Lions Club Praises Scouts For Camp Record
Floresville Lions Club celebrated strong attendance at a weekly luncheon noting new members Pastor Henry B Nunn and Frank Boll Jr and Elbert W Franklin rejoining. A.T. Hoelscher praised about 15 Floresville Scouts from Troop 114 for their Indian Creek camp achievements and the club vowed full support for the 9th annual Floresville Peanut Festival on September 22-23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville Lions Club
White House
Ed Filieller
Cyrus Cook
E. R. Shedden
H.W. Filleman
Floyd Schiewitz
William A. Smith
J. H. Sheehy
Henry B. Nunn
L. Cook
Lions Club
Floresville Church of Christ
Floresville Methodist Church
Frank Boll, Jr
Elbert W. Franklin
A.T. Hoelscher
Boy Scout District
Floresville
Indian Creek
Ingram
Hoelscher
Floresville Loins Club
Blessed Sacrament Church Barbecue at Poth Next Sunday
The Blessed Sacrament Parish of Poth plans its annual barbecue and picnic at Hermann Sons Hall next Sunday August 13. Meals are adults one dollar, children thirty cents, with barbecued dinner at 1130 and supper at 430. Entertainment includes band music, baseball by Path and Seguin, and a late-night dance with Joe Patek’s Orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blessed Sacrament Church
Poth
Parish of Poth
Hermann Sons
Path and Seguin
Bluebonnet League
Joe Patek
Shiner
Local Farm Groups Approve National Farm Safety Rules
Wilson County Soil Conservation District and partner groups received from USDA a National Safety Council list of farm safety rules. The rules urge clear walkways, working ladders, careful machine use, calm handling of animals, safe bull pens, sober driving, proper lifting, right tools, prompt injury care, and treating every gun as loaded. The notice emphasizes reducing the 17,600 annual farm accident deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Safety Council
Wilson County Soil Conservation District
Production Marketing Administration
F.H.A
USDA
Fragmented News Item Summary
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Floresville Chamber of Commerce Meeting Notice
Floresville Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting at the courthouse on Monday night August 14 at 8 o clock. All members are urged to attend due to important matters on the agenda and full attendance is needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floresville
Wilson County Court Meets August 14th
The next meeting of the Wilson County Commissioners Court will be held at the courthouse on Monday August 14. The second Monday of each month is the regular meeting date of the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson County Commissioners’ Courts
Draft Call Issued For 10 050 More Texans
Local draft boards were ordered to call another 10 050 Texans for draft physicals with Aug 21 25 and Aug 28 Sept 1 dates. Brig Gen Paul L Wakefield said October 2 514 draftees will come from this call as part of September October quotas totaling 5 027. New stations opened in Abilene Corpus Christi and Texarkana joining existing sites in Amarillo Dallas El Paso Houston San Antonio and Shreveport. The Fourth Army set 6 280 reserves for duty in September October across Texas Louisiana Arkansas Oklahoma and New Mexico plus 62 000 total nationwide. First in line are men 19 to 26 with fewer dependents. Corpus Christi Caller.
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Paul L. Wakefield
State Selective Service
Austin
Texas
Wakefield
Looa
Abilene
Corpus
Fourth Army
Army ‘Department
Washington
National’ Guard
Corpus ‘Christi
Extensive Repairs and Additions for Floresville District Near Completion
The Floresville Consolidated Independent School District reports major upgrades across facilities. At Tiger Field new grandstands are painted. seats numbered. fence whitewashed. field plowed, fertilized, watered, and mowed. Gym ceilings updated and floors re varnished. high school painting and plaster work done. forty trees planted. Sutherland Springs plumbing fixtures added. Dunbar Elementary painted and rest rooms repaired. Fairview Elementary under construction.
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Floresville Consolidated Independent School District
Tiger Field
Floresville High School
Floresville
Sutherland Springs
Dunbar Elementary School
CROP Program Not Slowing Despite Korean Crisis
Taylor Texas August 6 The National Cabinet of the Christian Rural Overseas Program CROP has announced the overseas relief program will not slow because of the Korean crisis Sponsoring agencies Catholic Rural Life Church World Service and Lutheran World Relief hope for gifts ready to ship to Korea whenever possible Commodities for overseas shipment include cotton rice and wheat as Texas counties push full swing into 1950 CROP work with Elmore R Torn state director and Daniel Russell state chairman quoted.
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Taylor
Texas
Christian Rural Overseas Program
CROP
Catholic Rural Life
Church World Service
Lutheran World Relief
Korea
Daniel Russell
Elmore R. Torn
Schiewitz Re-elected to UT Inter scholastic League Board
Supt. Floyd Schiewitz of Floresville public schools has been re elected to the Region VI Executive Committee of the University of Texas Interscholastic League for the coming year. He accepted the re appointment and notified university authorities. The committee oversees band contest supervision in the region. Floresville and the school district praise his second year on the committee.
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Floyd Schiewitz
Floresville
F. W. Savage
University of Texas Interscolastic League
Schiewitz
Farm Bureau Variety Show Entries Due This Saturday
Saturday, August 12, is the deadline for entries in the Wilson County Farm Bureau Variety and Talent Show. The event will be at Floresville Gymnasium on Thursday night, August 24, at 8:00. About twenty performers have signed up. contact Mrs. Mae Dickerson, secretary of the Farm Bureau, to enter.
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Wilson County
Farm Bureau
Floresville Gymnasium
Mae Dickerson
The
State Health Officer Urges Sanitation to Stop Polio Spread
In Austin on Aug 9 Dr Geo W Cox Texas State Health Officer urged strict personal hygiene and home sanitation to curb polio amid 1395 total cases. He emphasized clean dishes, spotless sinks and fixtures, airing bedding, and eliminating flies rats and roaches as key to preventing transmission.
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Austin
Geo. W. Cox
Texas
4-H Boys Grow Corn In Wilson County Tests
Wilson County 4-H Club members Harvey Rehfeld Otto Otto Raabe and David Raabe conducted corn tests. Harvey planted a February crop with 100 lbs acre of 11-48-0 fertilizer yielding 52.23 bushels per acre amid a dry spell. Raabe brothers tested four 1 acre plots applying varying fertilizers and manures with yields of 48.8 25.5 36.2 and 18 bushels per acre respectively, noting more rain would help all plots.
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Harvey Rehfeld
Edgar Rehfeld
Kasper
C. L. Cook
Harvey
Otto Raabe
Floresville Methodists Set 75th Anniversary for Oct 15
Floresville Methodists plan an all day Sunday observance marking the 75th anniversary of the church with a Diamond Jubilee on October 15 1950. Bishop A Frank Smith hoped as principal speaker with Rev Albert R Peterson District Supt Edwin Calhoun and board chair coordinating.
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Floresville
Marvin W. ‘Jentsch
H.W. Filleman
Albert R. Peterson
Edwin. C. Calhoun
A. Frank Smith
Houston
Bishop Smith
Europe
Farm Bureau Plans Membership Drive for October 10
Leon Lane of the Texas Farm Bureau met Wilson County officials to set the statewide enrollment plan and appoint a drive committee. Clyde Culpepper was named chairman and I B Ray to lead publicity and prospect cards as the drive aims to surpass past efforts across Texas on October 10.
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Leon Lane
Texas Farm Bureau Federation
Wilson County Farm Bureau
Clyde Culpepper
Stockdale
I. B. Ray
Fairview
Culpepper
Mr. Ray
Farm Bureau
State Farm Bureau Convention
Dallas
Ray
Farm Bureau Institute
A. @& M. College
State of Texas
Karnes-Wilson Draft Board Meets in Karnes City
Selec tive Service Board No. 78 serving Karnes and Wilson Counties called a special meeting chaired by Charles E. Massey of Kenedy. The board met Tuesday at 8:30 A.M. at the Karnes City courthouse with members Albert Lyons of Runge and Clyde Fahrenthold of Poth also present.
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Selective Service Board No. 78
Karnes
Wilson Counties
Charles E. Massey
Kenedy
Karnes City
Massey
Albert Lyons
Runge
Clyde Fahrenthold
Poth
Bruno Bienek Advances to Semi Finals at Radio Contest
Bruno Bienek of the Black Hill community, after taking third at the Dramstick Amateur Show in San Antonio on KMAC, advances to the semi finals set for Saturday morning August 12 from 10:30 to 11:00.
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Bruno Bienek
Black Hill
San Antonio
KMAC
Funeral for Mrs W B Boone Held in Sutherland Springs
Funeral services for Mrs. W. B. Boone, pioneer resident of Sutherland Springs, were conducted at the Methodist Church on Monday at 10 a.m. Burial followed in Sutherland Springs Cemetery. She died at 3 a.m. Sunday, August 6, 1950, after a long illness at age 70, leaving many friends and a devout Christian legacy.
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Sutherland Springs
W. B. Boone
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Boy Scouts
Chamber Commerce
Commissioners
George and
David Raabe
Karnes-Wilson
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