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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1950
Page
19
Fredericksburg's Peter's Hall the city’s oldest entertainment venue after long wartime use as a sewing plant will reopen as a dance hall on Easter Sunday April 9 with Al and His Highlanders performing. Descendants of Ed Peter will oversee the reopening as plans for modernization and a County Singing Festival on April 30 are announced.
A schedule from April 7 to April 19 lists religious observances, community meetings, club gatherings, and league games. Highlights include Good Friday trades holiday, Easter events in Fredericksburg, Hill Country baseball openings, Rotary and Lions meetings, volunteer fire department, Band Boosters, Fair Association directors, and a district Boy Scout gathering.
Gillespie County Lumber Company manager Lorenz Bading announces an open house for the new 5 room home at 315 E Burbank Street. The event runs Saturday April 8 and Sunday April 9 with all modern conveniences and low price housing in the Upper Crabapple Road addition. Bading and Robert Lehne will be present to answer questions and guide visitors.
Guests of Mr and Mrs Ed G Oehler in Fredericksburg last week included Roy C Hoffman Washington DC and his wife Elayne Morelle Hoffman former Irma F Morelle of La Crosse Wisconsin. The couple recently married March 16 in Washington and return from a Mexico City honeymoon. Additional attendees were Welter G Hoffman of Laredo Ida Hoffman Maxwell Amanda Weber and Willie Kuennemann plus Andrew Kuennemann all of Fredericksburg.
The Texas Lutheran College Choir performed at Holy Ghost Lutheran Church in a program directed by Philip Frederick Knautz. About 800 attended as four local Gillispie County members joined the 50-voice group on a tour plan spanning Texas and neighboring states with concerts in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas cities.
Austin Nettle, son of Mr and Mrs W A Nettle, who was confined to the Polio Ward at Robert B Green Hospital San Antonio for five months, returned home on Sunday. The Fredericksburg National Bank will be closed Friday April 7 in observance of Good Friday.
Dean Austin and David Anderson volunteers cooperate with Gill espie County Red Cross to supply emergency communications. Austin and Anderson are licensed operators with call numbers X5PCU and W5QXX and can establish contact with Amateur Station W90UA in Evanston Illinois, one of three teletype connected Red Cross coast to coast stations.
The Security State Bank will close on Friday April 7 in observance of Good Friday.
During an exhibition tour in Texas Joe Louis hinted at a possible bid for the world heavyweight title he vacated two years ago. After audience doubt about his speed and stamina he announced he would not pursue the title and instead joined a Texas circus tour for $1000 a day through Canada this summer.
Mrs. O. Z. Golden and her sons Gordon and Mark are spending several weeks in the home of Mrs. Meltonie Hitzfeld, the mother of Mrs. Golden.
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