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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1919
Page
8
Local and personal items report Henry Jor din Edward Knopp and W Z Bates new Standard subscribers Eugene Schmidt buys Willie Hauns Barber Show on Main street and plans interior overhaul Richard Arbelger of Mason County visits Fredericksburg staying with the Arbelgers and Mrs Reichenau. Dick notes Llano river still has fish.
Local notices report a plan to build a railroad from Ranger Texas via Llano to Fredericksburg to connect with lines at San Antonio. Mr Chas Nimitz received a letter from a Llano party seeking information about a dump east of Fredericksburg. The Boy Scouts camp on Wm McDougall’s Pedernales property for a week. Abnormally cold weather Monday fell to 48 degrees with snow in Northwest Texas. The Southern Methodist Church held its quarterly conference led by Rev Konken of New Braunfels. June 3 marked Jefferson Davis’s birthday with the banks closed. Harry Schwarz traveled to San Antonio and shipped wool and mohair early in the week.
Washington June 4 Republicans block a Democratic proposal to add six seats to the War Expenditures Committee to allow six inquiries into War Department costs. The 197 to 155 vote kept the panel at fifteen members with Speaker Gillet naming ten Republicans and five Democrats to probe aviation ordnance camps cantonments quartermaster corps and foreign expenditures.
Letter from Dodge D Westfall, a Gillespie County native and Co K 359th Infantry, 90th Division, describes injuries from WWI including leg amputation after gas poisoning and shell wounds. He details hospital stays in Toul and New York Debarkation Hospital, letters from family, and recovery hopes.
Last Monday night the Mason Commercial Club held its June meeting and discharged committees. A three man panel was chosen to arrange a landing field and mark it for aviation use, with a sketch of the town sent to the Aviation Fields of the State and Mason hospitality pledged. Two Mason County soldiers, Max Simon and Alfred Tingleyfardt, returned home on discharge after about six months overseas. A drowning death of 18 month old son of Mr and Mrs Edgar Fleming occurred at a water trough in Ranch Branch, with burial at the Rit cemetery on Wednesday. Mrs Max Krueger and two sons visited Mrs Kurt Martin at the local sanitarium. they returned to San Antonio on Monday.
North Texas reports indicate a general strike may be called in the Texas oil regions after the Texas Producing Company discharged oil field gas well and refinery workers belonging to unions. Federal Conciliator Joseph S. Myers of Fort Worth will seek a conference with companies and workers to avert the walkout, departing for Electra.
In Chicago six men are in custody as bomb suspects after raids on West and South Side locations. Explosives and anarchistic pamphlets were seized. Daniel Colzin, an Italian bookkeeper arrested days earlier, provides a partial confession linking local radicals to networks in the East.
A Vienna newspaper reports that the Austrian government joins Germany in disapproval of the peace terms demanded by the allied and associated powers, calling them unacceptable and likely to provoke protests at the conference.
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