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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1930
Page
3
Notices urge students to seek special room and board rates. A farm near Van Vleck seeks responsible family managers. Kerr County organizes a rattlesnake extermination drive after a death in Lometa. Local bankers fund efforts while The Evening News cautions limits. Public tips welcome for eradication strategies.
The second annual feeder show and auction runs October 11 for one week at State Pair of Texas. Feeder calves and lambs will be displayed for farmers to inspect and bid on, with last year’s sale tally exceeding 600 calves. Prices expected near market, buyers may bid and quit at will.
A Southwest farm family cuts costs by producing and preserving food at home. A woman, with home demonstration agents and clubwomen, canned poultry beef pork and vegetables using a steam pressure canner. Surplus crops and meats reduce family expenses, supporting the argument that farms should chiefly feed their households and that renters who grow food can be reliable partners for owners.
Llano mayor and city council designate Labor Day as a day for work on the grade school campus. The long article discusses alfalfa, sweet clover, sudan hay pastures, and pasture crop choices for dairymen, noting demonstrations across Texas and the importance of year round pastures for successful livestock farming.
J W Winkel of Llano reports 68 hogs fattened on 21 acres of maize yielding 86 pounds per hog for a total gain of 4788 pounds. 58 purebred Hampshire hogs plus 25 to 80 pigs and Angora goats shared the maize with net income of 17.0 dollars per acre and feed value totaling at least 26.00 dollars per acre with no labor to gather.
Here is the program for the Associational Women’s Missionary Union meeting to be held at First Baptist church on Wednesday September 3. Morning session includes hymns devotional by Mrs. F V McFatridge welcome address by Mrs J T Halford response by Mrs E Cornelius of Marble Falls and more with district president address and committees to be announced. Afternoon session features reports of standing chairmen violin solo by Edna Mae Reader talk on faithfulness to little things by Mrs J C Newman and nominating committee report. The Burnet-Liano Association also meets September 3 at 8 pm with election of officers and introductory sermon by Rev M A Banderas of Marble Falls.
Austin reports July wholesale and retail trade weak as 90 department stores in 25 Texas cities posted 4 219 million in July versus 4 378 million in June and 4 661 million a year ago. Year to date sales are 8.3 percent below 1929’s first seven months. Federal Reserve districts show declines from 3 to 18 percent.
Notices urge relatives and lot owners in Bluffton Cemetery to attend a September 6 1930 meeting at the Bluffton School House to decide on forming a Cemetery Association under Texas law and elect a board of directors. Dated August 2 1920. Also brief ads for a pumping outfit and rental rooms.
Public notice by Henry Schneider Geo Schuessler and Chas Lang that all lands owned or controlled by them are posted against trespass. Any violation of trespass laws in this state will be prosecuted. March 1 1931.
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