Six Injured in Automobile Accident Near Austin
An auto overturn on Fishville Road five miles north of Austin left four women seriously hurt and three women plus two children badly shaken. Victims include Mrs. Porter Wright with three broken ribs and Mrs. L. S. Brown with a broken shoulder. The car, driven by Mrs. Moore, veered into a ditch while passing another vehicle and rolled. Several occupants were trapped beneath the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Fishville Road
Porter Wright
Janie Williams
J. T. Priest
L. S. Brown
Wright
Brown
Top-dresser Fertilizers and Crop Guidance
The article recommends nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia as efficient top dressers for corn cotton and garden greens. It warns to choose the cheaper per pound nitrogen, suggests 75 to 100 pounds per acre on light soils, and notes high prices favor profitability. It also advises careful milk cow feeding and velvet bean seed demand, and suggests successive melon plantings with nitrate or ammonia near runners.
Bureau to Supply News of the Injured Formed in DC
Washington May 5 The American Red Cross announced the creation of a bureau to supply news of wounded dead and imprisoned Americans at the front with W R Castle Jr of Honolulu in charge. The bureau will first obtain from Germany a list of interned Americans in exchange for information about interned Germans in this country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
W. R. Castle Jr
Honolulu
American Red Cross
Germany
Recruiting Day at Fredericksburg 1917 Plans
Postmaster A R Gold leads a committee to organize a May 15 recruiting day in Fredericksburg Texas after letters from Houston urging patriotic events. The note outlines bands speakers decorations press activity car advertising and cross town and county participation to boost enlistment in the Regular Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. R .Gold
Fredericksburg
Gold
J. D. Payne
Harry Schwarz
W. Z. Bates
Max Stehling
R. G. Striegler
J. M. Dubray
Joe Stein
E. H. Riley
F. J. Maier
KE. C. Hansen
J. T. Estill
Max Beekmann
Houston
Texas
Victoria
W. L. Lowe
Gillespie County Recruiting Day Aims 50 to 60 Volunteers
A 1917 recruiting push urges Gillespie County residents to volunteer for the Regular Army and National Guard to reach a 400000 man war strength. Postmasters are asked to publicize the effort and aid recruiters, with a Gillespie quota of 50 to 60 men, plus speeches, a street parade, and decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
Gillespie Co
Texas
Regular Army
National Guard
War Department
Congress
Houston
United States
Regular
Clarence Martin
Austin
Jake Wolters
Wie Wurzbach
San Antonio
Thos. J. Martin
Gillespie County
Conscription Program Details Delayed Publication
The passage notes a forthcoming program for the day to be published later. It mentions bills to obtain the Agricultural College in the county and directs the secretary to send a copy of the resolution to the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce. Ad. O Kneese, Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural College
Kerrville Chamber of Commerce
Ad. O. Kneese
Gillespie County Farmers Union Backs Demonstration Work
Fredericksburg Texas May 5 1917 at a meeting of the Gillespie County Farmers Co operative and Educational Union the members adopted resolutions urging continued and expanded demonstration work and asking lawmakers to use influence in its favor They also endorsed Kerr County citizens efforts and urged patriotic farming to boost food production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
Texas
Gillespie County Farmers Co-operative and Educational Union of Texas
South
Kerr County
Widow of Summers Drug Co. chief dies after brief illness
Mrs. Carter F. Summers wife of the Summers Drug Co. president died after a brief illness Saturday night May 5 at 11 o'clock at the family home 209 River Avenue. She was born Clara Meta Wahrmund in Fredericksburg Texas in 1880 and married in San Antonio in 1905. Survived by her husband and a son Otto Wahrmund Sommers 16. Funeral Sunday at 4 p m from the parents home Colonel Otto Wahrmund and Mrs. Wahrmund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter F. Summers
Summers Drug Co
Otto Wahrmund
River Avenue
Sommers
San Antonio
Clara Meta Wahrmund
Fredericksburg
Texas
Otto Wahrmund Sommers
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Juenke & Schoenewolf
Lfred Klingelhoefer
Wm. Hoffmann
Jacksmith and Wheelwright
Otto Kolmeier
Wdericksburg
Battal Meat Market
Petermann
Flius Krueger Produce
T.f
Kentucky
Jack
William Ebert, R
Dericksbur
Ah Tex
Linbrough
Kuebe
Ralers
Ngeneral
Albert
Alga
Top-dresser
Fredericksburo
U. S. Army
Binz Bldg
Houston, Tex
L Daily
Hin
Army
Binz Bidg
Bank OF Fredericksburg
American Bankers’ Ass’n
Texas Bankers’ Ass’n
BANKS
Temple D. Smit
Adolph Gold
Albert Koennecke
Mrs
Fred. Walter
Walter
Temple D. Smith
Ad. Gold
Alb. Koennecke
Gillespie County Farmers Union
Wahrmund
REGAL
Regal Motor Car Company
Detroit
Michigan
Maier Bros
Felix W. Maier
Henry Maier
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