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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1925
Page
3
Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Coates of Olney Texas visited J. L. Menges and relatives. Mrs. George Jeans joined the Sellers family after following them from Melvin. A Sunday ballgame ended with the home team winning 8 to 6.
Mr Ed Gibson and family traveled from Morris Zanch to visit Mr and Mrs C Bierschwale and Dan. They accompanied them home to spend the week.
Mr Henry Anderegg reported four inch deep hail on the Fredericksburg road near Live Oak Creek where the creek proved fordable only after a delay. Weather across the immediate area brought light rain or showers through Tuesday with totals from four percent to two inches elsewhere and about one inch locally. A Kerrville road mail carrier described ground strewn with leaves and small limbs from hail. Mr Fritz Bode arrived from San Antonio to visit his son and daughter.
A charity gratitude note thanks Rev Wolf, Doctors Birt and Keidel, Mrs Gottfried Gammenthaler, Mrs Albert Pape, pallbearers and floral donors for support after illness and death of a son and brother. Local news includes Olympic wind halted sheep shearing, George Parker's double operation in Kerrville, family visits, property sales by G L Bierschwale, and various townspeople travelling, plus Mrs Hopf’s eye treatment in Austin.
A local column lists residents visiting and leaving for Melvin, notes visitors from Eden and Kerrville, and reports on a well drilling mishap. It warns against fire hazards from hot ashes, leaves, and electrical risks, urging safe practices and competent electricians.
A newspaper line notes Pure Cane seed Milo maize Feterita Hyparia Sudan Grass and more available under a subscription to the Standard at 1.00 per year. The item reflects a period catalog or ad style listing seed types with pricing.
An average of fifteen thousand people burn to death and about seventeen thousand are injured by fire annually in the United States. The text cites eighty percent of fires as preventable with causes including defective chimneys gas matches and smoking and careless construction and protection.
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