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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1949
Page
8
The 1948 AAA payment applications are being processed and will be mailed soon. Henry Grote discusses turkey feeding efficiency noting bronze turkeys require less feed per pound of gain than white birds, with detailed weight data from November 9, 1948.
The Grand Masquerade Dance at Weinheimers Hall drew seventy masked attendees in costumes from dukes to sailors with prizes for best dressed couple Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roeder and best dressed single Roy Weinheimer. Funds fund the new gymnasium.
City issued permits for seven projects this week including Hilmar Weiershausen annex room to residence for 175 dollars and Ad Sembritzky annex room to residence for 300 dollars. Woerner Warehouse added a restroom and breezeway roof for 450 dollars. Krauskopf built a fireplace and cement floor in a garage for 150 dollars. Western Auto Assoc. Store added partitions and a front door for 300 dollars. National Grocery Inc. rebuilt roof trusses and garage doors for 2,000 dollars.
Harper Lions defeated the Kerrville Lions Club quintet 34 to 29 in a close game on a new gym floor. The Harper lineup included Worth Howe Rex Fox Aubrey Harper Omer Cot tle Neal Fox Fred Whitewood Carl Oehler Paul DeLorey Clint Brown Watkins Tarr and President A L Bierschwale.
The article highlights native legumes as high value feed and soil enrichers. It notes Lea venworth vetch as a key winter legume in the area, groundplum milkvetch with early spring blooms, and Wintergreen annual low pea vine. It cites the Flat Top Ranch in Walnut Springs Texas as promoting native legumes for fertilization and protein feed, and laments loss of native seed sources.
Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Pressler Jr. of Baton Rouge Louisiana announce the birth of a son Carl Denham on February 13. Mrs. Pressler is the former Elaine Denham. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Pressler of here, welcomed also by his brother Paul Rowland.
Johnson City Chamber of Commerce held its annual banquet at the High School Cafeteria on Monday February 28 with railroad commissioner O L Culber son as guest speaker. Bob McKinney was named president succeeding Tru ma Fawcett, Robert Knox was elected vice president and George Byers was reelected secretary. A 1949 project is buying a fir e truck for town needs after a December fire. Ladies of the Methodist Church served the dinner. A new building is under construction for the Hi Way Inn with demolition of the old structure underway.
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