Lions Club Honors Team at An AD Banquet
An evening of hearty eating and speeches followed a Rice Institute football film enjoyed by St. Marys Indians and Fredericksburg Hillbillies. The event at Fredericksburg High School Cafeteria began with an invocation by Rev. C. A. Greenwaldt and welcome from Lions Club president C. O. Balser.
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Rice Institute
St. Mary's Indians
Fredericksburg Hillbillies
Fredericksburg
C. A. Greenwaldt
Lions Club
C. O. Balser
FHS
William Petmecky
L. L. KeKyser
Roy Langerhans
Anthony Knopp
A. Rich
Red Bale
Rice
Dick Hoerster
A. Kx. Krause
Orchids and Onions Celebrate Christmas Cheer in School
Orchids praise seniors for decorating Room 20 and award artists and clubs for festive effort. Lions Club banquet earns praise, Sodality carolers spread Christmas spirit in Fredericksburg, and primary pupils receive commendations for holiday productions. Sister Carissima is also noted for commercial Christmas parties.
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Lions Club
Fredericksburg
Sister Carissima
Capacity Crowds At Yule Events
Pupils of elementary grades and kindergarten entertained a packed house last Sunday and Thursday with their annual Yule title program. Costuming stage settings and singing made two performances delightful for a large appreciative audience. Teachers and pupils thank all who attended.
What Price A Christmas Tree at St Joseph’s Hall
Four boys Ja mie Metzger Porky Stehling Kerwin Weinheimer and Henry Becker hauled an thirteen foot Christmas tree to St Joseph’s Hall for a Sophomores party. They planned to set it up after a Thursday play but rain delayed and they hurried to stack chairs and hope the tree dried in time for the event.
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Metzger
Alphonsine
St. Joseph's Hall
Porky
Henry Becker
St. Joseph’s Hall
Becker
Henry
Yule Scenes Adorn Classrooms Across Schools
Artists use paints chalk sprays and spatter guns to transform classrooms into scenes of Christmas with a crib in every room. Friezes murals and decorations depict the Nativity while holly wreaths bells stars sleds and snowmen plus Santa Claus and Rudolph brighten the spaces.
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Santa Claus
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
Mrs Petermann Hosts Open House for Indian Team
Mrs Milton Petermann announces an open house at her home for the Indian football team and pep squad on December 26. Senior guests Ned Moritz and Kenneth Kordzik will be honored. all senior pep squad members are invited as guests. Eighth graders freshmen and sophomores may attend 3 to 4 pm and juniors 5 to 6 pm.
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Milton Petermann
Ned Moritz
Kenneth Kordzik
Doare $ Christmas safety tips for a merry season
Keep Christmas safe with cautions about dangerous toys and sharp points, supervising electrical toys, avoiding lighted candles on trees, locating trees away from stoves, guarding lit trees, avoiding unsafe ladders, keeping candles away from decorations, making trees fire resistant, preventing tripping over exposed toys, and preventing icy steps or reckless driving.
Christmas in Colonial Fredericksburg’s First Community Tree
In 1847 Nimitz built Fredericksburg’s steamboat hotel, home to the town’s first community Christmas. Adults prepared a secret tree with paper decorations and tallow candles, while guests and locals joined in German carols. Apple imports and Christmas treats filled a festive night, remembered with joy and tears by the aging crowd.
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Fredericksburg
Nimitz
San Antonio
St Nick Swaps Suits Switches To the Jacket
European children prepare for Christmas 1952 as soldiers raise funds and donate toys and meals. Ordnance troops near Mannheim give 1400 dollars for Mannheim Weipinstift Orphanage. Worms repairs toys. Berlin Sixth Infantry raises nearly 1000 dollars for refugees. Trieste units plan dinners and gift parties for orphans and the blind, while soldiers in Europe host tree lightings and shows. Midnight Mass at Trieste’s San Giusto Basilica marks a festive note.
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Santa Claus
Europe
Ordnance
Heidelberg-Mannheim
Germany
Weipinstift
Mannheim
Wienerschnitzel
Worms
the Rhine
Berlin
Sixth Infantry Regiment
U. S
Free Territory of
Trieste
San Giusto Basilica
Fredericksburg Traditions Blend Memory and Christmas
The town preserves colonial customs with foods like turkey venison quail and honey and treats such as cut out cookies Pfeffiernesse and lebkuchen. Many Fredericksburg residents trace lineage to the city's founders, keeping memory and reality connected during Christmas.
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Fredericksburg
1952 Texas Hybrid Corn Production Contest Winner Named
Oscar Johnson of Freestone County won the 1952 Texas Hybrid Corn Production Contest. Through supplemental irrigation and liberal fertilization he achieved 137.5 bushels per acre, leading Texas farmers in yield for the year.
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Texas
Oscar Johnson
Freestone County
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Se. Nick
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Emil Biack
St. Nick
the Faith of
Tale
Mankind
Sterling Electric CO
W. Main Predericksburg, Texas
Travelers Cafe
Alex Mittendorf
Yy Tecey
Schnelle
Alex R. Frantzen
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