Fredericksburg Standard (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 20, 1920 Page: 3 of 8
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FREDERICKSBURG STANDARD, FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS.
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SHOP TALK.
fare attended by terrific
labor sal
the
alysis.
concludes:
‘The
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Road Construction.
additional sealed
and hosts of visitors from all
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collar; also in one, two and three
Estimate each way.
Seeking the Higher Levels.
for two colors, black
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For Sale.
Its loyalty to the Kapp-Luettw itz
,000 or
nonsense?
Brothers, the way to sell print-
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them is more than five cents, in
at a bargain, at
Gus. Malchow.
united,
in his hours of “broken re-
FLOUR!
FLOUR!
localit ies.
are
mostly loyal to Kapp’
Bran, Chops, Shorts.
on
railw ay
sill finally
Corn, Oats. Milo Maize, Cottonseed, Poultry and Eggs.
uilibrium
concerning cheaper
<iold & Stahl.
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lines that
he had convinced the country be
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the windows.
proved himself a good sport, and
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CALENDARS
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State < ’ommissions in tin1
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different
different
A heavy double Disc Plow;
good as new, for sale
i tied the merchants in his town
that he will shortly be in need
of a shirt, a pair of shoes and
ownership of the wire lines was
reads to be classed as a failure
Recognizing that he had nothing
bitter
this
earry
login
A new supply just arrived.
We are paying a fancy price for
The Famous Whitehouse Flour
Wholesale or Retail at the right price.
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A H. Kneese,
County Judge,
Gillespie County, Texas.
creative minds and years of pa
tient explaining embrace the ac-
tual thought that finally finds
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Hotel Spahn
Centrally located.
The comfortable Resort of
Familics and Traveling M m.
230 L. Gommerce
San Antonio, Texas
many casualty lists, for
is no respecter of sex.
serv ice at cost plans.
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chants sell their goods; to sell
it and not have it bought of you.
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Mr. Burleson’s Experiment.
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lat ion
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wounded, including some women
and children.
“seat” of the Ebert regime, was
the scene of violent clashes to-
day. The casualties were many.
Chemnitz, chief manufacturing
Bavaria yesterday proclaimed
a monarchy by the anti-Prussians,
has been overnight turned into
some of the foreigners.
In Harburg, just outside of
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i Longshoremens’ Strike Begins in
New York
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ry hour adds fresh victims as in-
ternecine strife stalks through
the State Highway No. 9 Road
in Gillespie County”.
Proposals may be sent by mail,
I and when sent by mail shall be
reverse his preachments n
ern and
regime, but the working masses
have been saturated with doctri-
Estimate
or brown.
is the way the other mer-
was to
pair of shoes.
H E Fredericksburg Publishing Company has received a
beautiful assortment of calendar samples at different
prices. All prices are reasonable and marked as low as
circumstances will permit.
We will gladly take your orders for calendars now for de*
st reet I
come to
One hears much of senators
and congressmen who have per-
formed a part in framing diffe-
organized and unbending. The
troops are split; those in north-
parts of Germany. Fifteen were
Killed and 50 wounded, including
। I One hat, soft or derby (esti-
1 “P a ‛ mate for black, brown, green and
grey, with and without band, size
to be determined later.)
This printer adds that he is
Fredericksburg Publishing Company
at which
President of the American Fede-
rat n of Labor, roundly attack-
ed two recent decisions of the U.
S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Gompers spoke in part as
follows:
“One of these decisions gives
the blessing of sanctity to the
rates in
196 of may be seen for examination, RS
and information may be obtained,
the “reich.
However, a few facts and fi- we ..
gures suffice to sketch the pic-
ture Germany presents today.
follows:
One shirt with and without
in Dortmund, the big Westpha-
lian coal, iron and steel center,
the red terror burst into the
midst of a great trade fair, at-
tended by numerous foreigners
Also give prices, whether high
or Oxford and laced or buttoned.
Detailed plans of the work
. impossible to
rent kinds of legislation, but the
familiar Steel I rust and the other makes
i whose it necessary for $100,000,000 ad-
ditional to be paid by the people
having a population of 2.
more. The cash fare in
whole public, is not so I
with the names of men
. Some time ago we saw’ a story
merate in detail the dead and in one of the printing trade pa-
wounded hi various parts of the which we must quote from
country would be futile, tor eve- mnemory, as we do not know
which paper published it. Let us
in the
said that
putable adjust of this country.
All attempts of the soldiery „444e 6444449 ments ol all their grievances and Mr. Gompers said that the County Judge of Gillespie Coun-
oi all controversies regarding hope of the world’s freedom and ty, must accompany each propo-
wages. Therefore they are “on
trial” in the light of public opin-
ion, in meeting the new indus-
left except a
ut of the spirit of th
The right is reserved by the
progress of labor was not revc lu- party id’ the first part to reject
trial problems in a manner be- tionary, but was designed to any and all proposals and to
fitting these progressive days in make each day one of improved waive all technicalities.
In the final an- conditions tor labor. Proposals shall be submitted in
entral Germany
about to place a large order in
a hat. He asks that each mer-
chant furnish him estimates as
forcast any ,
Harlow C. Clark is one of the Y’ April th, A. 11 1920, and tamed by the Department and
leading authorities of the coun-then publicly opened on the fol- will not be returned to the bid-
try concerning street rail wav j owing :-l he construct nm of 17- ders.
questions, and his deductions re-595 miles of the Mason Road Witness my hand and seal of
garding the ever-absorbing to- with 106 al gravel and crushed office at Fredericksburg, I exas,
pic of “fares ” is of interest. Mr. | rock surfacing. The following this 3rd day of March, A D.,
Clark says that fares are seek are approximate quantities: 63.- 1920.
ing higher levels and that the in- 26 Acres clearing and grubbing;
creases made in 1919 indicate the' 41,418.7 cu. yds. earth excava-
extent of readjustments carried tion, ~,J. . cu. yds. rock exca-
into effect to meet the higher vation; 33,383.9 cu. yds. earth
operating costs which have be- borrow ’ 27,298.1.cu. } ds. crushed
come effective in the indust ry. |1 ock furnished, hauled and plac;
He tells us that “increased fares edi, 9,047.6 cu. yds. of grave
in home form or another arenow surfacing hauled and placed ; and
effective in all but 56 of the 1,450 lineal feet wooden guard
273 cities in the United States fence.
Mr. Thom
carriers are
shed, the Kapp and Ebert reg-
imes were still wrangling , to-
night, the former entrenched in
Berlin, the latter in Stuttgart,
capital of Wuertemberg, where
Ebert proposes to place his case
before the National Assembly to-
morrow.
Both the militarist rebel gov-
ernment and the social democrat-
tic regime which it drove from
Berlin are appealing frantically
to labor to call oil’ the general
strike which has completely para-
lized the whole nation, but the
radical working masses, swept in-
to a reckless red revolt by the
very men who are now appealing
to them, are flourishing the torch
of terror, wherever they are op-
elsewhere failed utterly. To enu-
118 of them more than 6 cents, is
64 of them more than seven cents,
and in 34 of them more than
eight cents.”
Mr. ( lark reveals an interest-
ing feature of the problem which
upants trying to ter-yond the shadow of a doubt that
' his pet scheme for government
pertains to
Honorable Albert did- force in
bankrupt idea he Gompers Attacks Supreme Court
• cond enr aud Decision.
these duties are performed.
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livery in fall. If you will call at our office and make your
selection, we allow you a special discount of five percent on
the price. It saves us time and we are willing to pay for it.
If you cannot come yourself, kindly let us know and our
solicitor will make a call and show you the beautiful line.
service and
ical working masses are
6 peaceful patriotic wounacu.
also unarmed and unorsaue" 1n Hanover, one of the most
uml inherently shrinks ron.cl n. important railway centers of
strife, even in sell - < h H 85 prussia, armored cars dashed
Therein lies the tremendous adthrough the streets all day, their
vantage of the Reds, who are a soldier occ
compact, organized, determined, rorize crowds. The populace
lighting mass impelled by one sought shelter in their houses
and the same idea, acting while'
its opponents are talking.
So it came that while Dr.
Wolfgang Kapp and Friedrich
state of
we ra as
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cess of the experiment now
made.” He explains that if
“under the system which it es-
tablishes, the credit of the car
riers is made sufficient to enable
them to perform their public du
ties the legislation will, by uni-
versal concession, be a success
if, on the other hand, such ere
dit is not established the legis-
lation will be a failure.” Mr
Thom finds that great responsi-
bility rests Upon the Interstate
Commeree Commission and the
I Hamburg, 30 were killed or
Dresden, the Saxon ।
yesterday the boasted
in a speech delivered in New
York City Samuel Gompers,
democracy was
movement. He
much fighting as any city or
town; vet, if the well disciplin-
raged civilians ed soldiery here does win out in
against 11 they the end, it does not mean the re-
hurled back, dead or wound volution is over, for this capital
Women and children are on is no more a criterion for what
i. He speaks ot them a*
trial.” explaining that the
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Ebert and their respective .em181 citing figures that are but de
saries were fiddling away Late u. 1 ai Is of one vast battle rocking
hours with demands and com ter the empire in its foundations
demands, that compact mass of Berlin and all its suburbs saw as
radicals forged ahead like a huge
steam hammer. Wherever police
or troops or outraged civilians
takes place in Germany today
than Petrograd was at the time
of the Russian revolution. That
is why the “compromise’ report-
ed yesterday meant little or noth-
। ing, even had it been Dona fide
instead of a hoax or bluff.
Indeed, Berlin is practically
isolated from the rest ol the
country, and Stuttgart, where
Ebert and his forces have con-
centrated is equally cut off from
the rest of Germany.
lies of “proletariat revolt vver.
since the short-lived soviet regime, Lei another big Saxon
of 1918, when he Spartacists citv, famous for its peace-time .
tried to make the former king- fair’, was the scene of continu- ing
dom the nucleus lor their dream- ous fighting. Many killed and
ed-of Utopia. iniured
in the chaos that has been rag- ssen, the home of Krupps, is
ing since last night only the rad- a strategie center of the Reds.
The fighting ami casualties there
lie cried in the language of Mac
beth: “Hold, enough!” The
public hid his regime a fond and
tearless farewell.
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Calls it The Test Period.
“A certain printer has noti-
MK.4 M..1, strike and the announeement was
UP” I OWn Meat Markel made also 1 these locals that a
HENKE BROS, Prop. strike vote is being taken at all
Fresh leef. Pork, The coastwise longshoremen
, are seeking the same rate of pa
Mm t in. Sausage, • that the deep sea men receive,
■■■M^tg) cents an liom and
ietism. But
less than a year
were accordingly heavy. ,,
The whole Ruhr district, that flection ----- ... -----------
great reservoir of industrial man ney Burleson, Postmaster Gene. “That a standard street car fare,
power and resources, is red—red ral of the I nited States, must in the sense of a fare common to
ary rebellion, the remainder with revolt and blood. The view w it h remorse his failures as all cit ies ,is not to be expected.”
sticks to Ebert. In the south the whOle district is being organized manager of the telephone andhe says, "is evident from the
soldiery waver between the two into local soviets. telegraph lines of the country. fact that in 273 cities covered
rivaling regimes, Hamburg is in the control of Because of the war M Burleson by the statistics, there are no less
The aristocracy and uPPer rmed .... Altona, its Prus- "as blessed with the greatestthan 75 different rates of fare.’’
classes” stand as one man With sian suburb is in the hands of avalanche of business the wire He is of the further opinion that
the reaction, but neither is armed k pp troops lines had ever experienced; and’it
or organized. That great mass Latest word rom Dresden is the only way he found to meetpo
of orderly, law-abiding innocent I E at the battle there is still the problems that confronted him far
bystanders, usually referred to azi^vii to and fro, between
the “middle class is vacilluting Spartacists and Ebert forces, in-
between reaction and the er eluding the local garrison.
♦ rand of Socialism. It w over- In Fran fort-on-Main, the big
against suv-. prussian center of commerce and
multitude ol finance, 50 were killed und 150
burghers is ,
■ i wounded.
at the office of A. F. Moursund,
County Engineer, al F’redericks-
burg, Texas, and at the State i
i i * the near future, and will give
a soviet republic, with workers town of the former wingdon its special eonsideration to the mer.
and troops embattled in terrific Saxonz r Th.. Ilap chant who makes him a reason-
street nX, especiall, inMunen.wildestu‛ onr Tfiriwostrret price on this small initial
The Bavarian army has. declared; battles, formed a committee of°dt: Etc
action,” disarmed the bourgeoisie Wh isn’t turn about fair
troops and distributed the caP-play! How many times is the
tured arms among 3,000 of their printer asked to figure just such
A strike of all the coastwise
longshoremen, checkers and
stevedores engaged in the Port
of New York has been called by
the union leaders. The strike,
invol' ing 7,000 or 8,000 men, was
called following the refusal of
the steamship owners, in confe-
rence with the union leaders, to
grunt their demands for inert as
ed wages. The various locals of
the longshoremen, checkers ami
stevedores voted unanimously to
it sway into legislation. Alfred m
P. Thom, a Washington attorney, I
stands out in such a manner in
the final completion of the new ■
railrod law, which many thought-
ful people look upon as marking
a new epoch in the annals of
transportation and industry. Mr
Thom says that the act, itself, is
about to enter upon the “test
period,’’ and that “the govern -
ment policy of the future " ill, j
no doubt, depend upon the sue •
And so this story might go on
Attention, farmers!
We pay the highest market price for
Turkeys, Chickens, Eggs, Butter,
Beeswax, Tallow, Corn, Maize,
Oats, Pecans, Aother’L Farmproducts
We sell several nigh grades of
Flour and Meal, also Sait, Feed
and Chicken Feed.
Deliveries made to any part of the town.
SCHNEIDER PRODUCE COMPANY
PHONE NO. 152.
Gillespie County, will be received otherwise submitted will be re-
at the office of A. H. Kneese, jected as irregular. Only sealed
County Judge, at Fredericks- bids will be considered.
burg, Texas, until 10 o’clock A. All bids received will be re-
however, acknowledge and give which live
credit to the author, so far as .
to initiate higher rates. “Cost That the route to be traveled
plus ten per cent” meant noth-foi any company to receive high-
ing to him, even though profi-je res is a difficult om-, is point-i
teers were getting rich mil ofjed out by Mr. ( lark, who says
the idea. that “in 150 of the 217 cities in
Burleson worked so fastwhich fares have been increased,
charge ol the the increase has been the result
of the action of the State commis-
sions, in 44 of municipal autho
rities, in two of courts, and in 21,
of automatic regulation under
powers eonferred upon the In
tersjate(ommeree (‘ommissiot
Maa 3. Bierschwale. Max Wahrmund.
BIERSCHWALE 1 WRIGHT
Insurance Agents
Fredericksburg, Texas.
Fire Insurane. Accident, Health
nnd Life Insurance.
Room 3, Louis Priess Building.
posed, establishing soviets and
forging ahead relentlessly under
the banners of a “workers’ re-
public” with the war cry ;
Workers, you have nothing to
lose except your chains cast
them off ! ’ ’
sealed envelopes and marked,
on trial, be- Notice to Contractors for State “Bids for the Construction of
cause an effort has been made
I to extend to them help of a sub-
stantialcharacter in Hie perfo rm- THE STATE ,
ance of their public duties, and1/......... , .,;n ’
public opinion will hold them to °U of ii espie. ,
a strict accountability for the fi-1 Notice is hereby given that enclosed in an ...
delity ami efficiency with which sealedproposals ‘or the const rue- envelope properly marked as in-
• - tion ot highway improvement indicated above. All proposals
SERIOUS REBELLION IN In Berlin, still the stronghold •000004• ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ of regulation.” because tin stock dividends an . Highway Department, Capitol
GERMANY, of organized military force, tin • Mr. Thom says, the labor uni-1 not taxable, but that is the story Building, Austin, Texas.
Reds made little headway in 9 SHOP TALK. • ons will have an impartial ofli o1 the invasion of the peoples A certified check for 5% of
. . .. , g . , fighting, violent battles were 9 9 cial agency to which they can rights by the judicial tribunals amount of bid, made payable to
leinn, -aren i . i ic fought .however, and blood flow- A, a. go in obtaining equitable adjust df thin country,” the order of A. H. Kneese,
midst of nation-wide civil "ar- . • ■ •• " ....... - - *
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ood to put down the strike here or
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