Joe Stein Celebrates 61 Years Leading Stein Lumber
Joe Stein, longtime head of Stein Lumber Company in Fredericksburg, marks 61 years at the helm. A civic leader, he helped found local institutions, served as mayor in 1927, and remained active in church, education, banking, and state lumber associations with wife Ella Bang and five children.
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Fredericksburg
Citizens Light and Power Company
Fredericksburg National Bank
Stein
Lumbermen’s
The
Texas Lumbermen’s Association
Gillespie County Fair Holds Stockholders Meeting January 13
The Gillespie County Fair Association plans its annual meeting January 13 at 8 15 p m in the District Courtroom of the Gillespie County Courthouse. President William Schroeder announces eight new directors will be elected to replace those terms expiring this year. Directors with terms ending include Schroeder Althaus Dittmar Eckhardt Fuhrmann Gold Mogford Rech. Holdovers with one year terms: Ottmers Eckhardt Frantzen Gold Kott Spaeth Spiva Striegler. Two year terms go to Dooley Klett Bang Dittmar Kuenemann Petsch Stroeher Weinheimer.
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Gillespie County Fair Association, Inc
Gillespie County
William Schroeder
Schroeder
President Schroeder
Nolin Althaus
Robbert O. Dittmar
Kurt Eckhardt
Walter O. Fuhrmann
Wesley A. Gold
Ben Mogford
Norman C. Rech
Walter Ottmers
Gilbert Eckhardt
Alex R. Frantzen
Ralph A. Gold
Guests in the Henry Meurer Home During Holidays
Mrs. A. E. Boggs and daughters Lu Ann and Susan from Alabama visited the Henry Meurer home along with Mrs. Harold O'Hart and her sons Dickie and Lloyd, Mrs. Jacob Meurer, and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Meurer and their children of San Antonio.
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Henry Meurer
A. E. Boggs
Lu Ann
Susan
Alamo
Harold O'Hart
Dickie and
Lloyd
Jacob Meurer
Edwin Meurer
San Antonio
Christmas Visitors From Denver And San Antonio
Miss Edna Dietz of Denver Colorado and her sister Margaret and family Mr and Mrs Wallace Rabenaldt and son of San Antonio were Christmas visitors in the Theo Dietz home.
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Edna Dietz
Denver
Colorado
Margaret
Wallace Rabenaldt
San Antonio
Theo Dietz
Record Rainfall Marks for Gillespie County in 1952
Oswald F. Eckhardt reports Rheingold area near Gillespie County recorded 49.86 inches in 1952, near the county’s highest total and surpassing Fredericksburg’s 44.04 inches. Other top figures include Morris Ranch 35.20, Doss 33.15, Bankersmith 39.36, with December rainfall pushing the year into the record books. Temperature extremes reached 21 degrees January 10 and 106 degrees on August 6, 8, and September 1.
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Rheingold
Gillespie County
Oswald F. Eckhardt
Fredericksburg
Alfred Neffendorf
Tom Carr
Morris Ranch
Wm. E. Fritz
Doss
Elroy Schnelle
Bankersmith
Eckhardt
F. B. Riley
Crabapple
Neffendorf
B. W. Scharnhorst
Post Oak
Fredericksburg Postal Receipts Rise in 1952
Postmaster R W Klingelhoefer reports Fredericksburg postal receipts climbed in 1952 by 11.75 percent from 1951. Total 1952 receipts reached 46 658 56, up from 41 751 84 in 1951, with each quarter higher than the same period in 1951.
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Fredericksburg
R. W. Klingelhoefer
Walter to Join Teotonica Council as Girl Scout Worker
Theresa Walter daughter of Emil Walter will depart Jan 14 for Ithaca New York to join the Teotonica Council of Girl Scouts as a professional worker. A Fredericksburg High School and University of Texas graduate she taught fifth grade in Victoria Public School for two and a half years before resigning to pursue Girl Scout duties. She will be a district director in Ithaca overseeing activities in a three county area.
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Theresa Walter
Emil Walter
Teotonica Council of Girl Scouts
Ithaca
New York
Miss Walter
Fredericksburg High School
University of Texas
Victoria
Capitol City
Texlake
Capitol Area Council
San Antonio
Utopia
First baby of 1953 born to Waldon Prehn family
A daughter named Patricia Mary was born Sunday January 4 at 12 50 pm in Fredericksburg Hospital. She is the first Gillespie County baby of 1953 and winner of the first baby of the year contest. Dr W H Springall attended. The family also includes Deborah aged nearly three.
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Waldon Prehn
Gillespie County
Palace Theatre
Patricia Mary
Fredericksburg
W. H. Springall
William Schroeder
Prehns
Deborah
Prehn
Virginia Striegler
Victor Striegler
Kerrville
Emma Prehn
Johnson City
Five Hundred Thirty Animals Entered in 1953 Youth Show
Five hundred thirty animals and birds were entered in the 1953 Fredericksburg Youth Livestock Show. Mrs. Preston Dial of San Antonio will address the Fredericksburg PTA on Wednesday January 14 at 7 30 p m in the public school band room on Being Good Neighbors. She has traveled worldwide on five good neighbor missions and will discuss her Orient trip. The meeting is open to citizens of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County. Civic clubs and churches urge attendance. Emerson Clapper and James Hayter led officers on two chases in a week, escaping a patrol car and jail before burgling two homes and being captured after forcing a Blanco County farmer to drive them.
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Preston Dial
San Antonio
Fredericksburg
Parent - Teacher Association
Mexico
Guatemala
South America
Holy Land
Egypt
Orient
Texas
Gillespie County
Emerson Clapper
James Hayter
State Department of Public Safety
Waco
Bud Crossley
Rocky Creek- Blanco
Blanco
Crossley
Blanco County
Wolf
Austin Salesman Dies in Hotel Room
James C. Terry 50 a battery salesman from Austin died in his Nimitz Hotel room near midnight Monday. An inquest verdict was pending pending lab tests on stomach contents. Terry left letters indicating despondency. Funeral services were planned for Thursday with survivors including wife son daughter four grandchildren two brothers and four sisters.
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James C. Terry
Austin
Nimitz
Jarvis Wieser
Gillespie County
Hugo Klaerner
Wieser
Ellis Nixon
Terry
Schaetter Funeral Home
Carrizo Springs
Doris Traveland
Holiday Guests Include Students From Southwestern Medical
Mrs Rubin Bernhard hosted over the holidays with guests Rubin Jr a Southwestern Medical School student in Dallas Miss Joy Chelena a TLC student in Segu in Mr and Mrs Oliver Wuest and family from Sonora and Mr and Mrs Wm Tinney with their son and daughter from Kermit.
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Rubin Bernhard
Rubin Jr
Southwestern Medical School
Dallas
Joy Chelena
New Orleans
TLC
Seguin
Oliver Wuest
Sonora
Wm. Tinney
Kermit
Youths Break Jail After 18 Hour Pursuit
Two Waco youths escaped Gillespie County jail late Wednesday night December 21 and were recaptured after an eighteen hour chase spanning county roads and rural areas. The pursuit ended with the pair detained by sheriff deputies.
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Waco
Gillespie County
Jaycee Week Observance Marks January 7 14
Fredericksburg Jaycee week runs January 7 to 14 with a birthday banquet on January 15 announcing the Distinguished Service Award to the member rendering the most significant community service. Norman Rech, president, touts national observance and civic impact.
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Chambers of Commerce
Jaycee
Rech
Judges Named For Gillespie County FFA Livestock Show
The Gillespie County FFA and 4 H Club Livestock Show will exhibit about 530 animals at the Fair Grounds January 23 and 24. Entries include 92 fat steers 8 breeding cattle 14 Angora goats 211 lambs 39 breeding sheep 49 fat hogs 24 breeding hogs 50 capons six pens of fryers 10 turkeys and 18 dairy animals. Judges cover beef cattle sheep goats swine dairy cattle and poultry with specialists from San Angelo Kerrville Mart College Station. All livestock and poultry judged Friday with sale Saturday afternoon. State show animals released Friday night. only sale and breeding animals remain for Saturday.
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FFA
4-H Club
Gillespie County
Fair Grounds
James Grote
Mason
J. A. Gray
Extension Service
San Angelo
Bill Oliver
Kerrville
A. B
Bill” Childers
Mart
Texas
C. F
Nelson
Boerne
W. J. Moore
Extern+sion Service
College Station
Births and Deaths Rise in Gillespie County 1952
Gillespie County records show births rose to 399 in 1952 from 837 in 1951 with 1952 featuring 393 births from the prior year. Deaths increased to 128 in 1952 from 116 in 1951. May saw the most deaths and August the most births, while 115 licenses were issued in 1951 and 111 in 1952.
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Gillespie
Felix Scherer
New Year Market Marks Stein Lumber’s 61st Year
The Stein Lumber Company of Fredericksburg begins its 61st year on January 1, 1953. Founded by Franz Stein in 1892 after moving from Boerne, the firm is a pioneer business in the Hill Country. It highlights planning mill advances and Cabwall storage wall innovations shaping local home building.
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Stein Lumber Company
Fredericksburg
Franz Stein
Boerne
Texas
Frankfurt
Germany
First Yard
Travis
Schubert
Stein
West Travis Street
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Joe Stein
Central Texas Lumbermarm
Fair Stockholders Annual Meeting
Waldon Prehns
Rererr
Pe Ees
B. L. Enderle
Reinhold Tatsch
Felix Schere
Milton Durst
Hugo Kraerner
Wm. Ssaer
PTA
Stem
G. C. Senff
Stonewall
Frederick Deske
Hye
Tom Carey
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