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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
4
P pierce Brooks urges making Mother's Day a day of rest and reflection not chores. He contrasts Christmas gifts with a meal out and shared duties, noting mothers labor daily and deserve appreciation year round.
A community note praises the Fredericksburg P. T. A. and another local society for their strong membership and impactful programs. It highlights the PTA’s mission to uplift youth through home, school, church, and community cooperation and urges citizen support for the group and its officers.
A quotation extols enterprise and success while urging leaders to retreat to soothing natural havens where pine fragrance, flowing waters, and healthy air renew tired bodies and minds. The passage frames rest as essential to those who pursue big deeds in business.
The passage argues that individuals and groups resist acknowledging shortcomings. It notes that even when flaws are known, they are often believed unseen by others, and self analysis intensifies factional sensitivities.
Mohair prices surged this week with adult and kid mohair at 40 to 50 cents as buyers like Emery & Conant and Kimble Wool & Mohair Company contracted large lots. Cattle and sheep receipts and quotes show yearlings and cows steady to uneven, with slaughter calves and stockers active, and goats and Angora goats selling at modest prices.
A rural set of satire defines socialism as sharing one cow with a neighbor. Communism shows two cows given to the Government who then provides the milk. Fascism has the farmer keep cows but the Government takes the milk and sells it back. Naziism ends with the Government shooting you and seizing the cows. New Dealism portrays one cow killed, the rest milked and discarded.
May 10 market report shows hogs and cattle sales with 900 salable hogs. Prices range from 4.25 to 6.40 for various weights and lots, with top $6.40 for good hogs and overall market described as weak to lower than Tuesday. Multiple consignors from New Braunfels Mason Boerne Llano Kerrville Streeter and San Antonio listed with individual animal lots and prices.
Local officers link Francis to a four year old burglary with evidence from Huntsville fingerprints and a hardware store break in. A Dallas woman implicated by Francis faces possible August trial. the case may trigger a bench warrant for Francis.
Parity and conservation payments are explained by Dorman D. Sell, with details on soil building credits and crop allotment rules. The article outlines conservation payments at 2 cents per pound for cotton and 17 cents per bushel for wheat, plus soil-building incentives of 1.50 per unit, and parity payments of 16 cents per pound on cotton and 11 cents per bushel on wheat based on 1939 allotments. Farmers who exceed allotments lose parity payment eligibility.
A ventilator in the kitchen helps remove cooking odors. If no built in unit, keep a window open and fit an inexpensive window ventilator to exhaust air.
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