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Fredericksburg Standard

Location

Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 18, 1916

Page

8

Chamber of Commerce Seeks Road Repairs and Agricultural Expert

At the monthly Chamber meeting in Fredericksburg, members urged repairing the San Antonio road to the Kendall county line and the Mason County road to the Mason line west of town. They plan to hire an agricultural expert for demonstration work with the Farmers Union and the Commissioners Court. The group also discussed a site for trash and garbage disposal. Erwin Grobe reportedly caught the largest bass from the Pedernales River, an eight pound all-black specimen likely from the San Marcos hatchery stock.

Fredericksburg Commissioners Court Farmers Union Chamber of Commerce Penniger Max SchoenkwSlf Otto Kolmeier Erwin Grobe Pedernales Morris Ranch Lepan Lake San Marcos Grobe

Po-Do-Lax Promises Relief For Constipation

Are you bothered with constipation Po-Do-Lax offers relief from the first dose. It empties bowels stimulates bile and other secretions and attacks constipation at its source. Regular use may be needed only occasionally. An excellent liver medicine offered 50e at druggists.

Mexican bandits threaten border as Carranza forces move

Dispatches report Zapata and Diaz mobilizing bands south of Mexico City with attacks on property and people. Carranza troops 300 strong march toward the Rio Grande aiming to invade Texas. Violent clashes near Brownsville and on the Barreda bridge send U.S. soldiers on high alert. Multiple towns report gunfire and border tension amid Villa propaganda.

Sapata Mexico Carranza Tuxpam Diaz United States Zapata Pancho Villa Rio Grande Texas Marfa Mercedes Rojas Ojinaga Presidio Brownsville New Mexico Kingsville Barreda St. Louis, Brownsville & Mexico del Rio United States Cavalry Pinto Here Madisonville Robert Lusk Wallace Thomason Centerville Thomason Palmer Huey Brothers Dallas Longview Sharlar el Paso Colonia Dublan Casas Grandes Valley Columbus Alexander Straut Casas Grandes

Anti-Saloon Leader John G Willacy Tops Anti-Saloon League Speech

Dallas reports former Senator John G Willacy of San Antonio, once anti prohibition, now a Prohibition advocate, spoke at the Anti-Saloon League convention urging woman suffrage and education funded without liquor money. Austin notes a rehearing motion in the Charles Cline case was overruled in the Court for Criminal Appeals. El Paso details Pershing orders to test water for poisons amid fears of cyanide use. Galveston dispatches say Zapata and Felix Diaz send troops from Southern Mexico to Villa's aid.

Dallas John G. Willacy San Antonio Willacy Austin Charles Cline Bexar Ortiz Dimmit County Court For Criminal Appeals Cline el Paso Oliver L. Dawson United States Custom Service General Pershing Galveston Mexico Vera Cruz Zapata Felix Diaz Villa

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