Our Fair Opens Friday Amid Public Support and Skepticism
The article recalls a fifty five year old annual Fair run by volunteers, praising citizenry support and director devotion while noting criticism and unpaid labor. It urges attendance to ensure the Fair’s continued success, then shifts to critique of defense manufacturing delays and Treasury policies impacting war production with Morgenthau cited.
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Fair
Mather Tan
Ioney
Congress
Executive Department
Treasury Department
Morgenthau
Gillespie County Fair Opens Friday With Free Admission For School Children
Officials prep for one of the largest crowds in the 55 year history as Friday opening days bring free school child admission and business offices close at noon. Exhibition space filled. exhibitors arriving midweek. heavy commercial turnout promises a robust program.
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Gillespie County Fair Association
KTSA
San Antonio
Scattergood Baines
Wrigley Chewing Gum Company
Fredericksburg
Liberty Mills
Pioneer Flour Mills
Fredericksburg Chamber Launches Countywide Membership Drive
The Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce will begin a September membership drive led by a 12 member committee chaired by Alfred Petsch and appointed by President Paul Weber. The campaign funds operations and a county agriculture program, including an assistant county agent, financed by the Chamber and Commissioners Court, extending to farmers and ranchers across the county. The group includes Max Metzger W J Schroeder Herman Fischer Ed Stein H W Lewis Erwin Kramer Joe Stein Henry Borcher F W Mater C J Dooley L Woerner.
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Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce
Paul Weber
Alfred Petsch
Chamber of Commerce
Commissioners Court
Chamber
Fredericksburg
Petsch
Max Metzger
W. J. Schroeder
Herman Fischer
Ed. Stein
H. W. Lewis
Erwin Kramer
Joe Stein
Henry Borcher
F. W. Mater
C. J. Dooley
L. Woerner
Illespie County Taxes To Be Lower This Year
Gillespie County taxpayers will see a tax bill reduction of 12 cents per hundred dollars of valuation for 1940. State rates drop 8 cents and county rates 4 cents, with the school fund cut from 35 to 27 cents and the county road bond rate from 5 to 1 cent. The total state rate falls to 69 cents from 77, and the county rate to 62 cents from 66. County and common school district rates were set by the Commissioners Court after a budget hearing.
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Gillespie County
Wm. M. Petmecky
Commissioners’ Court
Mason Woman Dies or Injured In Sunday Wreck Near Gillespie
Mrs. Vera Barber of Mason sustained serious injuries after a car overturned on the Mason Highway near the Gillespie County line at midnight Sunday. H T Burk drove the vehicle and George Burns owned it. both suffered cuts and bruises but returned home. A third passenger could not be learned. Mrs Barber suffered fractured ribs and a severe back injury causing partial paralysis. she remained in a local hospital this week. Another accident near Stonewall on the Austin highway injured a man from Hye and another from Cuero, with the Cuero resident most seriously hurt and in a local hospital for further medical care.
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Vera Barber
Mason
Mason Highway
Gillespie County
Brady
Barber
Stonewall
Austin
Hye
Cuero
Texas
The Blitzkrieg Opens New Phase in Britain War
Germany and Britain clash in air battles over England as the Blitzkrieg tactic reshapes early World War II fighting. Thames-wide fear grows of a possible invasion while reliable casualty figures remain unavailable and reports point to rapidly changing combat dynamics.
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Britain
Hitler
Europe
England
William the Conqueror
British Isles
Land dispute resolved in favor of bank receiver
A lengthy litigation over about 1358 acres along the Pedernales River ends with the Court of Civil Appeals affirming Judge Raymond Gray awarding title and possession to D J Hoerster as receiver for the Bank of Fredericksburg. The 794 acres recovered are valued at no less than eight thousand dollars, enabling sale to repay bank depositors. The case began January 1937 with suits by Mrs Clarence Martin.
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Pedernales
aggsid _D
J. Hoerster
Bank of Fredericksburg
Thomas J. Martin
Lela B. Martin
Clarence Martin
E. L Schmidt
Court of Civil Appeals
Raymond Gray
D. J. Hoerster
E. Hodges
Hodges
Granite May Be Used In New Postoffice
A granite base and steps may grace the new Gillespie County Post Office to harmonize with nearby courthouse and brickwork. Congressman Alfred Petsch was told by Charles South that material samples were received and that competition would allow granite with matching characteristics. South had informed Petsch after a summer inquiry in Washington.
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Gillespie County
Postoffice
Alfred Petsch
Charles South
Petsch
Judge Gray Opens Three Week August District Court Term
Judge Raymond F. Grey begins the annual three week August term of District Court on Monday August 19 at 9 a m with Grand Jury organization. The docket includes 41 civil cases and 23 criminal holdovers, with old and new civil cases set for trial and petit jurors summoned for August 21 and 26. Sk L Walter attended the Texas Jewelers Association convention in Galveston this week.
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Raymond F. Grey
District Court
Sk. L. Walter
The
Texas Jeweler's Association
Galveston
Booster Trip Successful Jaycees Promote Fredericksburg Fair
The Fredericksburg Junior Chamber of Commerce completed a nine-city booster tour across Central Texas to publicize the Gillespie County Fair. Twenty seven Jaycees in seven cars and a sound truck canvassed business districts and played Texas Playboys music.
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Fredericksburg
FSA Opens Two County Offices In Courthouse
The Farm Security Administration announces opening an office in Fredericksburg Texas as part of aiding about 50 000 low income farmers with loans and guidance in better farming practices. Vetted in part by M Evans Dallas director of the Texas Oklahoma region the move relies on local business support for free space and aims to provide easier access to financing debt adjustment and livestock equipment loans.
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Farm Security Administration
Texas
Fredericksburg
M. Evans
Dallas
Texas-Oklahoma
Walter Announces For Commissioner Post Precinct One
Albert Walter a lifelong Gillespie County resident near Fredericksburg announced his candidacy for Commissioner of Precinct One in the upcoming General Election. He promises to perform the duties of the office to the best of his knowledge and ability if elected.
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Albert Walter
Gillespie County
Frederiksburg
Precinct One
Walter
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Cillespie
OFC
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Llano Highway
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Llano
Herbert Wahl
Mason Road
Gray
Qnen
Jaycees
Mason, Llano
Burnet
Marble Falls
Johnson City
Blanco, Boerne
Comfort
Kerrville
Fredercksburg
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