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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1921
Page
8
Shop windows advertise school supplies and groceries for fair season. Imported sardines olives cheese breakfast bacon and cake flour Swans Down and Capitol Quality Flour are highlighted to help guests and bakers prepare prizes.
A gold bracelet found on upper Main Street may be redeemed by the owner at Quality Cash Grocery by presenting this ad.
Fragmented musings from a notebook recount classroom mishaps and social chatter about teachers students and events. News items note a church supper, real estate transfers, and a concrete building project near Grobe Eckhardt, Schandua Reichenau, and local firms.
Great opening sale advertised for Friday and Saturday September 9 and 10 with 10 percent discount on all ladies dresses coat suits and coats at Schroeder Bros.
Rain continues as Klaerner's pavilion expands for the fair and the 35th Gillespie County Fair enters its final week. Alma Moore visits Pharr Texas. Oscar Schmidt family visits Llano. Mr and Mrs Ad Staudt tour Boerne San Antonio New Braunfels and Medina Dam. Harper district ranches praised for 21 half inch rain.
Mr. Jacob Gold, an octogenarian, performed the ascent to the Enchanted Rock last Saturday. He remains active and robust, nearly as youthful as a seventeen year old. The page notes advertisements and farmers meeting dates for the month and urges attendance as potentially salvation.
Editor H. F. Sehwenker of the Brady Standard attended the convention last Friday as a delegate. We were glad to meet Mr. Sehwenker among the visitors and hope to return the visit someday.
Mr. Oscar Krauskopf notes the last legislature set the county hunting season for turkeys in March and April rather than November and December as last year. A drought ends with a slow rain at 4 PM yesterday, totaling one inch by 8 PM. The Fair Grounds restaurant will be run by the Public School Auxiliary during the fair offering meals at reasonable prices. A seven year old Eckert child was bitten by a rattlesnake west of the city, received home treatment, then kerosene application and a doctor, with condition still precarious.
Mrs. Frank Morgan of San Antonio guests at the Wm Pfister home. Ella Peden and Miss Peden, former Dallas and Sherman visitors, return home. Loreen Mourland comes back from San Antonio where she stayed with Miss Adele Fresinius. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moursund and children of Dallas visited Judge and Mrs. A. W. Moursund. Mrs. H. A. Ries and Dorothy spent a few days in San Antonio.
Several visiting friends and relatives are listed including Miss Helen Raley with Miss Con stance Striegler and Mrs Striegler, Mr and Mrs C P Dodge and family, May Belle Hardy of Houston, Miss Roberta Baskin returning from Selma, Alabama, and the Klingelhoefer-Broesche wedding in Burton. Teachers and locals travel for gatherings with neighbors and relatives across San Antonio Selma Houston Kerrville Utopia and Brownwood.
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