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Fredericksburg Standard

Location

Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 06, 1939

Page

3

Rural Gillespie County schools set closing programs

The list shows dates for school closing programs across Gillespie County rural schools. Entries include Honey Creek Onion Creek Live Oak School Cherry Mountain Gillespie County Saengerfest Lowwer South Grape Creek Cherry Spring Pilot Knob Cain City White Oak Knopp Stonewall Crabapple Nebgen Cave Creek Grapetown Palo Alto Luckenbach with events from April 21 through May 28 and notes that advertisements will publish further details.

Gillespie County Honey Creek Onion Creek Live Oak Cherry Mountain Lower South Grape Creek Cherry Spring Pilot Knob

Eagle Lake Rejects $238000 Revenue Bonds for Utilities

Eagle Lake voters defeated a proposal to issue 238000 revenue bonds by five to one to acquire a municipal electric and water system. The city would have funded the project. current service is provided by Central Power and Light Company.

Eagle Lake Central Power & Light Company

Local social notes from Austin and surrounding towns

Weekend visits span Austin Bastrop and San Antonio with many relatives attending University events. Nurses train at Santa Rosa Hospital Miss Josephine Stahl returns home from San Antonio. Birthday luncheon honors Mrs Louis Herbert in San Angelo. Various ladies travel to San Antonio Mason Kerrville Llano Harper Blum and other Texas towns for holidays and reunions.

B. L. Enderle Victor Nixon Austin Josephine Stahl San Antonio Santa Rosa Hospital Hugo Walter Walter Eskew Bastrop Cora Habenicht Willie Mae Harold Habenicht Habenicht University Union Building Gregory Gymnasium Dorothy Wilkes Maurine Smith New London DeRose Buttrill Lometa Miss Harrison San Marcos Beville Petty Ratliff Llano Sutton Kerrville Martin Wilkes Bierschwale Harper Jones Blum William Schneider William Jr Julia Estill Mesdames Max Sidney Henke Dorothy Henke Nannie Striegler Louis Hirsch Louis Durst Durst Milton Durst Elgin Durst Leon Basse Bertha Bode Thad Stappenbeck F. J. Maier Sophie Brockmann San Angelo Max Braevtigam Emil Koch Alex Franteen Louis Herbert Ira Wilke Helene Wilke Emil Herma Hahn Erwin Bode

Public Schools Receive $2 Per Capita Apportionment

L. A. Woods, state superintendent of education, announced on April 5 that public schools would receive a $2 per capita apportionment totaling $3,127,982, with $11 of the $22 per scholastic apportionment paid so far. Payments will continue in $1 and $2 increments until the full $22 is liquidated, based on 1,563,991 students. A row boat passage comparison notes 75 cents needed for canal transit, regardless of vessel size.

L. A. Woods Woods

Fortunate Calamity Play and Community Event

A Saturday program includes a children’s program at 1 50, goat roping afterward, and a play titled A Fortunate Calamity with music in the afternoon and evening. Barbecue dinner and supper served.

Fredericksburg Giants eye strong season with home opener

The Fredericksburg Giants project a standout year with a deep lineup of veterans and newcomers from the Farmer Boys League. Easter Sunday hosts Boerne at Seipp's Park in a rivalry clash while league expansion remains uncertain and Comfort shows strong club potential yet lacks management commitment. Stowers Furniture Company of San Antonio has shown interest in joining the circuit.

Fredericksburg Giants Fredericksburg Boerne Seipp's Seipp's Park. Boerne White Sox Giants Farmer Boys League Stout Duster Schnerr, Klett Maxie Molberg Stowers Furnitureompany of San Antonio Giant

Fredericksburg High Spring Game Ends In 0 0 Tie

Fredericksburg High finished its spring football with a 0 to 0 tie as seniors and next year’s squad lined up for a final on the gridiron. Coach Klaerner said no stars stood out but the team showed promise amid spring drills. Bergner Ahrens Wuest and others were listed for upcoming district and state track meets, though Klaerner noted waning interest in the San Antonio meet next week.

Fredericksburg High School Klaemner Bergner Ahrens Wuest Klaerner San Antonio

Pfeil power fuels Clark Field homers and hits

Clarence Pfeil crushed homers and multi base hits at Clark Field over a week, driving a 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies and a 14-12 shootout loss for the Oklahoma Steers. He went 3-for-4 with a homer and a triple in one game and added four of five in another.

Clarence Pfeil Clark Field Pfeil Phila Delphia Phillies Texas A Oklahoma Steers Steers Oklahomans

Week ahead at the Palace Theatre shows and films

The Palace Theatre weekends feature The Renegade Ranger with George O’Brien and Rita Hayworth as a Texas Ranger romance thriller. Nelson Eddy sings Let Freedom Ring in a Sunday-Monday program. Also on view are Four Girls in White, Down On The Farm, Sudden Money, and Jesse James in a Zanuck production, with multiple stars and storylines highlighted for the coming days.

RKO Radio George O'Brien Palace Theatre Rita Hayworth O'Brien Nelson Eddy Virginia Bruce Victor McLaglen Lionel Barrymore Edward Arnold Guy Kibbee Charles Butterworth Eddy Harvard Law Barrymore Miss Bruce Arnold McLaglen

Giants Overwhelm Jorrie Purntpiure With 732 Score

Giants rout Jorrie Purntpiure 732 to unknown as homers by Schnerr and Enderlin spark the attack. Schram collects five hits in six trips, nine errors aid the home team, next Sunday they face Boerne White Sox at Seipp's Park at 3:00.

Schnerr Enderlin Jorrie Furn Abr Hore Frederica B. Strey Hartmann Pullock Wert Hilt Susy Hee WG Pet Sattwhite Krauskopf Molberg L. Schneider Schmidt Sky Bird Grobe Jorrie Furniture Giants Mogford Icke Henke

Jesse James at Palace Theatre Teems with Tyrone Power

Technicolor epic screens at the Palace Theatre portraying Jesse James as a complex figure. Tyrone Power plays a brave but flawed outlaw, noble husband, and victim of injustice amid the era's lawlessness.

Fredericksburg Publishing Co Sawmill Ad Promotes Markwell Stapler

An old Fredericksburg publishing reference touts the Markwell stapfing machine for binding sheets, claiming it can staple up to GO sheets, highlighting its efficiency for print work.

Markwell Fredericksburg Publishing Co

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