Giants and Boerne Battle In 14 13 Slugfest Win
The Fredericksburg Giants beat the Boerne White Sox 14 to 13 in a high scoring Seipp Park slugfest. Key hitters included Wenler Phillip and Uecker for Boerne while Icke Schnerr and Molberg helped the Giants surge with a fifth inning triple and late homer.
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Elton Jordan
Fredericksburg Giants
Boerne White Sox
Seipp Park
Giants
Molberg
Icke
Schnerr
Wenler
Phillip
Uecker
Behr
Sox
Mer
Choir To Present Program Here At Holy Ghost Church
A Texas Lutheran College a capella choir will give a concert at Holy Ghost Church Sunday April 16 at 2 30 under Rev A Lindenberg and Prof H E Gibson. The group has a ten year record with over thirty concerts yearly and has been praised for training and tonal effects.
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Texas Lutheran College
Holy Ghost Church
A. Lindenberg
H. E. Gibson
Dallas
Texas
Galveston Daily News
P Tschaikowsky
J. Neander
Christiansen
Gretchaninoff
P. Tschaikowsky
Sacred Heart — Choral
PEC Project Start Under Rural Electrification Plan
The Pedernales Electric Cooperative begins construction of 1830 miles of distribution lines across sixteen counties after approval by Rural Electrification Administration officials. Six offices will be opened. eighteen surveying crews will stake the routes, with staking finished in four months and construction starting after 25 percent completion.
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Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc
Brown & Root, Inc
Austin
PEC
John M. Carmody
Rural Electrification Administration
R. S. Weber
Art Hagen
RBA
Who Wouldn't Be Crazy Play At Peter's Hall
A group from St Mary's Parish presents the play Who Wouldn't Be Crazy at Peter's Hall on Sunday night April 30, offering local entertainment for residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Parish
Peter’s Hall
New Implement Firm to Open in Fredericksburg
The Hill County Implement Company will open Monday April 17 in Fredericksburg on lower Main Street in the former White Elephant building next to Keidel's Drug Store. Owners Benno Weiss and Kurt Keidel remodeled the space with W M Stautzenberger joining. the store will retail International Harvester Company products.
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Hill County Implement Company
Fredericksburg
Benno Weiss
Lower Main Street
White Elephant
Keidel
Kurt Keidel
W. M. Stautzenberger
Lockhart
Texas
Weiss
International Harvester Company
Live Oak School to Celebrate 85th Anniversary
The Live Oak School community marks its 85th founding anniversary on Sunday April 23. Former teachers and pupils are invited along with the general public to attend the celebration.
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Live Oak
Piano Recital At Peters Hall Highlighted By Mrs Moritz Pupils
Mrs. John W. Moritz will present her music pupils in a two piano recital at Peters Hall on Sunday night April 16 at 8 p m. The general public is invited and admission is free. Max Feuge of San Angelo is visiting relatives and friends here.
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John W. Moritz
Peter’s Hall
Max Feuge
San Angelo
Fredericksburg Bank Closed Friday for San Jacinto Day
The Fredericksburg National Bank will close on Friday April 21 in observance of San Jacinto Day.
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Fredericksburg National Bank
Italy completes Albania conquest in tension filled week
Italy seized Albania as Mussolini landed 3000 troops and installed Ciano in Tirana while King Zog fled to Greece. Britain and other powers opposed the move though Germany showed support for the Rome Berlin axis. The crisis raised fears of a wider war as Greece and Yugoslavia watched closely.
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Europe
Italy
Albania
Adriatic Sea
Zog
IlDuce Mussolini
Durazzo
Elbasan
Mussolini
Count Ciano
Tirana
Greece
Hitler
Great Britain
Yugoslavia
Fredericksburg Clinic Changes Hands With Three Doctors
Three Fredericksburg physicians Dr. Lester Keyser Dr. Lawrence Feller and Dr. Herbert Pfeiffer will own and operate the Donop Clinic and Hospital starting Monday April 17. Dr. Donop plans to move his practice to San Antonio. Open staff policy will allow any doctor to treat patients at the hospital.
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Fredericksburg
Lester Keyser
Lawrence Feller
Herbert Pfeiffer
P. T. Donop
Donop
Keyser
San Antonio
Nix
Pfeiffer
Feller
Snowstorm Grips Easter Week Regions. Fatal Air Crash Reported
A cold wave with a Thursday night snowstorm brought one to two inches in parts of the county and heavier falls in the Panhandle. In Fredericksburg 12 inches fell? and high roads halted traffic toward the city. Near Alpine a plane crash killed pilot Robert L. Grantham after parachute entanglement as three passengers survived.
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Fredericksburg
New San Antonio
Texas Panhandle
Alpine
Robert L. Grantham
el Paso
Hce
Grantham
Harper Hi-Way Surfacing Job To Be Set April 25
Two Central Texas federal aid highway projects worth 2,500,000 dollars were listed by the Texas Highway Commission with bids tentatively set for April 25. Gillespie county reshapes base and resurfaces 25.55 miles of U S Highway 290 from Fredericksburg to the Kimble county line. Llano county resurfaces 7.53 miles from Buchanan Dam to near Llano.
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Texas
Texas Highway Commission
Gillespie County
Fredericksburg
Kimble
Llano County
Buchanan Dam
Llano
Wreck Victim Aileen Evans Improving
Aileen Evans, a 14 year old Nebo schoolgirl, remains in a local hospital this week after a county road crash last Thursday afternoon. She suffered lacerations and a back injury, with doctors reporting her condition is improving.
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Aileen Evans
Nebo
Miss Evans
New Grocery to Open in Patton Building
Rudi Lange and Paul Nebgen plan a new grocery store and meat market in the Patton Building on upper Main Street. Shelves are being installed and temporary arrangements made for a future opening date to be announced.
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Rudi Lange
Paul Nebgen
Patton Building
Upper Main Street
Gillespie Citizens Invited to Bridge Opening at San Saba
The San Saba Chamber of Commerce invites Gillespie County residents to the Colorado River bridge opening ten miles north of San Saba on Tuesday April 18. A free barbecue and program are planned with Lieut. Governor Coke Stevenson as the principal speaker and officials from the State Highway Department expected.
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Gillespie
San Saba
Edyth Krauskopf
Chamber of Commerce
Millis
Coke Stevenson
Closing date set for 1939 Range Conservation Program
April 15 is the final day to accept applications for participation in the 1939 Range Conservation Program at the local Agricultural Conservation Association office. The date also marks the last day to execute farm worksheets for farms not covered by a worksheet in 1937 or 1938. If a farm had a worksheet last year, a new one is not required now.
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The
Agricultural Conservation Association
Stein Named President of State Lumbermen
Joe Stein owner and manager of Stein Lumber Company was named president of the Texas Line Yard Retail Lumber Dealers Association at a Beaumont convention. He previously served as vice president and long on the board, succeeding W B Brazelton of Waco as head of the group. Stein and Mrs Stein traveled to the convention, with M L Boyish of Mutual Lumber Company also en route.
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Joe Stein
Stein Lumber Company
Texas Line Yard Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
Beaumont
Texas
Stein
Texas Lumbermen's Association
Former Gillesme Resident Suffers Paralytic Stroke
R. V. Stearns an apiarist formerly running an apiary in Fredericksburg now a Mason Texas resident suffered a paralytic stroke Tuesday afternoon while transacting business in a local bank. He was taken to a local hospital for emergency treatment and planned to return to his Mason home this weekend.
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R. V. Stearns
Fredericksburg
Mason
Texas
Mr. Stearns
Easter Fires Burn Brightly on Hills Around City
Fredericksburg residents kept a long standing Easter custom with eight hillside fires visible from the city. The fires traced back to German legend and a 1846 colonial founding, as families gathered on Cross Mountain Lehne's Hill Kordzik's Hall and other slopes to watch the glow. Cars drove between fires as parents explained to children how the Easter Bunny cooked and dyed eggs for the nest.
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Fredericksburg
Cross Mountain
Germany
Colony
Henke
Lehne
Kordzik
Gillespie County Trustees Elections and Appointments
Gillespie County Commissioners Court canvassed school trustee results. A tie in precinct 12 between Ben Fiedler and Walter Wallendorf led to a new election. Precincts 8 and 13 reported no returns, creating vacancies. County Surveyor post filled by B. L. Enderle for the remaining term. Court approved officer reports and salaries. Justice A. Mergenthaler reported 33 cases. Typist wage for Court house project fixed at 40 cents per hour pending Regional Director approval.
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Gillespie County Commissioners Court
Ben Fiedler
Walter Wallendorf
Gillespie County
B. L. Enderle
A. Mergenthaler
Public Works Administration
Fort Worth
Texas
Easter Morning Fire Threatens Schaper Residence
At four o clock Easter morning a fire department response saved the Schaper home on South Adams Street opposite the fair grounds. Robert Besier alerted residents after noticing the blaze. the annex bathroom fire spread to the main building. Losses are listed around 200 dollars with partial insurance. Damage to the building estimated 150 dollars and household goods from the Otto Hoffmann family about 50 dollars.
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Frank Schaper
Adam's Street
Fair Grounds
Robert Besier
Schaper
Walter Jenschke
Besier
Fredericksburg Benevolent
Otto Hoffmann
Schaper Building
Band Secures Long Engagement With Beethoven Hall San Antonio
Pehl's Old Time Orchestra six Gillespie County musicians has signed a contract with Beethoven Hall in San Antonio to play Sunday night dances on the second and fourth Sundays from now through October. Opening dances set for April 16 and 30.
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Pehl
Old Time Orchestra
Gillespie County
Beethoven Hall
San Antonio
Schroeder Bros Storefront Adds Concrete Entrance Step
Workmen this week built a concrete step across the full storefront of Schroeder Bros on lower Main Street replacing the former high curb between street and sidewalk.
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Schroeder Bros
Lower Main Street
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Boerne
White Sox
Mrs. Henry Lewis
New Implement Company
England
Poland
European
U. S
Keyser, Feller and Pfeiffer
Alfred Neffendorf
Harper Hi
State Lumbermen
Gillesme
Commissioners Canvass
Trustee Elections
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