Burglaries Target Three Local Drive In Establishments
Robberies hit the Golden Arrow drive in at West Main and South Acorn, the Oak Grove Station gas pump on the Comfort Highway, and the Log Cabin drive in Comfort. About $40, $70, and several gallons of gas were taken. Police linked the incidents and sought leads with no arrests by midweek.
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Golden Arrow
West Main
South Acorn
Nickelodeon
J. C. Cuccia
Oak Grove
Comfort Highway
Fredericksburg
Wm. Hoffman
City of
Comfort
1938 Deer Turkey Kill Tops 1937 Record in Gillespie County
Game warden Adolph Heep reports 1736 white tailed deer 923 turkeys and 16669 fur bearing animals taken in 1938 39 hunting and trapping seasons in Gillespie County. The 1937 38 season had 1331 deer and 430 turkeys. No fur bearing figures available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillespie County
Adolph Heep
Heep
St Marys Congregation to Present Katherine Kavanuaugh Play
St Marys Congregation will stage Katherine Kavanuaugh’s Who Wouldnt Be Crazy a three act farce at Peters Opera House Sunday night April 30 starting 8 pm The cast includes Marvin Jung Isa belle Lang C J Dooley Helen Reichenau Aurelia Jenschke Jimmie Pfiester Leo Klein Alois Jenschke Louise Metzger Paul Wallendorf Pauline Knopp Adele Turrentine Betty Mc Ewen Beatrice Wehmeyer Alois Jung and Andrew Kaiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St Mary's
Peter’s Opera House
Katherine Kavanaugh
Marvin Jung
Isabelle Lang
C. J. Dooley
Helen Reichenau
Aurelia Jenschke
Jimmie Pfiester
Leo Klein
Alois Jenschke
Louise Metzger
Paul Wallendorf
Pauline Knopp
Adele Turrentine
Betty McEwen
Beatrice Wehmeyer
Alois Jung
Andrew Kaiser
Harper Road Bids Tabulated
The State Highway Department tabulated low bids for several projects on Tuesday. A double asphalt surface treatment of Highway 290 from Fredericksburg to Harper drew the lowest bid of $49,504 by Ernst Loyd of Fort Worth. John Kasper and family hosted weekend visitors from San Antonio and Leon Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Department
Highway 290
Fredericksburg
Harper
Ernst Loyd
Fort Worth
Representatives urge completion of Highway 16 highway project
Representative Alfred Petsch and Senator Franklin Spears urge the Texas Highway Commission to include the unfinished Fredericksburg to Kerrville section in the 1939 40 program. They ask paving from Fredericksburg to the Pedernales River and a Live Oak Creek bridge in 1939, with completion of the rest in 1940. The stretch has long troubled both cities as a main north south route used by many summer tourists and often impassable in bad weather.
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Alfred Petsch
Franklin Spears
Texas Highway Commission
Fredericksburg
Kerrville
Commission
Pedernales River
Live Oak Creek
Texas
Lutheran Synod Plans 1940 Texas District Convention in Mason
The Texas District American Lutheran Church will hold its annual meeting at Bethany Lutheran Church during the second week after Easter in 1940. About 225 pastors delegates and visitors attended the Mason convention with officers elected for the year. Local pastors Paul Leonhard Adolf Burg and several others attended and welcomed Bethany as the sole invited church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
American Lutheran Church
Thany Lutheran Church
Theo Haag
Bethany’s
Mason
St. Paul Lutheran Church
E. A. Sagebiel
Seguin
Victor Albert
Galveston
F. A. Neumeister
San Antonio
E. Ellebracht
Doss Cherry Spring
W. C. Poehlman
Felix Welgehausen
Liveoak School Observes 85th Anniversary
A large state crowd attended Liveoak School closing exercises marking the 85th founding anniversary. The event featured former teachers Chas Hartmann Louis Hirsch Alvin Baethge R L Gibson Hugs Kallenberg, current teacher Miss Louise Kott, and images of early students and builders including Louis Schmidt of Mason and Emma Gastinger.
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Liveoak School
Chas. Hartmann
Louis Hirsch
Alvin Baethge
R. L. Gibson
Hugs Kallenberg
Henry Schuetze
Henry Lewis
Ruth Kneese
Louise Kott
F. Maier
E. W. Bode
Albert Fisher
Louis Schmidt
Mason
Emma Gastinger
Scheutze
Albert Schuetze
Youth Injured Climbing Near Fredericksburg Tunnel
Archie Dean Weiss 14, son of Mr and Mrs Benno Weiss, was seriously injured Friday while descending a railroad embankment near the Fredericksburg and Northern Railway tunnel fourteen miles from the city. He was with four Boy Scouts from Troop No 1 Lonnie Zwiener Cris Brehmer Bobby Breihan and Teddy Breihan on a school holiday cycling merit badge trip when the accident occurred at about 10 15 a m. The party planned to visit the tunnel mouth on the north side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archie Dean Weiss
Benno Weiss
Fredericksburg
World powers look to Hitler address amid wartime measures
This week Britain announced compulsory military service for over 1,000,000 men and a large peace time budget for armed forces and defense. Britain also raised new taxes to fund the effort while France imposed strict press controls against foreign propaganda. The U S Congress passed a 508 million dollar defense appropriation and the Navy received a 66.8 million program for air bases from Alaska to Puerto Rico. Mussolini rejected Roosevelt's peace plan but vowed no war for four years. In Texas a conservation bill became law to guard soil and aid farmers, with local districts and federal cooperation.
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Germany
Adolph Hitler
Roosevelt
Britain
Hitler
Great Britain
France
U. S
Senate
Navy
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Mussolini
Italy
Texas
Leo O’daniel
Federal Soil Conservation Service
Myre Named Superintendent for Fredericksburg Schools
S. H. Smyre, a Tyler Texas native, was named superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools in a special board session led by Herman Fisher, president of the school board. The vacancy arose earlier in the week and the decision was announced Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S.H. Smyre
A. M. Limmer
Fredericksburg
Smyre
Caldwell
Texas
University of Texas
S. H. Smyre
Tyler
Fredericksburg Public Schools
Herman Fisher
Harper PTA to Install Officers Next Tuesday
The Harper Parent-Teacher Association will install its officers May 2 at 3 15 p m at the Harper Public School. Mrs Fred Mathisen district CCP T vice president will install them. Guests include Mrs Walter Schaefer past district president and Mrs Leon Zwiener who will speak. Mrs Lester Keyser will sing with accompaniment. All are invited.
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Harper Parent-Teacher Association
Harper Public
Harper
Mathisen
P E C opens uptown office on West Main Street
The Pedernales Electric Cooperative opened an uptown office at 207 West Main Street in the John Stehling Building near the Plaza Hotel. The site will serve Gillespie County residents seeking rural electrification and house three staking crews. Staff will take applications and explain easements while surveying 422 miles of Gillespie County lines and parts of Kerr Kendall Blanco Mason counties. Attending at the office were Benno Eckert and Pat Gromatcky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pedernales Electric Cooperative
W.main Street
John Stehling
Plaza Hotel
P. E C
Gillespie County
Ofice
Kerr and
Kendall
Blanco and
Mason
Gillespie Waters Open to Anglers May 1 for Season
Gillespie County opens its fishing season at midnight April 31 and runs through December 31. Warden Adolph Hee urges anglers to follow rules and obtain a $5 license, valid for live bait fishing, to avoid arrests. Continued on page 3, Col. 5.
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Gillespie
Gillespie County
Adolph Hee
Crabapple Church Plans Jubilee Sunday Services
Crabapple Lutheran Church to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with morning and afternoon services led by Pastor W. C Poehlmann and speaker Rev. L. D. Billnitzer of Marion Texas. Revs Hannemann Bracher and Haag join the afternoon program at 2 p.m. Choirs will perform in both services at St John’s Lutheran Church in Crabapple Creek valley, the third oldest Lutheran church in Gillespie County.
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Crapapple Lutheran Church
W. C Poehlmann
L. D. Billnitzer
Marion Texas
Hannemann, Bracher and Haag
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Crabapple Creek
Gillespie County
Weiths
Zion's Lutheran of
Fredericksburg
Fortieth Annual Fort Worth Singer Fest Steals the Show
Gillespie County Society of Singers holds its fortieth program at Peter's Hall on Saturday April 29 at 745 pm with about 225 singers from Albert Gesangverein Arion Arion Mixed Chorus Bear Creek Liederkranz Columbia Concordia Frohsinn Hermans Sohn Mixed Chorus Eintracht and Echo. A 2 pm parade from Hotel Nimitz precedes a Kraus Bottling Works reception for singers and guests followed by mass song rehearsals. Joseph Molberg Concordia president delivers a fitting address as three mass songs perform with Pehl's Orchestra providing music for the dance after the concert.
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Echo
Gillespie County Society of Singers
Peter's Hall
Albert Gesangverein Arion
Arion
Bear Creek Liederkranz
Columbia
Concordia
Frohsinn
Hermanssohn
Eintracht
Verein
Hotel Nimitz
Kraus Bottling Works
Peter’s Hall
Joseph Molberg
Pehl
Fredericksburg Music Study Club Concert Program
The Fredericksburg Music Study Club presents a concert at the public school auditorium on Wednesday May 3 at 8 PM. Performances include Pehl's Orchestra selections The Green Cathedral Will O the Wisp and more, plus Schubert and Strauss pieces, a clarinet duet and choral works directed by Mrs J J Moritz and others. No charges to auditorium.
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Fredericksburg
Public School
Pehl
The
Green Cathedral
Will O' the
Schubert
Gertrude Wehmeyer
Almon Kirchoff
Mesdames Hy
Detjen
Lester Keyser
Emil Hahn
Koenig
Herbert Bohn
McDowell
Sinding
Ann Stehling
A. O
V. Herbert
A. Dvorak
Music Study Club
P. T. A. Sponsors Musical Program at High School
The Fredericksburg Parent Teacher Association will sponsor a musical program on Friday May 5 during Music Week in the High School auditorium. The event starts at 8:00 pm with rehearsals for participants at 7:15 pm. Participating schools include Meu sebach Stonewall St Mary 6 Palo Alto and groups from Fredericksburg grammar grades and High School.
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Fredericksburg Parent Teacher Association
Meusebach
Stonewall
St. Mary
Palo Alto
Fredericksburg
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Harper Road
John Kasper
Frank Wolf
Alfred Kasper
Leon Valley
Highway 16
Lutheran Synod
Qur City
Bethany Lutheran Church
Crux In
New Sunerintendent
Myre
Board of Education
Alfred Neffendorf
PTA
P.E.C
W. Main Street
Benno Eckert
Pat Gromatcky
R. S. Weber
Resi
Crabapple
P.T.A
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