Miss Abbie Cook Sprains Ankle In San Antonio Visit
Friends report Miss Abbie Cook sprained her ankle while visiting in San Antonio. She is staying in a Kerrville hospital this week for a check up and medical attention. Mr and Mrs Robert Dittmar and their little daughter and Mrs O Rahe visited relatives in San Antonio over the weekend and attended the christening of the baby daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Georges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbie Cook
San Antonio
Kerrville
Robert Dittmar
O. Rahe
Harold Georges
Edd McDougall
T. C. McDougall
Harper
United Nations Day observance and county pest notes
The county article marks United Nations Day on October 24 1950 noting the flag over Gillespie County Courthouse and praise for volunteers who supplied the flag. It includes county extension pest control guidance for lice ticks flies grubs using BHC DDT rotenone and sheep scab checks plus farm reports on Canadian Winter Peas Dixie Winter Peas and soil amendments with PMA approval for 18 sacks of 20 percent superphosphate and a soil testing service update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Homann
Willow City Loop Road
Hohmann
Eugen Lindig
Stonewall
PMA
Mr. Lindig
End of 3% Tax Discount Period October 31
Tax Assessor-Collector notes the current three percent discount on state county and common school district taxes will end October 31 with discounts dropping to two percent in November and one percent in December. Independent school district and poll taxes are not eligible. October payments are already ahead of last year's pace. Also reports on local residents visiting J M Stevens home and soil testing service reorganization beginning November 1 with a one dollar per sample charge and required representative samples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. M. Petmecky
Petmecky
Gibson
STI
Ladies sew United Nations flag flies on courthouse
Three Dass ladies Mrs Alonzo Woerner Mia Paul Sauer and Mrs Jack Baethge sewed a United Nations flag displayed atop Gillespie County Courthouse on United Nations Day October 24. The banner about three by five feet shows a blue field white circle and small outlines of each nation sewn in. Others noted include visits and social happenings around Harper Kerrville and Fredericksburg with mentions of surgery and local gatherings. Subscribe to the Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Texas
United Nations General Assembly
Jack Baethge
Paul Sauer
Alonzo Woerner
Doss
Gillespie Co
Dass
Mia
Gillespie County
Barn Owls Could Be Farm Helpers Says Hack Turner
Hack Turner praises his barn owls living in the silo noting their bad tempers but beneficial pest control. He cites State University studies showing owls do not eat chickens and can clear up to 300 mice around the farm, countering calls to shoot them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hack Turner
Hack
State University
Mrs John Morris Comes Home From Hospital
Friends report Mrs John Morris returned home Sunday after hospital treatment. Mr and Mrs Welmer Wendel and their Brownwood children, currently on vacation, visited his sister Mrs Lee Schmidt and family along with other relatives in Gillespie County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Morris
Welmer Wendel
Brownwood
Lee Schmidt
Gillespie County
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