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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1951
Page
4
Easter Fires Committee will meet Thursday night February 1 at 7 p.m. in the Chamber of Commerce office. Chairman Gilbert Kaderli urges all members to attend to plan this year’s observance airing on Saturday March 24.
The Hospital News this week lists patients undergoing procedures last week. Ida Meier and Victoria Mosty had tonsillectomies, with other names including Mrs. FE.E Parker Elgin Bauer Mrs. Emil Wahrmund Mrs. Palmer Hohen berger Mrs. William White Mrs. John Schandua and Mrs. Felix Treibs.
A terse remark compares reputation to a bubble that bursts when one tries to inflate it, using a playful metaphor to suggest self-defeating effort. The line emphasizes caution against overreaching and highlights perspectives on personal impact.
The Texas School for the Deaf and partners will run a ten day summer program June 6 to 15 1951 in Austin Texas for mothers of preschool deaf children. Eligible Texas residents receive meals lodging and supervision while attending classes and care for their child. Parents should submit child and family details to the Superintendent Texas School for the Deaf 1102 South Congress Ave Austin Texas.
Members of the Music Study Club gathered at Mrs. Harvey Stein’s home for a January program on Romantic period music. Alonzo Evers led, with performances of works by Schumann Chopin Dvorak and Grieg while detailing composers’ lives. A book review plan on Bride of Fortune by Harnett Kane was set for the next meeting.
Mrs Wesley Sageser formerly Miss Ruth Jones was guest of honor at a miscellaneous shower hosted by the ladies of First Baptist Church Harper. Miss Merle Parker and Gloria Jean Roeder handled the guest book while Joann Kaiser and Viola Dell Sageser served refreshments to about thirty guests.
In 1950 Valley Forge Pennsylvania hosted the National Jam Boree gathering attracting 47,163 Boy Scouts and leaders, the largest encampment in the Western Hemisphere.
Editors from all sections of Texas gathered for the mid winter Texas Press Association meeting in Austin to exchange ideas on improving newspapers amid one of the state's worst droughts in years. Speakers included Felix McKnight and Curtis Taulbee with remarks by Hon. Martin Dies at a banquet hosted by Governor Allan Shivers.
Pleasant Hill residents celebrate new wind mills and wells replacing dirt tanks. Water rises in some springs hinting at wetter weather, with goats to be shorn in February as a potential sign. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Rech and Sherley from New Braunfels and the Mauldins from Weslace Texas visiting Pleasant Hill.
Fort Worth based Texas Association of Home Builders president Joe Uris kell Driskell cites 25 percent rise in U S home numbers from 1940 to 1950 with 46 151 000 dwelling units by 1950 and 1 300 000 homes built in 1950 alone The study highlights postwar housing demand and Texas near a quarter million new homes in 1950 despite wartime slowdowns.
Shoppers in New Braunfels on Wednesday afternoon hear updates as testing drinking water proceeds. Attendees are asked to be prepared by Friday night at the agriculture meeting to sign up and have their Rural Neighborhood Progress Contest Reports ready for review and submission.
Mr Ernest Lange visited Johnson City and Fredericksburg on Saturday with business ties. Mr and Mrs Alvin Sultemeier and family Mr and Mrs Felix Lindig and family and Mr and Mrs Oddie Stoke were visitors. Seedling peach trees are blooming signaling spring while Chester Hartmann and neighbors saw timber on the lane and cut timber with axes.
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