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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1925
Page
7
A historic Germantown battlefield within Philadelphia’s growing city is showcased at the Sesquicentennial Exposition opening June 1 1926. The Chew House, a stone mansion where British troops hid during the 1777 retreat, remains as a museum with bullets in its walls.
Attorney General Dan Moody recovered a 15730.64 refund to the state highway fund from the American Road company of Dallas for duplicate payments. The funds were deposited to the treasury and split as 15110.00 and 620.66. Moody announced more than a million dollars in highway contracts let to others and said further steps would come this week.
Doss locals report the school opens with enrollment and new staff. Teachers include Clarence St Clair for high school, Alice Braeutigam for intermediate, and Louise Evers for primary. A. A. Davis moves his blacksmith shop to run Drive-in Station and garage, joining Doss Switchboard with Miss Johnie as operator.
Wednesday locals granted one full pardon and four conditional pardons, bringing October total to 27. Wimberly and three others had their sentences completed. Brough received a full pardon for embezzlement after serving over half of a two year term. Conditional pardons went to McGee for murder, Smith for liquor, Grant for two and a half years, and Day for burglary and theft, with various approvals cited. Others receiving restorations included Swink, Whitehead, and Lee Smith.
Travis county and neighboring sheriffs joined the hunt for a J-1 standard airplane believed missing from Camp Mabry since Monday. An Austin man is named as pilot and another Austin man held a $225 mortgage on the aircraft with promissory notes due between July 20 and September 12. A foreclosure order and writ of sequestration were issued, but the plane and defendant vanished. A $25 reward was posted as investigators pursue recovery.
In New Orleans the house of bishops and the house of deputies each voted to strike the word obey from the church wedding ceremony. The bishops approved 66 to 27, meeting the exact constitutional majority.
Hundreds of Texas Republicans gathered in Dallas for a statewide conference of party leaders ahead of the meeting of the Republican state headquarters committee on Wednesday.
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