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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
6
Notice to automobile owners announces a shift to strictly cash payments on all auto repair work parts and services starting mid November. The change cites rising labor and material costs and thanks customers for past support. Also reports a weather note about a severe blizzard last Friday with record low temperatures around 16 degrees.
The president announces new Selective Service Regulations to finish the national draft, calling for swift, accurate classification of nearly ten million registrants. He seeks volunteer support from legal, medical, police communities and newspapers to aid local boards during a sixty day mobilization window ending in early 1918.
Rev. T. W. Gregory will arrive Saturday to hold quarterly conference and preach at eleven o'clock Sunday. The public is invited. Alex Canbeer enlarges his enterprise by taking over the local weney for the Pierce-Fordyce oil firm and adding it to his drayage business.
A county agricultural agent urges San Saba farmers to secure seed as early as possible. He notes seed scarcity in Texas, poor cotton seed maturity in San Saba, and frost harming ram crop in the north, forecasting higher seed demand and prices. He offers assistance locating seed and lists farmers selling stock, warning late buyers face limited choices. East Lynn reel Wm. Fox feature at the Majestic Tuesday Dec 18th. 5 and 35 ewnts.
London reports a raid by about twenty five airplanes with six reaching the city. Two raiders were shot down and their three man crews captured. Fires were started but quickly controlled. casualties believed light. Field Marshal Lord French describes multiple waves approaching from Kent and Essex, aiming five simultaneous strikes on London.
Uncle Fuzzy Adams of London, with Masonic lodge representatives from London Junction Fort Terrett Fort McKavett and Menard, travels Sunday night to Waco for the Grand Lodge A F and A M annual meeting. He is a leading west Texas Mason who rarely misses sessions. Also notes a Shakespear feature at Majestic and a Sunday wreck near Sonneman farm injuring a child. others uninjured.
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