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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
5
Texas insurance officials announce continued reductions in fire and windstorm premiums. Commissioner Hall notes total cuts since 1936 and 1937 lower the insured cost by about four million dollars over the next year. He cites prior adjustments and good loss records as basis for further decreases while warning rates adjust with future studies.
Col. M. E. Crimmins and Capt John Elgin pass Fredericksboro en route to Coleman for ex Rangers reunion events Thursday and Friday. Crimmins to recount Camp Colorado history once near Coleman. Elgin to discuss Texas Rangers and their great leaders from 60 years of memories.
Miss Dorothy Saenger is visiting this week in the Albert Meckel home in San Antonio. Mr. enendé Ellebracht of Alice visited his parents while recovering from an appendicitis operation.
A letter contrasts Townsend era taxes with a proposed pension tax. The writer condemns Martin as a rich beneficiary seeking votes from the less fortunate with promises of free hunting and pensions, arguing for civic honesty and personal responsibility. The author regrets politics over principle and vows to stay true after election.
Mr and Mrs Erwin Kammiah and Miss Frances Pyka spent Monday in the Alamo City. Dorothy Bernhard, daughter of Mr and Mrs Rubin Bernhard, underwent an appendix and tonsil operation Monday.
Peggy Lou and J A Weiers hausen are spending their summer vacation at New Braunfels with Mr and Mrs A M Moeller ing.
Adolf Wehmeyer suffered neck and head injuries when struck by a beam while lifting a car stuck in a cattleguard at the entrance to the Mrs A Moursund property in Fredericksburg. The incident involved several people using the beam to raise the vehicle.
The program covers American cotton in foreign markets with Burris Jackson of the Texas Cotton Improvement Committee and Dean E J Kyle of Texas A M College among speakers. The forenoon focuses on Texas agriculture economics led by J R McCrary, with afternoon sectional meetings on July 1. Women’s Short Course features consumer problems while sessions on home electricity, textiles, drugs, cosmetics, kitchen equipment, meat, nutrition, and housing are planned. Wild flowers legends, book reviews, neighborhood beautification, and home sanitation titled State Water In and Out are also included.
A granite monument marks the Packsaddle Mountain battle site in Llano county. Plans call for a dedicatory service August 5 to honor eight Llano pioneers led by survivor E. D. Harrington. The marker lists Steve B. Moss W. B. Moss James R. Moss Pink Ayers Robert Brown Arch Martin Eli Lloyd.
Houston news reports a relief farmer, Harry Hanson, abducted by three youths who knocked him unconscious and dumped him in a ditch while taking a side of bacon he had received from the relief administrator. Hanson recovered and told police the youths took only the bacon.
Fred Duderstadt 87 a longtime cattleman and old trail driver died at his Center Point home after a life spanning Kansas and Missouri markets and Texas ranching He recalled Civil era style drives facing Indians and outlaws and witnessed the Har din Clements clash He moved to Kendall County in 1913 later ranching near Mountain Home before settling in Center Point He left a wife two sons two stepsons 20 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren among survivors Funeral services were held in Center Point.
Cattle and calf buyers show steady to weak demand with 1,100 cattle and 1,300 calves received. Steers and yearlings scarce and prices mostly $4.50 to $7.25 with plain animals down. cows range $3.00 to $5.50 and bulls $4.00 to $6.35. Sheep and goats sparse with dull trade and few shorn wethers around $3.00.
Temple June 12 Bonnie Toby 17 of Belton died Sunday from internal hemorrhage after leaping from a moving car Saturday night when a man who offered her a ride refused to take her home. Police found no trace of the driver. Doris Cooksey 15, also of Belton, was released by the driver after Bonnie jumped.
C E Miller 25 father of Mrs L F Zwiener of Fredericksburg died at his Taylor Texas home Thursday afternoon. Funeral services were held Friday at 5 o clock in the afternoon. Mrs Miller died last December. Four daughters survive. People from Kolmeier and Klier attended a Texas Hardware and Implement Dealers Association meeting at the Gunter Hotel Tuesday evening. Clarence Probst, employed by the company since the first of the month, lectured on Nuts and Bolts and demonstrated counting aloud. Pepper’s address was well received and he is expected to be elected president at the next meeting.
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