Calendar of Area School Closings and Events Through June
A dated list shows school closing dates and community events from April through June. Entries include Pecan Creek Klein Frankreich Loyal Valley Cherry Spring Gillespie County Singing Festival Peter's Hall Castell Onion Creek Crabapple Willow City Doss Luckenbach Live Oak Bear Creek Rheingold Stonewall Cave Creek Grapetown Meusebach Creek Palo Alto Lower South Grape Creek Nebgen Wrede and L Albert School dates, plus a Bear Creek Shooting Festival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luckenbach School
Live Oak School
Bear Creek
Gillespie Youth Stationed At Camp Wallace
Alois Jenschke former assistant in the tax office reports from Camp Wallace about 15 miles north of Galveston. He serves in the Coast Artillery Training Battalion in the anti air craft division practicing on 3 inch guns with lectures and drills. His battery will move to Fort Crockett for target practice later this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alois Jenschke
Wm. Petmecky
Camp Wallace
Aout
Galveston
Coast Artillery
Ft. Crockett
San Antonio Girl Orchestra to Play at Palace Theatre
The Missionettes all girl band from San Antonio Texas will appear at Palace Theatre Friday night April 18 directed by Shirley Jean Meyers drum major. Sister M Dorothy of Blessed Sacrament Academy teaches the band composed of students from the academy. The group is famed across Southwest Texas for their Mission representation and the Mission bells echo at their school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace Stage
San Antonio
Missionettes
Texas
Paalace Theatre
Shirley Jean Meyers
Dorothy Markovsky
Jackie Collins
M. Dorothy
The
Blessed Sacrament Academy
San Antonio Missions
Common House Fly Threats Prompt Public Health Action
The county health official warns that the common house fly causes typhoid fever tuberculosis summer complaint cholera and other illnesses in Texas. He urges immediate control measures to eliminate breeding sites reduce contacts with food and water and improve community cleanliness to lower fly numbers and disease risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Geo. W. Cox
Wool income for sheep farmers seen rising this year
Economists at the U S department of agriculture predict higher wool income for sheep farmers in the current year. Last year’s wool income was about 30 percent above the 1939 figure, signaling a stronger market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Wharves and Cotton Presses amid 1841 News
Side Glances reports completion of pile driving and a 800 by 40 foot wharf cap reaching 12 feet water, plus a cotton press able to compress 75 bales in twelve hours. It notes presidential candidates Hunt Menifee and Menard, Gov. Smith’s stalled vocally supported bid, and a House debate quip about Graner and Pickens provoking laughter in 1841.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Luis
Gen. Hunt
Wm. Menifee
M. B. Menard
Smith
House of Representatives
Pickens
Granger
Cow’s Grass Intake Tied to Milk Output
A cow must eat 100 pounds or more of grass daily to produce 20 to 25 pounds of milk.
Blanco County Fishing Bills Pass House
Two Blanco county fishing bills cleared the house and head to the senate. One opens the county to trotline fishing and the other sets a new season and reel limits with a February to April closed season proposed. Bag limits include ten bass ten bream ten catfish and twenty total.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanco County
House of Representatives
Senate
Hens Lay Spring Egg Output Matches Yearful Average
Report notes hens produced about as many eggs during March through June 1865 as in the other eight months combined, indicating a spring surge in laying.
Easter visits and birthdays across Castell region
Castell News lists numerous Easter gatherings and visits. Families including Leifeste, Keyser, Groth, Byfield, Dalhan, Hancock, Moerner and others spent holidays with relatives across Austin Fredericksburg San Antonio Copperas Cove and Mason. A notable 80th birthday anniversary was celebrated with relatives and friends after Easter services at Trinity Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Leifeste
Austin
E. C. Leifeste
Vernelle Leifeste
Lee Leifeste
Lester Keyser
A. H. Keyser
Fredericksburg
Herbert Groth
Fred Groth
Copperas Cove
Zora Byfield
San Antonio
Pearl Dalhan
Algerita
Leta Hancock
Brownwood
Russel Ebie
Dallas
Robt. Moerner
Mason
Trinity Methodist Church
W. O. Moerner
Edward Chapman
Norman Oklahoma
Marvin Hoerster
Fritz Grote
Charles Henry Dye
Brady
Baxter Dye
Jim Alexander
Marl Johanson
Brownsville
Raymond Winkel
Hillsboro
Doris
Willy Raesener
R. O. Grote
Monthaia
F. Foerster
Gene
Peggy
Oscar Huff
Miss Ruth
Insurance Medical Officer Visits Franklin Life Official
Dr Frederick M Finck medical director of Franklin Life Insurance Company Springfield Illinois visited here Monday with local agent Lawrence Knapp. Dr Finck a Texas native said he enjoyed returning to Texas for a short visit. Miss Esther Underwood traveled to Zephyr last Thursday for Easter with her parents and hosted Mrs Alex Oestreich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick M. Finck
The
Franklin Life Insurance Company
Springfield
Illinois
Lawrence Knapp
Finck
Texas
Esther Underwood
Zephyr
Alex Oestreich
Gillespie Native Dies in California
Herman Alberthal a Gillespie County native who long lived in California died there recently relatives report He once ran a blacksmith shop in Rhein gold Survivors include his wife a son a brother Henry Alberthai of Cherry Mountain two sisters and many other relatives
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Alberthal
Gillespie County
California
Alberthal
Rheingold
Henry Alberthai
Cherry Mountain
Bank Closure Notice on San Jacinto Day
The Security State Bank will be closed Monday April 21 in observance of San Jacinto Day. Regular hours resume Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Security State Bank
San Jacinto
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pecan Creek
Klein Frankreich School
Loyal Valley School
Cherry Spring School
Gillespie County Singing Festival
Peter's Hall
Castell School
Onion Creek
Crabapple
Willow City
Squaw Creek
White Oak
Doss School
Rocky Hill
Stonewall
Cave Creek Grapetown
Meusebach Creek
Palo Alto
Lower South Grape Creek
Nebgen
Wrede School
L. Albert School
Gillespie
Blanco Fishing
Epship BI Biank
Wu Nap
Sfar
Iol
Amt
Jon HA
Castell News
Edward Willlenberg
Castell
Insurance Company
Southwest
Basse Express
San Antonio — Eckert
Llano
Cherokee
San Saba
Lometa
Lampasas
East Main Street
Corman
Don H. Biggers
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