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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1925
Page
5
The Fredericksburg Standard issued weekly on Saturdays with R. 8. Klett as editor and WM. Habenicht as business manager. Communications should be sent to the Fredericksburg Publishing Co with business items to the Bookkeeper's Dept and other matters to the Editor's Dept.
Austin Texas Oct 10 Attorney General Dan Moody moves to court within 10 days to act on his highway maintenance contract investigation. An audit of bids and contracts is under way, Moody visits the Highway Department and the Highway Commission minutes, and details may feed a forthcoming court action. Sherman and Youmans received 910000 for Galveston County work amid a temporary injunction, with Moody noting the injunction did not apply to that county.
The court notes property owners who permit fire hazards incur higher insurance costs for others. In the case presented, defendants ignored notices to clean their property and allowed trash accusations to persist, causing fire losses to nearby property. It calls for national attention and potential legislation on personal negligence for maintaining fire hazards.
Austin official says a grand jury investigation is the most direct, least costly route for probing the Highway Department. He notes no concealment and cites a $250,000 cash balance and $1,000,000 anticipated federal aid by January 1, 1926.
Flood warnings were issued by the U S Weather Bureau for low land stockmen along the Guadalupe and Colorado rivers and their tributaries in south Texas. Heavy rains in the past 48 hours threaten large overflows as thousands of cattle face rising waters.
Mr Hy Westerhoff reports a strong cotton crop in Lubbock County but a shortage of cotton pickers. Farmers offer 1.25 dollars per hundred and seek workers to harvest the crop.
An advertisement offers Red Man's Tea as a universal skin remedy with a 12 oz bottle priced at $1.50. It touts easy consumption and claims the Standard provides sworn circulation statements with a bonafide subscription list of 1750.
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