Entries from the LaCoste Ledger

These are entries collected from the LaCoste Ledger when Louis Biediger was the Editor and Publisher. All of these can be found in a book entitled Echoes of the Past.

08-06-15 SALUTATORY

This is the first issue of the LaCoste LEDGER, a weekly newspaper published Fridays every week hereafter. We do not pretend to know it all, sometimes we don't know a thing, therefore we as you, dear readers, on and all, to kindly give us such items of news as the public are interested in. We have heard it said that we would never do as editor of a newspaper, on account of our lack of education, that we should have learned the blacksmith trade, or something else. We must say that we have still on hand some blacksmith tools which we bought years ago, with a view of learning that trade, but we were never a shining light in that business, perhaps we won't be in the newspaper business. But here we are! Asking you to subscribe and give us all the moral help you can. If you have any grudge against the editor, drop that grudge and bury the hatchet, we have buried ours. We launch upon this new business with good will to all men, and well! Why? Of course good will to the ladies also. We will of course root, yell, dig, push, and pull for our hometown especially and the Medina Valley generally. Many good people have asked us whether or not we would keep up this LaCoste paper or whether we would drop it again. Now this is a knotty problem, and hard to answer, for several reasons. First of all, I might die and dead men are not generally editing newspapers, and they cannot even hold to their contracts. Second, perhaps we will not get enough good subscribers and not enough advertising to pay expenses, and than we would go under sure enough. Therefore give this paper your support and it will flourish, and stay with you for all future days, it will rejoice with you when fortune smiles on you, it will weep with you in your sorrows, and it will tell all the world what good citizens you have been after you are dead. Therefore help us boost our hometown as long as you are living.

LOUIS BIEDIGER, Editor and Publisher.
JNO. C. BIEDIGER, Asst. Editor

8-27-15
Ball Game- Sunday, August 22 at some late hour past noon, there came from our neighboring town of Castroville, a base ball nine and some fans, with a will to win, and determination written on their faces. They immediately filed on our local diamond and they did some fine practicing until about 4:30 o'clock when finally some of our local boys assembled on the scene and after making up some mixed up team, part seniors and part juniors, they reluctantly took up the offer of a game with the Castroville boys. To say that we felt like pitying our boys would be putting it mildly, when we saw champions like Bill Naegelin, Groff and others warming up for the battle. Not wishing to witness defeat of our boys, we left the field. But imagine our surprise when we came back to find the game wound up [with a score of11 to 0 in favor of LaCoste!] The batteries for Castroville were Groff and Halty, for LaCoste Wm. Reicherzer and T. Tate. While the Ledger rejoices with the home team in winning this- the third game in succession from Castroville- it cannot but sympathize with the Castroville boys who…had to lose.


9-24-15
A big flock of goats passed through town and right in front of the Ledger office Tuesday morning towards San Antonio. We did not barbecue one because of the two men that were driving them. Our streets and alleys are getting rather weedy and mosquitoes are breeding in them. But the street running south along the LaCoste National Bank has been cleaned all along the block. Go thou and do likewise!


12-31-15
Kodaking Party- A kodaking party was given by Helen Jungman to a number of her friends Saturday evening. All met as Miss Jungman's home from which the jolly crowd took a walk down to the river and other places. All enjoying the evening outing. Those in the crowd were Misses Helen Jungman. Mildred & Jessie Matthews, Laura and Josephine Mangold. Polly Biediger, and Lizzie Kauffmann. And Messrs. Hugh and Bill Haden and Arch and Howard Metzger.


02-11-16
The nice clear running Medina which we have had now for over two years is appreciated so would a bridge across said stream near LaCoste. We did not need the bridge to cross the dusty river bed before the dam was built but we need it now, and before long we will demand either a bridge across the river, or the dam be removed.


03-10-16
If those Castroville boys desire their names in the Ledger, they should throttle down their motors a little when in LaCoste. Can't recognize you at 40 miles per hour.


10-27-16
Several rail Road trains of soldiers passed through here for Mexico, the country we are not at war with according to Prof. Wilson philosophically. Quote from The San Antonio Express- "D'Hanis has Electric Lights. D'Hanis, Texas, Oct. 17. The latest improvement to be installed here is an electric lighting system which is being installed in the business houses and residences…"- to which The Ledger replied, "How would LaCoste look electrically lighted?…and if it pays D'Hanis to install them it would pay LaCoste"


12-29-16
Texas has 26 towns with a population of over 10,000 people, according to the U.S. Supreme Bureau. We hope LaCoste will be on that 10,000 list too when the next government census will be taken.


01-19-17
Young girls should get their "bloom" in the open air instead of at the drug counter. It looks better, lasts longer, and is more pleasing to the masculine eye. The drug man will never get rich from the sale of "bloom". He is a man of sense and discernment, or he would not be a druggist, and he would rather see one rosy cheek tinted with the bloom of nature than to sell a barrel of the artificial article. Just get your druggist wound up in this subject some day to see what a world of good common sense advice he will give you, for he thinks even more of you than he does of the sale of his "bloom".


03-16-17
Suffragettes. The energetic suffragettes we told our readers about in a recent issue called again on LaCoste and they addressed a small crowd in front of the LaCoste National Bank. The public street is a poor place for a public meeting on account of the many farm wagons and trucks which rambled by. We have been told that the Auditorium at the public school had been denied them because the custodian did not believe in votes for women, but believes in their work in the home, which is of course, a beautiful dream of the past ages! The Suffragette's Party left from here for Castroville, where they also had an address in a dusty street with farm wagons and autos passing between the audience and speeches. This is not an article intended for the cause of equal suffrage, for the writer is no advocate of equal suffrage. It is just a plain statement of the fact that well known and respectable women, who are working for what they think is due them, were not as courteously received as a wide awake town of our size and caliber should have done…


04-13-17
At last the waste water from the R.R. tank has been taken care of- a shallow well has been dug down to the gravel bed and the whole waste water is now filtered to the gravel bed below.


06-29-17
No More Liquor Advertising. This is the last issue of the LaCoste Ledger for sometime, perhaps forever, that will contain any advertising of spirituous, vinous, or malted liquor capable of producing intoxication in case a person is fool enough to drink excess of the same…We are forced to this step by (the) Post Office regulation which forbids liquor advertising through the U.S. mails…


08-16-18
We are told that the Democratic Party has adopted statewide prohibition and female suffrage as two planks in the party platform. What shall become of this world if everyone will refuse to drink?


09-20-18
All clocks To Move Backward. Conforming to Government regulations the daylight system will on October 1 revert to the standard of sun time. This was one of the war moves which went into effect April 1 of this year for the purpose of conserving day-light and thereby giving the business man a chance to work his war garden as a means of solving the food problem. April 1, 1918, was the only 25 hour day the world has ever seen, and obversely, October 1 of the same year will be the first twenty-three hour day the world has ever seen. The success of the daylight saving plan was the same in the United States as it was in Great Britain and other European countries where it was tried… The confusion which resulted when the clocks ere moved forward an hour in April was less than might have been expected, and it is thought that practically none will result from moving the clock back to their original settings.


10-04-18
"Little bed of flowers Little coats of paint, Make a pleasant cottage Out of one that ain't"


11-01-18
No, the Ledger is not a Republican SHEET! But neither is the Democratic brass collar so tight about its neck that it can not look from under it. State politics in Texas are so rotten that only good could come from it if the entire present regime could be swept out. Do it now.


Results of the vote in LaCoste


Prohibition: For 1 Against 80

Suffrage: For 4 Against 83

Salary Increase: For 4 Against 83

Home Loans: For 8 Against 78


07-06-19
We understand that passports to Mexico have been indefinitely canceled. Whether or not it has something to do with the proposed Texas colony (in Mexico) we do not know, but we suspect.


07-11-19
The Local Cow Nuisance. The west bound Limited was stopped twice within a week by a bunch of LaCoste dairy cows who were having a meeting on the R. R. track, probably plotting against the country because it produces weeds instead of grass or listening to some pro-German or bolshevist propaganda…


07-25-19
We have been told that the local Farmer's Union of this place have filed a protest against the absolutely useless and idiotic Daylight saving law, which had been repealed by Congress but whose repeal was vetoed by Prof. Wilson.