Building Work Begins on Johnson City Farm Building
Work started last week on a new agricultural building in Johnson City. The project, valued by local groups including the FFA and Club Boys, will be carried out by National Youth Administration youths. Rock for the structure is being quarried east of the town. A local delegation, including Geo Gipson and several youths, traveled to Austin for the inauguration.
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Johnson City
FFA
National Youth Administration
Geo. Gipson
Austin
Lelia Gipson
Bettie Black
Opal Ray Gipson
Marion Kent
Valentine Smith
Emma Leu Sultem
Buck Smith
Sandy
Community Notes From Luckenbach and Nearby
Several local families hosted visitors from Johnson City San Antonio Blanco and Fredericksburg over the weekend including Mr and Mrs Max Behrends and the Behr family Messrs Hugo and Earl Brenner traveled to San Antonio on business and Gus Jenschky visited Pecan Belt Nursery to buy peach trees Mrs Joan Klein is ill with wishes for a speedy recovery Alfred Metzger aided with county agricultural work in Fredericksburg Reinnhard Frantzen delivered registered Rambouillet rams to Emil Petsch A turkey dinner was shared by Mr and Mrs Alfred Metzger Messrs Alex and Elgin Luckenbach visited from San Antonio School dismissed Friday for Hy Beck funeral and community extends sympathy to the Mrantven family
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Max Behrends
Edgar Behrwis
Christian Behrends
Leo Wilkenson
Johnson City
A. M. Cunningham
Hugo
Earl Brehner
San Arponso
Gus Jenschky
Pecan Belt Nursery
Joan Klein
Emil Kuebel
Blanco
Douglas Kuebel
San Antonio
Alfred Metzger
County Agricultural Board
Fredericksburg
Reinnhard Frantzen
Delaine
Emil Petsch
Alex and
Elgin Luckenbach
Benno Luckenbach
Margaret Metzger
Hy Beck
Texas State Government Costs Jump Over Fifty Million
The annual cost of state government in Texas has risen by more than 53 million dollars over the last four years, signaling growing expenditure. The rise reflects rising operating costs and program spending across agencies.
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Texas
Outstanding Work With Jaycees Brings Coveted Award
Richard Hardin Fredericksburg Public School System administrator received the key from the National Jaycee organization as outstanding young man of the local Jaycee chapter. Named for his year as president, he has led cooperation between members and community projects during his ten months in the role. Hardin, a 13-year educator born in Killeen, has taught in Bartlett New Braunfels and Fredericksburg, and studied at Southwestern University and the University of Texas. Continued on page 2 section 2.
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Richard Hardin
Fredericksburg
Hardin
Killeen
Bell County
Texas
E. L. Hardin
Bartlett
New Braunfels
Doss Writer Praises Col Petsch Stand On War
Col Petsch speaks his mind on war in a true American manner and earns praise from friends. Miss Heimann recovers from flu and returns to school. Alf Durst recovers from eye injury and goes home. Local visits include the Buethges, Wahrmunds, Solbrigs, Nixon, and the Crenwelges. Doss High School basketball loses to Fredericksburg in season opener.
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Col. Petsch
Col Petsch
Willie Buethge
Norma
Valley Spring
Christ Wahrmund
Kurt Solbrig
Mecklenberg
Jack Nixon
Fredonia
Doss
Bernhard Crenwelge
Edmund Frita
Cherry Mountain
Doss High School
Fredericksburg
Bride To Be Honored With Shower At Hye
Mesdames Fritz Frederick and Levi Deike hosted a miscellaneous shower Sunday at Deike's Hall for Miss Edna Hartmann whose marriage to Ernst Deike is set for January 28 at Albert Luthedgan Church. Guests awarded prizes in a dance contest and enjoyed a lunch of chicken salad congealed salad pickles coconut cake cookies and cocoa.
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Mesdames
Fritz
Frederick
Levi Deike
Deike
Edna Hartmann
Ernst Deike
Albert Luthedgan
Miss Hartmann
Loreen Danz
Melrose Weirich
Alvin Sultemeier
Emil Lindig
Birthday Club
Lindig
Buneo
Harper youth injured by wood saw in accident
Marshall Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Brown, was injured Wednesday when his arm was caught in a belt during wood sawing. Doctors in San Antonio treated him for a severed forearm as funeral notices recall infant Thomas and Genevada Duderstadt. The report also mentions local visits and recoveries in Temple and Fredericksburg.
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Marshall Brown
Ervin
Brown
San Antonio
M. C. Thomas
Linton
T. H. Alcorn
Baptist Church
Harper Cemetery
Thomas
Geneva Duderstadt
W. Duderstadt
Chas. W. Barrett
Temple
Albert News Semi annual tests and weekend visitors
School children completed semi annual tests last week with teachers showing satisfaction. Visitors to the Felix Pehl and Dorie Segner families included Mrs John Raulz and daughters Dora and Edna, Miss Irene Weirshausen and her mother, Mr and Mrs Simon Burg and sons of Stonewall, and Mr and Mrs Felix Hahne of Fredericksburg. Also Arthur Seeby of San Antonio visited Alvin Maenius and sons, while Clifford Renick of Fredericksburg was a business visitor in Albert. Arnold Klein, Buddy Hahne, and Rufus Wilke went hunting. Continued on Page 4 Sec 2.
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Felix Pehl
Dorie Segner
John Raulz
Dora
Edna
Irene Weirshausen
Walter Weirshausen
Simon Burg
Stonewall
Felix Hahne
Fredericksburg
Arthur Seeby
San Antonio
Alvin Maenius
Clifford Renick
Albert
Arnold Klein
Buddy Hahne
Rufus Wilke
Lets Grow Vegetables Now Frame Gardens Make Them Possible
County Home Demonstration Agent Miss Elberta Martin explains frame gardens as a practical way to produce green vegetables. She outlines a 3 to 4 foot by 20 to 40 foot plot with a 12 inch high frame, soil preparation, irrigation options, and protective coverings for cool nights, plus replanting for a steady spring harvest.
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Elberta Martin
County Home
Morris Ranch Social Notes Reflect A Gusty Week
A slow rain fell Monday while a cold northerchill blew through Morris Ranch. Visits across towns included Mrs Hugo Usener with daughter Mrs Louie Mayes at Coleman and Mr and Mrs E E McHaney visiting Medina. Children rodeos and social visits linked to the Byrd Gottschall and Heidel families.
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Hugo Usener
Louie Mayes
Coleman
Otho Morris
Kerrville
W. Byrd
E. E. McHaney
Medina
McHaney
Otto Grona
Reuben Meier
Fredericksburg
Mattie Frederick
Charlie
Freq Williams
San Antonio
Willow Resident Injured When Hit By Track
Willow resident Mr. Stanley White was backed over by a truck at a gravel pit Saturday. He suffered broken ribs and a large ear wound, was taken to a Fredericksburg hospital, and is reported improving. Funeral attended for Wilburn Sonnen, 20, of San Antonio, who died in a picnic accident.
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Stanley White
Squirrel
White
Fredericksburg
Charlie Young
Carlos
Zoe Freeman
Mr. Young
Wilburn Sonnen
San Antonio
San Antonio. Mr. Sonnen
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Vira Ruth Gapsen
Blanco County
Luckenbach News
Peter Weber
Luckenbach
Alfred Mrantven
Jaycees
Southwestern University
Georgetown
The
University of Texas
MacDonald Studie
Natutes Petsch
Stand On
Harry Wahrmund Doss
LEE Way
Lee
Geo. H. Lee Company
Central Drug Company
Hye
Mes
Benno Eckert
Harper
Gilbert Pape Harper
Mildred V
Pehl Albert
Morris Ranch News
Leila Byrd
Morris Ranch
Virginia Usener
Lelia Byrd
Cora
Edwin Grienke
Grona’s
Austin Mutual Life Insurance Company
Littlefield
Austin, Texas
Willow
Mrs
Chas Sagebiel
Willow City Correspondent
Basse Express
San Antonio — Eckert
Llanocherokee
San Saba
Lometa
Lampasas
East Main Street
Olur Mae Wets
Chevrolet
Standard Motor Company, Inc
Fredericksburg, Texas
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