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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1950
Page
2
Lawrence Meurer invited Concordia Singing Society members to his Live Oak Community farm on Tuesday August 8 for a chicken barbecue hosted by Mr and Mrs Meurer. Regular rehearsal followed the supper.
The Security State Bank will be closed on Saturday August 26 in observance of the Run Off Primary Election.
The author argues the Texas state government has grown 500 percent since 1935 and calls for a businesslike outsider. Pierce Brooks is praised as the independent candidate capable of impartial analysis, free from political entanglements, and answerable to the people in 1950.
Dor W Brown III celebrated his third birthday at a drum themed party hosted by his mother at their home on Wednesday afternoon. About sixty children and their mothers attended. The drum shaped cake and plastic drum favors matched the decor, and a separate angel food cake celebrated Mrs Lester Keyser on the same day with assistance from Mrs Keyser and several friends.
Mrs Milton Gerhard Summer Roundup Chairman of the PTA urges all parents who have not done so to return health blanks for children entering school for the first time this year before September 1st. She notes poor response and asks immediate attention.
Mrs Werner Klier hosted twelve children Tuesday afternoon for the fifth birthday of her son Paul. The party featured a Little Toot tugboat cake with life-saver portholes peppermint railings and red icing. Serpentine whistles served as favors.
Fifty men reported for duty as listed with home towns including Kerrville Fredericksburg Comfort and Ingram. An additional call for fifty more to report for physicals was issued with twenty five on September 7 and twenty five on September 8.
The descendants of the late Mr. and Mrs. Adam Wendel gathered at Mason Fair Park for an all day reunion. Seventy two members attended with a noon prayer by Rev. Walter Durst and a basket lunch. The hosts Emil Wissemann and family hosted a watermelon feast in the afternoon. Next year’s reunion may be at Werner Crenwelge’s Cherry Spring ranch. Seven children survive: Elizabeth, Anna, Ida, Emil, and others.
Mr and Mrs Monroe Wahl hosted a seated Dutch lunch at their Boerne home Friday August 18 at 7 pm after the Faught Kordzik rehearsal. Twenty five guests attended including bridal party families Gene Reinhard and son Jef frey Harold Zoeller and Russel Vollbrect from New Braunfels. The table featured a white linen cloth and a centerpiece of pink rosebuds in a crystal bowl with garden flowers in other rooms Beatrice Kordzik wore a violet corsage.
Rubin Kher of Fredericksburg won the television set awarded at the Fair Park Sunday night. Kher works for the Soil Conservation Service office and is a Fredericksburg resident.
Mrs I G Wehmeyer was surprised by friends on Tuesday evening to celebrate her seventieth birthday. The event included conversation card playing and cake and punch with an earlier family surprise supper.
Miss Erline Stehling daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Stehling and Marcus Jenschke son of Mr and Mrs Richard Jenschke married August 16 at 8 30 am in St Marys Catholic Church Rev Albert Hubertus officiated Organist Henry Beckmann played nuptial music Brides gown white organza with v yoke and lace crown veil bouquet white dahlias and queens crown Attendants included Mrs Andrew Cornell matron of honor Miss Florence Jung bridesmaid Adeline Stehling and Betty Jenschke Junior bridesmaids in pink and blue gowns Best man James Jenschke groomsman Andrew Cornell reception in St Marys School basement couple to reside at Luckenbach groom veteran of overseas duty in Pacific area with out of town guests listed.
Mr and Mrs Max Staudt and their Orange family were weekend guests of relatives during the 62nd Gillespie County Fair. They returned to Orange on Wednesday morning.
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