Two Fined Following Wreck Tuesday
On Kerrville Highway bridge two out of town youths were fined in justice court after a rear end collision with Mrs. Clara Lettemeyer. Gilbert Carrisal of San Antonio, driver, paid 22 dollars for reckless driving and Nelson Peek paid 17 dollars for drunkenness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerrville Highway
Justice Court
Gilbert Carrisal
San Antonio
Clara Lettemeyer
Carrisal
Nelson Peek
Albert Mauldin
Lettemeyer
Classified Ad Briefs From The City Pages
Readable fragments describe local notices and ads including small business sales services and personal announcements. The clipping mentions addresses and dates in terse listings, offering a window into daily commerce and community notices.
Seven Children Born in Local Hospitals This Week
Seven children born in local hospitals this past week include two girls and five boys. Girls were born to Elroy Geistweidt and Jack Baethge on August 12. Boys were born to Ernest Weber, Eugene Hartmann, Clarence Lochte, Darrell Bernhard, and Harry Moldenhauer between August 8 and August 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elroy Geistweidt
Jack Baethge
Ernest Weber
Eugene Hartmann
Clarence Lochte
Darrell Bernhard
Harry Moldenhauer
Cordes and Burrer Honored at Stein Lumber Dinner
Cordes and Burrer, with 35 and 31 years at Stein Lumber Co., were honored at the annual appreciation dinner in Turner Hall. Joe Stein presented gold wrist watches and praising remarks, as others received 10 and 5 year pins. The event featured a chicken barbecue, music by Almon Kirchhoff, and remarks by J R Myers of Pittsburgh Plate Glass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Cordes
Hilmar Burrer
Stein Lumber Company
Turner Hall
Cordes
Burrer
Joe Stein
Stein Lumber Co
Edgar Klett
Almon Kirchhoff
Marjorie Ann Sauer
Virginia Evers
J. R. Myers
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
San Antonio
Leo Blanchard Jr
Fire Calls Include Lamp Cord Short And School Blaze
Five year old Edmund Klein’s son caused a lamp cord short by inserting a nail into an empty socket sparking a blaze but he was uninjured. Firefighters also tamed a hot water heater fire near Fredericksburg with no damage. The week’s major blaze was the elementary school fire Sunday night, one of the department’s toughest fights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edmund Klein
Fredericksburg
Grothe
Crabapple Road
San Antonio station owner released on DWI bond
L. E. Wheeler, 47, a San Antonio filling station owner, was released on a $500 bond after being charged with driving while intoxicated. He wrecked his car on Mason Highway near Doss Farm-to-Market Road at 4 p.m. Tuesday, zigzagging across the road and through a pasture for 300 yards, scraping trees and bushes. He was uninjured. The charges are a second DWI offense, with Grand Jury evidence due August 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Wheeler
San Antonio
Mason Highway
Doss Farm-to-Market Road
Hugo Klaerner
Wheeler
Alonzo Langehennig
Grand
Dooleys Plan Visit to St Louis for Two Weeks
Mr and Mrs Chas Dooley and Madeline will depart for St Louis on Sunday for a two week visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas Dooley
Madeline
St. Louis
Street Parade Details and Funeral Notice
Street Parade committees plan diverse nightly entertainment at the Gainesville fairgrounds with Circus acts by Gainesville Community Circus under Meurer and Davis and a Parade of Champions led by Eckhardt. Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Svatek were held in Flatonia with seven sons surviving. Sunnyside Hut employees closed as survivors attended.
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Cer
KONO
Asgrow Seeds
Gainesville Community Circus
Henry C. Meurer
Harry O. Davis
Tyrus Cox
Ewald Schaefer
Paul Kraus
Kurt Eckhardt
Robert Dittmar
and Eckhardt
Nolan Althaus
Wesley A. Gold
Erwin Anderegg
Clifton Land
Mrs Peter Knopp Laid to Rest in Tuesday Rites
Final rites were held at Schaetter Funeral Home and St Mary's Church for Mrs Emma Lena Knopp nee Metzger. The Very Rev Joseph Hildebrand officiated. Interment was in St Mary's Cemetery. She died August 12 1951 at 1 50 am aged 68 years 10 months 21 days. She was born September 21 1882 in Gillespie County daughter of John and Mathilda Metzger. She married Peter Knopp on August 22 1911. Survivors include John W Metzger Max A Metzger and Ella Metzger Fredericksburg and Anna Moritz of Austin. Her husband Peter Knopp died April 19 1951. A sister Emilie Pehl and two brothers Alfred Metzger also preceded her.
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Schaetter
St. Mary’s Church
Peter Knopp
Emma Lena Metzger
Joseph Hildebrand
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Emilie
George Pehl
Jue Aia
Alfred Metzger
Ikie Sherman Dies in Oklahoma City
Irie Sherman of Sherman Machine and Iron Works died in Oklahoma City on Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Tuesday. Sherman oversaw the water system installation in Fredericksburg in 1933 34.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irie Sherman
Sherman Machine and Iron Works
Oklaho
Ma City
Oklahoma City
Sherman
Fredericksburg
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Reda
Purina
Purina Growing
Purina Quality Feeds
Hill Country
Gillespie
Purina Livestoc
Iog
Farmer's Grain Co., Inc
Rci
Purina Beecho
Purina Beeche
Ang )Mecke
Stein Lumber
Alton Klein
Ignatz Jenschke
John Necker
Johnson City
J. D. Stein
Bill Crook
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
First Baptist Church of
SAN Antonian
Frank Svatek
Charlie
Louis Svatek
Here
Flatonia
St. Theresa Catholic Church
Sunnyside Hut
Louis Swatek
Edwin Kiehne
Robert F. Thomas M
Pittman Center
Sevierville, Tenn
First Methodist Church
Ikie Sherman
Oklahoma
Panama
Andrew Tatsch
B. B. McGimsey
Otto A. Koehler
Pearl Brewery
Paarl
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