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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1940
Page
6
Sunday school conducted at 9 45 a m with A W Holly as superintendent Worship services at 10 45 a m and 8 00 p m Rev W M Rader delivers the evening union message Young People’s League meets at 7 30 p m under Pastor O F Kattner
Zion Lutheran Church invites all to Sunday school and Bible class at 9 00 a m and divine service at 10 30 a m with cordial welcome extended by Pastor A Bracher.
First Methodist Church schedules Sunday school at 9 45 with Emil Hahne as superintendent Worship service at 10 45 includes a Communion meditation Special Music Union evening services hold at Edison Street Methodist Church Epworth Leagues meet at 7 30 with preaching at 8 00 Pastor W Rader leads the services.
Vacation Sundays set for August 4 and 11 at Bethany Lutheran. Luther League Social planned for August 11. Members asked to meet at the church at 5 p.m. For urgent pastor needs during vacation, contact Mr. Albert Klett to notify Theo. M. Haag, pastor.
The church lists Sunday School on the 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9:30 a.m. English services on the 1st Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and the 4th Sunday at 8:00 a.m. German service on the 3rd Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Luther League meets the 2nd Sunday at 8:00 p.m. Women’s Missionary Society meets the 3rd Wednesday at 3:00 p.m. Pastor Walter C. Probst extends welcome.
The Albert Lusheran Church schedules Sunday services at 9 30 and 10 30 a m with a Sunday school and Bible class. A Ladies Aid meeting is set for Thursday at 2 p m in the church hall led by Pastor Paul Leonard.
Sunday after Trinity schedule with Sunday school and Bible class at 9 30 a m German service with examination of confirmands at 10 30 a m Ladies Aid at 1 30 p m Brotherhood at 2 30 Luther League at 7 30 p m Pastor W C Poehlman invites all to worship and work.
Jacob Dietz a Frederickburg native who spent 64 years there before moving to San Antonio in 1918 died at his San Antonio home aged 86 years 2 months and 16 days Funeral services were held at Riebe Funeral Home and St Cecilia Church with Rev G B Staff officiating Surviving widow six children and two sisters and one brother Also note attendees from Fredericksburg and relatives visiting in Menard.
Louis Crenwelge aged 1 percent broke his left leg when he fell from a hay wagon on his Fredericksburg area farm last Friday. He was treated at a local hospital and kept in plaster casts. Also hospitalized this week were Mrs. Alfred Gold after surgery on July 25, Tillie Ahrens daughter of Mr and Mrs Alfred Ahrens of Stonewall after July 25 surgery, Wilfred Dittmar after a tonsillectomy on July 30, and Alfred Durden admitted July 29 with a serious insect bite. Willie Grienke Jr. 13, required hospital care after injuring his left foot on tin while playing, walking on crutches after multiple stitches.
Gillespie County reports progress in county mattress program. Five centers have produced 100 mattresses this week for farm families with limited incomes. Work began in early July and will continue until 263 applicants are supplied.
Advertisement note seeks two neat young ladies to work in a college office in Texas. Work offers partial tuition in a modern business college. Respond to H. G. Woodfin at 407 EF Travis St San Antonio.
A check for 2250 dollars payable to Gillespie County for the Post Office site at the northeast corner of the Courthouse square was transferred this week from Maxey Hart, Clerk of the U S District Court, to the County by Arthur Stehling. The payment settles a civil case No 58 United States versus Gillespie County Texas et al, in which judgment was against the U S government on June 5 1940.
University geologists report wartime mineral discovery in a serpentine belt spanning Gillespie and Blanco counties. Dr. W. P. Sellards notes a site in Gillespie County yielding nearly 50 percent chromium oxide, used in hard steel production.
A newspaper promotion offers a yearly subscription to the Standard at the rate of $1.50. Readers are invited to sign up to receive the publication regularly at the discounted price. The note emphasizes affordability and continuity of service.
Dr Auer a well known Texas physician and surgeon with public health work in Marble Falls Wink and Odessa announces general and special office practice. He focuses on bloodless surgery and his office hours are 9 to 12 am and 3 to 5 30 pm in the Palace Theme Building.
The past week saw three newborns among Gillespie County families. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Weed welcomed a son on July 26, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dietrich welcomed a son on July 31. A daughter arrived the same week for Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hansen on July 26.
Delightfully cool lightweight Stehling's suits are offered at bargain prices during a Summer Clearance. Two months of warm weather ahead in 1911 prompts shoppers to take advantage of big savings now at Sterling Bros.
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