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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
3
Postal record notes the Liaso Post Office as mail matter under the 1878 act. The brief entry records regulatory status and official handling of mail duties for the location.
In early September Llano's merchants face a slow start with no major trading events. The News urges locals to boost commerce and mobilize business efforts to prevent a weak fall season. The piece warns that without action Llano may miss out on expected fall gains.
Readers greet the Retail Monument Dealers Association convention in Llano Texas. The piece extols abundant local granite resources and urges visitors to see Llano as a future source of rough stock and finished products. It welcomes attendees for a three day stay and hopes their visit proves pleasant and productive.
Hunters greet a favorable opening as abundant cover and feed forecast a strong dove season through December 15 with a daily bag limit of 15. Non residents pay 2 and non residents 15 for state licenses. Federal laws align with state rules on shipment and penalties.
Community notes celebrate good rain that greens pastures and fills larders as some youths prepare to leave for school this fall. Teachers head to institute. fall enrollment hoped for. Local events include a surprise party for R L Gibson, visits from Herman and Mrs Raesner, and revival work by Rev G Wardt in Pontotoc.
In Lone Grove the cotton season nears with farmers ready to pick and corn gathering active. A goat roping contest at the school yard awarded Levi Pool two goats and four dollars. Cigar Race prizes went to Mesrs. Will and Logan Templeton. Local visits include Mrs. R. B. Bales and children from San Saba visiting relatives, plus Miss Georgia Clinger and cousin Hazel Clinger in town. Other residents travel or visit kin across nearby towns.
A brief notice notes new wallpaper at Justus Paint Store and mentions quick Ford deliveries by the business. The snippet includes Dabbs and Moneyhon Co and a local remark about a garage medianic and ear cushions, with a stray az ending.
Three day program outlines goat roping at 9 30 am tournament at 1 pm daily cigar races at 2 30 pm daily ball game at 4 pm daily grand ball at the Opera House Friday night band concerts on Friday and Saturday nights picture shows Thursday and Saturday nights a reception for visiting ladies on the second day at the Don Carlos Hotel and a veterans barbecue on Saturday Llano hosts games and social events with plans for a big time addressed to local townspeople and visitors. Also notices offer 160 acre farm for sale at 20 per acre and classified ads for land buy sell rent and a light bread joke ends the item.
The Washington Post notes that an average person over 75 would have eaten about 54 tons of solid food and 53 tons of liquid, stacked bread 1,300 times their body weight, butter totaling ten and a quarter pounds per bread, a bread field four miles long, vegetables filling a three mile long train, sugar near 10,000 pounds, salt 1.5 hundred pounds, tobacco about a half ton in pipes, and one million cigarettes.
A girl is elected cashier of a Chicago bank. The report does not state that the use of the regular vault will be discontinued.
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