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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1929
Page
18
Notice to readers that the Frede ricksburg Publishing Co. handles correspondence via Fredericksburg Texas post office with two departments. Business matters go to the Bookkeeper's Dept. while other matters go to the Editor's Dept.
State health officers urge all local health officers to lead a Clean Up Campaign in early April. Citizens of Fredericksburg are urged to respond and participate to promote preventive sanitation and reduce disease risk.
The text argues that with warm weather coming, property owners and tenants should undertake a community clean-up. It calls for disposing of litter and dead vegetation, repairing and repainting buildings, and landscape gardening. It emphasizes low cost and labor as main inputs and links cleanliness to public health and improved living conditions.
Reported suspects Billy Ballard Irene Curtis and Lucille Awalt aged 29 20 and 24 are held for a Brady bank robbery that yielded about 5000 dollars. The piece questions public sympathy for women robbers and contrasts with Rebecca Rogers case and media treatment.
The passage notes cotton’s treachery and praises calf farming as a worthy income. It urges raising more feed to support a good calf herd and suggests this as a smarter, steadier economic path for boys and a young woman who recently showed fine calves.
Out of 704 H. Club members, 25 will buy Jersey calves aged 6 to 12 months with help from local business men. They pledge to raise three acres of cotton and two of maize. The cotton will pay off the calf note and the maize will feed the animal, suggesting a cooperative project for club members and the Chamber of Commerce.
The Chamber of Commerce secretary Keller reports many visitors seek housing in Fredericksburg. Citizens with rooms or boarding space are urged to contact Mr Keller. The message asks helpers to assist strangers within our gates in finding rooms and homes and getting settled.
Bandera New Era argues that good roads symbolize civilization and prosperity. It emphasizes choosing durable construction, honest contractors, and future readiness to avoid economic ostracism and loss in competition with better connected regions.
Rueben Jordan visited friends in San Antonio Sunday. C Alfred Gold left for San Antonio for medical treatment. Alfred Moses and family spent Sunday in Fredericksburg. W M Ristau of San Antonio visited relatives in Fredericksburg. R S Miller former county agent has been transferred to Waco and may be found at the courthouse there. Chamber of Commerce directors discussed a county bond issue campaign and plan to visit every school house in April to explain the proposition.
Joe Schaetter returned from a business trip to San Antonio. Mrs Edward Knopp visited relatives in San Antonio. Mr Wm Sabban of Comfort paid a visit last Friday. Born to Mr and Mrs Fritz Joseph a daughter last Saturday.
Messrs Edwin Hohenberger and John Wenmohl were business visitors in Fredericksburg Wednesday. H E Hill and Chester Schumann of San Antonio visited the Schumann family last Sunday. A telephone message announced the death of a little son of Mrs J E Starks in San Antonio. Mr and Mrs Albert Schuch and Messrs Willie Scott George Scott Willie and Henry Friedrich attended the funeral of Mrs Jacoby at Menard.
Last Monday a local resident Mr. Max Enderlin underwent surgery in San Antonio with a noted specialist. Visitors Mrs. F. M. Hahnewald and daughter travel from Aravado Colorado to Fredericksburg and San Angelo to see relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schneider with Mr. Erwin Grobe and Mr. Felix Schuchard attended the stock show at Ft Worth and later visited in Dallas.
Willie Doss and Wally Doss of Oklahoma visited Fredericksburg and Gillespie County late last week. Their father once lived in the Doss community and the area town was named in his honor. The Doss family also resided in the city for a period.
An advertising item promoting Lady Margaret Dreams and Lotions sold by Central Drug Company Inc Ady. The copy highlights beauty complexion with texture and glow as the key appeal.
Authorized notice lists Joe Stein running for mayor of Fredericksburg and Alfred Schmidt and Arthur Kuenemann for city commissioner positions, all in the coming April election. The brief names the three candidates and their offices in Fredericksburg.
Richard and Chester Bonn return from Ft Worth with an extra good Hereford bull. August Immel and family move from Ilye to Fredericksburg and recently built a pretty new bungalow residence.
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