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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1928
Page
7
Boerne Texas reports completion of a second well ensuring a full water supply. The city council invites bids for an elevated tank ground storage pipe and laying work as the town prepares to lay mains and upgrade the system to supply 100 percent pure water.
Austin report shows 4990 prisoners held Wednesday with 680 increase since January 1927 when Moody took office. State policy of few pardons cited as major factor in rising inmate numbers.
Boyd Jones, a 14 year old Amarillo boy, travels by pony from New Mexico toward Washington to invite President Coolidge to the inter-tribal Indian ceremonies. He has covered about 500 miles in 16 days, riding through hot weather and planning routes via Oklahoma City and Tulsa to reach the President before his vacation ends. He says his mother may stop him with a barrel stave in Amarillo.
Mrs. S. W. Mahan of Idalou Texas writes in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal about her experience with Sorbol Quadruple liniment. She says it eased her goiter symptoms, helped her sleep, and let her resume housework and outside tasks. The product, made by Sorbol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio, is sold by Central Drug Co.
The body of 26 year old S. C. Clifton, foreman with Texas Power and Light, was buried in Conroe after being struck by a live wire at Oakwood Wednesday afternoon. He died while repairing a transformer knocked out by lightning.
A De Haviland airplane at Brooks Field collided with two mules hitched to a grass mower on Uturvi Field Thursday morning. Cadet Warren Higgins 25 of the Air Corps Primary Flying School was attempting to take off and escaped injury. One mule was killed and the other slightly hurt.
An explosion at the New England Fireworks Manufacturing Company plant in Thompsonville Connecticut killed four men aged 11 to 45 and possibly a fifth. The victims, not company employees, were on the premises to buy powder for fireworks. Investigators have not determined the cause. A witness reported a car with five people approaching before the blast. The identified dead include Joseph Anzallotti 14 John Anzallotti 11 Rosario Carno 45 and William Dorenki 19.
The $6,736.68 payroll was looted Tuesday morning at the Tra vis Street plant. A tall bandit threatened Farmer as he fled with the bag, entering a car with two companions. Police and deputies rushed the scene but made no arrests. Vincent Heil witnessed the event.
South Texas Short Course encampment at Medina Hereford Ranch 20 miles west of San Antonio July 18 19 20 features field tours crop demonstrations and practical outdoor classes for farmers ranchers and families. A and M specialists and San Antonio businessmen organize sessions with cooking sewing and fashion demonstrations plus games films and social activities. The program runs daily nine to five with free attendance and printed schedules available through extension agents.
Eagle Pass Tex June 25 a large meteor was seen moving northeast with a long fiery trail. It fell a few miles from town with a crash that shook brick and rock buildings, causing widespread excitement as many residents witnessed the event.
Citizens in Uvalde Texas reported a series of air explosions Saturday afternoon as a meteor burned through the sky. A white smoke train stretched 44 degrees, the path traced 45 degrees east, with azimuths and vertical angles noted. Cline residents 20 miles west also saw the event and felt building shocks.
Dallas report quotes Charles D. Owen a Providence textile manufacturer stating the likely shift of the textile industry toward the cotton rich southwest region of the United States. He notes the southwest holds most of the nation’s cotton supply and would attract manufacturing.
Tex lawmakers debated making chicken and turkey theft a felony with jail or penitentiary penalties. A court ruling deemed dual penalties unconstitutional, leaving parole to juries. Farmers’ anti theft groups press for strong sentences to curb poultry thieves and deter raids.
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