Gillespie 4 H Club Encampment Highlights Bandera Trip
Twelve Gillespie County 4 H Club boys spent a merry weekend in Bandera for an encampment. Activities included rifle shooting baseball horseshoes and swimming. Reinhold Sagebiel won third place for a storytelling act and captained the second place baseball team.
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Gillespie County
Bandera
Reinhold Sagebiel
Reinhold
James Eckhardt
James Hartmann
Freddie Hartmann
Clayton Jung
Ronald Doebbler
Rubin Heinemann
Elroy Ransleben
Hayden Grona
Kermit Lochte
Calvin Schumann
Stanley Ernst
Fredericksburg National Bank
Harry Jordan
Pfeil Oil Co
Texas
Texas A & M College
College Station
Newcastle
Battery
New Castle
W. A. Boney, Jr
Department of Veterinary Science
Texas Station
Sudan
Reburial Rites Held For Veteran In Johnson City
Cpl Howell D Key who died in England March 10 1944 from an explosion is honored in a Friday service at Croft Funeral Home in Johnson City He was the son of Mr and Mrs W D Key of Blanco County and survived by his parents and grandparents with ties to Fredericksburg and Johnson City Revival opening today prompts a Union Revival at the Tabernacle led by Evangelist G H Schuman Grandchildren honored at a birthday barbecue are listed among Johnson City social notes Local residents Clark Withers family mentioned with events continuing on page 6 sec 2
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Croft
Cpl
Howell D. Key
England
Cpl. Key
W. D. Key
Blanco County
W. E. Key
Fredericksburg
Connell Ray Dennis
Erwin Alberthal
Paul Duecker
Jack Thain
Ollie Wofford
Walter Duecker
Elizabeth and
Florine
Oswald Eckhardt
August Doell
Udo Braeutigam
Doris Marie
Emil Doell Sr
Charlie Duecker
Victor Duecker
George
Mannie Doell
Clark Withers
Johnnie of
Vic
Miss Erlene Schneider Enrolls at Johnson Beauty College
Miss Erlene Schneider daughter of Mrs Walter Schneider left this week for San Antonio to enroll as a student at the Johnson Beauty College.
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Erlene Schneider
Walter Schneider
San Antonio
The
Johnson Beauty College
Fredericksburg National Bank to Close on Election Day
Fredericksburg National Bank will be closed on Saturday July 24 as Election Day. The notice advises customers to plan for banking needs around the holiday.
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Fredericksburg National Bank
William Vail Named New Farm Editor for Fredericksburg Standard
William Vail, a Texas A and M College graduate and Gillespie County Vocational Agriculture instructor, becomes farm editor of the Fredericksburg Standard. He succeeds Jack Lawrence, who started Gillespie County Farm and Ranch news in April 1947 and leaves due to other duties. Vail majored in animal husbandry and previously served as an instructor before graduation.
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William H. Vail
Texas A & M College
Gillespie County Veterans School
Fredericksburg Standard
Vail
Jack Lawrence
Gillespie County
Farm and Ranch News
The
Standard
Lawrence
Texas’ College
Doss Community Fair Set For August Fourteenth
The Doss Community Club decides to hold the annual fair on Saturday August 14 after a meeting Saturday night. The Primitive Baptist Church hosts Texas attendees for a three day camp meeting ending July 18 with services under a large arbor near the church. Johnny Dittmar recovers well after surgery and goes home. Evelyn Geistweidt and Hulda Pearl Dittmar return home from TLC Seguin and Southwestern University. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Richard Kasper on July 13.
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Doss
Texas
Johnny Dittmar
Evelyn Geistweidt
TLC
Seguin
Hulda Pearl Dittmar
Southwestern University
Richard Kasper
Our Pioneer Ranchmen Otto Kneese Recalls Gillespie History
Otto Kneese now 81 recalls five generations on the family ranch near Fredericksburg Texas. His grandfather Ferdinand Kneese and father Ludwig arrived from Germany in 1845 and 1846. Kneese notes early life with Indians, molasses making, hunting feats, and pioneering grafting of paper shell pecans.
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Otto Kneese
Gillespie
Mr. Kneese
Ferdinand Kneese
Ludwig Kneese
Galveston
Germany
New Braunfels
Fredericksburg
Tivydale Road
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gillespie Farm and Ranch News
William Vail
Johnson City
Opal Ray Gipson
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Earl Warren
California
Dewey
Pawling
N. Y
Meet Endd Mae
Larry & Betty
White House
Aaa
John 3. Pershing
U. S
Walter Reed Hospital
Arlington National Cemetery
New Standard Farm Editor
Virdell Drilling CO
J. C. Virdell
Phone
Llano
Tex
City Cafe
Striegler
Robert K.morris
Texas A. & M. College
Harry Wahrmund Doss
Kneese
Tom Martin
Gillespie, Blanco, Kendall
Llano Counties
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