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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1930
Page
7
The sample lists FHS Echo staff including Editor in Chief Dorothy Ries Managing Editor Margaret Klinksick Society Editor Amanda Mae Hahne Sport Editor Walter Klett Alumni Feiler Exchange Editor Elsie Sagebiel and Ola Mae Johanson.
The article traces how Christmas seals began with Danish clerk Einar Holboell in 1904 1907 onward and grew into a worldwide tuberculosis fund drive. It notes Emily P. Bissell popularizing the method in 1907, the Red Cross aid from 1908, and the double barred cross of Lorraine since 1919. Proceeds fund nurses clinics open air schools and small sanatoriums.
Aurora Kneese, once a high school student, died after years of ill health. Her classmates and faculty mourn her untimely passing as seniors attended her funeral and remembered her as a kind and well loved friend. A local advertisement promotes STEHLING BROS. Christmas gifts for men and boys.
Two seniors express appreciation for the public's interest in the University of Texas Glee Club concert ticket sale. After expenses and profit sharing with Palace Theatre manager Mr. Joan Stahl, they have funds for future undertakings. They also thank donors for flowers and alumni for hot chocolate and cake at the post concert reception in Austin.
Curtiss Publishing Company representative Mr Barber met with high school students to launch a week long subscription sales drive for Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Country Gentleman. Students split into Reds and Blues clubs to contest each other with two sales managers named for each group and a business manager overseeing the campaign.
Fredericksburg High School lists five sets of twins across the sophomore junior and senior classes. Dora and Nora Arhelger, Werner and Vera Schaper, Ernest and Carl Houy, Casper and Clarence Kneese, and Chester and Milton Immel are the paired students. Werner Borchers and Guenthe Wittig visited Milton Immel at his home near Big Flat where he is bedridden with infantile paralysis.
On Wednesday night December 3 the high school choral club held its regular meeting. Songs were practiced successfully and four new members were voted in: Victor Nixon, Kermit Horlen, Raymond Kneese, and Wyoma Evans.
The Miss Decherd section welcomes Guelea Patia as a new first grade pupil. Rolane Smith earns health honor roll status while several students appear on grade honor rolls. The Christmas seals drive yields several totals and a Friday basketball return game features Morris Ranch versus Fredericksburg Grammar.
Victoria Keidel and Elsie Weber spent the weekend with Mesa Staff members Alma Schmidt Erna Mae Henke Estella Brannies Viola Schaeffer and Minna Henke at a Kerr area slumber party. Nora Arhelger Gladys Miller visited in San Antonio while R L Kott Jr hunted Saturday. May Stein hosted guests and San Antonio trips continued with Mrs Von Rosenberg and a SMU Sunday School picnic to Bear Mountain. Guinn directed the Boy's University Glee Club attending the Girls Glee Club concert.
Alumni Kermit Schlueter and Hubert Crenwelge hold responsible posts with firms in San Antonio. Harvey Striegler spent Thanksgiving in New York City with a friend. Elizabeth Dietz is a registered nurse in Dallas. Wm Petmecky, former Mesa editor in chief in 1924, now tax assessor. Kurt Welgehausen, A M College 1928 graduate, holds a good position in Houston. Enoch St Clair, class of 1920, is a registered druggist. Thomas Carr works in El Paso. Mrs J J Fox of Hudson New York sent copies of the New York Times Book Review. Gazetta Brown is training at Robert E Green Hospital in San Antonio. Kermit Gammenthaler, SMU engineering student, is at home.
The football team thanks Stucke's Bakery and Mrs. Wm Deitel for two donated fruit cakes being raffled. Tickets are sold to support the team and the cakes will be raffled December 22 during the junior class study hall program.
The German Club held its semi monthly meeting on December 3. The program featured Nora Hilker in Vorlesung Muenchhausen's Geschic hen Woodrow Braeutigam Erlkonig f Saechischer Mun dart Minna Henke Raetzel Agnes Brannies and Aber Zeitrechnung oder Calendar. Visitors included M. Bittner Audrey Burgdorf Julia Schmidt Esther Bracher Mr Noel Browning and Mr L E Brodie who hope to return.
More than two million onion plants have been set out within four miles of Kerrville, signaling a developing Hill Country industry. Corpus Christi area truck crop yields run about 12 percent above last year with Pearsall also reporting strong prospects and large acreage. San Angelo ranchers plant oats, wheat, barley and rye for quick returns.
Fall and winter rains across Texas give moisture, with the San Angelo wool clip around six million pounds. The Texas turkey crop is shorter this year at 1,359 cars for export versus 1,500 last year. Frank Garner near Lockhart earned 209.85 dollars from a single acre of melons plus home use.
Local retailer announces the lowest prices on apparel. Juenke and Schoenewolf invite shoppers to visit for bargain men’s and women’s clothing selections.
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