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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1918
Page
7
A government official urges editors to mobilize urban readers to address farm labor shortages that threaten harvests. Clarence Ousley asks papers to consider an editorial by Clarence DuBose and to use it or adapt it, stressing editors’ influence with their own communities.
If it isn't a Gates it isn't a half sale. It doubles the life of your tires at Koenig's Garage.
A 1000 acre ranch eight miles from the county seat has 60 acres cultivated with good pasture and everlasting water, sheep and goat proof fencing, plus improvements. Also a 110 acre farm four miles from the county seat with river frontage on the Medina, potential 150 more acres under plow. For details contact the seller.
The Food Administration under Peden defends higher ice prices in Houston as reasonable. An investigation shows labor and fuel costs drive delivery and factory expenses, with wages and transport costs making up large shares. The schedule lists platform and delivered price levels deemed reasonable for various quantities.
A year into war the Texas public embraces voluntary rationing of bread sugar meat and more, viewing it as a holy duty. Texans rally to support the war effort, fasting willingly and aligning daily life with wartime sacrifice to win victory.
The United States food administration issued a ruling effective June 1 1918 requiring all eggs to be candled by buyer or seller including general merchants egg dealers or hucksters. The aim is to identify eggs unfit for human food and stop them entering trade to prevent massive waste.
Rev. E. J. Howard pastor of the African Methodist Church in Houston is named chairman of the Executive Board of the Colored Branch of Food Work in Texas. Administrator Peden organizes the colored community into a state food workers group with officers and a linked structure to State headquarters.
In Siberia revolt flares around General Semenoff as officers seek an independent Siberian republic. British troops aid southern clashes with Turks, while Arctic Ocean ports shelter an insurgent nucleus. Overland allied invasion remains unlikely. Foch leads limited Arctic operations. The Florida rescue ship Schurz recounts a collision with loss of one crewman and injuries to others.
Passengers on an American steamship from the West Indies report Capt. W. D. Wells and 215 crew members from the U S S Schurz, the former German gunboat Geier, sunk off North Carolina last Friday after a collision with a tank vessel.
Washington June 22 General Pershing reports the American army overseas total now 8634, up from 8050 a week earlier. The War Department breakdown lists 1882 killed in action including 291 lost at sea, 4542 died of wounds, 1268 died of disease, 446 died from accidents and other causes, 4511 wounded in action, and 365 missing in action.
Washington June 21 Mexican laborers fear they will be drafted if they cross the border despite immigration suspensions intended to aid Southwestern farmers. Secretary Lansing told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that Mexicans will not cross unless exempt from the draft. The committee considered exempting South and Central Americans but did not act.
More than 500 acres eight miles north of San Angelo are covered with grasshoppers that are destroying cotton rapidly. L G Sumrall, county agent, inspected the fields and recommended a mixture of corn bran Paris green molasses and crushed fruit spread in furrows. A large San Angelo party will visit the farms Monday to combat the insects.
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