spent the start of the week fishing. Jake Jung, son James, and R. C. Little were business visitors in Fredericksburg Friday. W Sageser Self Leslie and B C Sageser enjoyed a fishing trip later in the week. E Bein made a business trip to Kerrville earlier in the week. Grosenbacher of the Knoxville community visited on Wednesday. Julia Farmer of Penelope visited her aunt Mrs John Morris. Mr and Mrs W A Hopf and children and Lorine Sagebiel toured Fredericksburg. The Solomans visited relatives in Junction last week. Ben Thomas and daughter Florence and Miss Clara Brinkroll were in Junction late week. Douglas Duderstadt and Weldon Eddins came from Klein Branch Wednesday. Otto Gold of Fredericksburg, representing Rawleigh, has been working the community this week.
Scientists note 17 year locust brood II, also called Brood II, has emerged on schedule after waiting subterranean for decades. Naturalists say the swarms appear in eastern states at regular intervals, then fade as new cycles begin.
The 17 year cicadas will emerge in June and part of July across Connecticut New Jersey Southern New York Eastern Pennsylvania Maryland and North Carolina. Entomologist W T Davis notes their sacking mouth may harm a few trees while most damage comes from egg laying in twigs and stems. These cicadas hatched from eggs laid in 1911 during Brood II and will live about six weeks above ground before mating and dying.
Judge McCollum Burnett of County Court at Law No. 1 in San Antonio dismissed ninety nine wife abandonment cases on Friday. Some husbands had reconciled and supported their wives while others showed lack of interest as the docket was cleared, leaving 300 to 400 cases still active.
Lightning struck the flagpole at Alzafar Camp eight miles from Boerne on a Saturday afternoon, destroying the pole and damaging one pavilion pier. The pavilion sustained minor damage as the pole bore the brunt of the strike and connected to the concrete floor. Local carpenters noted a heavy downpour with minimal electrical disturbance in Boerne.
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