Fredericksburg Standard (Fredericksburg, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 23, 1922 Page: 4 of 10
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to force the water to flow
BLAGK-DRAUGHT
feet wide at the bottom and half
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slope,
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FREDERICKSBURG, TEXAS.
Stonewall News.
4Paw Glasscock, jointly and
(Too late for last week.)
you do not know your land well after year it was washing more
OFFICE HOURS
Open at 8:30 a. m
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Land As Good As Ever.
considerable time to ettract the
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Marcus, the four-year old-boy
vrs.
If for a dollar an acre you can all washed off.
save
If
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soon.
Frequent
Headaches
not be more than 18 to 24 inches
high. How many terraces should
tract;
to the
any farmer who has land that is
washing, or land that he thinks
is going to wash, is overlooking
haw far apart they should be
and where they should be made
to empty depends on the amount
Recitations.
Song: Mrs. Rode’s class.;
Chamber of Commerce, who had
been invited to address the Har-
per people on the subject of the
plans and purposes of the orga
nization. His speech was instruc-
tive and well received by the
ditch-grader,
V shaped
Capital Stock Paid in A ....
Surplus..................
Individual Responsibility ..
stunts were applauded by the
‘large and appreciative audience.
At the opening of the evening
15. Song:
the Highest.'
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to full in
things that
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Prayer.
Anthem.
Opening Address — E. W.
Safe Deposit Boxes for Use of the Public a’
Moderate Rates.
Strict attention paid to all mattersentrusted
to our care.
Glasscock et al.
Whereas, by virtue of an order
(in the District Court of Gil-
lespie County.)
It
would
Veal, Etc.
Phone N° 42.
Frederieksburg, Tex
.. ..1 30.000.00
.... 5.000.00
.... 150. non, co
as. this the 6th day of December,
Glory to God in A. p 1922.
ner of said Emil Merz
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TSour Pickles 20c per dozen,
Sog - Shepherds have ye l program, Supt. Dabney introduc-
ed F. R. Senor, Secretary of the
Members
Tozas Bankers’ Associaticn.
TERBAOING IB AM IMPOR-
TANT JOB NOWADAYS
It would grow
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Christmas Program
RICHARD HENKE
BUTCHER.
Fresh Beef, Mutton
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Members
American Bankers' AtaodatL.'.
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PERFECT HEALTH
verally. No. 1376, on the docket
of said Court, I did, on the 6th
day of December. A. D. 1922. at
10:30 o’clock A. M. levy upon
the following described tract or
parcel of land, situate in the
County of Gillespie, State of
Texas, and belonging to the said
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All Baking
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Is your baking powder abso-
lutely pure? Royal is.
Is your baking powder abso-
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la your baking powder un-
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all conditions? Royal ia.
Is your baking powder eco-
nomical in keeping baked
foods fresh longerand mak-
ing home baking ao satis-
factory that it takes the place
of more expensive food?
Royal ia.
Royal Contains No Alum
Leaves No Bitter Taste
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The evening program was a
nigger mistrel put on by the
pupils, teachers and some of the
a big part of his duty as a bu- >
siness farme rif he fails to ter- 4
carrying good soil away as
he fell from a donkey and ( place of beginning, the same be-
Thera were some gullies struck the back of his head on
you how to build them if you
rushing down across the
month, between the hours of
10 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock
House door of said Gillespie
County, I will offer for sale and
sell, at public auction, for cash,
30 acre tract. Fifteen
Doss 21. Both schools had many
and more. He terraced it. He
made a V-shaped contraption, a
sort of grader, to do the job
nurumm
"Tumim
enough to tell just where the
terraces ought to be built That
is where you need your county
agent’s help. He has a survey-
or’s level which, among other
things, is used to determine the
Many of them wonder why they
plow and a
home - made
Herodes.’’
don’t know
of said Helena Hanisch and
Tanner, W.
Deloach
agent can
“I suffered with chronic
constipation that would bring on
very severe headaches,” says
Mrs. Stephen H. Kincer, of
R. F. D. I, Cripple Creek, Va.
“I tried different medicines and
did not get relief. The head-
aches became very frequent. I
heard of
and took it for a headache, and
the relief was very guick, and
it was so long before I had
another headache. Now I just
keep the Black-Draught, and
don’t let myself get in that
condition.”
Thedford’s Black - Draught
(purely vegetable) has been
found to relieve constipation,
and by simulating the action of
the liver, when it is torpid, helps
to drive many poisons out of
your system. Biliousness,
indigestion, headache, and
similar troubles are often
relieved in this way. It is the
natural way. Be natural! Try
Black-Draught.
she was able after a
This land is as good and pro-(children. at the time, and get-
right place for a terrace and toductive now as it ever was. | ting the receiver down on the
the county
was medium it higher than your head. There derieksburg this week.
Play: Lead by E. W. I
implements you need. If you
or reclaim a 20-acre piece weeds. mere were some guiles struck the back of his head on ing generally known as the Ro-
of land that is about to wash in it three feet deep. He decid- a rock. The doctor was called bert Merz place; and on the 2nd
away, or a piece that is getting ed to see what could be done and the little sufferer is recov- day of January, A. D 1923, be-
so full of gullies that you can toward reclaiming that 15 acres, ering rapidly. ing the first Tuesday of said
hardly got across it—fix it so One day he scattered some sweet Miss Effie Andrews, the popu-
the soil will hold tight and pro- clover seed around in spots. The lar young operator, at the Stone-
town men. Plantation songs,
Decem-jjig dances, and othes typical
A very painful accident hap-
pened to Mrs. Walter Shupp,
living in the Albert neighbor-
Helena Hanisch
__L didn’t attend to the terracing it cost and it didn’t cost much, about the middle of January
_ , . job long LAore Toda) that 15 acres is a fine A number of our citizens have rooters and enthusiasm ran high
Bsvorai"thousmmdotarmeri°hn " K andefion n.......etesipn.....• swest eloven grows on been attendins chureh in
Oklahoma ought to attend to be-
it was just
life. from a trip to Johnson City
He figured right. In terracing where she visited last week.
the plane he had to do a great The Stonewall Auxiliary have from the first to last, ending
deal of filling in those gullies, postponed their play till after in a tie, which was played off
but the work was Well worth all the holidays and will present it with a final score of Harper, 25,
that wide at the top. It need
Tutt’a Pill keep the aystem in perfect
order. Regulate the bowels and produce
A VIGOROUS BODY
A sovereign remedy for sick headache,
constipation,
Tutt’s Pills
with are no gullies. The picture y
had are no gullies.. If you have any
2,-
uVm-s
....... Bsgr
about of Mr. Henry Burg was painful-
ly injured last Monday when Thence east 1227
hill or a
Pork, Sausage
and Veal.
PROMPT DELIVERY
Telephone No 65
had a :
।acres of
some terraces it would be well
to get some omre pointers from
him.
It is important that the job be
done right. It is much more
difficult to tear down and re-
build a terrace than it is to put
it up right in the first place.
You cannot guess where the
ridges should be put: your eyes
are not accurate enough and
decide whether the terrace There is no sign of gullies. The I phone,
should he built straight like an • - * "
Tanner, Lizzie
water is carried off gradually
4Paw Glasscock, t /it: the
same being 100 acres of land,
more or less, a part of and out
of the M. J. Guerrera Survey
No. 5, bounded as follows: Be-
ginning at the S. E. corner of
a 150 acre tract, conveyed by
Rob Merz and wife, to Emil
Merz, on November 30, 1909,
said corner being 690 vrs. from
the N. E. corner of a 376-%
acre tract out of said Survey,
No. 5, conveyed to Robert Merz
by Geo. H. Fountane, by attor-
It Is The Beat Way To Koop their farms They are well sa-
The Soil From Washing Off tisfied with the results obtained
be built on a
hood, last week. While sowing
she ran the needle through her
thumb and was unable to extri-
cate it. She was alone in the
. house with only two small
arrow or rooked like a snake.
When you get ready to lay out
your terrace kill three or four
chickens and invite the county
agent out for a big feed and
he HI be th ere.
that but you can be the judge, worthless. The soil had nearly
lies on your place you had bet- He wanted to terrace it (he
a...... oueh to be bult 20 - antoruteidgnenp
is Andersn’s advice to his fel-in laying off the ridges. Ha had
have a neighbor who has built
Costs Only $1 An Acre.
Figuring the time of yourself
and team at $5 a day you can
terrace your land at a cost of
about $1 an acre. It doesn’t
cost anything in real money. As
to what the terraces would be
worth to you, we cannet answer
dace crops—what would it be clover grew a little higher than wall telephone office has been
worth to you! That is what ter- the weeds. He figured that the sick list three weeks. Her
will do. sweet clover end terraces would friends hope to see her back on
A good deal of terracing has 1 be a good combination to bring duty
OSC99 KRAUSKOPF, Pres MRS. A, VANOER STUCKEN, Vice-Pres
WM. BIERSCHWALE. Cashier
A
, ... , many places over the field. His
wide enough so the team and , ,
, .. .. held today is in as bad shape
the terraces should plow "'ll be on it the same as it was before he built the
be thrown up; and he will tell ‘“M. says Smith, If he does terrace. The work must be
not build them that wide the mm J ne worn must oe County of Gillespie
, .... , .. done over again, and this time
plow will cut too deep into the , ... . .1 ... .
, ' , , he will have a man there with
terrace and cause trouble later , . . . .1
, , , a surveyor s level to run the
on. It is always best, whether .. . . . . . ..
.. lines and point out where the
growing row crops or small . . . ,, . , 11 1
’ ridges should be made.— Oklaho-
grain, to plow with the terrace r , c. .
. . . . t .1 • 1 /ma Farmer and Stockman. I c . 1 . c .1, n: . .
instead of across them. I think , of sale issud out of the District
Court of Gillespie County, Tex-
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21. Anthem.
22. Benediction.
low farmers. an eye like an eagle, he said.
Il li Y. Smith built five ter- He knew the lay of the land and
,ae» on his 13-acre runding hilithe knew just where the terraces,,
rL. ci: Lna belonged, to be of the most ser- node.
two years ago. The soil had . • . ,c,pN
. .. . I, vice to stop the washing and 17. Solo: Mrs. R Gammen-
been washing several years. In .. ‘ 5
. , 10 • 1. c .carry off the water. He went thaler.
paces ncarv _ inches < out with his team and built up 18. Song: By the Interme-
good topsoil had washed off. It ., .
■, a 1 L.:1 a ridge this wav and a ridge dlates,
we can’t see from was down to the red subsoil that’way. When he finished he! 19. Play: Lead by E. w.
The first year after he terraced r .
, .1 i, ../had as pretty a set of terraces Hann,
he planted row P ° yer Oklahoma.! 20. Offering for Methodist
Let your County Agent Help, the terracesand that year the construction is con- Orphans Home
if you need some terraces on! ridges broke in places. . eemed they were splendid
. "i and the chances fund that he had made a mis-- ’ .
your places ami tht chances . . Rut the terraces were in the
... tilo «tlic t. A. take in plowing across the ter-
aie you do the wise thing to do , . wrong place. His eye wasn’t as
is to call on vour conntv aqent races instead of plowing length- / \ f
1 io can on win ouI “senl , good as he thought it was When
.. i . i,:,,. t. L.c1n . -1 Ha'wise with them. Now he plants, ...
and get in to H you lie the spring rains came the water,
won’t do the ploving and thejsmallgra....... the terraced land broke through the ridges hereat
grading for you but lie will stop A man is .8r0! ing 1 and there and gullies formed in
b; some day and run the lines crops he must build bis terraces
2******* ***‘, Court, on the 21st day of
September, A. D. 1922, in favor
Recitations. all the right, title and interest
Song:Miss Estill 8 class, of said 4Paw Glasscock in and
Male ( horus. to said property.
Dialog: “Die Meisen vor Dated at Fredericksburg, Tex-
Its purpose is any more.
off gradually filled up. If the ter-
.1 a ... •! , racing hadn’t been done Ander-
gently to ei er si •, i hn son the gully would have we’ll not call his name
itbeen so deep by now that it had very good success with his
- - . an, bp crossed terraces. Two years ago a 20
flows and leaving items ere gul-acre slope began to wash badly,
and there that will get wide and° I
deeper with every heavy rain.
■to both sides of the field. There
is no soil washing. He has made
a crop of oats and kafir on the
terraced land every year since
it was terraced.
“Terracing saved that piece
I of land,” said Haynes “It was
i washing badly every season and
I am sure I wouldn’t be farm-
ing it today if I hadn’t terrac-
ed it. All the soil would have
gone down the creek.”
Wm. Rarr, “the com man,’’
ney-in-fact, J. T. Estill, on Jan-
nary 3, 1887; Thence south 355
vrs. to stake for corner; Thence
west 648 vrs. to stake; Thence
south 201 vrs. to stake; Thence
west 579 vrs. to stake; Thence
north 556% vrs. to S. W. cor-
Why Terracing Didn’t Pay. se‘s class, citizens who are making plans
One farmer in the county— i 7. Recitation and Dialog — to affiliate themselves with mem-
hasn’t "Die fuenf Weltteile." bership in the Chamber of Com-
9. Racitations. merce.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
as, on a judgment rendered in
already. A
race that land.”
One of the first terraced in
Cleveland county was one owned |
by D. S. Haynes. A part of this
farm, on a sandy hillside, was
full of gullies—little ones and
big anes— five years ago. Year
on |* M., on said day, at the Court
attention of the telephone opera-
tor who sent help to her at once.
Her husband was called and
only after the machine was tak-
en apart, and ply vrs used to
pull the needle out, was the un-
fortunate woman relieved. Dr.
Peden was called out, and found
her unconscious, she having
fainted before assistance came.
At this writing she is doing well
and no further trouble is anti-
i cipated.
been done in UUv aland county
in the last few years. About 76
farmers have terraced parts of
tween now and the first of the
x so long that • land that looks "'V* it M, nu-go
.. .. . M .. 1, । wide, deep gully had formed is so poor that it won’t grow M E Ohurcn, aouw,
the soil from washing away. If! ’ 1 5 - 4l. ... . .
. . .,0. He built four terraces two years anything terracing will reclaim
you have a piece of land that " J . . ... . „ ,
- 11. . . . , ,, • ago. It took a man and a team it and sweet clover will build
you think is about to begin . ... . . e
. . . ... . nearly 10 days to do the work, up its fertility.
washing you can build terraces |L borrowed a r gulai road uSweet clover and terracing
and 841ve ’ i Jou AVe some grader from the county’s road will certainly help bring back seen Himi
land that already has begun to. throw up the ridges af- the land," said Barr. "The main 2. Responsive Reading,
form gullies and low places, ter- r , . . . . . . . 3
... . . . ter he had done the plowing, thing is, don t expect too much 3.
races vi rec aim . very inch of that 40-acre piece of the clover all at once. Give 4.
A terrace is nothing more than —51- v r ,
. of land stands today as produc- it time and it will come through b.
a slight elevation or platform of 1— / , ,, Rda
.. 21 . ing land It doesn’t wash away all right. Bode.
soil thrown up according to the 8"" 6 Song Mrs. Arthur Knee-
Uy of the land. ------------- ieany more. That big gully has
Up-Town Meat Market
HBNKB BROS., Prop
Fresh Beef, Pork,
Mutton, Sausage,
O— Close at 4. p. n..
a dead piece of land back to Miss Oreole Keel returned
vs. 4Paw!
FWr d) VtuaChe 1
! h 48 2 1
" , S' dead
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Vaftmh-lilr/di a
A. J. Petmecky,
13 Sheriff,
Gillespie County, Texas.
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